Guidelines to Strengthen CAPS Implementation 2017

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General Education and Training (GET) Band Grades R ? 9

Table of Contents

Foundation Phase Grades R-3 1. Assessment in Grade R 2. Programme of Assessment Grades 1-3

Intermediate Phase Grades 4-6 1. Life Skills Subject: Creative Arts Strand 2. Natural Sciences and Technology Subject 3. Social Sciences Subject

Senior Phase Grades 7-9 1. Social Sciences Subject 2. Economic and Management Sciences Subject 3. Mathematics Subject 4. Technology Subject 5. Physical Sciences Subject 6. Creative Arts Subject

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FOUNDATION PHASE GRADES R-3

Grade R Assessment in Grade R is 100% formative assessment and is integrated. Grades 1-3 The Programme of Assessment for Grades 1-3 is amended as follows:

No of Tasks Home Language First Additional Language Mathematics Life Skills

Total

Grade 1 4 4 4 4 16

Grade 2 4 4 4 4 16

Grade 3 4 4 4 4 16

INTERMEDIATE PHASE GRADES 4-6

1. Life Skills Subject: Creative Arts Strand

The form of assessment in the Creative Arts Strand, CAT in Term 4, has been changed to an Examination comprising 40 marks for Grade 4, 5 and 6. Hence, the Programme of Assessment on page 57 of the CAPS has been amended as follows:

Creative Arts Year Plan

Term 1: CAT (Visual or Performing Arts) Term 2: CAT (Performing or Visual Arts) Note: By Mid-year, both streams should have been assessed Term 3: CAT (Visual or Performing Arts) Term 4: Examination The examination should be based on the whole year's work Total Marks

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Marks 40 40

40 40

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2. Natural Sciences and Technology Subject

2.1 One formal class test to be written in Term 1, Term 2 and Term 3. 2.2 End-of Year examinations is based on the content covered during the year.

3. Social Sciences Subject

The Programme of Assessment for Social Sciences is amended as follows: The Recommended minimum marks for Formal Assessment Tasks, including June examinations are as follows:

Grade 4: 25 marks Grade 5: 30 marks Grade 6: 40 marks

Grade 4: Recommended Programme of Assessment

Term

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3

Term 4

Subject

History Geography History Geography History Geography

History

Recommended Forms of

Assessment Project Test: source-based Mid-year examinations Mid-year examinations Test: source-based Test: data handling, case study End-of-year examinations

Content

Local History Places where people live Qualities of a good leader Map skills Transport through time Food and farming in South Africa Communication through time

Geography

End-of-year examinations

Water in South Africa

School-Based Assessment 75%

Year-end exams

25%

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Grade 5: Recommended Programme of Assessment:

Term Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Discipline

History Geography History Geography History Geography History Geography

Recommended Forms of

Assessment Test: source-based

Test: map skills Mid-year examinations Mid-year examinations Test: source-based

Project

End-of?year examinations End-of-year examinations

Content

School-Based Assessment 75%

Hunter-gatherers

and

herders in Southern Africa

Map skills

First farmers in Southern

Africa

Physical features of South

Africa

An ancient African society:

Egypt

Weather, climate and

vegetation of South Africa

Heritage trail through the

provinces of South Africa

Minerals and mining in

South Africa

Year-end exams 25%

Grade 6: Recommended Programme of Assessment

Term Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Subject History

Geography History Geography History Geography History Geography

Recommended Forms of Assessment

Test: source-based

Test: map skills Mid-year examinations

Mid-year examinations

Project

Test: data-handling

End-of-year examinations End-of-year examinations

Content

An African kingdom long ago in Southern Africa: Mapungubwe Map skills Explorers from Europe find Southern Africa Trade (Focus: South Africa and world) Democracy and citizenship in South Africa Climate and vegetation around the world Medicine through time Population ? why people live where they do (focus: South Africa and world)

School-Based Assessment 75%

Year-end exams 25%

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SENIOR PHASE GRADES 7-9

1. Social Sciences Subject

The Recommended minimum marks for Formal Assessment Tasks, including June exams are as follows:

Grade 7: 50 Grade 8: 50 Grade 9: 50

Grade 7: Recommended Programme of Assessment

Term Term 1 Term 2 Term 3

Term 4

Discipline Geography History

Geography History Geography History

Geography History

Recommended Forms of Assessment

Project Test: Source-based, paragraph and essay writing. Mid-year examination

Mid-year examination Test: Data-handling

Test: Source-based, paragraph and essay writing End of Year Examination

End of year examination

Content

Maps skills (focus: local maps) The kingdom of Mali and the city of Timbuktu in the 14th century

Earthquakes, volcanoes and floods The Transatlantic slave trade Population growth and change (focus: World) Colonisation of the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries

Natural resources and conservation in South Africa Co-operation and conflict on the frontiers of the Cape colony in the early 19th century

School Based Assessment 40%

Year-end exams 60%

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Grade 8: Recommended Programme of Assessment

Term

Discipline

Recommended Forms of Assessment

Content

Term 1

Geography History

Term 2 Term 3

Geography History Geography History

Term 4

Geography History

Test: Map reading, analysis and interpretation. Test: Source-based, paragraph and essay writing. Mid-year examination

Mid-year examination

Project

Test: Source-based, paragraph and essay writing. End of Year Examination

End of year examination

Maps and globes (focus: global and local) The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860 Climate regions (focus: South Africa and world) Mineral Revolution in South Africa Settlement (Africa with a focus on South Africa) The scramble for Africa: late 19th century

Transport and trade (focus: South Africa and world) World War 1 (1914-1918)

Year-end exams 60%

School-Based Assessment 40%

Grade 9: Recommended Programme of Assessment

Term Term 1

Term 2 Term 3

Term 4

Discipline Geography History Geography History Geography History Geography History

Recommended Forms of Assessment

Test: Map reading, analysis and interpretation

Test: Source-based, paragraph and essay writing Mid-Year Examination

Mid-Year Examination

Test

Project: Oral History

End of year Examination

End of year examination

Content

Map skills (focus: topographic and orthophoto maps) World War II ? The causes and outbreak (1919-1945)

Development issues (Focus: South Africa and world) The Nuclear Age and the Cold War (1945-1990) Surface forces that shape the earth (Physical Geography) Turning points in South African history 1948 and 1950s Resource use and sustainability (focus: world) Turning points in South African history since 1960, 1960, 1976 and 1994

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Year-end exams 60% Page 7 of 12

EXAMINATIONS:

Mid-year exam (June examinations) should examine content from Terms 1 & 2 in both phases; and

End-of-year exam (November examinations) should examine content in Terms 3 & 4 in both phases.

The examination guidelines will provide the scope for November exams to ensure that Term 4 content is given more weighting in both phases for the November examinations).

RECOMMENDED MINIMUM MARK ALLOCATION: NOVEMBER EXAMS for both phases

o Grade 4: 25 marks per discipline (25 marks for Geography, 25 marks for History)

o Grade 5: 30 marks per discipline (30 marks for Geography, 30 marks for History)

o Grade 6: 40 marks per discipline (40 marks for Geography, 40 marks for History)

o Grade 7: 50 marks per discipline (50 marks for Geography, 50 marks for History)

o Grade 8: 75 marks per discipline (75 marks for Geography, 75 marks for History)

o Grade 9: 100 marks per discipline (100 marks for Geography, 100 marks for History).

2. Economic and Management Sciences Subject The time allocations and marks for Controlled Tests and Examinations have been amended as follows:

Grade 7: Term 2 Exam: 100 marks ? 90 min Term 3 Controlled test: 50 marks - 60 min

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