A message from the Macmillan Team

Dear Educator

Welcome to our first E-newsletter for 2023. We do hope you find it informative and enjoyable.

It is difficult to believe that it is nearly the end of the first term, and the April school holiday is only three weeks away. Time is flying!

At Macmillan Education, many exciting things happened in the past few weeks. The Macmillan Online Teacher Campus (MOTC) was launched so you can do workshops at home on your own time and at your own pace. To celebrate World Read Aloud Day on 1 February, we launched the Macmillan Reading Corner, an online magical world of stories. The sales and marketing teams brought fun and joy to learners in all provinces by reading them stories on this special day.

Macmillan Teacher Campus’s team was also very busy developing new workshops during the first two months of this year. Their vision is to empower, motivate and develop educators in South Africa and to provide you with a learning pathway to continue your professional development. The MTC workshop schedule for March is packed and includes a Coding Week for teachers from Gr R to Gr 6. Have you ever wanted to code? Then this workshop is just for you!

If you want to be a modern mathematics teacher and meet the needs of 21stcentury learners, for Maths Madness Week!

There is a series of poetry workshops for the Grade 12 Afrikaans First Additional Language teachers to help you master the ten new poems. You can’t miss out on this!

All the above workshops are offered online to make them accessible to all educators.

Enjoy the upcoming school holidays!

Regards, Macmillan Team.

Macmillan Education celebrates World Read Aloud Day

World Read Aloud Day is celebrated on the first Wednesday of February, and this year it was celebrated on 1 February.

This day is dedicated to reading, specifically to the art and practice of reading aloud. It also highlights the importance of sharing stories. People were encouraged to grab a book and read it aloud to an audience.

The Macmillan Sales & Marketing teams took up this challenge and read stories all over the country at ECD centres, schools and children’s wards at hospitals. Listening to stories helped these sick children forget their pain and sorrows for a while.

In Mpumalanga, stories were read to grannies at an old age home. They were reminded of their important role in telling their grandchildren folktales and stories about their families.

View stories from this day

Macmillan Reading Corner was launched on World Read Aloud Day!

Storytelling is magic!

Through storytelling, children learn to love reading and associate with it as fun activity. With Macmillan Reading Corner it is easy to make storytelling part of your child’s daily routine.

More about the stories:

• Lively and original stories presented by mother-tongue speakers.

• Stories that will help children to discover the joy of reading and learn more about the world they live in.

• New stories in various languages are to be added every month.

• Enjoy the stories on your cell phone, tablet or desktop.

How to access these amazing stories for FREE:

1. Scan this QR code or,

2. Type this link in your browser: https://bit.ly/rcorner or,

3. Search for “Macmillan Reading Corner” on YouTube