LITRACY FOR ALL

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SCENARIO

• Media reports highlight
• Education failure
• Literacy and reading
• Maths
• Science
• High drop out rate
• Reports endorsed by Tertiary Institutions and
  Business
• In South Africa no formal reader training system
  exist
• Childs Mother Tongue.
• Books
• Are either in English or Afrikaans
• Poor Translations
• Eurocentric stories and illustrations
• No relevance to South African Culture and Values
• Over- complex, academic approach to
• African Language teaching
• Inappropriate to the South African, Teachers and
  Learner environment

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FACT

• 61 or 6 out of 10 of our children cannot read at
  the end of Grade 3
• Department of National Education (2005)

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SOLUTION

• LITERACY FOR ALL - PROGRAMME
• System
• Developed by South African teachers for
• Teachers
• Learners
• South African Education environment
• Teacher training
• Monitoring

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LITERACY FOR ALL

• The first and only completely indigenous
  incremental training programme for acquiring
  literacy in the Foundation Phase in all SA
  schools
• Available in all official languages

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ACCREDITATION

• Winner of the SA Translators Institute Award in
  2003
• Prof. Brian O Connell Rector UWC.
• Meets and exceeds the Literacy Learning Programme
  requirements as outlined in the National
  Curriculum Statement

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EVALUATION

• 2918 Project (29 Schools 18 Books each)
• Part of the Scientific and Industrial Leadership
  Initiative (SAILI) aimed at upgrading literacy
  and maths readiness
• Directed By Barbara Coombe of Literacy For All
• Funded by Pan South African Language Board
  (PANSALB)
• Evaluated by Vinjevold and Associates - Cheryl
  Reeve

FINDINGS Learners literacy levels in Grade 1 and
2 increased by 67 within 18 months
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THE PROGRAMME

• Principal and Teacher
• buy in and project support established
• Needs evaluation
• Funding model developed
• Teacher Training
• Materials supplied
• Programme Implementation
• Progress review and support
• External evaluation

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EVALUATION

• Prof. Brian O Connell, Rector UWC
• Undertaken to monitor, evaluate outcome
• Sample Model

UNIVERSITY WESTERN CAPE
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PROGRAMME COSTS
Not exorbitant
For all three grades
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DILEMMA

• WCED Book funding / learner per annum equates to
  between R150.00 R200.00
• Grade 1, requires 14 books _at_ R22.96/2 learners
  workbook _at_ R21.44/learner R182.16/learner
• WCED reluctant to stipulate a particular
  book/system
• Principals / HOD have been empowered
• Confused by quantity / quality of books available
  through 54 book suppliers
• Kickbacks

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THE CHALLENGE
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WHAT CAN ROTARY DO?

• Get Involved
• 157 African Language schools in the Western Cape
• 68 Rotary Clubs
• 2 schools per Rotary Club over a 3 year period
  87 coverage
• Fund the entire 6 school cluster presented
• or
• Adopt one of the six schools presented
• or
• Identify another school or cluster in your area

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ROTARY CLUBS SO FAR

• Newlands
• Claremont
• Blouberg
• Pinelands
• Breederiver

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FUNDING IDEAS

• Matching Grants
• Corporate social investment (CSI)
• Disadvantaged children
• Marketable
• Meaningful
• Rotary credibility
• 100 Spend
• Fundraising
• 2 successful golf days 2 schools
• 1 successful wine auction 2 schools
• Etc, etc, etc,
• Partnerships with other service organisations i.e
  Lions, Round Table, Church groups

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NOW WHAT?

• You have bought in.
• Find a cluster of schools
• More options
• Obtain
• Address
• E-mail address
• Principals contact details
• Forward the above to Barbara Coombe who will -
• Concluded a needs and cost assessment.
• What to fund.
• OR
• Choose a school off the target list presented

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IN CLOSING

• LITERACY FOR ALL PROGRAMME is the only and best
  solution to date.
• Needs your assistance.
• At the end of this 2006 year
• Western Cape
• 47 641 / 78 105 or 61 GRADE 3s CANNOT READ
• Nationally 612 032 / 1
  003 331 (61) GRADE 3s CANNOT READ

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REALITY - THE CLASS OF 61

FUTURE
POVERTY
OPPORTUNITY
JOB CREATION
DISEASE
CRIME
In the past 10 years 6 million children have
migrated from grade 3 to 4 and cannot read
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Is 61 (600 000 out of 1 000 000) an acceptable
statistic for children who cannot read at the
end if grade 3 ??????? CAN WE AFFORD NOT TO GET
INVOLVED
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QUESTIONS