I found this course very effective and successful. I have learnt a lot and will be able to use this in my future career. The training was good, very well prepared and maintained interest. I hope that I use this in my personal life, not only in my teaching, hopefully my spelling will improve. Thank you for bringing this to South Africa and furthering our knowledge, excellent!

I absolutely loved the course. I found it and sure will continue to find it a valuable part and contribution to my future career. It has been an experience I will always remember and carry with me through my future. Thank you so very much.

This was a wonderful and beneficial course for me. I’ve learnt a lot. The course facilitators were vibrant and informative to us. Thank you.

Thank you for imparting a wealth of information to all of us. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the course. It is very informative and this is definitely a method of teaching phonics I will use in my classroom from next year and on in my teaching career.

I have personally enjoyed the course. It’s well structured and the manual is user friendly. Thank you.

Very well structured, paced and appropriate. Thank you. I will look in Cornwall for THRASS! Thank you Hilary for your confident, friendly, informative sessions and a sense of fun.

Well presented, explaining every step of teaching THRASS course. Presenter showed lots of enthusiasm making the two-days exciting. I think the programme itself would work very well, especially in the South African schools, where English seems to be a huge problem.

A very good and well-structured course. Enjoyed it very much in learning new things.

Very well done.

Well presented, learnt a lot.

I have found the two-day course very valuable and worthwhile. I do like the integration of reading and writing especially in the context of S. A. schools in under resourced schools. Often teachers do not know how to make all these links. The presentation and facilitation of the course that Hilary gave was well organised with timely breaks and easy to follow linking of concepts and stages. Thank you very much.

Well presented with lots of practical aids and examples.

Very informative and I’m sure I will gain a lot of use from this course while I’m teaching. The materials we were given are easy to use and follow and the desk-size charts will be useful.

This was a great course. It has helped me understand ‘phonics’ a lot better. The course was very well presented, and made the course fun and interesting. I feel that this course is very effective and helpful and will help me a lot. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed the course.

This has really helped me understand the world of reading, writing and spelling. It is a fantastic approach and look forward to using it within my future teaching career. Thanks for your time and effort.

Very informative and beneficial. Look forward to using THRASS in my classroom in the near future.

I found this course to be informative. I enjoyed the course and believe that I finally gained an understanding of the content. Thank you very much.

Very interesting and I am very excited about implementing what has been presented to us.

Very useful. I am going to use it in my afternoon work – helping a remedial child with his English. It will be difficult to implement in schools if the government is not behind it. Well-presented course.

An excellent course, will be taking the THRASS method into my classroom. I feel this method of teaching is the answer for all learners and most of all for learners who have learning problems.

The course was very useful and interesting I found the course very informative and I hope to use the information taught to me in my own classroom in the future.

The course was very informative. I feel that it was valuable to learn about THRASS.

Very interesting and enjoyable. I feel that having knowledge about THRASS will improve my teaching.

This is a brilliant course. As an intermediate phase student who has little literacy methodology I found the principle key and have equipped me with strategies, which I tend on adapting to my phase.

Very interesting and extremely well thought of concepts have been developed in it. Really enjoyed it – amazing course. I have learnt a lot and will definitely hope to teach it in schools one day. Thank you.

I think this was very fruitful. I learnt a lot of extra skills to implement in the classroom and I really think every single teacher, parent or even brothers and sisters worldwide, should actually learn about this course. I also think it would help in the teaching and learning of other languages.

Very helpful. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I know it will be very useful in my class next year and in the years to come. I am so glad I have a better understanding of how the English language works and can explain more clearly to the children in my class.

This was an essential course for me to develop myself as an educator. The course helped me to develop a skill in teaching handwriting, reading and spelling. Really helpful. Thanks a lot, God bless.

This has been a beautiful experience for me. I wish it could have been more than two-days. I feel that I have learned a lot and well equipped for the teaching environment. Thank you.

I really enjoyed this course. It was insightful and enlightening. I also found it helpful and I know that it will assist me in my future teaching.

A thoroughly knowledge enriched programme that allows for a variety of techniques to be used to teach children successfully. A very well thought out course to develop further studies for current teachers and future teachings. Lovely resource books to assist with the new information supplied.

I enjoyed the course and it has taught me a lot and where I fell down in my spelling. It is a worthwhile course and look forward to using it in the future. The resources are beautiful and are interesting!

The course was very helpful, and has broadened my view on phonics teaching. The THRASS chart is a great idea, and I hope it reaches schools all over the world.

This course has been enjoyable and very informative. I look forward to using it in the classroom.

I think this will help teach phonics in the classroom a lot easier and a lot more enjoyable for the learners. I found the course interesting and enjoyable.

This has been an enjoyable two-days. There was loads of valuable information available, absolutely wonderful teaching aid, I’m definitely looking forward to implementing what I’ve learned in my classroom. Thank you for clarifying some of the misconceptions.

Interesting and I look forward to attempting to use these methods in a classroom setting.

The course was very interesting and worthwhile. I think that I benefited a lot from everything that I learnt and I think that it will be an easy programme to implement into a Foundation Phase class. Children will benefit greatly from THRASS.

This is a great new way of effectively teaching phonics. I have enjoyed it and have found it extremely worthwhile. Children will be willing to take part and I hope that many schools will implement this.

This was the most brilliant course I’ve ever attended. I’ve learned a lot even though I’ve missed day one. I managed to catch up with the work done on day one with the help from my mates. Thanks.

A very useful course for all grades not just foundation. Interesting course, strange to see the difference between the way I was taught phonics and how THRASS aims to teach it. It makes sense. Learnt a lot of things I never knew. Learnt reasoning behind a lot of things.