The e’Bosch Heritage Project, in conjunction with various stakeholders and organisations, will host its “Let them Thrive” school holiday programme at 46 schools around the 14 dorpies of Stellenbosch from Monday 27 June until Friday 15 July.
The aim of the programme is to provide healthy, holistic and constructive activities for children between 6 and 18 during the school holidays as a preventative measure for risk behaviours among youth and help children to thrive.
The activities will include recreation and sport, arts and crafts, music and movement, drama, adventure, spirituality and a community project. Each dorpie will have a specifically designed holiday programme based on the community’s specific needs and the available resources.
Youths will engage in the following developmental activities:
Drama
During the first week participants will develop the storyline and in the second week they will create decor for the concert. During the third week, they will practise drama to develop their skills for the final performance in the form of a group presentation at a camp-fire concert.
Youth festival
The Youth Festival, in partnership with local churches on the last Sunday of the school holiday, is an opportunity to invite the school-going children and youths to celebrate at a religious institution. With this activity the organisers hope to instil positive identity, social competencies, positive values and a commitment to learning.
Each dorpie will have a least one participating congregation as partner in the school holiday programme.
Compassion day
Once a week each of the local groups will embark on a particular project to reach out to a stakeholder group in their community that needs recognition and support in the role they play in the community. The outreach will be to a local old-age home or other institution of community care. The overall objective is to recognise the roles of the facilities or organisations.
Recreation and sport
The recreation and sport programme will equip the participating school-going children and youth with the skills of character development while they are playing games. A programme to develop teams for the duration of the school holidays will culminate in one or more tournaments towards the end of the third week, when the teams will face off against each other.
Music and movement
The music and movement (dance for pleasure) programme will equip the participating school-going children and youth with skills in small group performances. The programme will build up during the three weeks into a Winter Wonderland Concert, where teams from all the dorpies will exhibit and entertain one another and the broader community during a concert finale.
Specific training will be provided to build music instruments from recycling material for use in the final concert.
Adventure and nature
Young people from the age of 12 develop a physiological need for risk taking. The programme during the holidays will focus on planning and executing adventure-related activities where the skills of planning, decision making, identity and positive values are used in practice in the run-up and actual adventure activities.
Arts and crafts
The arts-and-crafts activities for school-going children and youth gives all participants the chance to express themselves in creative ways. Artifacts will be made by participants to be used as props and decor during the Winter Wonderland Concert and the drama performances.
For more information on how to become involved or where to find your nearest holiday group, contact your dorpie coordinator:
- Cloetesville: Gerhard Coetzee (084 603 2182)
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Devon Valley: Chriselene Davids (084 879 1493)
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Ida’s Valley: Elsabe Farao (084 823 1529)
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Jamestown: Deon Cronje (071 990 6107)
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Khayamandi: Asiphe Cosa (067 107 1923)
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Klapmuts: Chalmane Kruger (082 311 9238)
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Lanquedoc: Marius Krediet (071 876 6590)
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Raithby: Shannon Herbert (071 362 4506)
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Stellenbosch Central: Glynis Meyer (061 793 0030)
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Vlottenburg: Karen Sylvester (081 022 7783)
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Wemmershoek: Hellene Fisher (072 211 5237)
