A visit by some of our games funders

We had the first of a series of thank you gatherings yesterday for some of the funders who have supported us with our games development. The whole process took approximately a year, but we are extremely grateful to a small and generous team of people who believed in our vision and have supported us the whole way.

Kathryn and Mike Baker 

Bea between Nat and Bryan, the design team from B designs who came up with the wonderful
Shine 'look.'

Our designers and funders met one another over coffee yesterday

Our Vowel Cards

First Sound Lotto 

Last Sound Safari and Rainbow 

Ones and Twos

A Magic 'E' Game, Cake! 

Cloudy Sky, working on the 'OU' sound

Noisy Toys, working on the 'OI' and 'OY' sound 

Enthusiasm Reigns!

End sounds lotto at Observatory

And the enthusiasm for the new games keeps rolling on!

Prestwich Games

Trudy sent me some 'in action' photos from Prestwich earlier this week that I wanted to share....the word on the ground is that the children and volunteers are delighted with the new games format. Thanks T! 

Judi & Avuzwa, Speedy Reading 

Volunteer Christine & Thimna, playing End sounds lotto 

volunteer Kathryn & Tandile, playing Pirates

Volunteer Kim & Sikho, End Sound Safari 

Volunteer Mike, with Joshua and Alizwa, reviewing the key sight words

Smiles all round!

It was smiles all round on Tuesday at Zonnebloem: the energy levels were very high, as the volunteers introduced the children to the games: such a contrast to the black and white games we have used over the last four years. We will be tracking the enjoyment levels and we hope that our results are even better than before now we have these powerful learning tools! 

Using the new games at Zonnebloem

All smiles!