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Namaqua Education District: Learners Shine In National Spelling Bee

Namaqua Pupils Shine in National Spelling Bee Competition – October 2014

Two Grade 3 pupils from the Namaqua District of the Northern Cape came in the top three places of the 2014 Nationale Spelfees.

Tiffany Bezuidenhoudt won the contest and Laurnay Saal came third. Both pupils, from Concordia Primary, participated in the Basic Concepts intervention programme (BCP) when they were in Grade R.

The BCP Namaqua Education District project (2010-2012) trained 42 Grade R teachers at 23 schools, impacting 1075 pupils.

BCP trains and mentors teachers as mediators to develop language and conceptual thinking skills so that their learners are better prepared for Grade 1 and future learning.

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