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  The African continent is set to celebrate African Union Day tomorrow 25 th  May 2024. Africa Day is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organization of African Unity on 25 May 1963. It is celebrated in various countries on the African continent as well as around the world. Th is year’s th eme  is   Educate an African fit for the 21st Century: Building resilient education systems for increased access to inclusive, lifelong, quality, and relevant learning in Africa. Th is year’s  event will bring together the Committee of Ten Heads of State and Government (C10) dedicated to Education, Science, and Technology, along with executives from UN agencies, institutional partners, NGOs, bilateral partners, representatives from Regional Economic Communities, embassies of the Pan African University host countries, and Ethiopia’s Ministers of Education and Science and Technology, alongside youth and media representatives.

Back to School Here’s First News’ handy guide to helping you get ahead this school year. - Re-establish a morning routine. While you can relax the schedule a little, encourage a morning routine towards the end of summer. Encourage your kids to wake up no later than a certain time and try and do something healthy and productive for the first 30 minutes of their day, like reading , or catching up on the news. - Set up a breakfast station Make breakfast as stress-free as possible by getting all the food/drinks you need out and putting them in a certain area in your kitchen or dining room for your kids to access easily. Choose healthy, simple options that will set them up for the day.  Slide into a bedtime routine Bedtimes often slip thanks to the long summer nights. This can be a hurdle when it comes to suddenly re-establishing back to school bedtimes. Introduce the process gradually by serving dinner earlier and altering evening activities to create a calmer atmosphere, such as sitti...

  Join a club Do you have a passion for learning local languages, STEM, writing, reading, learning a new skill like sewing that you want to take to the next level?  A great way to grow your skills is to start a creative club at the Shared Space, where you can share your work with others who are invested in cultivating the same craft.  Working with people who share similar interests to you is both fun and incredibly rewarding. We have revived and improved on our Saturday Special programs with the  introduction of very child-friendly clubs to help your child develop, learn and enjoy a new skill.  Spend an hour or two on Saturday morning with one of these clubs:  STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Club Local Languages Club Sewing Club STEM-  Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math  education is all about preparing kids for a digital future and understanding the new world around them.  Therefore,   STEM fields are imperativ...

Team Shared Space thinks this is worth keeping and sharing. :) Hon. Dakoa Newman MP, Okaikwei South Constituency   Below is the speech delivered on the floor of Parliament by Dakoa Newman MP, Okaikwei South Constituency on the effects of screen time on early childhood development. Mr. Speaker, Thank you for the opportunity to speak on a matter that concerns all parents, including my good self. This has to do with the negative effects of screen time on early childhood development. Screen time refers to time spent with any screen including televisions, smart phones, tablets, video games and computers. Lately, screen time has become a more complex concept with an expanding variety of electronic media devices available at every home and even at early childhood education centres.   Researchers in South Africa in assessing the influence of screen time on language development have found that an increase in the amount of screen time at an early age has negative effects on language dev...

T here are physical and  mental benefits of playing t he piano  which  has been a creative expression, and simply fun and joy. Recent years have only seen more evidence of the benefits of piano come to light, linking music making to a healthy body, a healthy mind, and a healthy life. P laying the piano is a workout all its own, and offers different physical and physiological advantages to players of all ages. For instance, regular piano playing sharpens fine motor skills and improves hand-eye coordination in the young and developing.   Piano practice also boosts cognitive and intellectual abilities, which is to say it makes you smarter and activates similar parts of the brain used in spatial reasoning and math. Studying piano has also been shown to amazingly improve memory ,  particularly verbal memory .     Do you want to learn how to play a piano? Sign up at the Shared Space, (M11-Regimanuel estate Comm 18) or  via  Sign Up form A child pla...

  A concern has been raised by an educationist on opening up recommendations for fresh students in the university. According to an article in the Daily Graphic by Mr. Anis Haffar highlighted "That admonition was important then and more so today in the context of finding solutions to the myriad problems facing Ghana,"  He added that "Great things happen when young people are given the chance to identify the problems around them and to imagine innovative solutions."

  Father's Day is a holiday honoring one's father, or relevant father figure, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.  Celebrated on the 18th of June every year, we at Shared space decided to make cards for the fathers' in our lives. The children parted in craft activities the Friday prior to Father's Day and it was amazing.  Below are some pictures 

  Saturday special flyer Your children get to spend an hour or two playing & learning through a broad range of activities. Children also get to interact with other children & adults aside their ‘regular’ crew, deepening their well-needed socialization skills.  Parents also get an hour our two to attend to other activities like going to the market or shopping, or just sleeping in a bit on a Saturday morning. :) We’re open to suggestions and ideas.  We will also be happy to have some adults volunteer a bit of time to make an impact on the next generation whenever time allows. Children enjoy doing stuff together with adults, and those of us with children at home could extend some activities from our homes to the Shared Space so that we can make an impact of other children as well.  These activities to volunteer for could but are not limited to the following: playing ludo or Oware together, teaching the basics of a handiwork, a patriotic song in local or foreign ...