The Lagos State Ministry of Education, Office of Education Quality Assurance has released the approved Lagos State school calendar for year 2020/2021 session.

According to the time table, both public and private schools below tertiary level will resume First Term academic activities on Monday 21st September, 2020 while the term runs through Friday 18th December, 2020. The Second Term starts on Monday 4th January, 2021 and runs through Friday 16th April, 2021 while students will resume for Third Term on Tuesday 4th May, 2021 and close on Friday 6th August, 2021.

While enjoining all public and private schools in the state to adhere strictly to the harmonised school calendar, the Director General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, urged school leaders to have a qualitative health and safety plan that will help protect students, teachers and workers as schools reopen in the state.

According to her “it is not enough to reopen but to keep staying opened since some schools all over the world had to shut down after reopening due to a spike in the pandemic. All schools must make efforts to comply with these requirements, not just for the improvement of the overall school operations but for safe reopening for academic activities to support the Lagos State Government quest for a full return”.

While advising schools to have a flexible teaching and learning plans where students and teachers who feel sick can teach or learn from home via available online platforms, Mrs. Seriki-Ayeni said schools must strive to avoid any COVID-19 infection in their school.

Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni further advised that teachers, students and visitors must wear face mask at all time, observe physical distancing, regularly wash hands with soap under running water and maintain high standard of personal hygiene in the school premises. She emphasized that schools must have an isolation/holding bay to care for medical emergencies should students come up with symptoms such as cough, headache, catarrh, difficulty in breathing, sneezing and fever.

She also said further measures put in place by the Lagos State Government through the Office of Education Quality Assurance is for public and private schools in Lagos State to register online with the OEQA, take the School Self-risk Assessment, take the online training course to obtain reopening clearance for academic activities on the OEQA website: www.oeqalagos.com.

According to her, this will help the Office of Education Quality Assurance to determine the level of preparedness as well as guide schools on what they need to put in place for a safe reopening. She implored school leaders to embrace new learning style like outdoor classes, staggered attendance, platooning or alternative attendance among others in collaboration with parents in a safe and secure environment.

OLANIRAN EMMANUEL
HEAD, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
OEQA

We wish to inform you that our school will apply phased re – opening.

• This means only our Upper Primary classes ( Basic 4 to Basic 6) will be returning on Monday 21st September, 2020.
• While our Lower Primary (Basic 1 to Basic 3) will be joining them on Wednesday 23rd of September, 2020.
• Our Creche, Playgroup and Nursery classes will be re-opening whenever the State Government announces their resumption.

Meanwhile Our Nursery Two class will join us after three weeks of re-opening (i.e. after conclusion of revision and exams for previous term) to commence their first term in Basic 1.

Every child is expected to come with their face-mask. Please note that, no face-mask no entrance into the school premises.

Further to the directive from the LASG and after much deliberation on our part including the PTA Chairmen, we wish to inform our beloved Parents that the College will reopen in phases. This is to enable the school gradually but adequately carter and adjust accordingly in terms of space, timetable, resources, etc. It will also enable us to fine tune the effectiveness of all our laid down protocols.

The adopted staggered reopening process is as follows:

•  JSS 3 & SS 2 to resume on Monday 21st September 2020 in line with LASG public school directive
• ALL OLD Students to resume Wednesday 23rd September, 2020.
• ALL NEW INTAKES to resume on Monday 28th September, 2020

BUS SERVICE
Our bus services will resume on Wednesday 23rd of September,2020.
Please we are appealing to our Parents involved to bear with us and assist in bringing their children and wards to and from school.

SCHOOL PERIOD

Our school period for now will be 8 AM – 2 PM Mondays to Fridays.

SCHOOL FEES
The school fees advice slip for the term will be available for collection from Monday.

Every student is expected to come with their face-mask. Please note that, no face-mask no entrance into the school premises.

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME
We would be operating in line with the Lagos State Government directives that stipulates schools should run a three week review of the 3rd term work and conduct promotion exams before starting first term work of the 2020/21 academic session. This means no automatic promotion to the next class and our school will adhere to this instruction.

Our first and second Continuous Assessment Scores (CAS) would be used to prepare their second term results which they didn’t write because of the mandatory closure of the school by Federal Government in March.

Please note that all the COVID-19 Pandemic protocols must be strictly adhered to. Please if your child/ward is feeling sick let him or her stay at home until he/she recovers fully.

BOARDING FACILITIES
Please the Boarding Facilities will be open as from Monday, 28th September, 2020

Thank you for your continuous cooperation and patronage.