Academic Information
School Program
Foundation Phase – Grade 1 – 3
Literacy
Home Language: English / Afrikaans
First Additional Language: Afrikaans / English
Second Additional Language: Xhosa (Grade 3)
Integrated language programme: listen, speak, look and
write, write, think and reason, language structure and
use.
Numeracy
Development of knowledge and skills: physical knowledge,
social knowledge and logical knowledge.
- Numbers, Calculations and Relationships
- Patterns, Functions and Algebra
- Space and shape
- Measurement
- Data handling
Life Skills
- Life Orientation: Healthy Promotion, Social
Development, Personal Development, Physical
Development and Movement.
- Technology
- Arts and Culture
- Natural Science
- Human and Social Sciences
- Economic and Management Sciences
Intermediate and Senior
Phase – Grade 4 – 7
Grade 4 – 7: Eight learning areas
- Languages: English/ Afrikaans
- Mathematics
- Natural Sciences
- Social Sciences (History and Geography)
- Technology
- Economic and Management Sciences
- Arts and Culture
- Life Orientation
The normal run of a day at Welgemoed Primary
School:
- 08:00 – 08:30 Reading Period (Monday to
Thursday)
- 08:30 – 14:00 Academic tuition
- Finishing off educational projects in the
field of culture and academic tuition, e.g. camps, Akkedissie drama festival, is included in our daily
and term programme.
Development of leadership
Leadership is developed in the form of the Liaison
Committee, which consists of sixteen members. Four
learners are democratically elected from each Grade 7
class to serve on the committee for a semester, where
after a new Liaison Committee is elected for the second
semester. Projects are undertaken in group context, with
adequate scope for individual growth in this field, too
Learning Area Material
Future Entrepreneur textbooks (main source)
Textbooks from various publishers (supplementary)
Evaluation
Continuous assessment and evaluation of learners’
progress takes place with opportunities for interaction
between parents and educators. Only formal assessment
tasks in each learning area are recorded in learners’
progress reports. The Department determines the required
number of assessment tasks per learning area.
Examinations are written in the fourth term.
Olympiads
The purpose of participation in Olympiads is to measure
standards on national level. All learners in Grade 4 –7
participate in the annual Maths Olympiad (AMESA).
Conquesta: The ten best learners in each grade write
Mathematics, Afrikaans and/or English.
Facilities
- Computer Academy
- ICT centre
- Media and research centre
- Computer –aided teaching centre
- Art classroom
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