Kumasi, Oct. 5, GNA – Second year students in Senior High Schools (SHS) and Junior High Schools (JHS) in the Kumasi metropolis, returned to school today, Monday, October 05, 2020.
This is to enable them to complete their respective current academic work on December 14, 2020, as had been directed by President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo Addo in his 16th address to the nation on the COVID-19 situation.
According to the President’s directives, these groups of students would spend 10 weeks and write their end of term examinations.
A visit by the Ghana News Agency to some junior high schools in the Kumasi metropolis indicated that the pupils were present and preparing for studies under the instructions of their teachers.
All the COVID-19 preventive protocols had also been put in place in almost all the schools visited on Monday morning.
The pupils were seen wearing their nose masks and veronica buckets placed at vantage points of entry of the schools.
Mr. Samuel Basoah, Headmaster of Ge-Jeop International School, told the GNA that all the safety protocols were in place at the school, adding that, ‘no face mask no entry’ sign had been boldly posted in front of the school gate to alert the pupils.
He said each class had been allocated 30 pupils to ensure that the social distancing protocol was strictly observed.
Mr Basoah said teachers, pupils and non-teaching staff in the school would be provided with three reusable nose masks.
Meanwhile, some parents, students and pupils in the Kumasi Metropolis have commended the government for successfully reopening schools in the country.
The parents said they were happy their second-year children in Junior High Schools and Senior High Schools were returning to school from today, Monday, October 05, 2020.
They said their children had been home for too long and once the schools have put in place the safety protocols, ‘We are happy they are going back’.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview, the parents said they were excited their children were returning to the classrooms to study.
Madam Joyce Osei, a parent, commended the government for supporting the schools in the country to disinfect all classrooms and also to ensure that all safety protocols were put in place to help curb the spread of the virus.
Mr Joseph Manu, a businessman and a father to an SHS 2 student, said: “Since my ward came home from school some months ago, I have not seen him showing any seriousness in learning because I am not always at home to supervise his studies, so I’m happy he is going back”.
Miss Victoria Osei, a second-year student of T.I Amass Senior High, said “I am happy to go back to school. I have missed my friends and school activities”.
A student at Vicande International School in Asuoyeboah, Mavis Twene, said she had forgotten almost all the things she studied because, since the lockdown, she helped her mother to sell in the Bantama Market.
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