Serious about assessment, support, and success!
COMPREHENSIVE for Grade 4–6 provides you with the opportunity to control how, when and where your child studies, and allows access to all the resources you need to provide your child with the best learning experience and compliant assessment programme.
Brainline offers classes and assessment in this programme, but parent involvement is required to ensure learner success.
Parent guidance required
Online classes available 24/7
Structured tasks and deadlines
This learning plan is ideal if you...
Want your child to follow a structured learning programme, based on the CAPS requirements, in the comfort of your own home.
Still want to comply with the legal requirements.
Need academic support and guidelines from Brainline throughout the year.
Want your child to complete scheduled tasks, tests and examinations.
Want the tests and examinations to be marked by experienced subject specialists.
Want to receive progress reports after each assessment cycle.
Want a valid academic record for your child’s future academic prospects.
Comprehensive
R13 750
per year
- Follow a structured learning programme, based on the CAPS requirements, in the comfort of your own home.
- Comply with the legal requirements.
- Need academic support and guidelines from Brainline throughout the year.
- Daily and/or weekly virtual classes by qualified teachers.
- Complete scheduled tasks, tests and examinations.
- Tests and examinations to be marked by experienced subject specialists.
- Report issued after each assessment cycle.
- Obtain a valid academic record for your child’s future academic prospects.
- [Please note: Text books not included in the above price.]
Express
R7 000
per year
- Source your child’s study material.
- Complete the CAPS syllabus at your own pace.
- Don’t want to be bound by timelines and set schedules.
- Don’t necessarily have regular internet access.
- No classes.
- Comply with the legal requirements.
- Option of obtaining a Brainline report.
- [Please note: Text books not included in the above price.]
From R13 750/ Year
From R7 000/ Year
Comparison
Summary of product
Admission requirements
Successful completion of the previous grade is recommended.
Assessment integrity
Parents may invigilate.
Enrolment period
Enrolment is open throughout the year. Assessments scheduled for a date after enrolment need to be completed.
Promotion requirements
According to the Draft Policy on Home Education, a parent/guardian may set his/her own promotion and retention requirements, provided these are equal to or exceed the standard requirements as determined by the national promotion criteria.
Report
Progress reports are issued after each assessment cycle. These provide external evidence of your child’s CAPS-compliant assessment and academic record for future academic prospects.
Calendar
January | brainONLINE available
February | Cycle 1 Task submissions
March | Cycle 1 Test Series
April | Recess
May | Cycle 2 Task submissions
June | Cycle 2 Test Series
July | Recess
August | Cycle 3 Task submissions
September | Cycle 3 Test Series
October | Recess
November | Cycle 4 Examination Series
December | Recess
Required resources
Step 1
Enrol at www.mybrainline.com.
We create a Microsoft 365 Student account for each learner, which they can access by visiting https://office.microsoft.com. These accounts will be activated within 24 hours of receiving the Brainline welcome email, sent upon enrolment approval.
The Brainline learner will use his/her unique Microsoft credentials to log in to Snapplify at https://brainline.snapplify.com/overview where they can purchase their digital books.
Step 2
Download the list of prescribed and recommend books for the year from: https://bup.brainline.com/booklist/.
Go to: https://brainline.snapplify.com/overview and log in with Microsoft, using the learner’s unique account details that we provide upon enrolment.
Navigate to the shop and purchase each book in accordance with the list you downloaded in Step 1 that is relevant to your child.
Note: Purchased books are automatically loaded to the Snapplify Reader and must be accessed there.
Go to https://getsnapplify.com/ and select your device type. Download the application/installer and install it on your device.
Open the application and log in with your child’s username and password (created in Step 2).
In the application, you will see the items you have purchased available for download.
Once you have downloaded the books, you can access the learner’s study material.
If you need any assistance, please send an email to [email protected].
Subjects We Offer
English
Home Language
First Additional Language
Afrikaans
Home Language
First Additional Language
Mathematics
Life Skills/Orientation
Natural Sciences
Covers Natural Sciences &
Technology
Social Sciences
Covers Geography & History
Overview of product
Recommended content for other subjects is available for purchase as either ebooks via your personal ebook library or as hard copies. These CAPS-approved resources from well-known publishing houses have been specially selected to best assist your child to excel.
Assessments are made available on brainONLINE. This is where we communicate with you, and where you download and upload all your child’s completed assessment items. You need to visit brainONLINE at least once a week to stay up-to-date with dynamic content for your child’s subjects. The assessment items include tasks, oral assignments, tests and examinations.
Written and oral tasks are downloaded from brainONLINE and marked by you, the parent/guardian, according to the marking guidelines provided, after which the marks and proof of completion are then uploaded.
Tests and examinations are written according to a fixed assessment schedule and accessed using a unique password issued on the day of assessment. Supervision by an independent invigilator is recommended while your child completes these assessments in the comfort of your own home. The completed assessments are uploaded and marked by experienced subject specialists.
Progress reports are issued after each assessment cycle. These provide a valid academic record for your child’s future academic prospects.
50%+ for Home Language
40%+ for First Additional Language
40%+ Mathematics
30%+ in two other subjects
Marking of tests, examinations, and written/oral tasks are included in the product price.
Rooster A (Week 1, 3, 5, 7)
| TIME | MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI |
| 8:00 | 4 WIS | 5 WIS | 6 WIS | ||
| 8:45 | 4 MAT | 5 MAT | 6 MAT | ||
| 09:00 | AFE Elementary | ||||
| 9:30 | 6 AFH | 6 AFE | 4 AFH | 4 AFE | |
| 6 NSC | 5 NSC | ||||
| 10:00 | 6 NWT | 5 NWT | 4 NWT | ||
| AFE Advanced | |||||
| 10:15 | 5 AFH | 5 AFE | |||
| 11:30 | 4 NSC | ||||
| 12:00 | 4 GEO | 5 GEO | 6 GEO | ||
| 12:30 | 4 GEF | 5 GEF | 6 GEF | ||
| Times to be announced |
Grade 4 – 7 Yoga Flow | B-Active Gr 4 – 7 | Ballet Gr 4 – 7 | Hip Hop/ Modern Gr 4 – 7 | B-Active Gr 4 – 7 |
Rooster B (Week 2, 4, 6, 8)
| TIME | MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI |
| 8:00 | 4 WIS | 5 WIS | 6 WIS | ||
| 8:30 | |||||
| 8:45 | 4 MAT | 5 MAT | 6 MAT | ||
| 09:00 | AFE Elementary | ||||
| 9:30 | 6 ENH | 6 LFS | 5 LFS | ||
| 6 ENF | 4 ENH | 4 ENF | |||
| 10:00 | 6 LWV | 4 LFS | 4 LWV | ||
| AFE Advanced | |||||
| 10:15 | 5 ENH | 5 ENF | |||
| 12:00 | 5 LWV | ||||
| 14:30 | 4 HIS | 5 HIS | 6 HIS | ||
| 15:00 | 4 GES | 5 GES | 6 GES |
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Brainline has over 35 years of experience in education
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