Basic Education Minister Mme Angie Motshekga says the department is set to implement three year recovery plan

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The Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says a lot has to be done for the department to recover from the negative impact caused by the global pandemic, Covid-19, where lot of cut and joins had to be made so as to continue with the curriculum without compromising its integrity and disadvantaging learners in the process.

Minister Motshekga said this during a media briefing Thursday mid-day on an update of how far the department has kept on during this pandemic as pupils also wrote their last paper on December 15th.

As the 2021 academic year is set to start on 25 January for teachers and 27 January for learners, Basic Education department say they have come up 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, Grade 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,”

“The recovery ATPs, focus mainly on the core and fundamental content knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required in each grade and subject, to ensure deep learning and content mastery as opposed to superficial learning,” said the Minister.

She added that the department will do everything in their power to maintain the integrity of the department.

To assist in the recovery plan, the basic education sector will receive 300 000 young employees in schools nationwide.

This is part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme to create 200 000 employment opportunities for Education Assistants, and 100 000 for General School Assistants.