Speaker 1: But for now we want to get into the city
Speaker 1: winter school Holiday program. It's getting underway and the winter
Speaker 1: school holidays have just begun. You may already be tearing
Speaker 1: your hair out or trying to trying to find activities
Speaker 1: to keep your children busy over the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: We here to help you by telling you about the
Speaker 1: City of Cape Town's annual winter school holiday program. It
Speaker 1: involves the city's libraries and also it's a Recreation and
Speaker 1: Parks department which are running a number of indoor activities.
Speaker 1: Besides all the books, your local library has lots of
Speaker 1: board game corners, chess tournaments, and arts and crafts stations.
Speaker 1: You can even learn the basics of coding or how
Speaker 1: to sketch an anime character. You'll need to check with
Speaker 1: them what they have on offer for that specific day
Speaker 1: or week. The Recreation and Parks Department also has a
Speaker 1: range of activities. And now to tell us more, we
Speaker 1: joined on the line by Franklin Anthony, who's the head
Speaker 1: of Programs, Events and Partnerships. Franklin, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining us on Cape Talk.
Speaker 2: Good and Jacob and good often to the listeners.
Speaker 1: Now, this is an annual program which runs through the
Speaker 1: entire school holidays. Why is it so important for the
Speaker 1: city to arrange these activities every year, Jacob.
Speaker 2: We provide opportunities for school growing learners to keep themselves busy.
Speaker 2: That's important obviously during school holidays, but there's also an
Speaker 2: opportunity to acquire new skills, to learn new sports and games.
Speaker 2: So it is important and obviously acquire knowledge during play,
Speaker 2: but also for new things that they are introduced to.
Speaker 1: Now, Franklin, what type of events will be run by
Speaker 1: your departments during this time?
Speaker 2: So, because it is an indoor it's winter, so it's
Speaker 2: our programs are indoors and space are limited. We try
Speaker 2: to do as many active games. Some of those would
Speaker 2: be sport like you would. We would do soccer, netball
Speaker 2: or the normal normal things that sport, volleyball or basketball,
Speaker 2: and then we would have board games, so we have
Speaker 2: an arrangement of board games that we have. Then we
Speaker 2: will have like what we call table day games, so
Speaker 2: it's table tenders and pool, and then we'll all also
Speaker 2: have our arts and calcure, arts and crafts type of
Speaker 2: the programs. It is basically an opportunity to keep busy,
Speaker 2: to be active, but also be to be creative.
Speaker 1: Now, how do the children join? Do they sign up
Speaker 1: for these activities or can they just arrive at the
Speaker 1: various points and enjoy the fun.
Speaker 2: So our programs are presented at the community centers within communities,
Speaker 2: so you don't have to register, but you you can
Speaker 2: go to the local community center and take part in
Speaker 2: the program. We normally start at about nine o'clock and
Speaker 2: in the mornings and then at war Phinis around about four.
Speaker 1: Now, in terms of the community centers, is it community
Speaker 1: centers all around in Cape Town? Is there specific areas?
Speaker 1: What what are the areas that are involved in which
Speaker 1: areas are not involved?
Speaker 2: So so we tie and have programs that at most
Speaker 2: of the communities, So it's any that it's across the
Speaker 2: board in the city. In in on west coast, the
Speaker 2: furthest would be the Atlanta's Mamay area and then obviously
Speaker 2: in the in the southern suburbs, well will go as
Speaker 2: far as as Lotus River or Ocean View frand Kaylitza
Speaker 2: and yes River area is in the east. And obviously
Speaker 2: in an Auden's house we'll have Scott's d in f
Speaker 2: Sante Caral those areas. So as far as possible in
Speaker 2: communities we we we have programs in each of those communities.
Speaker 1: Any additional information that anyone might have, where can we
Speaker 1: go for that?
Speaker 2: So on. So our program schedule is on the website.
Speaker 2: If you look for holiday programs similar to we will
Speaker 2: find the libraries schedule. Will also find the recreation and
Speaker 2: park schedule. But if you're in a very specific community
Speaker 2: coachure or community center, they will be a present that
Speaker 2: will be able to tell you which programs are coming up,
Speaker 2: what are the activities for the day, and what would
Speaker 2: be schedules for the next three weeks.
Speaker 1: Franklin Anthony, thank you so much for joining us. He's
Speaker 1: the head of Programs Events at Partnership at the City
Speaker 1: of Cape Town. He's given us a a modus operande
Speaker 1: appla Moms and dads, that's what you can get up
Speaker 1: to over the next few weeks, specifically because it is
Speaker 1: the winter school holiday program which the city provides annually.
Speaker 1: So that you don't have to rip your hair out,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to be shouting at your children
Speaker 1: when you come back from work because they ate all
Speaker 1: the bread, you can make them as cuffteine and then
Speaker 1: they can head to one of their nearest recreation centers.
Speaker 1: There's lots to learn and lots to do. Remember if
Speaker 1: you need any more information www dot Capetown dot gov
Speaker 1: dot ZA forward Slash Holiday Programs. What a great initiative. Again,
Speaker 1: Thank you again to Franklin Anthony for joining us and
Speaker 1: giving us a plan of action for moms and dads
Speaker 1: out there who didn't know how to navigate the winter
Speaker 1: school holidays.