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Durbanville Schools Foundation: Training Programme 2024

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 14:00 to Wednesday, January 31, 2024 - 16:00
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 14:00 to Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 16:00
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 14:00 to Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 16:00
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 - 14:00 to Wednesday, July 24, 2024 - 16:00
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - 14:00 to Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 16:00
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 14:00 to Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 16:00

Training Programme for Project Teachers

24 Foundation Phase educators from 4 project schools will be trained and supported to implement the BCP inside their classes.

The training will comprise 12 sessions run over the year. See the training programme below.

The training programme allows teachers time to implement each of the domains inside their classes before continuing with the next domain.

Classroom support and mentoring visits will be provided at the start of each domain and during the implementation of each domain.


Teachers use questions that evoke thinking and inquiry, so that the learners are able to discover and experience for themselves.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015

I feel very strongly that Basic Concepts should be introduced to all learners- this will give me the time to develop their conceptual language and increase their vocabulary and verbal fluency.

Metro Central Training: Western Cape Education Department (October, 2015)

The Basic Concepts Programme is basically the same as Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development. It is a way of teaching… it gives individuals a way to structure their thinking and reasoning. 

Mitchell's Plain Primary School, November 2015

I have learned so much through the Kwena Basic Education Trust and for that I would like to take this opportunity to say: thank you.

Kwena Basin Education Trust: Project Visit, May 2016

The course was clear, open and easy to understand basic concepts. What I liked most was that it links with the curriculum and it really works. It needs to be implemented at my centre.

Open Public Training, Cape Town (June 2013)
BCP Short Course, UCT (June 2013)

I love the programme. I was not aware of how to introduce a concept … . If I could reverse my years in teaching, I bet I would have produced mathematicians, scientists and doctors.

Metro Central Teacher Comment (July, 2013)