December 31, 2020
Students are to begin heading back to the classrooms for regular, full-time instruction next week, Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw announced on Wednesday.
But the priority is to be given to special needs children and those facing examinations.
During a televised press conference at the ministry’s Constitution Road headquarters, Bradshaw said the decision to allow face-to-face teaching in the Hilary Term which begins on Tuesday, was taken after “extensive discussions” with unions, principals, teachers, students and the COVID-19 Monitoring Unit.
She explained that special needs students, candidates for the 11-Plus Examination, first-formers and fifth and sixth-form students setting CXC and CAPE examinations would be among the first to return to school on a full-time basis.