Cape Town – The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) will be allocating more time for mathematics and reading to address severe Covid related learning losses in the Foundation Phase.
Education MEC David Maynier on Tuesday said Grades 1 to 3 were most severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the WCED was doing everything possible to ensure that the youngest students are not disadvantaged in later grades.
“The intervention will see an extra 2 hours per week allocated to reading and 1 extra hour per week for Mathematics, for all Foundation Phase students in the province – amounting to an increase of at least 60 learning hours per student in the subjects over the remainder of…
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