{"id":1263,"date":"2010-03-17T00:43:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T00:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2010-03-17T06:20:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T06:20:09","slug":"meeting-the-teachers-and-discovering-individual-needs-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Meeting the teachers and discovering individual needs of children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1264\" title=\"Letaba school\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0571-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Letaba school\" width=\"639\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0571-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0571-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0571.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we went back to Letaba special needs school to have a meeting with the teachers and to discuss their needs and how we can support them through our aims and objectives.\u00a0 One of their main concerns was communication of feelings and personalities which they find very difficult to gauge with the children that are unable to communicate verbally.\u00a0 We have decided to work with 2 small groups to start off with, giving us a chance to focus on what is right for these particular children and to enable us to get to know their individual needs and disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived at the school, the teachers and staff were very welcoming and generously offered us some tea, coffee and home made cakes which we all very grateful for .<\/p>\n<p>We presented several ideas to the teachers which they were very enthusiastic about, but we all agreed that it was best to keep our activities simple.\u00a0 As we have only 2 weeks with the children on this trip, we feel it is important to begin with getting to know the children with very basic communication and feelings activities to ensure we do not raise disturbing memories, feelings and triggers of bad experiences.\u00a0 We have organised for the children to visit both a wildlife sanctuary and a chimpanzee sanctuary as part of the activities.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers feel they have no formal training on working with children affected by trauma and disabilities and are in their words &#8216;desperate&#8217; for support from professionals such as play therapists and counsellors. We all feel that sharing skills, fresh ideas and experiences is a very important part of this support. Tomorrow we will go back to the school to start working with 2 groups of children and to continue our support to the teachers and their needs.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of our meetings, we were met with a lot of children who we were happy to play with, sing songs and draw pictures in the sand with sticks! The children were very interested in a camera and we showed them how to take photographs which they loved.\u00a0 The children who are unable to use their hands were assited to take photographs of their friends and appeared to be very happy while we spent time with them. We wanted to share with you, some photographs below, of the joy that appears to come from their smiles and personalities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1266\" title=\"Letaba school\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0527-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Letaba school\" width=\"639\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0527-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0527-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0527.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting Letaba school and the teachers, along with getting to know the needs of the individual children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}