Activities

The staff encourage the children to participate in different activities. Art, music and basic cooking are activities which take place regularly. Special days such as Arbor Day, Readathon Week and Valentine's Day, are celebrated with different activities planned for those days. The school garden will feature prominently in the activities. The visit of international chefs inspire the children to try new recipes during their cooking activities. The learners are given projects on road safety and to coincide with the project, traffic officers from the Cape Town traffic department visit the hospital. Ballet students from the Athalie Rowan School of Ballet visit the hospital annually. They provide insight to another cultural activity for the learners.

One of the things some of the children miss when admitted to hospital is that their pets could not visit them. An arrangement with an organization called Pets as Therapy allow for a controlled visit from Benjy the dog to the classroom. A donation of a piano has allowed the learners to enjoy their singing classes and also to continue practising the piano. The Hospital Trust and the artist Lovell Friedman have shown support for the artistic talents of the children by involving the learners of the primary school in the hospital in creating the statue of Mother Courage.

The six hospital schools in the Cape Peninsula held a hospital schools conference on 22 August 2003. The theme was Education and Care for the Hospitalized Child. 2003 was a busy year for the school and many activities took place.

There were many highlights in 2004. The children met many interesting people such as Niki Daly and experienced various learning activities.

The children in the hospital school experienced many different activities and met interesting people during 2005.

Ms Elly Kamphuis, head of an educational institute in the Netherlands, approached the principal of the hospital school to arrange for a visit in 2006 from two Dutch students to spend time with the children as part of their practical teaching time. The two Dutch students spent four weeks in the hospital school.

The children had visits from a group of Grade 7 learners at Van der Stel Laerskool and Niki Daly, children's author and illustrator. The school also benefitted from a fundraiser arranged by a wonderful lady, Mrs Yumna Vallie who has provided the school wth new computers for the children.

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