Loading Thursday, 17 December 2020, 15:53 Angie Motshekga
NATIONAL NEWS - According to the Minister of Basic Education (DBE), Angie Motshekga, the department is ready for the 2021 school year. In a press conference this morning, 17 December, she spoke about the impact Covid-19 has had on schooling and the curriculum, and how the department intends addressing this going forward.
Three-year recovery plan
“We were clear in May that the impact of Covid-19 would have far-reaching implications; and that recovering from the effects of the pandemic would take place over a three-year period,” she said.
The three-year curriculum recovery plan will be rolled out from 2021 to 2023, and will include implementing the recovery annual teaching plans (ATP) in all grades (R to 12). The recovery ATPs are based on the trimmed curriculum used for 2020; but will include the learning losses that need to be recovered in each grade, based on the learning losses in the pre
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The 2021 academic year will start on 25 January for teachers and 27 January for learners with a three-year curriculum recovery plan to make up for lost time due to Covid-19.
“As part of the 3-year curriculum recovery plan, from 2021, we will be implementing the recovery annual teaching plans (ATP) in all Grades, R -12.
“The basis of the recovery ATPs, is the trimmed curriculum; but now includes the learning losses to be recovered in each grade, based on the learning losses in the previous grade,” said Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga.
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The department of basic education will present a report on irregularities to Umalusi, the quality assurance body, in February to make a ruling on the integrity, credibility and fairness of this year’s National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.
This follows the leak of the maths paper 2 and physical science paper 2 matric exam papers from government printers.
Briefing the media in Pretoria on Thursday morning, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said the department would continue with the marking and standardisation processes while the its legal team explored avenues to address some of the errors “we have picked in the court judgment delivered last week to set aside the rewriting of the two papers”.