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Is there any backup and grading done by Love2Learn?
Absolutely, backup exists in the form of telephone support in the lower grades. Tests are prescribed, and the answers to these are supplied as from the final year of primary school. Up until that point, most parents with their education are able to mark all work without any problem. However, when it comes to high school, we recognise that it may be stressful for parents to assume the responsibility for grading papers. So, as from IGCSE level (Grade 10) upwards, your child is supplied with their own private CAMBRIDGE QUALIFIED tutor for EACH subject. Your child has a weekly phone in “date” with their tutor. They are able to email any questions every day of the week, at any time, and they will receive a reply from their tutor within 24-48 hours maximum. Furthermore, it is so important for home-schooled children writing an external examination to be extremely confident and comfortable with an external exam situation. To this end, we seek to prepare our IGCSE students as thoroughly as possible. They complete 72 externally marked mock exams, before we let them loose in an exam room. This is done in the freedom of your own home, without Love2Learn breathing down their necks. We seek to accomplish two things here: we want to give our Love2Learn students maximum support and excellent preparation while at the same time protecting the freedom and autonomy of your home-school.
If one does not do tests or send things in to Love2Learn for marking, how does one know if one’s child is progressing right?
- Within Love2Learn Curriculum, there is class work to be done for all the Core subjects in the form of weekly essays. You as the teacher having taught this material will easily see whether your child has grasped the material or not .
- In terms of our Disciplined Studies, e.g. English, there are weekly spelling tests, dictation tests, comprehension tests and writing assignments, all of which give you a very good indication as to whether your child is grasping the material; and therefore able to move on.
- From Grade 3 onwards, there are Mathematics Tests every Thursday.
- In terms of all the subjects that are required for the National Curriculum (Social Sciences, Natural Sciences etc., there are tests at the end of every module.
- At a lower High School level (grade 8 – 9) answers to tests are provided in the form of a Teacher’s Guide for Maths, English and Afrikaans.
- At an Upper High School level (Grades 10 – 12 / Cambridge IGCSE and A-levels), your child completes and submits 72 assessments at IGCSE which are marked by our Cambridge-trained lecturers and returned together with memorandums where applicable.
Am I correct in understanding that your program does not involve compulsory testing and exams?
Yes, although there are prescribed tests for various subjects throughout the Curriculum, there are no compulsory tests or exams up to the end of Grade 9. From Grade 10 onwards, we offer the Cambridge International Examinations – IGCSE for Grade 10 and 11, at the end of which you write Cambridge IGCSE examinations at a Cambridge approved centre. The same applies to As-levels (Grade 12) and thereafter A-levels (Grade 13). Our Cambridge levels include Tutor support - in the form of Cambridge-trained Tutors.
Do you offer any form of examining for the purpose of the Department of Education at the end of each school phase - grade 3, 6 and 9?
The DoE requires that a child be formally assessed by an independent assessor at the end of each of these phases. This can be performed by any SETA registered teacher or your local school.
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