The Gauteng Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi, says the 2022 applications for GDE Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners will be conducted in two phases.
Lesufi says online applications will officially open on August 10. GDE Grade 8 applications will be between August 10 until September 3.
Speaking during a virtual media briefing, Lesufi says applications for Grade 1 learners will open from September 13 until October 8.
“The first phase will open on the 10th of August and close on 3rd September 2021 at midnight. The 2nd phase will commence on the 13th of September at 8 AM and will close on the 8th of October at midnight. The placement of phase 1 will happen between 15th October and 30th November and phase two between November 15th and November 30th”
The second phase which will commence on the 13th of September will open for grade 1 applications as well as grade 8 applicants who aren’t in the department’s system. These include those who aren’t from the province, as well as those from private and independent schools.
Placements will take place between 15th October and November 30th. Gauteng Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi says there’ll be 47 walk-in centres across the province to assist those without access to the internet.
GDE Grade 8 Registration 2022/2023 Online. Grade 8 registration 2022 Gauteng online application forms. You will need to register yourself as the parent, and your child needs to enter Gr 8 in 2022. Your cellphone number is critical when applying as all further communication will come to you via sms.
Please have the following documents available as you will need to upload them on the system when applying.
GDE Grade 8 Registration 2022 Online
The Gauteng Department of Education is mandated to provide compulsory basic education to all learners in the province progressively, including learners with special needs and early childhood education. The Department therefore; seeks to provide access to quality teaching, learning and assessment for all learners in the Gauteng Province.
GDE Grade 8 Registration 2022 Required Documents
All documents must be certified before you upload them.
Learner documents:
- Birth certificate
- Latest school report
Parent/s documents:
- Proof of residence (municipal account)
- Proof of work address (if applying using this criteria)
- ID document or passport (of both parents)
Additional documents required if one is not a South African citizen are:
- Study Permit
- Temporary or permanent residence permit from the Department of Home Affairs; or
- Evidence that you have applied for permission to stay in South Africa
Do not bring the documents to the school rather submit them online.
Please note that learners living in the allocated feeder area and siblings will be given preference to the work address criteria.
If you are experiencing any difficulties with online applications or uploading documents, you are welcome to go to any of the decentralized walk-in centres as listed on the GDE admissions website.
How do I apply for a school place?
When starting the Gauteng Department of Education online registration for your child, you should follow three important steps in the application process. These stages include:
- Entering the details of the parent/legal guardian
- Entering the learner’s details
- Applying to a school
Step 1: Enter details of the parent/legal guardian
- First of all, you have to press the “Apply for 2022” button or click Register when you open the official website of the GDE. You must accept the Terms and Conditions and click Continue to proceed with an application. Then you will proceed to the page is where you would need to type your information.
- When the “Enter Parent/Guardian Details” form appears, you have to fill in every field marked with an asterisk. The required information consists of the municipality, street name and number, your phone number and so on. Then, you will have to enter your South African ID number. You can leave the fields with the landline and email address.
- In the application process, you will have to create a username as well as a password. You will need this password while accessing the main application. The password has to be unique and consist of 8 characters, including a capital letter, small letters, a special character and numbers. Do not forget it, write it down and keep it in a safe place. However, if you forget the password or username, you can reset it.
Step 2: Include the information about the learner
On the next page titled Enter Learners Details you have to:
- Type the information of your child including the fact whether the learner is South African or not, the identification number, province, and the current grade.
- Once you have filled all the required fields, you should click the “Submit Learner Details” button.
Step 3: Applying to a school
Then you should follow these steps:
1. Choose an application option. You will have to select one of the options: home address, sibling, and work address, the school within 30-kilometer radius, school beyond 30-kilometer radius and school of focus learning. There are also two options that you can use for placement but not for application; they are boarding school and previous school.
- When you select the “home address” or “work address” option, the system will automatically filter the schools and ask you to choose one from the options that are either close to your home or work.
- If you choose the “sibling” option, it is possible to apply to a school where the sibling studies. It is needed to give the information about the sibling including their name, surname and the school.
- If you decide to use the option considering the school within or beyond 30-kilometre radius of home address, the system will provide you with all the schools within or beyond the radius so you can select a certain school.
- The last option you can opt for is “school of focus learning”, the list of such type of schools will pop up. The learner will have to complete admission tests.
You can apply to a maximum of 5 schools per child.
2. After finalizing the application form, you can press “Submit Application”, and the application is made.
3. Then, you will get an SMS that will confirm the successful submission of an application. You would be given a Waiting List reference number that will appear on the screen. The number means that your application was actually submitted. Please check if you get the SMS cause in case you do not receive it, you have to ensure that you have done everything in a proper way.
Note that after you have received the Waiting List reference number, as a parent, you still have the privilege of applying again. After submitting your first application, you will have three options to choose from. You can press “Apply to another school for the same learner”, “Apply for another learner” or the Logoff button.
There are six types of Waiting List reference numbers that you can receive. They are:
- WA1 – Parent is living closest to the school in the feeder zone
- WA2 – A child has a sibling at the school
- WA3 – Parent works within a feeder zone of a school
- WA4 – Parent’s home address is within a 30-kilometre radius of a school
- WB – Parent’s home address is beyond a 30-kilometre radius of a school
- WA5 – Schools of focus learning
Documents to provide
Once you are done with your online registration for 2022, you would be required to submit the following documents in the school that you chose while applying. The list of all the necessary documents will appear on the confirmation note of application for SA citizens and Non-SA citizens.
Therefore, whether the child is entering into Grade 1 or going to Grade 8, the following are the documents that you will need to submit:
- Your identification document as the parent or legal guardian
- The birth certificate of the learner
- Proof of your home or work address
- Immunisation/clinic document which should prove that the child does not have tuberculosis, tetanus, hepatitis B, polio, measles and diphtheria (if the child is applying as Grade 1 learner)
- If the child is in another school, you will need to supply the most recent report of the child
However, if the learner is non-South African, you should submit the documents including:
- The passport of the parent or legal guardian
- Proof of your home or work address
- The Asylum Seeker or Refugee Permit of the child
- The most current academic report card of the school where the child is presently (if the child is applying for Grade 8)
Make sure that you bring all these documents within the period of seven days of the online application for school admission.
Please note that these are the details of the application process for 2022. The Online Admissions Applications for 2020 were closed in July 2019. There will be new updates for the GDE application 2022 on the official website of GDE soon. The next application period should be commenced approximately in April or May.
Some applicants may believe that the process of GDE Grade admissions is difficult. However, the truth is that it is easy when you know all the information about it. Whether you are a South African or not, do not forget that apart from submitting an online application, all the required documents necessary to be sent to the school are pivotal. The reason is that it determines whether the admission of the child/ward would be processed or not. We hope that this guide will help you to submit the application successfully. And we wish you to accept the placement of your dreams offered by the department where you child could get a quality education. For more information Visit the official webpage GDE Grade 8 Registration 2022 Online