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NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE STATE OF READINESS FOR RETURN OF PRIMARY SCHOOL LEARNERS ON MONDAY, 02 AUGUST 2021

The Northern Cape Department of Education is hard at work to safe-guard the return of all primary school learners from Monday, 02 August 2021. The Department can state that only schools in full compliance with COVID-19 protocols and guidelines will be allowed to return to the traditional daily school timetable model.

All primary schools indicated that they have COVID-19 protocols in place as well as the School COVID-19 Core Orientation Teams (SCCOT) whose task is to ensure adherence to the protocols. Schools have also been issued with PPE’s in order to ensure adherence to the Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions.

The main challenge at this point is the maintaining of the mandatory 1.5 metre social distancing requirement for learners. This will require additional classroom space as well as teaching staff, which the Department at this point is unable to budget for. Because of this social distancing indicator, only 79 out of the 424 primary schools in the Province will be able to return to the normal time-tabling attendance. In addition to this the indication is that COVID-19 infections are on the increase in some districts, hence the Northern Cape Department of Education will continue with the differentiated time-tabling model as well as the differentiated risk adjusted strategy, as adopted for the Education Sector.

Key to this decision is the fact that more schools would need additional furniture, additional educators and adequate supply of water in order to ensure full compliance with COVID-19 protocols and guidelines.

We have communicated our provincial situation to Department of Basic Education (DBE) and relevant stakeholders that for now we will continue with the differentiated timetabling model which is in the best interest of both learners and educators.

Schools are required to strictly adhere to all the non-pharmaceutical protocols in order to safeguard our learners and educators

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Issued by Northern Cape Department of Education