People's Post Athlone - 13 October 2020

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he fundamentals of any school-going child remains the ability to read and write. Empowering not only children, but their parents and neighbours as well is the main aim of Athlonebased non-profit organisation (NPO) Reading and Writing Solutions. Founded by retired teacher and principal, Jeff Paulse six years ago, the organisation works at more than 100 schools across the province supporting all grades. “Initially we started with Grade 6 learners in respect to a request from our principals of participating schools. Currently our reading tutors are able and trained to assist both primary and high school learners.We do comprehensive training in the CAPS curriculum at our training workshops,” says Paulse. He started the organisation after retiring. Many parents had requested his assistance with tutoring and this is when he realised the need. “Many parents came to me for assistance with individual children. I realised I can’t continue to help one person at a time so I changed the way I did it by training the parents to assist the child,” he says. “Education is a team effort where you need the positive input of three

Local continues to put SA on top Athlone-born pro skater, JeanMarc Johannes, has reached the global podium again, this time for a virtual pro skate competition hosted by the Indonesian ministry of sports affairs. The win comes hot off the heels of his recent Guinness World Record in the discipline. The “Kemenpora extreme vi­deo challenge”, is a global event that called on skateboarders from all around the world to submit videos showcasing them per-

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forming tricks. Out of more than 200 submissions, Johannes achieved the top rank. “I’m very happy to have made another international podium for my country after breaking a Guinness World Record and I’m looking forward to resume practise for the Olympic events of 2021. I have now achieved the most international podiums and Guinness World Records in history for South Africa in Street Skateboarding,” Johannes says.

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important role players: the teacher, the parent and the learner. Parents are the child’s first teacher. As a former principal and educator with more than 48 years of teaching experience, I have learnt that the role of any parent in the education of any child is key, and more than important,” says Paulse. “If we equip the parent, the child benefits at school and at home. The current home-schooling scenario, caused by the inevitable lockdown, highlighted the need to equip parents. I realised this many years ago, hence I started this organisation to focus on training parents to teach effectively at home.” With his background as an English teacher, Paulse continued to equip himself with the necessary training and passed this on to volunteer tutors who go out and assist the learners in need. “All learning involves reading,” says Paulse. “Reading is the fundamental skill needed to unlock all other school subjects. Barriers to reading and learners experiencing major reading challenges eventually give up, stay absent from school and eventually becomes a statistic as a school drop-out leading to other social evils and crime.” To date, they have al- Reading and Writing Solutions founder Jeff ready trained 1 300 par- Paulse with ward 49 councillor Rashid ents, neighbours and com- Adams.

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munity volunteers with another intake taking place at Bonteheuwel High School later this month. “The ideal candidate is a fairly literate person with a passion for literacy and helping others. We have no age restriction or level of academic qualifications. Mothers, grandmothers and youth are all welcome (to join the training),” says Paulse. The training will take place from Monday 26 October to Friday 30 October at the Bonteheuwel Secondary School. Some of the more successful tutors also serve on the ethics committee of the University of the Western Cape. Paulse says he is excited about this partnership as it will be parents and neighbours from the area who will be trained to assist local children. V Continued on page 4.

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