TAKING THE 2ND STEP: AN EXERCISE IN BELONGINGNESS “Thank you for including us, now how about making us feel like we belong!”) Presentation by Kim van der Hoven at Western Cape Education Department Annual meeting with Independent Heads 2016   Schools have always played

The Belongingness Project developed in response to a need to find meaningful, relevant and pro-active ways of responding to some of the bigger questions and stories at the school: how to work with societal ideas of ‘the other”, including specific

Forres coined the phrase some time ago of being a Thinking - Feeling School. It began when we embarked on the Thinking School’s journey back in 1999 and attended a conference which showcased many cognitive programmes that would teach learners