A New Role for a New Year

My new role as Coordinator at Ikhayalethemba has meant that I have had to learn a lot this week! We have started with all new volunteers - Mairead, Lilly, Elyse and Hannah. We’ve had a wonderful time getting to know the children and discovering their skills. Learning all the names has been a challenge at times, but we’re getting there.

We’ve introduced a new morning circle time as a way to start the day and we can already see the children responding to the morning roll call and hello song. It’s been great to see the toddlers and special needs children keen to join in with this routine too!

It was a really hot start to the week but once the day got a little cooler, one of our favourite activities for the week has been the obstacle course.  We set up a course that the children could move, crawl, jump and run around. We were pleased to see the toddlers  keen to climb through the colourful tunnels and to see how well some of the children could skip with their skipping ropes.

Today for our baking task the children decorated a cake for our Project Manager JT. JT had a great surprise to see the children in their party hats singing Happy Birthday. She loved the card they made and they certainly enjoyed making it.  We’re sure it will be a memorable birthday for her.

We’re all looking forward to next week, with some great activities planned and we’re keen to keep working on our morning circle to make it a really positive start to each day at Ikhayalethemba.

Cheryl Martin - Ikhayalethemba Coordinator

A New Role for a New Year