GET DIRECTORATE: GRADES 1 TO 9

PLANNING TEACHING IN 2021

USING THE HANDOVER TEMPLATES (FROM 2020 TO 2021) AND THE CURRICULUM
RECOVERY ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS FOR 2021

Background:
As we all know, teaching and learning time was lost in 2020 due to the lockdowns and
attendance on alternating days. Because the ATPs could not be completed, ‘Trimmed’ ATPs
were developed for each grade and subject with content trimmed and reorganized to fit into the
school days and these were used as a guide to be used with assessment to plan teaching. We
also know that many teachers were unable to complete the trimmed ATPs.

In 2021, CIRCULAR S13 OF 2020 informed us that the CURRICULUM RECOVERY ANNUAL
TEACHING PLANS FOR 2021 are now available on the DBE website.

The circular indicated that the ‘recovery curriculum’ is designed to accommodate the negative
impact of Covid-19 and is an interim deviation from the original curriculum and a transitional
arrangement until the policy amendment processes are completed.

The multi-year recovery ATPs were developed taking into account that:
 Learning losses from 2020 will be recovered over three years
 Opportunities must be created to strengthen consolidation and revision
 Assessment for Learning is key to addressing learning losses. This means that a key
goal of all assessment should be to ensure that learning gaps are identified for
remediation
 The DBE amendments to assessment requirements will create more time for deeper
learning by, for example, replacing exams with controlled tests

At school level, School Management Teams are asked to assist teachers by making sure that
teaching teams meet (as Professional Learning Communities at school level). The SMT must
take responsibility to monitor and support the scheduling and planning of these meetings and
providing support where needed in the professional, evidence-based and collaborative
discussions. These teaching teams / school-based PLC should:
 Review what was planned, what was taught and what was learned (curriculum coverage)
 Use an approach of Lesson Study to review what worked and why
 Collaborate to solve teaching and learning challenges

School Management Teams will be monitored and supported in this task by Circuit Managers
and Advisers.
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Handover Templates
We are making available to all schools Handover Templates.
The purpose of the Templates is to assist teachers and teaching teams to plan for 2021 by
providing information about what was covered by each grade in each subject during 2020. The
template has been developed to assist you to provide a comprehensive report to your
colleagues who taught the learners in 2020 that you will be teaching in 2021.

The Templates will come already populated with content area/topic concepts/skills as per the
revised 2020 ATPs per subject and grade. This will therefore mean the teacher will simply tick
what they taught, put a percentage of how well the learners understood what was taught and
then comment where necessary.

It is suggested that all teachers complete this form. This will help the ‘receiving’ grade plan their
teaching for 2021. Professional, supportive conversations should be convened for the forms to
be discussed and understood so that there is effective handover from 2020 to 2021.
The

For the handover for Grade 7, where this is from Primary to Secondary Schools, we propose
that schools take the initiative to collaborate with Secondary schools in the feeder area or
neighbourhood.

Where schools did not teach a particular subject in the last part of 2020, this must be indicated
especially in the Senior Phase
Planning for 2021
As you plan your teaching for 2021, you will use:
 The Template from the previous grades teaching team
 The Curriculum Recovery Annual Teaching Plans for 2021
 Diagnostic assessments of learner mastery of key concept/ content necessary for
effective teaching and learning in 2021

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 Continue reviewing
Establish learners' Work with colleagues to
learner progress
needs plan, monitor, report and
solve challenges
Use what you learn from
Use diagnostic assessment to formative assessment to
identify gaps in what has been Review the Curriculum
guide any further
remembered from 2020 Recovery ATP on the basis of adjustment to your plans
Discuss with colleagues what the diagnostic assessment and Keep monitoring what has
these gaps mean for work the time available been taught and learned,
going forward Plan your teaching and report this collabortively
particiapte in the school-based ans you work witin your PLC
PLC to assist with planning and at school level - and in in
refelctions PLC beyond the school

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 HANDOVER REPORTING TOOL FROM 2020 TO 2021: GRADES 1 TO 9

SCHOOL: SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS TERM 1

INDICATE WITH A TICK (√ ) TOPIC, CONCEPTS & % OF LEARNERS
CONCEPTS AND SKILLS AS PER THE REVISED 2020 WHO MASTERED COMMENTS IF ANY
TOPIC SKILLS COVERED. Put an X
ATPS CONTENT
GRADE 4 GRADE 5 GRADE 6 TAUGHT

WHOLE NUMBERS

ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION

NUMBER SENTENCES

NUMERIC PATTERNS

MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION

DATA HANDLING

TIME

PROPERTIES OF 2-D SHAPES

CAPACITY / VOLUME

DEPARTMENTAL
TEACHER/S:
HEAD:
SIGNATURE/S: SIGNATURE:

DATE: DATE:

(It is understood that not all content/skills could be taught in 2020. This template will inform teacher planning for 2021, as concepts foundational to subsequent learning that were not taught in 2020 will need to
be taught in 2021. The Recovery ATPs will provide further guidance in this regard. This will complement the baseline which will be conducted in schools.

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 HANDOVER REPORTING TOOL FROM 2020 TO 2021: GRADES 1 TO 9

SCHOOL: SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS GRADE: 6 TERM 2

INDICATE WITH A % OF LEARNERS
TERM COMMENTS IF ANY
CONCEPTS AND SKILLS AS PER THE REVISED TICK (√ ) TOPIC, WHO MASTERED
TOPIC
2 2020 ATPS CONCEPTS & CONTENT TAUGHT
SKILLS COVERED
WEEK 1 Baseline assessment Baseline assessment
Counting; ordering; comparing and representing to at
least 9-digit numbers
Represent prime numbers to at least 100
WHOLE NUMBERS
Place value of digits to at least 9-digit numbers
WEEK
Rounding off to the nearest 5, 10, 100, 1 000, 100 000
2&3 and 1 000 000.
Add and subtract to at least 6-digit numbers using a
WHOLE NUMBERS: range of techniques including a calculator
ADDITION AND Properties of numbers including commutative and
associative properties, 0 in terms of additive property
SUBTRACTION Problem solving including financial and measurement
contexts
Multiplication of at least 4-digit by 3-digit numbers
using a range of techniques including calculators
Multiples and factors of 2-digit and 3-digit number
WEEK WHOLE NUMBERS:
including prime factors to at least 100
3&4 MULTIPLICATION Properties of numbers [commutative, associative and
distributive, 1 in terms of its multiplicative property.
Problem solving in financial & measurement contexts
including ratio and rate

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 TERM INDICATE WITH A % OF LEARNERS WHO
TOPIC CONCEPTS AND SKILLS AS PER THE REVISED 2020 ATPS TICK (√ ) CONCEPTS & MASTERED CONTENT COMMENTS IF ANY
2
SKILLS COVERED TAUGHT
Division of at least 4-digit by 3-digit numbers using a
range of techniques including calculators
Properties of numbers including distributive property,
WEEK
1 in terms of its multiplicative property.
DIVISION
4–6 Problem solving including financial and measurement
contexts, ratio and rate.
Grouping and sharing with remainders

DEPARTMENTAL
TEACHER/S:
HEAD:
SIGNATURE/S: SIGNATURE:

DATE: DATE:

(It is understood that not all content/skills could be taught in 2020. This template will inform teacher planning for 2021, as concepts foundational to subsequent learning that were not taught in 2020 will need to
be taught in 2021. The Recovery ATPs will provide further guidance in this regard. This will complement the baseline which will be conducted in schools.

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 HANDOVER REPORTING TOOL FROM 2020 TO 2021: GRADES 1 TO 9

SCHOOL: SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS GRADE: 6 TERM 3

INDICATE WITH A
TERM % OF LEARNERS
CONCEPTS AND SKILLS AS PER THE REVISED TICK (√ ) TOPIC /
TOPIC WHO MASTERED
3 2020 ATPS CONCEPTS & COMMENTS IF ANY
CONTENT TAUGHT
SKILLS COVERED
Count forward and backwards to at least 2 decimal
places
Compare and order decimal fractions to at least 2
decimal places
Place value of digits to at least 2 decimal places
WEEK DECIMAL
Addition and subtraction of decimals to at least 2
1&2 FRACTIONS decimal places
Multiply decimal fractions by 10 and hundred

Solve problems in context involving decimal fractions

Equivalence between common fractions, decimal

fractions and percentages
Determine percentages of whole numbers
WEEK
PERCENTAGES
2&3 Equivalence between common fractions, decimal
fractions and percentages

DEPARTMENTAL
TEACHER/S:
HEAD:
SIGNATURE/S: SIGNATURE:

DATE: DATE:

(It is understood that not all content/skills could be taught in 2020. This template will inform teacher planning for 2021, as concepts foundational to subsequent learning that were not taught in 2020 will need to
be taught in 2021. The Recovery ATPs will provide further guidance in this regard. This will complement the baseline which will be conducted in schools.

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 HANDOVER REPORTING TOOL FROM 2020 TO 2021: GRADES 1 TO 9

SCHOOL: SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS GRADE: 6 TERM 4

INDICATE WITH A
TERM % OF LEARNERS
CONCEPTS AND SKILLS AS PER THE REVISED TICK (√ ) TOPIC /
TOPIC WHO MASTERED
4 2020 ATPS CONCEPTS & COMMENTS IF ANY
CONTENT TAUGHT
SKILLS COVERED
Write number sentences to describe problem
situations
WEEK NUMBER
Solve and complete number sentences by inspection
1 SENTENCES as well as trial and improvement
Check solutions by substitution

Investigate and extend numeric and geometric

patterns
NUMERIC AND Describe the rules for the observed relationships
WEEK
GEOMETRIC
1&2 Determine input values, output values and rule using
PATTERNS flow diagrams and tables
Equivalent forms of different descriptions including
verbal, flow diagram, table and a number sentence
Recognise, visualise and name 3-D objects in the
environment and geometric settings
WEEK PROPERTIES OF 3-D
Characteristics of objects: shape of faces, number of
3&4 OBJECTS faces, vertices and edges
Make 3-D models using drinking straws, toothpicks
and nets.

TERM TOPIC CONCEPTS AND SKILLS AS PER THE REVISED INDICATE WITH A % OF LEARNERS

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 TICK (√ ) TOPIC /
4 WHO MASTERED
2020 ATPS CONCEPTS & COMMENTS IF ANY
CONTENT TAUGHT
SKILLS COVERED
Measure perimeter using ruler or measuring tapes

Determine areas of regular and irregular shapes by

WEEK PERIMETER, AREA counting squares on grids in order to develop rules for
calculating areas of squares and rectangles .
2&3 AND VOLUME
Determine volume/capacity of objects by packing or
filling them in order to develop an understanding of
why the volume of rectangular prisms is given by
l ×b × h
DEPARTMENTAL
TEACHER/S:
HEAD:
SIGNATURE/S: SIGNATURE:

DATE: DATE:

(It is understood that not all content/skills could be taught in 2020. This template will inform teacher planning for 2021, as concepts foundational to subsequent learning that were not taught in 2020 will need to
be taught in 2021. The Recovery ATPs will provide further guidance in this regard. This will complement the baseline which will be conducted in schools.