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The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) in collaboration with the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB), the Centre for the Book, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS), the City of Cape Town, the Library Service of DCAS, the Afrikaanse Taalraad, the Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and Education Library and Information Services (EDULIS) will once again host a Grade 6 Multilingual Creative Writing Competition in 2018. |
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The purpose of the competition is to strengthen the process of creative writing in young learners and to create a love and an interest for sharing experiences through the process of writing. |
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As Creative Writing forms part of the content in the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), teachers may use the marks attained in the competition towards the first Formal Assessment Task (FAT) for Term 1, which is a school-based assessment in Creative Writing. |
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The WCED hopes that this event will motivate Grade 6 Language teachers to encourage their learners to participate in this process. |
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The competition will be conducted in the home language of learners. |
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The winning essays will be published in a multilingual story book titled From the Pen of the Learner. |
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Workshops will be organised by the Language subject advisors in districts with the view to support schools with the preparation and execution of the competition. |
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The competition process |
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There is a choice of narrative and descriptive topics attached as Annexure A. |
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Learners are expected to write the draft as well as the final essay/story in an A5 exercise book according to the set criteria in Annexure B and teachers are expected to mark the written work according to the marking matrix in Annexure B by mid-March 2018. |
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Teachers must select their best (i.e. only one) essay/story that they will enter at district level. |
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Schools must submit the draft as well as the final creative writing piece in an A5 exercise book to the General Education and Training (GET) coordinator in the district by no later than 23 March 2018. The contact list of GET Coordinators appears in the table below. |
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The District Selection Team will shortlist the three (i.e. one per language) best essays/stories and forward it to the Provincial Creative Writing Committee that will select the eighteen best essays/stories, i.e. five per language group including three for Sesotho. |
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The eighteen best essays/stories will be published in a multilingual storybook. |
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All participating schools will receive a copy of the multilingual storybook. |
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Both the winning learner and the school will receive noteworthy prizes, which will be presented at a provincial book launch and gala event to be held in September 2018. |
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Please find attached a schedule of the competition dates in Annexure C. |
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Principals are requested to register their schools in good time as this will guide the competition logistics. |
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The registration form (Annexure D) must be submitted by Tuesday, 02 February 2018 to the relevant GET coordinator.
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Principals are kindly requested to bring the content of this minute to the attention of all the Grade 6 Language teachers and learners.
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SIGNED: PAD BEETS
DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL: CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT MANAGEMENT
DATE: 2018:01:19
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