{"id":105008,"date":"2020-07-29T16:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105008"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T23:08:24","slug":"new-schedules-for-schools-to-reopen-from-aug-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/29\/new-schedules-for-schools-to-reopen-from-aug-10\/","title":{"rendered":"New schedules for schools to reopen from Aug 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Education has decided to resume academic activities at all government schools from August 10, following government imposed holidays due to the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schools to reopen under several statges from Aug 10 (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x9dAEmlQhA0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, only Grades 5, 10, 11, 12, and 13 will be allowed attend school on all five weekdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 1, 2, and 3 will have school for only one day per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also been decided to reopen schools according to the number of students in the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schools with less than 200 students may reopen for all grades&nbsp;<\/strong>from August 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Primary schools with over 200 students<\/strong>&nbsp;will reopen as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 1 and 5 &#8211; Monday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 2 and 5 -Tuesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 3 and 5 -Wednesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 4 and 5 -Thursday, Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/pLJr3Wrj\/PHOTO-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Secondary schools with over 200 students<\/strong>&nbsp;will reopen as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 6, 10, 11, 12, 13 &#8211; Monday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 &#8211;&nbsp;Tuesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 &#8211;&nbsp;Wednesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grades 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 &#8211;&nbsp;Thursday,&nbsp;Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the time duration for a school day for&nbsp;<strong>Grades 6, 7, 8, and 9 will be from 7.00 am till 1.30 pm<\/strong>, while it will be<strong>&nbsp;from 7.30 am until 3.30 pm for Grades 10, 11, 12, and 13.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/wvZjD3fC\/PHOTO-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Heads of Schools have been informed not to open school canteens until health officials confirm that the prevailing situation is under control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Education has decided to resume academic activities at all government schools from August 10, following government imposed holidays due to the COVID-19 outbreak. However, only Grades 5, 10, 11, 12, and 13 will be allowed attend school on all five weekdays. Grades 1, 2, and 3 will have school for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}