Programme to offer tutorial support to Grade 12 learners
The SSIP programme is designed to enhance Grade 12 learners' performance particularly in previously disadvantaged communities.
PANYAZA Lesufi, the MEC for Education, launched the Secondary Schools Improvement Programme (SSIP) to provide extra tutorial support to 73 054 Grade 12 learners in 460 Gauteng schools on Thursday, March 31.
SSIP takes place during weekends and school holidays. Learners benefit from extra tutorial support in the following 10 key subjects: maths, maths literacy, physical science, life sciences, accounting, economics, business studies, history, geography and English first additional language.
The SSIP programme is designed to enhance Grade 12 learners’ performance particularly in previously disadvantaged communities, especially schools that performed below the provincial average in the 2015 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. Gauteng obtained an 84.2 per cent pass rate and this percentage is used to determine which schools should participate in the SSIP programme.
The programme will be offered at 168 sites across Gauteng. Expert tutors are contracted every year to teach at these sites. SSIP will be organised as follows: Saturday programme, holiday programme (during school holidays) and matric camps.
Matric camps are divided into High Risk and Exam Preparation camps. The High Risk camp takes place in the June and July school holiday and the Exam Preparation camp in the September and October holiday.
Saturday sessions started on February 20 and will end on September 18. The June holiday programme runs from June 27 to July 8 and the October holiday programme from October 3 to 7. These matric camps are for selected learners and run parallel to the holiday programmes.
The programme is a major factor in the significant improvement of the matric pass rate in Gauteng since 2010.
Lesufi has urged all learners to take advantage of this programme, as it will assist them to improve their results at the end of the year. “For Gauteng learners, while the NSC examinations might seem far off, the work begins now,” said Lesufi.
