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Grade 1 teachers are urging parents to enrol their children in mother-tongue schools and swap screen time for play to boost early academic development.<\/em><\/p>\n Namibia’s official education policy makes provision for pupils in pre-primary school to Grade 3 to be taught in their mother tongue or the predominant local community language.<\/p>\n This is the case even though English was introduced as the official language of instruction in schools since independence, to promote unity and facilitate communication in a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Grade 1 teachers are urging parents to enrol their children in mother-tongue schools and swap screen time for play to boost early academic development. Namibia’s official education policy makes provision for pupils in pre-primary school to Grade 3 to be taught in their mother tongue or the predominant local community language. This is the case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,10467,7274,7753,4706,724,257,7518,4362,254,12051,7113,18434],"class_list":["post-246441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-keetmans","tag-key","tag-mother","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-primary","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-success","tag-teachers","tag-tongue"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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