The planned October reopening of learning institutions will be done in phases, ending the size months closure occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Education Response Committee on Covid-19 on Monday proposed that learners should be back in school from 5 to 19.
Class eight and Form four students will be the first to report back to school since the Ministry of education announced that the national examination for the two classes will take place in April 2021.
The first also includes class seven pupils, Form Three students, and Grade Four leaners.
“The committee acknowledged that Standard Seven pupils and Form Three students should be in the first group because they are the next candidates,” a source told the Nation.
“There is a need to help them recover lost time.”
The rest of learners – Pre-Primary One and Two, Grade One, Two and Three, Standard Five and Six and From One and Two will resume back to school after one or two weeks after the first lot.
Grade Four pupils are expected to do their first national examination at Grade Six in April 2021, after which they proceed to junior secondary school.
Garde Five was supposed to begin in January but the change of the school calendar, the learners will begin their classes in June next year.
Grade Five was to begin in January but with the change of school calendar, the pupils will start classes in June 2021.
Grade Five textbooks have already been evaluated for conformity to the new curriculum skills, designs, and concepts coverage and development ahead of the launch.
The task force said the phased reopening will enable schools to manage learners while implementing the Covid-19 health protocols.
It also enables the government to deliver the 360,000 desks to 5136 primary schools and 263,157 lockers and chairs to the 5254 secondary schools.
The Kenya Examination Council will give tests to the learner from Grade One to Form Four to determine their ability to remember what they studied before the schools were shut down back in March.
The assessment by KNEC will, however, be marked internally.
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In the new arrangement, the second term will end on December 18 after which learners will go for two weeks break before proceeding to the third term from January 5 to April 2.
While National Examination – KCPE, KCSE results are expected to be released in May.
Teachers have been advised to come up with a crash program to enable them to complete the first and second term work before new learners report between June and August.
Education PS Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang asked the Ministry of Health to remove patients from the schools that were used as coronavirus quarantine centers.
“Aware that the public schools were used as quarantine and isolation centers, we request that these schools are vacated and fumigated by September 28 to enable the heads to prepare them for eventual reopening, ” Dr. Kipsang wrote to his Health counterpart Susan Mochache on Monday.
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