Who can believe that we are at the end of 2022? After almost 3 years of uncertainty and stresses out of our control, we never thought that we would be sitting here in the middle of December feeling grateful and reminiscing about the past year. We have been busy and...
2022 has been an amazing, yet sometimes challenging year, not only for MiniChess Headoffice but for all our franchisees from across the globe! Last week we had the honor of having most of our franchisees at our new offices in Monumentpark, Pretoria, for our annual symposium! This was a special moment...
Education is the most important gift you can give your child! Sadly our education system and how our children get taught have not changed, yet the way our children learn and think has. Jobs and the criteria required to do them have also changed and will continue changing as technology...
During the 2022 MiniChess Franchisee Symposium we had the privilege to take some of our franchisees to visit The Mvelaphanda Primary School in Mamelodi. This is one of the sponsored programs made possible by The Entrust Foundation and Red Path Mining, our partner at this school. With approximately 250 children from...
Our Entrust Foundation, MiniChess team had the absolute honor to visit the stunning Safari Primary School in Hluhluwe region last week. Our team met with Lois Peterssen of Star for Life, all the way from Sweden. A massive thank you to ANEW Hotel who hosted us with excellence,...
This past weekend MiniChess had the privilege to exhibit at the Cape Town Home Schoolers Expo in Stellenbosch! There was so much excitement surrounding the MiniChess stand, with people showing a real interest in what the MiniChess programme has to offer and how it impacts the current school curricula. There...
Venessa Calitz Visits!Venessa Calitz who originally started the Sandton franchise shortly before COVID, moved to South Munich, Germany shortly after! With her amazing zest for life, we are excited that she will be implementing the MiniChess programme in South Munich...
We were so excited when our Queen, Marisa van der Merwe agreed to do one of the Level 1 lessons at Laerskool Du Preez van Wyk in Bronkhorspruit, herself! Ready for action was our learners who learned eagerly about The King and Pawn through all 7 learning styles in the lesson! ...
"Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength."Every year on the 9th of August we celebrate the incredible women in our lives and today is no different! Even though there are only about 37 female chess players who...
We are so proud of the learners at Laerskool Du Preez Van Wyk who are taking part in the Level 1 programme with MiniChess Teacher Michela da Cal. During this specific lesson, the learners did a revision to see where the children are in the programme and also learned sportsmanship...
