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Did you know learning in your mother tongue boosts cognitive development?
Significant gains for all 4 project schools in Metro North
Conceptual hierarchies are crucial for vocabulary development.
A major milestone for the Basic Concepts Programme!
See Grade R learners decode words.
A day to celebrate the power of learning to transform lives...
Our focus areas for 2025
At Basic Concepts Foundation, we are proud to support Salisbury House
Meet the team (2025)-

 

Louis Benjamin
Discussions about language policy have remained stagnant, offering little tangible progress.

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The Basic Concepts Programme is basically the same as Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development. It is a way of teaching… it gives individuals a way to structure their thinking and reasoning. 

Mitchell's Plain Primary School, November 2015

I am extremely grateful for being exposed to this programme … I'm always worried about those learners who are not progressing. The programme can support these learners in order to lay the foundation for academic progress. Practically my whole class needs this Foundation!!! How can I start with formal teaching if they do not know their Basics.

Metro South Education District: Training (January, 2013)

I have learned so much through the Kwena Basic Education Trust and for that I would like to take this opportunity to say: thank you.

Kwena Basin Education Trust: Project Visit, May 2016

This was a fruitful, educational, informative, empowering, enjoyable, helpful, superb, well-planned, and inspiring experience.

Metro South Education District: Teacher Training, May 2014

I had an idea what the course would be like, but it was much more than what I had expected.

Metro Central Training: WCED (February, 2015)

Teachers use questions that evoke thinking and inquiry, so that the learners are able to discover and experience for themselves.

Metro South Training, Western Cape Education Department, 2015