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Initial
Reactions to the THRASS Absa TalkTogether Project
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The THRASS Absa TalkTogether Project was launched at
Roseneath Primary School in Parktown, Johannesburg on 23
July 2007. The school is being supported by the University
of the Witwatersrand and the daily teaching of THRASS, and
the other home languages, is being supported by eighty
Foundation Phase student teachers from the university, who
spend approximately two hours a week in the school.
Senior representatives from Absa, the University of the
Witwatersrand, the South African Government, the British
Council, UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and other national
and international agencies, including SMART Technologies
Inc. from Canada attended the launch of the Project.
Click here to see or
here
to download the video of their initial reactions, which are
all extremely favourable.
“For me Talktogether is like sunshine: the sun rising brings
out light into darkness and brings out hope.” “This is
something that is just so good and we must do everything to
put it on a pedestal and roll it out to as many places as we
can.” “THRASS is just mind-blowing.” “TalkTogether is a
really wonderful initiative that we’re really proud and
privileged to be part of.” These were just some of the
comments made at the launch.
On the video Nicholas Young, Chief Financial Officer, Retail
Cluster, Absa tells us how the THRASS Absa partnership came
to be set up and Dr Jean Place of the University of the
Witwatersrand talks about the opportunity the project will
provide for her students to work in a real school and to
experience the joy of making a real difference in children’s
lives. Everyone is excited by the project’s potential and
stresses the importance of partnership working, pooling
ideas and resources, and corporate sponsorship.
In the video we also hear from teachers who have been
attending a NAPTOSA THRASS certificate course in Cape Town
in July 2007. They are all extremely excited about what they
have just seen and heard and can’t wait to be able to start
and put it into practice. Once again they emphasise the
importance for education of partnerships such as the THRASS
Absa TalkTogether Project.
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