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Easing the Load for Teachers Where Cub Club Fits
The education system demands too Cub Club pilot programmes are already running in schools across Cosmos City,
much of teachers and provides them Soweto, and other communities where classrooms are packed, resources are
with too little to work with. Lesson thin, and teachers work with what they have.
prep eats into evenings. Admin
follows them home. There is no time It operates as a non-profit organisation, supported by private partners who help
left for reflection or renewal. fund its technology, training, and support. Schools don’t carry the cost alone.
Cub Club changes that pattern. But this isn’t just about township schools. Cub Club is designed to work wherever
learners need to build thinking skills, emotional resilience, and curiosity.
• Lesson prep is reduced by up to
It fits into:
80 percent
Teachers reclaim their time—
not just to deliver content, but • Homeschooling, where parents need structure, but still want their children
to breathe, to connect, and to grow in confidence and reflection, not just academics
to teach in the way they once
hoped they would. • Remedial and mainstream schools, where teachers need to simplify lesson
delivery without losing depth
• Assessment support is built in
The admin load becomes • Private schools, where critical thinking and emotional literacy are no longer
lighter. Teachers can focus on seen as extras, but as essentials
learning, not paperwork.
The Quiet Shift
• Content is ready to use
Some programmes chase headlines. Cub Club works differently.
Everything is in one place,
It’s about the teacher who no longer dreads Monday morning because she
structured but flexible, with
knows her lesson is well-planned.
space for the teacher’s own
voice and classroom culture.
It is about the learner who, for the first time, thinks I can do this
instead of I don’t belong here.
As Loryn Dilley, head of Cub Club,
says: It is about changing education from the ground up, by starting
where people actually are.
“We’re not trying to create a perfect
system. We’re trying to make this one At 7:45 am tomorrow, there will still be 86 children in that classroom. The load
bearable, and better. We’re giving will still be heavy. But there will also be a teacher who knows she is not doing it
teachers and kids a way to survive alone, and learners who know they are more than just numbers in a row.
and thrive, even when the odds are
stacked against them.” That is how change begins.
Contact Cub Club
If you would like to learn more about how
Cub Club works or are wondering whether
it could make a difference in your learning
space, you are welcome to get in touch.
Cub Club
Cnr Hawken and President Fouché
Randburg, South Africa
Phone: 010 110 0081
Email: info@cubclub.co.za
Website: www.cubclub.co.za
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