NCR starts pilot face-to-face classes amid COVID-19 pandemic

Twenty-eight public schools in the National Capital Region (NCR) on Monday started conducting pilot face-to-face classes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to reports on GMA News’ Unang Balita, these schools prepared for the return of students to campuses after around two years of closure.

In Quezon City, the Payatas B Annex Elementary School welcomed back over 100 students including 48 from Kindergarten and 64 from the Grade 2 Level, according to a report of James Agustin.

Only 12 Kindergarten students are allowed per classroom and only 16 for Grade 2.

The Kindergarten class is set from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. while the Grade 2 class is from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

At least eight classrooms will be used at the Payatas B Annex Elementary School for the pilot face-to-face classes.

Next week, Grade 1 and Grade 3 students will have their face-to-face classes.

At the Pasig Elementary School, only 13 Grade 1 students and 14 Grade 2 students will participate in the pilot face-to-face classes, according to a report by Mariz Umali.

 

The seats in the classrooms are assigned to specific students as they cannot switch chairs.

In Taguig City, the Senator Renato Cayetano Memorial Science and Technology High School also welcomed back students to the campus, according to a report by Bam Alegre.

Fifteen students in Grades 11 and 12 are participating in the face-to-face classes.

COVID-19 kits are also available in the school. The local government unit said all teachers and non-teaching personnel have been vaccinated.

In Muntinlupa, the Tunasan National High School uses QR code to notify the parents that the students have already arrived in school, according to a report on Unang Balita.

 

Pupils from Aurora A. Quezon Elementary School in San Andres, Manila, line up before entering the school during the first day of the pilot run of face-to-face classes on Monday, December 6, 2021. Danny Pata

 

The Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday said 177 schools, including 28 public schools from the NCR, will join the pilot run of in-person classes amid the COVID-19 pandemic starting December 6.

The Philippine National Police on Sunday said it was prepared to provide security for the pilot implementation of face-to-face classes in 28 Metro Manila schools starting Monday.

In November, around 100 public schools and 20 private schools in other regions initially started the pilot run of face-to-face classes set by the DepEd. 

No cases of COVID-19 infection were recorded during the first week of the implementation of the pilot face-to-face classes, the DepEd reported last week.

According to DepEd, the assessment period for the initial run of pilot face-to-face classes will be until December 22, 2021. The pilot study is set to end on January 31, 2022.

Results of the pilot testing will be presented to President Rodrigo Duterte in February 2022. If all goes well, expansion will start on March 7, 2022.

Face-to-face classes were canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, and students were either given learning modules or attended online classes since then. —Joviland Rita/KG, GMA News

NCR starts pilot face-to-face classes amid COVID-19 pandemic
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