School catch-up plan ready to roll

Department spokesman Granville Whittle said minister Angie Motshekga had met education MECs to finalise the plan and get schooling back to normal.
Education analyst Graeme Bloch said the plan was "a great idea", but he was sceptical about whether teachers and pupils could pull it off.
"The bad vibes between teachers and pupils could make things difficult.
"Teachers might be disgruntled and find it hard to focus on teaching until [salary] negotiations are finalised," he said.
Teachers and pupils were due back in class yesterday. The strike was suspended on Monday, but it was anything but a normal school day in some areas.
Schools in Soweto, such as Thaba Jabula Secondary School, were padlocked because members of the SA Democratic Teachers' Union in the region were told to report to work only this morning.
In Alexandra, northern Johannesburg, teachers at the township's Eastbank and Kwabhekilanga high schools were at school for only a few hours.
But Federation of Governing Bodies of SA Schools operations officer Jaco Deacon said the federation's 1100 member schools had a "normal school day".
In KwaZulu-Natal, the union pushed for a cancellation of matric preliminary exams, planned to start on Monday, saying they were a waste of time that should be spent preparing for the final exams.
In North West, education department spokesman Charles Raseala said the department's recovery plan had been implemented less than two days into the strike, with students, retired teachers and community radio stations pitching in to help matrics study.