Laois school getting higher attendance online during Covid-19 pandemic
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A Laois school has discovered that they are getting more students in classes for online Covid-19 lessons, than they had in actual classes before the pandemic hit.
Mountmellick Community School has had higher attendance in online video classes during the past two weeks than they had in regular classes a year ago in January 2020.
The principal is Larry Curtin. The phrase every cloud has a silver lining springs to mind, he said.
The first lockdown meant they had everything lined up and ready to go this January. Having provided google classroom assignments for all students and online video lessons in all subjects through the Zoom platform to 3 rd and 6 th year students during the last school lockdown in April / May 2020, management and staff of MCS put plans in place during the last term to cater for a similar delivery to all students in the event of future lockdowns.