Birth To Three Years

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

The Birth to Three course is a short course offered by Centre for Creative Education (CCE) to assist caregivers, teachers and parents in the caring of small children. It does not lead to any formal qualification. However, CCE issues a Certificate of Attendance once all course requirements have been met and the fees paid in full.

Throughout the Birth to Three course, the carers/teachers are awakened to the importance of learning about child development, age-appropriate activities in morning ring, craft, art and play. The course is based on Waldorf educational principles and the programme includes:

• Creating a healthy environment for babies
• Child development
• Overview of the 12 senses
• Love and humanity, relationships
• Rhythms and routines
• Being a worthy role model
• Hand crafts

COURSE OUTLINE

Two weeks of module training, held on consecutive afternoons over two weeks, Mondays to Fridays.

• Regular site visits by our mentors throughout the year.
• One afternoon a month for further training, consisting of 10 sessions in all. 
• Two follow-up workshops per year. 

DATES FOR 2021

Eastern Cape mentoring and workshops (sewing lessons and further development of course material workshops) will be held from 22 – 31 March 2021, and from 20 – 30 September 2021. 

For more detailed information about the modules covered each year, please see our course handbook HERE.

FEES

All financial obligations are regulated in the student contract, which is part of the application form.

Limited bursaries are available and are linked to family income. An application can be submitted to Helen Stotko, chairperson of the bursary committee.

Files, handwork and artistic materials, computer and library facilities are included in the fees. Study books and some resource materials will be charged separately.

Fees are reviewed annually.

NOMATHEMBA TINDLINI

Nomathemba is the Birth to Three Year course co-ordinator, handwork facilitator and teacher-trainer mentor. She has an ECD Level 5 Certificate, as well as a Level 5 Assessor Certificate. Her journey to the Centre for Creative Education (CCE) began when she worked as a nanny for Waldorf parents, which then led her to work as a kindergarten assistant at Michael Oak Waldorf School for five years. She says she loves working at the CCE because there she can reach out to communities while mentoring teachers, as well as through running workshops with parents. Her dream is to see the CCE funded by the state so that many more teachers could train for, and that many more children to benefit from, a Waldorf education.