CONTAINMENT / MANAGEMENT OF COVID 19 FOR SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL COMMUNITIES
1. Learners will close on 18 March 2020 whilst teachers will close on 20 March 2020.
2. Schools will reopen on 14 April 2020 for both learners and teachers.
3. The school calendar will be amended in order to recover the academic program.
4. Schools are encouraged to develop Academic Recovery Programs (ARPs) to compensate for the lost teaching and learning time.
5. Grade 12 Autumn Vacation Classes for underperforming schools and other planned, extra classes, academic enrichment programs and camps are cancelled with immediate effect across the system.
6. All school based and non-school based activities that require a gathering of more than 100 learners must be either scaled down, suspended or postponed until further notice and approval should be sought prior implementation of such. To this effects the upcoming national athletics championships and ELSEN Games are postponed until further notice.
7. Learners should be given school work to do at home and parents are requested to help them.
8. Learners in boarding public schools should be sent home.
