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Online Safety Curriculum for learners and parents

The Western Cape Education Department is working with Google to provide individual lessons for high school learners and parents on online...

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Learners provided with data for online learning

Qhayiya Secondary School in Hermanus provided Grade 12 learners with 1Gb WhatsApp data to enable them to stay in contact with their teachers during the lockdown.

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Lockdown anthem goes viral

The Settlers High School in Bellville tapped into their creative side to express how much staff members miss the learners.

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Primary school's letters of hope

Table View Primary School has been posting daily messages of hope during lockdown on the school's social media platforms.

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Minister records and shares story with children on World Book Day

Western Cape Education Minister Debbie Schäfer encouraged parents to celebrate World Book Day (23 April) by reading a story to their...

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Coping with stress caused by COVID-19

The global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for psychosocial support.

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Teachers get inventive to enable remote learning

Necessity is the mother of invention, something Ronald Kock, a teacher at Diazville High School in Saldanha, is all too familiar with.

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Teachers start Facebook group to support remote learning

A group of passionate teachers started a Facebook community to support teachers, parents and learners all over South Africa, as well as, Namibia.

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RCL message to fellow learners

Stay at home and make use of available resources to continue learning. This is the message from the Provincial Representative Council of Learners (RCL) Forum’s executive committee to fellow learners during lockdown.

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Tips on how to support reading @ home

This week the WCED released tips and advice to parents on how promote reading activities in their home as part of the “Quality Learning @ home” series.

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