For the first time in about 6 months, the students head back to school today in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Director for Education for the English School District, Tony Stacks says while there are still things to work out, he is confident that the return to school will go smoothly.
He credits the edict for mandatory mask-wearing in indoor public spaces for helping with transition as students are already using it.
A big thing parents can do to help children as they go back to school, says Stack, is to offer reassurance that the school is a safe place to be. It won’t be perfect, but it’ll be safe, assures Stack.
Meanwhile in Nain this morning, it was good to see the Jens Haven Memorial School students geared up and waiting to go to their classes with their masks on.
There were certain grade categories organized by the staff to wait in line, first for the primary, then grades 4 to 12, parents and guardians were also there and watched their child, before they entered their school for the first time, since March.
Hopefully OK Radio will get more coverage of how the first day of school went in the other north coast communities.