Our wonderful friends, Reinette and Joe, in the Crags once again opened their hearts and homes and hosted our Sterreweg children for a day on the farm. We all got to be farmers for a day. Everyone had to earn their lunch and plunged into their “chores” with much enthusiasm. Tasks included collecting feed, feeding the chickens and then harvesting fresh chicken eggs from the runs. These were gifted to
Aim for Die Sterreweg!
A team of 15 Belgian students from Artevelde University College Ghent and 4 students from Stellenbosch University, visited Plettenberg Bay from 4 September to 13 September 2018. They were doing research for a three-year international program, entitled ‘Centre of Excellence – Aim for Die Sterreweg’. The focus of the program is to help our day care centre for children with special needs, Die Sterreweg, in New Horizons, become a centre
Helping Hands
This dynamic 5 year old duo have been best friends from the start and are a huge motivation within the classroom for the facilitators. Morne’ Mintoor – pushing his little friend’s wheelchair into the Sabrina bus, has been part of the Sabrina Love and Die Sterreweg Day Care family since 2016. Although diagnosed with Rickets, Craniotabes (softening or thinning of skull) and Osteopenia (a condition that occurs when the
Communication is key
“During one of our brainstorming sessions with Lisa Ellis (Inclusive Solutions), Anne-Sophie De Caesemaeker and Marie Charles, the amazing speech therapy students that volunteered at Die Sterreweg from the Artevelde University in Gent, Belgium, the idea of these communication strips were borne. These strips of images are part of a picture communication system that we have recently implemented within Die Sterreweg, whereby the kids are encouraged to use symbols (pictures)