117859 GDE APP 201920 6th proof 26 July

Part A: General Information & Strategic Overview

Whole School Improvement (WSI) The Whole School Improvement processes (Change Lever 1) focuses on the functionality of schools and related learner matters. The strategy is aimed at strengthening the monitoring, reporting and accountability processes at all levels. The strategy is aimed at enabling districts to provide direct support to schools with a view to improve learner performance and compliance by using a system of evaluation and categorisation of individual school needs. All Gauteng schools (2 207) will be categorised annually based on their performance across a set of variables. The districts will be required to ensure progressively that all schools are profiled by 2020 with a special focus on the 445 township schools. The detailed focus for re-profiling per term will be based on the 445 schools. Of the 70 pilot schools sourced from the ICT programme, twinned schools, SOS and under-performing schools from the Ekurhuleni, Tshwane and Johannesburg regions, the projected change in performance by 2020 will be categorised as follows:

• 19 (27%) of poor schools into the fair category • 25 (35.7%) of fair schools into the good category • 18 (25.7%) of good schools into the great category

To achieve this, the Department will intensify the advocacy and training of district management teams to support the profiling and re-profiling of schools.

Priority 13: New Improved School Infrastructure – Adhering to National Norms and Standards, Eradication of Mobile Schools, Acceleration of School Maintenance and Mitigating Climate Change Effects, Creation of New Health Centres Improve conditions at schools by focusing on functionality of schools The Department through the vigilant oversight of Chapter 9 institutions like the Human Rights Commission, civil society organisations like Equal Education and the Legislature Portfolio Committees for Education and for Infrastructure, have identified infrastructure trouble spots that the Department will strive to overcome. The Department plans to replace 29 asbestos schools of which 17 asbestos schools are planned to be completed by the end of the 2019/20 financial year. In line with the Norms and Standards the Department will improve and accelerate infrastructure delivery by replacing 84 mobile schools, upgrading water provisioning at 513 schools, upgrading electricity supply at 210 schools and upgrading sanitation provisioning at 726 schools. The unblocking and resourcing of infrastructure projects will be implemented in conjunction with the Gauteng Provincial Treasury and Premier’s office. The ten new Alternative Construction Technology (ACT) schools that were to enter the construction stage during the 2018/19 financial year but were delayed due to budgetary constraints will be completed during the 2019 MTEF. The Department will also address both the backlogs as well as growing demand for infrastructure through construction of new schools and classrooms, provision of additional specialist rooms (laboratories, libraries), supply of Grade R classrooms and school maintenance in township schools.

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