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Masks on faces, markers on floors to keep kids apart and a ban on singing. Endless squirts of hand sanitizer and field trips conducted on video screens.
This school year has been like no other as elementary and high school students and teachers attend classes in the shadow of a pandemic.
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It’s been stressful and sometimes scary. Cases of COVID-19 have popped up at many schools in Ottawa.
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Masks on faces, markers on floors to keep kids apart and a ban on singing. Endless squirts of hand sanitizer and field trips conducted on video screens.
This school year has been like no other as elementary and high school students and teachers attend classes in the shadow of a pandemic.
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Try refreshing your browser, or Life at Ottawa schools in the shadow of a pandemic Back to video
It’s been stressful and sometimes scary. Cases of COVID-19 have popped up at many schools in Ottawa.
But it’s also been a year of invention and hope. The routines and traditions of school continue, if modified. Teachers have created new ways to learn, from pool-noodle tag in gym class to performing O Canada in sign language.