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• A Gauteng School Sports league will start in the next academic year, and an agreement with municipalities to maintain playing fields will be entered. • An agreement with the Department of Sports Art, Recreation and Culture will be required to provide the support and understanding on this strategy. • Key to this term is to increase competitive sport across schools, provinces and nationally. • Consciously ensure sports across race and class.

Priority 11: School Health, Anti-Drugs Programmes, Girl Child Support and Guidance

Girl Child Support and Guidance Programme

The following programmes will be initiated to support the Girl Child Support and Guidance Programme

• GDE will partner with all Gauteng Provincial Departments (GPG) to support the invest in a Girl-Child and Empower Young Women equally to the Boy Child campaign. • Campaign aimed at mobilizing new partners to scale up interventions to invest in a girl and boy child and protect them from harm • Commemoration of Youth month to address the plight of the girl and boy child to address bullying, teenage pregnancy, cyber bullying, inequality, gender based violence, substance abuse, human trafficking • Take a girl and boy child to work-to expose young girls and boys to various career opportunities

Strategic Goal 4: Change the Education Landscape to accelerate relevant and quality learning

Priority 12: Twinning and Resource Optimisation, small schools and normalisation of grade structure of schools The Twinning Programme The Department will continue with its Twinning programme in the 2019/20 financial year.

The Twinning of schools and Social Cohesion will focus on:

• improving the performance of township schools by improving basic infrastructure • Making schools clean and safe • Harnessing ICT to build the “classroom of the future” • Optimising the effective use of resources

To date 7 pairs of schools have been Gazetted across the Province.

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