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THE National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) together with the Department of Basic Education (DBE) announced on Monday the implementation of a catch-up and recovery plan to assist matric learners across the country, through the 2-year-old Remote and Digital Learning (RDL) support programme.
The RDL programme is comprised of Woza Matrics which focuses on Grade 12, and Tswelopele campaign which focuses on
grade 1 – 11. The main purpose of the RDL campaigns is to offer supplementary support that can help learners, their teachers and parents to work together to catch up on the curriculum, and to revise and prepare for the exam.
The CEO of NECT, Godwin Khosa encourages teachers and parents to assist learners to make use of these resources, which are available for download on the Woza Matrics website (www.wozamatrics.co.za).
“We continue to spearhead support mechanisms for parents and learners during the education system recovery programme. We have developed simplified content so that parents can get a sense of what is being taught in the classroom and plan their participation at
home. By doing this, parents can help pace up their children’s studies,” said Khosa in a statement.
“Overall, our research shows that learners find these interventions helpful. Woza Matrics has been described by teachers and parents as practical and necessary to support the recovery programme.”
The NECT said over the past two years, the Woza Matrics campaign was able to meaningfully cover six of the ten priority subjects, namely Maths, Life Sciences, Geography, Physical Science, Accounting and Economics. A key component of the campaign is the delivery of TV programmes on the DBETV Channel 122 and this will support the Matric Class of 2022 in their exam preparation.
In addition, the programme provides quality content on the following subjects: Math Literacy, English First Additional Language, History and Business Studies.
The NECT also said that the campaign has demonstrated the benefit of broad-based collaboration involving the public and
private sectors in addressing critical education needs during this recovery period.
The DBE and NECT have produced 54 new Matric study guides for high enrolment subjects and home language creative writing.
The material is being used by the Class of 2022 and the Second Chance Matric Support Programme.
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