Home education gets boost with British Council resource platform

The British Council- South Africa, has created a WhatsApp-based resource portal as a way of providing home education material to parents, guardians and caregivers during the current school closure and recovery period.  

The recently launched platform features audio lessons, stories and songs for English First Additional Language and English Home Language for grades R-4. It is available in South Africa, Namibia and Lesotho.  

Using Turn.io, the resource portal provides broader support to teachers through the remote delivery of language and literacy that can easily be used in the home environment. Already 3500 users have signed up to access the set of resources.  

The UK’s organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities additionally plans to scale over the coming months through offering support for teachers. Term 3 and 4 content will be added to the platform to enable the service to keep supporting teachers over the next year to eighteen months of disruption.  

Turn.io was developed to enable social impact organisations to have personal, guided conversations at scale – conversations that result in actions with a powerful social impact.