Overview

Sugar & Spice offers a range of child care courses and workshops for child minders. Our primary focus is on empowering Domestic Workers working in family homes with all the essential knowledge, practical skills and confidence they need to take care of babies and young children.

Our nanny training course has been running since January 2003 and in this time we have given more than 500 nannies the confidence and essential tools to take care of and stimulate the babies and young children they love and are responsible for - both at work and in their communities. Our nanny training course is the only domestic worker nanny training course fully and exclusively endorsed by Baby Sense in South Africa.

Based on the principal of "Whole Child Development" we teach with these key elements in mind: - Intellectual, Emotional, Social and Physical wellbeing.
Running over 4 weeks (3 hours, once a week).

The content includes the following:

• Routines and time management
  
• Essential First Aid, including CPR and Mouth to Mouth
  
• Childproofing your home and safety indoors and outdoors
  
• Hygiene
  
• Avoiding the transmission of HIV and TB
  
• Nutrition and Menu Planning
  
• Understanding the importance of play
  
• Developmental Milestones
  
• Age appropriate games and activities
  
• Learning through Reading and Music

The First Aid Module is presented by a third party First Aid professional, ensuring that the latest practices are taught.

The content was developed by a pre-school teacher, with particular attention to the developmental milestones and supporting games and activities that one can use to encourage learning, while making sure the child has fun and stays safe!

We have enhanced this with the guidance of a pediatric neuro-developmental physiotherapist, the ongoing input of mothers and many years of nanny training experience to make sure that everything we teach is practical and current.

We appreciate that most nannies in South Africa are not first language English speakers so we deliver our course in a very practical manner, keeping it fresh and simple so your domestic worker understands the content and can apply her learning in her place of work and her community despite any potential language barrier.

We operate from 4 locations in Cape Town: Green Point, Claremont, Panorama and Noordhoek.

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