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Online classes are continuing for all senior cycle students after the outbreak was confirmed earlier this week
A local secondary school has confirmed that all students in Sixth Year will be Covid tested following an outbreak reported earlier this week.
The positive cases among the students at the school are being linked directly to an outbreak of Covid in the wider Drumshambo area in the last week.
The Vocational School in the town has issued an updated press release following confirmation on Monday that four students in sixth year had contracted the virus.
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As a result, all fifth and sixth years are engaged in online learning, and principal Martin Fallon has confirmed that that following a risk assessment by Public Health Officers, it was decided, as a precautionary measure to send all of our Sixth Year students for Covid Tests.
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The school has implemented its own Covid protocols to ensure that staff or other students are not at risk
A Leitrim secondary school has returned to online classes for its fifth and sixth years after a number of positive Covid cases were confirmed in recent days.
Drumshanbo Vocational School has confirmed in a statement this afternoon that four students, all in the same senior year, have tested positive for Covid.
The school says that as a precaution they have returned to on-line classes for all Fifth & Sixth Years until they receive further advice from the HSE.
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At primary school level, Third to Sixth Classes returned to school on Monday. With the younger classes already back, this means that all primary school classes are now taking place in the classroom.
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Sixth Years at Gorey Community School have come together to create a Student Council sub-committee on Leaving Certificate arrangements, having written to the Department of Education to express their views.
On Friday last (5th), Education Minister Norma Foley announced that planning is underway for a combination of Leaving Cert exams and an alternative assessment option. The exact details of this decision, which came about following intensive engagements of the sub-group of the Advisory Group of education stakeholders are yet to be worked out but it s believed that the State Examinations Commission would run both assessments,
Gorey students have widely welcomed this step forward, but are still seeking clarity.