The Ekiti State Government has declared the change in the resumption of pupils and students in graduating classes at both private and government funded schools from July 20 to August 3.
Mr Foluso Daramola, the State’s Commissioner for Education, made this known during a media chat on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti, NAN reports.
Daramola clarified that the South-West states held a virtual gathering where each state was advised to get ready for resumption of school.
He said:-
“Pupils in class six and students in JSS 3, SSS 3 were to continue on the new date.”
Daramola also urged parents and guardians to provide three face masks each, for their children and wards.
As indicated by him, the government would make available all protective materials needed to curb the spread of COVID-19 to public and private schools.
The commissioner said that any private school with two gates must close one to control movement in and out of the school.
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He also said that authorities of private primary and secondary schools should make available other materials required to contain the virus.
Daramola said the legislature had additionally prohibited by private schools to convey pupils and students to their various schools, saying the activity was in accordance with social distancing protocol.
Review that the resumption was coming following four months of conclusion by government, occasioned by the furious COVID-19 pandemic.
Representative Kayode Fayemi in June declared, by means of a statewide communicate that the schools would reopen to graduating classes on July 20.
Fayemi had likewise said the school resumption would be in stages, beginning with students in graduating classes (SSS3, JSS3 and Primary 6) to get ready for their tests, while different classes would be bit by bit retained as schools meet all prerequisites to oblige them.
