About
We are a small home based schooling, tutoring and child care center. We communicate in English and Afrikaans. We believe that every child is special and they need to be in an environment where they can learn to be themselves. We accept all children and help them to reach their potential.
How we got started.
Truth be told, I never wanted to work with kids, it always seemed so hard, but life pushed me in this direction, God guided my path and I realized that this is my calling and it is an important calling as one on my primary school teachers once told me, we are teaching the foundations of all careers, every person who became a lawyer, doctor, therapist, author, etc. had to go through teachers who taught them the basics, the foundation, and us as teachers, tutors, and mentors, should try and build up all kids who come to us. I enjoy working with all kids that gets sent on my path, whether they have Autism, ADHD, ADD etc. I am glad God set me on this this path to work with amazing kids and to help them realize their potential, which depending on their background can be a challenge.
My mom and I decided to start a homeschooling tutor center back in 2021. When we resigned from a school. We started with 6 kids. We now have 18 and hope to grow some more. We are currently operating from a backyard flat and are hoping to grow more in 2025 so we can get a free standing premises.
If you give us a chance your kid will be loved and cared for, while you are at work.
Testimonial
What do we offer?
Riana Van Zyl
Early Learning - Age 1-3
We play and learn with little ones, they get to scribble, sing, dance, paint etc. its all fun...
Pre-School - Age 4-5
We play and learn. We learn about numbers, letters and how to write our names. We have fun with puzzles, mazes, arts etc.
Kindergarten/ Grade 0 - Age 5-6
We are learning a bit more about writing, reading and, math, but we still have fun. We do more fun arts, and we get to play board games.
Grade 1-7
We do the K5 and mobymax curriculums, K5 is more paper and mobymax is online. We do like to focus more on the paper work as it helps the kids use more senses and they retain the information better, but any parents that wants the kids to be fully online are welcome to come an discuss it with us.
Aftercare
We help students with homework, we believe they should do most of it on their own and we check it, explain anything they seem to not understand. We believe that students need to learn on their own and will not provide them with answers, but we will guide them towards the answer and understanding how they got to it.
Transport is available to Parkies children. Other schools will have to organize their own transport.
Lunch is available for aftercare kids.
Day visitors
Kids are welcome to come for a day if a parent needs to go to the shop, to a meeting or if you just need a break. We have full day and half day options available.
Breakfast
Breakfast is available for kids who want to eat at school,
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: Oats
Tuesday and Thursday: Mielie-Pap
On rare occasions we will serve cereals such as coco-pops, cornflakes, froot-loops etc. on a Friday.
Lunch
We serve lunch between 12h30-13h00. Lunch is optional, if you receive and application form you will see options for lunch included or lunch excluded.
Our basic menu looks as follows:
Monday: Spaghetti, Viennas and veggies
Tuesday: Macaroni and Chicken with vegies
Wednesday: Stroganoff and rice with stir-fry veggies
Thursday: Mince and Macaroni with Veggies
Friday: Macaroni and cheese with chicken and veggies.
Vegies: usually mixed vegetables, country mix, brocolli, pumpkin, or sweet carrots.
Our menu do sometime change, on special occasions the kids may get pizza, pies, jaffels, pancakes etc.
In the winter we give soup at times.
Snack Times:
10h00 snack time parents have to provide a sandwich, chips, juice etc. We also have a tuck-shop with sweeties, chippies etc. for students to purchase.
15h00 snack time, the kids get fruit provided by the school. The kids can then also finish any snacks left over from 10h00.
