By Kim Saulse
13 November 2009
As from January next year, the Gauteng Education Department will start providing all Grade 1 to 3 teachers with standard lesson plans for literacy and numeracy.
Provincial MEC for Education Barbara Creecy said the initiative was the beginning of a new support programme for primary schools that aimed to make sure all children pass Maths and English by the time they leave Grade 7.
Later in the year, the learners in the same Grades will further get textbooks to help them learn literacy and numeracy.
Government will spend R524 million to fund the rollout of workbooks for pupils in Grades 1 to 7 in the poorest 60 percent of schools for the 2010 school year, to boost literacy and numeracy in early grades.
Creecy also challenged parents to help their children by listening to them read for ten minutes, counting and doing simple sums with them for ten minutes.
She also emphasized the importance of parents attending school meetings and meeting with educators once a month to discuss the child’s progress.
13 November 2009
As from January next year, the Gauteng Education Department will start providing all Grade 1 to 3 teachers with standard lesson plans for literacy and numeracy.
Provincial MEC for Education Barbara Creecy said the initiative was the beginning of a new support programme for primary schools that aimed to make sure all children pass Maths and English by the time they leave Grade 7.
Later in the year, the learners in the same Grades will further get textbooks to help them learn literacy and numeracy.
Government will spend R524 million to fund the rollout of workbooks for pupils in Grades 1 to 7 in the poorest 60 percent of schools for the 2010 school year, to boost literacy and numeracy in early grades.
Creecy also challenged parents to help their children by listening to them read for ten minutes, counting and doing simple sums with them for ten minutes.
She also emphasized the importance of parents attending school meetings and meeting with educators once a month to discuss the child’s progress.
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