ATTENTION: SECONDARY PRINCIPALS
SUBJECT: ADUSTMENT TO THE 2007/2008 NATIONAL TEXTBOOK RENTAL ORDER

Based on your order for the 2007/2008 academic year, the Ministry of Education & Youth will be supplying textbooks to your school under the National Textbook Rental Scheme 2007/2008 in the following subject areas:

Please note that officers in the MoE& Y may have adjusted the orders, based on your existing inventory and school population. As a result, you may not receive the full complement of books requested.
In addition, for the 2007-2008 academic year, the Ministry of Education and Youth will only supply 25 per cent of the quantity of textbooks ordered in the following subject areas:

Teachers in your school will therefore need to use these texts as class sets.

Distribution of these textbooks to your school is expected to commence on August 2, 2007.
Please be reminded that no fees are to be charged to students for participating in the National Textbook Rental scheme.

ATTENTION: PRIMARY PRINCIPALS

PROVISION UNDER THE PRIMARY TEXTBOOK PROGRAMME 2007/2008

The attached table shows the titles of the textbooks/workbooks that the Ministry of Education and Youth will
be providing free-of-charge to students in Grades 1-6 in all primary, all age and junior high schools under the Primary Textbook Programme 2007/2008. These materials will be delivered over August -September
2007.
The Literacy 1-2-3 readers form part of the provision of new materials aimed at supporting the literacy window in the revised primary curriculum.
The materials are being developed for Grades 1, 2 and 3 under the Primary Education Support Project (PESP) and additional readers, activity books and textbooks will be delivered to schools during the course of the 2007-2008 school year.
You are asked to ensure the following:

• Parents are made fully aware of all materials that students are being provided with through the Primary Textbook Programme 2007/2008.
• Any book list that you send home to parents must not replicate the provision that the MoE& Y is making through the Primary Textbook Programme 2007/2008.
• The number of workbooks and textbooks on any book list sent to parents must be kept to a minimum.

Please note that the Integrated Studies and the Mathematics books are the only workbooks being provided i.e. students are allowed to write in them.
All other books supplied must be used over a period of two years and must be kept in good condition. Replacement stocks of the books will be provided at the end of each two year cycle.

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