Grade R teachers are not expected to formally teach language, maths and life skills, but to expose Grade R learners to these fields through integrated play-based activities.

Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube announces the formal integration of Grade R practitioners into the basic education system, highlighting the transitional measures for unqualified educators.

The GDE’s MEC, Matome Chiloane, said that all Grade R applicants needed to apply when online admissions opened on 24 July 2025. Applicants for grades 1 and 8 will have until 29 August to secure ...

“Grade R learners are not subjected to the application system and selection processes that affect grade one learners hence there should be minimal or no struggle at all in relation to the ...

Cape Town - A picture of a Grade R classroom at Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke in North West, which appears to depict four black learners being seated at a separate table from their white classmates ...

Grade R teacher Ntomboyise Mbutye, who has been working in this school since 2003, said every time learners needed to relieve themselves she had to stop teaching to accompany them to the field. She ...

Limpopo’s education MEC, Polly Boshielo, said that the province plans to train 221 pre-grade R practitioners from community learning centres in this financial year to acquire an NQF level four ...

Learners were given gold medals to show that they have successfully completed their Grade R lessons and were ready to proceed to Grade 1 next year. About 200 learners graduated … November 30, 2017 ...