Learner support materials include textbooks, stationery, science materials, equipment as well as consumables. Due to financial constraints of the Eastern Cape, this has led the department to concentrate on textbooks and stationery only as learner support materials. The department is now in the process of issuing stationery to Grade 1-9, but for textbooks, the department will prioritise those Grades that are in curriculum 2005 (Grade 1, 2 and 3) and later to Grade 7, that will start the curriculum next year as well. The supply for Grade 12 will only be concentrated to those schools that have had a new Grade 12 class since 1997, 1998 and 1999, because those schools were not issued any textbooks and stationery.