By Khanyisa Tabata
09 February 2010
Minister of Education in the Western Cape Donald Grant has urged parents to help their children practice and write mathematics everyday with the campaign “Did your child read, write and practise maths today?”
Grant was briefing the media at one of the seventeen sites where billboards have been erected to promote the department’s literacy and numeracy campaign which was launched at the start of the school year.
The department is aiming at distributing pamphlets around the province in all of the community newspapers to help children.
Minister’s spokesperson Bronagh Casey says the campaign also encourages teachers to apply best practice to literacy and numeracy teaching, and the general public to take an active interest in literacy and numeracy education.
“It is important that parents acknowledge that they have a major role to play in their children’s education and that they should take ownership of it. We want parents to talk to their children about what they do at school, what they read, what they write and what sums they do.
“We also want parents to speak to teachers about what they are doing in school to build these skills, and what parents can do to help teachers” said Bronagh Casey.
The campaign will extend over the first six weeks of the 2010 school year added Casey.
09 February 2010
Minister of Education in the Western Cape Donald Grant has urged parents to help their children practice and write mathematics everyday with the campaign “Did your child read, write and practise maths today?”
Grant was briefing the media at one of the seventeen sites where billboards have been erected to promote the department’s literacy and numeracy campaign which was launched at the start of the school year.
The department is aiming at distributing pamphlets around the province in all of the community newspapers to help children.
Minister’s spokesperson Bronagh Casey says the campaign also encourages teachers to apply best practice to literacy and numeracy teaching, and the general public to take an active interest in literacy and numeracy education.
“It is important that parents acknowledge that they have a major role to play in their children’s education and that they should take ownership of it. We want parents to talk to their children about what they do at school, what they read, what they write and what sums they do.
“We also want parents to speak to teachers about what they are doing in school to build these skills, and what parents can do to help teachers” said Bronagh Casey.
The campaign will extend over the first six weeks of the 2010 school year added Casey.
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