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Curriculum
The School follows the South African National Curriculum, about which you can read about later in this overview. You will also be provided with links to the specific National Policy Statements in order for you to update yourself on the programmes offered.
SA College Private School reserves the right to take these frameworks and adapt them to the needs of its learners. It is imperative for a school of the stature of SACPS that the curriculum should be applied with great foresight and care so as to ensure that the learners that emerge from the school at the end of the schooling careers can be capable of competing, delivering and leading at tertiary level and in the workplace.
SA College Private School introduced their state of the art Robotics lab in mid 2021, which has now become part of our curriculum. We expect great things for and from our Learners as we prepare them with the necessary skills and knowledge for the 4th Industrial Revolution.
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Subjects
The School follows the National Curriculum from Grades R to 12.
Please refer to the links provided in the documents above. However from Grade 10 onwards the School provides 3 specialised options allowing learners to follow one of the 3 pure courses:
- Career geared towards Mathematics and Science
- Career geared towards Commerce containing Mathematics / Mathematics Literacy and Commercial subjects such as Accounting, Business Studies and Economics
- Career geared towards Travel and Tourism which could contain subjects such as Travel and Tourism / Mathematics / Mathematics Literacy / Accounting / Business Studies / CAT / Economics
The subject choices are contained in the subject choice forms obtainable from the front office of the School.
Promotion Requirements
Promotion requirements for each grade are contained in the National Curriculum Statement. However, the internal standards of the SACPS are set at a higher level as it is the prerogative of the School to insist on EXEMPLARY STANDARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT.
It is therefore to be noted that 40% is seen as a minimum standard for all subject grades up to Grade 9 and that from Grades 10 to 12, the minimum obtainable standard required is 50% FOR ALL INTERNAL EXAMINATIONS AT SACPS!
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Must achieve:
3 subjects at 40% (one of which must be English Home Language and 2 other subjects)
Only one subject may be below 30%, therefore a further 3 subjects are required at 30% for progression
To obtain a Bachelors qualification pass in Grade 12, an aggregate of 300 marks is required, 50% is required in English Home Language and 40% for Afrikaans.
To obtain a Diploma qualification pass in Grade 12, an aggregate of 260 marks is required. Maths is not a prerequisite as long as Maths Lit is offered (which needs not to be passed). CAT and Tourism may be offered in combination.
To obtain a Certificate pass in Grade 12, an aggregate of 240 marks is required. Foreign learners, to pass need only 30% for English Home Language and may offer an alternative subject in the place of their own language, i.e. do not need a 1st additional language. Foreign learners must achieve 3 subjects at 40% of which English does not need to be one.
For progression, a learner must achieve:
- 50% for English Home Language
- 40% for Mathematics
- 40% for Afrikaans
- 3 other subjects at 40%
For progression a learner must achieve:
- 50% for English
- 40% for Mathematics
- 40% for Afrikaans
- 2 other subjects at 40%
