1. As you are aware, your school was nominated by the District as one of 258 schools to participate in the Phase 2 roll-out of the province-wide Literacy and Numeracy Intervention.

2. To date, comprehensive information sessions have been conducted in all Districts (South is scheduled for Term 2) alerting District officials and School Management Teams (SMT) to the scope and benefits of the Literacy and Numeracy Intervention.

3. This notice serves to inform all phase 1 schools that in depth training on Literacy and Numeracy will be conducted for all teachers teaching Numeracy/ Mathematics and Literacy/Languages from Grade 1 to 6 teachers in June/July 2011. Schools are therefore requested to provisionally reserve the dates marked for training for their particular school. See attached scheduled (Annexure A) that indicates the week in which the teachers will attend training. Training will take place over 5 days starting from 08:00 to 16:30. Venues and other logistics will be confirmed shortly and a follow up letter forwarded to all schools with these details.

4. Schools are requested to provide the names of all the teachers who will attend the training as follows:
4.1 schools identified as Literacy schools must list all Foundation Phase teachers (Grade 1 to 3) and all Intermediate Phase teachers who teach Languages (Grade 4 to 6)
4.2 schools identified as Numeracy schools must list all Foundation Phase teachers (Grade 1 to 3) and only those Intermediate Phase teachers who teach Mathematics (Grade 4 to 6).

5. Principals are further requested to complete the attached registration form (Annexure B) and return this by Thursday 21 April 2011, to the relevant district GET co-ordinator below:

District GET Co-ordinator Tel. e-Mail Fax
Central Avrille Morgendal 021 673 1312 amorgendal@pgwc.gov.za 021 671 1318
North Geoffrey Figaji 021 938 3000 gfigaji@pgwc.gov.za 021 938 3184
South Fadli Wagiet 021 370 2041 fwagiet@pgwc.gov.za 021 372 1856
East Ursula Esau 021 900 7051 uesau@pgwc.gov.za 086 556 9519
West Coast Ebrahim Peck 021 860 1569 epeck@pgwc.gov.za 021 872 5394
Overberg Edgar Johannes 028 214 7359 eajohann@pgwc.gov.za 028 214 7400
Cape Winelands Malefo Makena 023 348 0605 mmakena@pgwc.gov.za 086 657 7632
Eden & Central Karoo Seymour Bothman 044 803 8326 sbothman@pgwc.gov.za 086 555 3085

6. Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact your district GET co-ordinator.

7. The WCED looks forward to your school's participation in the LIT/NUM Intervention as a positive response to the challenge that we face in raising literacy and numeracy levels, and in ensuring that all learners are able to read, write and calculate at the expected levels.


SIGNED: BK SCHREUDER
DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL: CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT MANAGEMENT
DATE: 2011:03:30


Literacy / languages
Annexure A: Venues and schools for literacy / languages training  (size: 15 KB)
Annexure B: Registration for literacy / language training  (size: 17 KB)

Numeracy / mathematics
Annexure A: Venues and schools for numeracy / mathematics training  (grootte: 15 KB)
Annexure B: Registration for numeracy / mathematics training  (grootte: 17 KB)