The Ghana Education Service (GES) has assured that second-year (Form 2) students in Junior High and Senior High Schools will be safe when they return to school on Monday, October 5, 2020.
The return of the students is to enable them to complete their respective third term and second semester of the current academic year.
The GES in a press release said Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) have been distributed to all schools which have also been fumigated and disinfected against COVID-19. It will be recalled that all universities, SHSs, basic schools, both private and public, were closed down in March following the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country.
However, final-year JHS and SHS students were exempted from the directive and were to remain in school and adhere to prescribed social distancing protocols while preparing for their examinations in May and June 2020, respectively.
On August 30, President Akufo-Addo in his 16th address to the nation on measures taken to control the spread of the Coronavirus disease announced that JHS and SHS in their second year (Form 2) were to resume on October 5, 2020, to complete the 2019/20 academic year.\
The President directed that JHSs would operate with a class sizes of 30 while SHSs would operate with a class sizes of 25.
He added that the students would be in school for 10 weeks to study and write their end of term examinations.
President Akufo-Addo further noted that prior to reopening, all schools would be fumigated and disinfected.
He said as part of measures to control the spread of the Coronavirus, all the students would 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 two students will also be given one hot meal a day.
Source:Fiilafmonline/JoyNews
