In synergy with Caversham’s vision of “Inspiration in the Individual and the Individual as Inspiration”, in 2001 Caversham Education Trust took the well known SCOPE Early Childhood Development Course under its wing. This course, which began in 1993, was designed by Jill Sachs, now Caversham Education Trust’s Programme Manager, to provide inspirational training to the teachers of young children in the deep belief that creativity nurtured from birth bears fruit in adulthood.
Continually evolving, the course materials have been restructured to meet the requirements of the National Qualifications Authority, and in September 2006 Caversham Centre celebrated receiving full accreditation as a Service Provider with the Education, Training and Development Practices (ETDP) SETA
Three of the innovative in-service eYe Courses currently being offered are:
- The basic ECD SCOPE Course - to provide a high quality framework for teaching young children
- The Three Learning Programmes in Grade R - creative teaching within the National Curriculum Statement.
- Using Arts and Creativity Based methodologies in ECD
Each course incorporates the Caversham Hourglass © methodology of Reflection, Dialogue, CreACTion™ leading to Ownership and has three components: personal growth, knowledge acquisition and skills development.