Western Cape MEC of Education Donald Grant
today visited the Esangweni Secondary in Khayelitsha where Grade 12 learners
are participating in a Winter School
The WCED said the winter school programme
will benefit learners from over the 200 high schools in the province.
Ministerial Spokesperson Bronagh Casey said
that this year 216 high schools will be participating in the grade 12 winter
school program.
“Many of the programmes on offer will be to
taught by tutors selected by the WCED and some schools curriculum advises will
also be supporting and assisting individual school programmes,” Casey said.
Furthermore Casey said that the department
has also arranged for additional resource materials to be developed to compliment
the lessons being presented.
Casey also added that the winter programme
is complementing existing programmes at the selected high schools in order to
improve performance particularly at underperforming schools.
She also said that the WC government has
managed to reduce the number of underperforming schools from 85 to 26.
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