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Mindset POP

The Mindset POP DStv channel 317 features programming aimed at ECD and GET learners. The channel has played a crucial role in supporting parents and caregivers of children during the COVID-19 lockdown.

EISH has developed daily lessons in Literacy and Numeracy for the Foundation Phase (Grades 1-3) and English and Mathematics for the Intermediate Phase (Grades 4-6). The lessons are based on Mindset’s Learn Like Lerato series and provides CAPS-aligned lessons that learners can participate in, on their own or with an adult. EISH has also developed daily lessons for Grade 7s in Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The series ensures that learners have day-by-day instruction in key areas of learning during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Check Your Freedom

Check Your Freedom is a 10-part television series produced by EISH in partnership with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. The series was developed to spark discussion and debate amongst Africa’s youth around the theme of freedom. The series is developed from Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom’s digital freedom quiz of the same title.

The discussions on the series cover topical themes such as multiparty democracy, corruption, security and privacy, education and many more. Presented by Thando Xaba, Check Your Freedom amplifies the voices and opinions of Africa’s youth about what matters most to them. Viewers are invited to participate by taking the digital Check Your Freedom quiz which raises awareness on the values of the show and helps them build an argument for liberal ideas and freedom.

Check Your Freedom broadcasts daily on Mindset Network (DStv channel 319).

IIAL

The objective of the Department of Basic Education’s ‘Incremental Introduction of African Languages’ (IIAL) programme is to foster nation building and encourage social cohesion by improving learners’ proficiency in African languages.

The DBE commissioned EISH to produce an IIAL DVD series for Grade 1 to help facilitate the learning (and teaching) of African languages at a Second Additional Language (SAL) level.

Produced in nine languages, the lessons use puppets, songs and stories to introduce Grade 1 learners to new language concepts in a fun and energetic way.

The DBE has delivered the IIAL DVD packs to primary schools nationwide.