Second-year Junior High School and Senior High School students are returning to school today, Monday, October 5, 2020, to complete their respective third term and second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year.
Students are expected to complete their academic work on December 14, 2020.
Personal protective equipment has also been distributed to all schools.
Ghana Education Service (GES) in a statement noted that all schools have been fumigated and disinfected ahead of the reopening.
GES has also assured parents, students, and teachers of the students’ safety after the long layoff because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The service has urged staff and students to adhere to all COVID-19 preventive measures.
Junior High Schools are to operate with a class size of 30 while Senior High Schools are to operate with a class size of 25.
All the students are to be given reusable face masks like was done for the final year JHS and SHS students who reported to school earlier in the year.
JHS 2 students will be given one free meal a day.
Each school will be provided with Veronica Buckets, gallons of liquid soap, rolls of tissue paper, thermometer guns, and 200-millilitre containers of sanitizers.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Solomon Nartey
