117859 GDE APP 201920 6th proof 26 July

Part B: Programme & Sub-Programme Plans

B5. Programme 5: Early Childhood Development

Programme purpose

• To provide Early Childhood Education (ECD) at the Grade R and earlier levels in accordance with White Paper 5 and to increase the number of learners. • To provide specific public ordinary schools with resources required for Grade R. • To ensure that the sector is regulated by GDE Grade R regulations and registered independent sites. • To support particular community centres at the Grade R level. • To provide training and payment of stipends of Pre-Grade R Practitioners. • To provide departmental services for the professional and other development of educators and non-educators in ECD sites. • To provide for projects under Programme 5 specified by the Department of Basic Education and funded by conditional grants. • To ensure that the Norms and Standards for ECD sites are implemented across the Province through consultation with stakeholders. • Verify and map all ECD sites in the Gauteng Province and monitoring thereof is implemented and improved. • To ensure that the pre-Grade R and Grade R curriculum are implemented. • To ensure collaboration with other government departments responsible for ECD, Municipalities and other ECD stakeholders.

Key outputs and activities

Sub- Programmes

5.1 Grade R in Public Schools

The Department will continue increasing access to Grade R to ensure that all learners entering the schooling system have participated in Grade R. As part of quality education, the Department will continue providing CAPS curriculum, improving teaching and learning methodologies appropriate for Grade R, strengthening standardised assessment practices and testing Grade R learners with learning difficulties to identify barriers, such as, dyslexia and psycho motor disorders and provide simple assistive devices.

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