2025 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: LIFE ORIENTATION: GRADE 9
2025 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: LIFE ORIENTATION: GRADE 9 (TERM 1)
TERM 1 WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11
17/01/2025 24/01/2025 31/01/2025 07/02/2025 14/02/2025 21/02/2025 28/02/202 07/03/2025 14/03/2025 20/03/2025 28/03/2025
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CAPS TOPIC
Development of the self in society World of work
CONCEPTS, Basic hygiene principles • Time-management skills: Accountability in carrying out
• Sexual behaviour and sexual health: Risk factors leading to unhealthy
SKILLS AND • Goal-setting skills: Personal lifestyle choices Influences on responsibilities
sexual behaviour
VALUES • How to organise one’s work
personal lifestyle choices: • Unwanted results of unhealthy sexual behaviour:
• Teenage pregnancy • How to use time effectively and efficiently
• Media
• Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) • Reading and writing for different purposes: Keeping a journal,
• Environment summarising and improving reading and writing skills
• Friends and peers • HIV/AIDS
• Family • Low self-esteem
• Culture • Emotional scars
• Religion • Factors that influence personal behaviour, including family, friends, peers
and community norms
• Community
• Strategies to deal with unhealthy sexual behaviour: Abstinence and change
• Appropriate responses to influences on personal lifestyle of behaviour
choices:
• Protective factors, where to find help and support: community structures
• Informed decision-making skills: Positive and negative that offer protection or resilience against high-risk behaviour
influences • Adverse consequences and implications of teenage pregnancy for teenage
• Assertiveness skills: Confident and firm decision-making parent(s) and the children born to teenagers
Physical Education
• Participation in activities that improve physical wellness (fitness) • Participation in activities that improve physical wellness (fitness) level
level • Participation and movement performance in activities that improve physical wellness level
• Safety issues relating to fitness activities
RESOURCES TO • Textbook • Textbook • Textbook
ENHANCE • resources on careers • Newspaper articles • Newspaper articles
LEARNING
• resources on recreational activities • Resources on sport • resources on recreational activities
• Posters • Resources on recreational activities • Posters
• Physical Education guidelines • Posters • Physical Education guidelines
• COVID-19 e-booklet and posters • Physical Education guidelines
INFORMAL
ASSESSMENT Homework/classwork/worksheets
AND
REMEDIATION
SBA (FORMAL Written task: 70 marks
ASSESSMENT) Physical education task: 30 marks
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2025 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: LIFE ORIENTATION: GRADE 9 (TERM 2)
TERM 2 WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11-12
11/04/2025 17/04/2025 25/04/2025 02/05/2025 09/05/2025 16/05/2025 23/05/2025 30/05/2025 06/06/2025 13/06/2025 17-27/06/2025
CAPS TOPIC Constitutional rights and responsibilities World of work Formal assessment
CONCEPTS, Basic hygiene principles • Constitutional values as stated in the South • Options available after completing Grade 9: National • The form of assessment at the end of Term 2 will be a
SKILLS AND African Constitution Senior Certificate (NSC: Grades 10–12) and National controlled test based on Term 1 and Term 2’s work and a
• Issues relating to citizens’ rights and
VALUES Certificate Vocational (NCV: TVET colleges) Physical Education task
responsibilities: Respect for others’ rights • Positive and negative role models
qualifications
– People living with different disabilities • Role models for upholding constitutional values: • Notes and guidelines for the controlled test are as follows:
and HIV/AIDS Parents and leaders in the community/society • Implications of choices: Choice between NSC and Section A: 25 Section B: 25
(infected and affected) NCV Section C: 20 marks
• Applying these values in daily life marks marks
• Celebrations of national and international • Knowledge of the world of work: Rights, All questions All questions Three 10-mark questions
days: responsibilities and opportunities in the workplace are are compulsory will be set, of which
• Human Rights Day compulsory Questions may learners
• Freedom Day A source or be short and will be expected to answer
case study open-ended, TWO
• Heritage Day may be used scenario-based, Questions will predominantly
• Reconciliation Day to source-based or focus on the application of
contextualise case study knowledge and skills
• Youth Day the questions questions Learners will solve problems,
• Worker’s Day The questions Questions make decisions and give
• Women’s Day should be a should be advice. They will provide few
combination of knowledge direct responses and
• Africa Day three or more based, i.e. extended writing ranging from
• Nelson Mandela Day types of include descriptive paragraphs to
questions: information that short essays that state or
• World Refugees’ Day
List, what, learners have examine an issue
• National health days why, multiple acquired from the Each question will focus on
choice, Life Orientation
• Plan and participate in a local celebration the specific information or the
matching class
of a national day integration of content A short
columns and Learners should text/diagram/data/graph/
Physical Education
missing words display, present cartoon can be provided as a
• Participation in a programme that • Participation in a programme that improves • Participation in a programme that improves Questions will and apply
improves movement techniques and movement techniques movement techniques test knowledge and stimulus
executes a game plan for individual or understanding skills gained
• Participation in, and execution of, a game plan for • Participation in, and execution of, a game plan for Learners will
team sport and factual
individual or team sport individual or team sport display an
knowledge
• Safety issues relating to participation in • Participation and movement performance in a • Participation and movement performance in a game understanding of
sport Responses
game plan for individual or team sport that plan for individual or team sport that improves real-life issues
should be
improves movement techniques affecting the
short and
movement techniques youth and
direct and
range from society at large
one and advise on
word to a possible
phrase or a full solutions and
demonstrate
sentence
goal-setting and
decision-making
skills
Learners should
provide direct
responses, full
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sentences in
point form and
extended writing
in short
paragraphs
RESOURCES TO • Textbook • Textbook, • Textbook Note: Information provided in the texts must be current, up to date,
ENHANCE • Resources on careers • Newspaper articles and resources about sport • Newspaper articles age appropriate and learner- friendly
LEARNING
• Resources on recreational activities • Resources on recreational activities • Resources on recreational activities
• Posters • Posters • Posters
• Physical Education guidelines • Physical Education guidelines • Physical Education guidelines
INFORMAL
ASSESSMENT Homework/classwork/worksheets
AND
REMEDIATION
SBA (FORMAL Controlled test: 70 marks (Terms 1 and 2 content)
ASSESSMENT) Physical Education task: 30 marks
2025 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: LIFE ORIENTATION: GRADE 9 (TERM 3)
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2025 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: LIFE ORIENTATION: GRADE 9
TERM 3 WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6 WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11
25/07/2025 01/08/2025 08/08/2025 15/08/2025 22/08/2025 29/08/2025 05/09/2025 12/09/2025 19/09/2025 26/09/2025 03/10/2025
CAPS TOPIC
World of work Health and social and environmental responsibility
CONCEPTS, Basic hygiene principles Concept: Volunteerism: Health and safety issues related to violence:
SKILLS AND Career and subject • Individual and community responsibility • Common acts of violence at home, school and in the community
VALUES choices: • Different types of volunteer organisations: Contributions of community- • Reasons that violence occurs in families and communities and among
based and non- profitable organisations to social and environmental friends and peers
• Subjects in Grade 10, 11 and 12 health and sustainable development
• Impact of violence on individual and community health and safety
• Careers related to different subjects • -Different types of volunteer activities: Helping those less privileged • Alternatives to violence: Problem-solving skills and managing conflict
• Qualities relating to different careers and subjects: Strengths and and assisting those affected and infected by HIV/AIDS and terminal
weaknesses; and interests and abilities • Protecting oneself and others from acts of violence: Where to find help
illnesses
• Decision-making skills: Steps in choosing subjects relating to interests • National health and/or safety promotion programmes
and abilities and career of interest
Physical Education
• Participation in a programme that improves movement, and refinement of own and peer performance in movement activities
• Safety issues relating to movement activities
RESOURCES TO • Textbook • Textbook • Textbook
ENHANCE • Resources on careers • Newspaper articles and resources on sport • Newspaper articles
LEARNING
• Resources on recreational activities • Resources on recreational activities • Resources on recreational activities
• E-book for COVID-19 • E-book for COVID-19 • E-book for COVID-19
• Posters • Posters • Posters
• Physical Education guidelines • Physical Education guidelines • Physical Education guidelines
INFORMAL
ASSESSMENT Homework/classwork /worksheets
AND
REMEDIATION
SBA (FORMAL Project: 70 marks
ASSESSMENT) Physical Education task: 30 marks
2025 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: LIFE ORIENTATION: GRADE 9 (TERM 4)
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2025 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: LIFE ORIENTATION: GRADE 9
TERM 4 WEEK 1 WEEK 2 WEEK 5 WEEK 7-9
WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 6
17/10/2025 24/10/2025 14/11/2025
31/10/2025 07/11/2025 21/11/2025 24/11-12/12/2025
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CAPS TOPIC
Constitutional rights and responsibilities Development of the self in society World of work Formal assessment
CONCEPTS, Basic hygiene principles Sport ethics in all • Challenging situations: Depression, • Study and career funding Notes on or guidelines for final examinations:
SKILLS AND Contributions of various physical activities grief, loss, trauma and crisis providers • The form of assessment at the end of Term 4 will be an examination based on Term 3 and 4’s
VALUES religions in promoting peace • Causes of depression, grief, loss, Plan for own lifelong learning: work and a Physical Education task
trauma and crisis Goal-setting for lifelong learning • Notes and guidelines for the examination are as follows:
• Counterproductive coping
techniques: Using alcohol and drugs
Section A: 25 marks Section B: 25 marks Section C: 20 marks
All questions are compulsory All questions are compulsory Three 10-mark questions will
A source or case study may be Questions may be short and be set, of which learners will
Physical Education
used to contextualise the open- ended, scenario-based, be expected to answer TWO
• Participation and refinement of own performance in an outdoor recreational activity questions source-based or case study Questions will predominantly
The questions should be a questions focus on the application of
• Safety issues relating to participation in recreational activities
combination of three or more Questions should be knowledge and skills Learners
RESOURCES TO • Textbook • Textbook • Textbook types of questions: List, what, knowledge based, i.e. include will solve problems, make
ENHANCE why, multiple choice, matching information that learners have decisions and give advice.
• Resources on careers • Newspaper • Newspaper articles columns and missing words acquired from the Life They will provide few direct
LEARNING articles and Orientation class responses and extended writing
• Resources on • Resources on recreational activities Questions will test
resources on ranging from descriptive
recreational activities sport • E-book for COVID-19 understanding and factualLearners should display,
knowledge present and apply knowledge paragraphs to short essays that
• E-book for COVID-19 • Posters state or examine an issue
• Resources on
• Posters Responses should be short and skills gained
recreational • Physical Education guidelines Each question will focus on the
activities and direct and range from one Learners will display an
• Physical Education real-life specific information or the
word to a phrase or a full understanding of
guidelines • E-book for issues affecting the youth and integration of content A short
COVID-19 sentence society at large and advise on text/diagram/data/graph/cartoon
possible solutions and
• Posters can be provided as a stimulus
demonstrate goal-setting and
• Physical decision-making skills
Education Learners should provide
guidelines direct responses, full
sentences in point form and
extended writing in short
paragraphs
Note: Information provided in the texts must be current, up to date, age appropriate and learner-
friendly
INFORMAL
ASSESSMENT Homework/classwork/worksheets
AND
REMEDIATION
SBA (FORMAL Examination: 70 marks (Terms 3 and 4 Content) Physical
ASSESSMENT) Education task: 30 marks
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