1. This Assessment Management Minute serves as an amendment to Assessment Management Minute 0007/2009 and Examinations and Assessment Minute 0001/2009.
2. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has received numerous telephone calls from school principals who have indicated that the writing of Section A of the Common Tasks for Assessment (CTAs) in term 3 of 2009 would create many difficulties as their school programmes for the third term have already been decided upon and communicated to learners and parents.
3. Furthermore, the WCED has, to date, not received the full package of the CTAs from the national Department of Education (DoE).
4. A decision has now been taken within the WCED for Section A of the CTAs to be written in term 4 of 2009, as was the case in previous years.
5. Section B of the CTAs will also be written in term 4, in accordance with a compulsory timetable set by the DoE. The proposed dates for the writing of Section B are from 16 - 30 November 2009.
6. According to the DoE, as from 2010, Section A of the CTAs will be administered in term 2.
7. Education districts, curriculum managers and principals are kindly requested to bring the content of this minute to the attention of all concerned.


SIGNED: TINA SINGH
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2009:05:21