What is Buzz Kidz?
The South African Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) document dictates that throughout the Life Skills subject children must be exposed to and engage with visual art, dance, drama and music in order to develop as creative and imaginative individuals, and they must be allowed the opportunity to creatively communicate, dramatise, sing, make music, dance and explore movement. Buzz fills this gap and provides this solution to the education sector.
Buzz interactive workshops are custom designed to develop children’s confidence, boost their social skills and offer them a platform to express their individuality. Over the last 12 years, Buzz has earned an excellent reputation for creating original children’s content and delivering educational creative arts across South Africa. Buzz content includes music, podcasts and television programmes for children.
Our services include:
- 3-in-1 Drama, Dance and Singing workshops in schools and independently across South Africa
- Professional Development courses for teachers.
- Custom-developed curricula for various cognitive developmental phases of childhood, with original learning material developed, like music, to compliment and enrich the work.
- Podcasts and our own revolutionary edutainment television show for children.
- Themed interactive birthday parties, holiday courses, and children's entertainment at corporate entertainment.
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Pedagogy
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Learning goals
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The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts, from vernacular to academic
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
- Learning to combine information to find new innovations
- Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
- Familiarizing with the influences of media and understanding its affordances
- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
- Practicing to improvise
- Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
- Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings
- Practicing creative thinking
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
- Re-reading literature and other writing as a basis for making comparisons.
- Understand and critically evaluate texts through reading in different ways for different purposes, summarising and synthesising ideas and information, and evaluating their usefulness for particular purposes.
- Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings
- Practicing to work with others
- Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
- Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form that anticipates the audience's knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.
- Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence.
- Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners
- Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
- Learning to listen other people’s opinions
- Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings
- Practicing to work with others
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
- Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
- Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners
- Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
- Learning to combine information to find new innovations
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Practicing to take care of own and other people’s safety
- Practicing to take care of one's own and other people’s safety
- Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
- Make notes, draft and write, including using information provided by others [e.g. writing a letter from key points provided; drawing on and using information from a presentation].
- Selecting, and using judiciously, vocabulary, grammar, form, and structural and organisational features, including rhetorical devices, to reflect audience, purpose and context, and using Standard English where appropriate.
- Selecting and organising ideas, facts and key points, and citing evidence, details and quotation effectively and pertinently for support and emphasis.
- Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.
- Making critical comparisons, referring to the contexts, themes, characterisation, style and literary quality of texts, and drawing on knowledge and skills from wider reading.
- Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence.
- Identifying and interpreting themes, ideas and information.
- Drawing on knowledge of the purpose, audience for and context of the writing, including its social, historical and cultural context and the literary tradition to which it belongs, to inform evaluation.
- Understand and critically evaluate texts through reading in different ways for different purposes, summarising and synthesising ideas and information, and evaluating their usefulness for particular purposes.
- Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
- Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation provided (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).
- Use precise language, domain-specific vocabulary and techniques such as metaphor, simile, and analogy to manage the complexity of the topic; convey a knowledgeable stance in a style that responds to the discipline and context as well as to the expertise of likely readers.
- Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from or supports the argument presented.
- Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
- Use words, phrases, and clauses as well as varied syntax to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claim(s) and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claim(s) and counterclaims.
- Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form that anticipates the audience's knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.
- Practicing strategic thinking
- Practicing to look things from different perspectives
- Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
- Learning to find solutions in social conflicts
- Developing problem solving skills
- Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
- Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
- Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
- Practicing creative thinking
- Creating requirements for creative thinking
- Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
- Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
- Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
- Learning to notice causal connections
- Practicing to observe spoken and written language
- Practicing categorization and classification
- Using technology as a part of explorative process
- Using technology for interaction and collaboration (also internationally)
- Using technology for interaction and collaboration
- Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
- Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
- Using technology resources for problem solving
- Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
- Familiarizing with the influences of media and understanding its affordances
- Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
- Practicing to use information independently and interactively
- Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
- Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts, from vernacular to academic
- Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
- Realizing the connection between subjects learned in free time and their impact to skills needed at worklife
- Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
- Practicing versatile ways of working
- Practicing decision making
- Learning to plan and organize work processes
- Enabling the growth of positive self-image
- Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
- Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings
- Learning to understand the meaning of rules, contracts and trust
- Practicing communication through different channels
- Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability
- Learning to combine information to find new innovations
- Practicing strategic thinking
- Introduce precise, knowledgeable claim(s), establish the significance of the claim(s), distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that logically sequences the claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence.
- Learning to build information on top of previously learned
- Develop claim(s) and counterclaims fairly and thoroughly, supplying the most relevant data and evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both claim(s) and counterclaims in a discipline-appropriate form that anticipates the audience's knowledge level, concerns, values, and possible biases.
- Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
- Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from or supports the argument presented.
- Introduce a topic and organize complex ideas, concepts, and information so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
- Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
- Selecting and organising ideas, facts and key points, and citing evidence, details and quotation effectively and pertinently for support and emphasis.
- Make an informed personal response, recognising that other responses to a text are possible and evaluating these.
- Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners
- Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
- Seeking evidence in the text to support a point of view, including justifying inferences with evidence.
- Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
- Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Practicing to work with others
- Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
- Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings
- Learning to listen other people’s opinions
- Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability
- Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings
- Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
- Using technology for interaction and collaboration (also internationally)
- Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences
- Using technology for interaction and collaboration
- Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
- Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
- Using technological resources for finding and applying information
- Practicing to recognize and express feelings
- Enabling the growth of positive self-image
- Developing problem solving skills
- Learning to find solutions in social conflicts
- Practicing creative thinking
- Creating requirements for creative thinking
- Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
- Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
- Practicing to look things from different perspectives
- Practicing to find, evaluate and share information