The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has announced new interventions it is introducing to address severe learning losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Western Cape Education Department has announced new interventions to address severe learning losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
“These are the grades that were most severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and we must do everything we possibly can to ensure that our youngest students are not disadvantaged in later grades.an extra two hours per week allocated to reading and one extra hour per week for mathematics “While we had previously made great progress with a steady increase in performance in years preceding 2020, these gains have unfortunately been reversed.
Comparing the 2021 and 2019 systemic test results, Grade 3 pass rates in mathematics dropped by 13.8 percentage points, and in language by 8.0 percentage points. These learning losses will have serious knock effects as these students progress through their school careers, the department said.
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