1. Life Orientation, a fundamental subject offering in the FET band to which all learners in Grades 10 to 12 will be exposed, has four focus areas, namely Personal Well-being, Citizenship Education, Recreation and Physical Activity, and Careers and Career choices.
2. Training courses on Personal Well-being will be offered on 12-14 January 2006 (3 days).
2.1 The course in Personal Well-being supports the WCED's National Curriculum Statement (NCS) training that was provided in the June 2005 vacation.
2.2 It will have both a paper-based and a CD-ROM application and all schools with appropriate computer facilities will be issued with an electronic version, a teacher resource manual and a learner book.
3. Two teachers per school may attend this second round of training. Schools that have attended training in March 2005 do not qualify for this round of training.
4. Please refer to Annexure B for the correct venue. The course will commence promptly at 8:30 in the morning and will close at 16:00 in the afternoon on all three training days. For further enquiries contact Mrs D Christiaans, Senior Curriculum Planner for Life Orientation at tel (021) 467 2589.
5. Teachers will be reimbursed for travelling expenses. Teachers who intend to claim for these expenses must have the following information available at the course:

  • PERSAL number

  • Engine capacity of the vehicle used and year of manufacture
  • The kilometre distance from the school to the venue
6. Teachers from rural EMDCs who require accommodation must make their own arrangements. Suitable bed and breakfast accommodation is recommended. These educators must submit their claims before they leave on the last day of the course.
7. Principals are requested to return the completed registration forms (Annexure A) to the Senior Curriculum Planner, Mrs D Christiaans at Head Office by mail, fax (021) 467 2620 or e-mail dchristi@pgwc.gov.za by no later than 2 December 2005.
8. Principals are reminded that attendance of the above courses may be taken into consideration when completing teachers' IQMSs.


SIGNED: JP RAULT-SMITH
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2005:11:18

Annexures A and B  (size: 14 KB)