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SOUTH AFRICA EXCHANGE
NORTH WALES WEEKLY NEWS,
July 20, 2006
South African student teachers and educational
psychologist Alan Davies visited Ysgol Bro Cernyw recently.
Conwy County Council has been committed to training
teachers in THRASS (Teaching Handwriting Reading And Spelling
Skills) for the past eight years, and was the first authority in the
UK to employ a THRASS advisor.
Mr Davies, a chartered educational psychologist, is
the author of THRASS and his resource is now being used worldwide to
raise standards of English.
He invited Conwy's literacy advisor Glynis Davies to
visit rural farm schools in the Kwena Basin in South Africa, and to
give a presentation at the University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg.
She visited South Africa last month and was
privileged to advise teachers and demonstrate the use of THRASS
resources in farm schools in the Basin. Returning to Johannesburg,
she visited three schools where THRASS is being used, including a
township school in Soweto.
In return, Dr Jean Place of the University of the
Witwatersrand and nine of her teaching students are being hosted by
Conwy while they visit schools in the county.
Many of these students are particularly interested in
bilingual education and the raising of English standards, and met
with Llangernyw pupils to discuss use of the Welsh language in
schools.
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