2020/2021 ACADEMIC SESSION

LASG RELEASES 2020/2021 ACADEMIC SESSION CALENDAR

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

SCHOOL RE-OPENING

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.

LASG REVEALS PLANS FOR A NEW 2020/2021 ACADEMIC SESSION RESUMPTION

The Honorable Commissioner for Education, Lagos State Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo has announced the plans for both Public and Private Schools resumption in the State after the lockdown of schools as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also wish to congratulate SS 3 students who have successfully completed their WASSCE exams and urge them to stay safe even as they await their results.

The plans for reopening for a new 2020/2021 academic session are as follows:

PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The Ministry is adopting a phased approach to opening public schools . This phased approach to opening will enable public schools meet COVID-19 social distance rules and safety protocols and will help us watch the behaviour of the pandemic as we gradually open up our schools.

The present JS 3 and SS 2 students in public schools in the State are to resume classes from Monday, 21st of September, 2020.

The resumption will permit the present JS 3 students who are already in an exit class to revise and get adequately prepared for their forthcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) organized by the Lagos State Examination Board and scheduled between Tuesday, 6th and Monday, 12th of October, 2020. The resumption will also afford the present SS 2 students an opportunity to prepare effectively for their transition to SS 3. The scheduled dates and venues for Entrance Examination into Lagos State Model Colleges will soon be announced by the State Examination Board.

We assure parents that announcements for opening the other classes will occur as soon as we are certain of their safety. In the meantime, the unopened classes in public schools will continue their lessons on our various distance learning platforms (Online platform, radio, television and WhatsApp) while the next phase for physical resumption will be announced in due course.

PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Private Primary and Secondary Schools in the State are permitted to resume from Monday, 21st of September, 2020 and the State Government strongly recommends and encourages school owners to put safety first and open in phases similar to the plans for public schools . Phased opening also include strategies for staggered resumption in the mornings, classes on alternate days during the week and teaching through various distance learning methods. Schools must also comply with safety protocols and hygiene guidelines as instructed by the State Government through the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA). The Office of Education Quality Assurance will continue to monitor and evaluate Schools’ preparedness.

Please note that pre-primary classes and schools in both public and private schools will remain closed until further announcements are made.

The State Government wishes to remind schools that the pandemic is still with us and we must in all situations, make the safety of our children, teachers and parents and our community as a whole our first priority.

Kayode Abayomi
Head, Public Affairs
Ministry of Education
13th September, 2020

anwo-Olu. Photo: TWITTER/JIDESANWOOLU

LASG announces phased resumption for public, private schools

The Lagos State Government on Sunday announced plans for both public and private schools resumption after the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, said in a statement that both public and private schools were to reopen for a new 2020/2021 academic session.

”We also wish to congratulate SS3 students who have successfully completed their WASSCE exams and urge them to stay safe even as they await their results,” Adefisayo said.

She said that for the public schools, the ministry would be adopting a phased approach to opening the schools.

According to her, this phased approach to opening will enable public schools meet COVID-19 social distance rules and safety protocols.

”This will help us watch the behaviour of the pandemic as we gradually open up our schools.

”The present JS3 and SS2 students in public schools in the state are to resume classes from Monday, 21st of September, 2020.

”The resumption will permit the present JS3 students who are already in an exit class to revise and get adequately prepared for their forthcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) organised by the Lagos State Examination Board.

“It is scheduled between Tuesday, 6th and Monday, 12th of October, 2020. The resumption will also afford the present SS2 students an opportunity to prepare effectively for their transition to SS3,” she said.

The commissioner said that the scheduled dates and venues for Entrance Examination into Lagos State Model Colleges would soon be announced by the State Examination Board.

Adefisayo assured parents that announcements for opening of the other classes would occur as soon as the state government was certain of their safety.

She said that in the meantime, the unopened classes in public schools would continue their lessons on the various distance learning platforms (Online platform, radio, television and WhatsApp).

She added that the next phase for physical resumption would be announced in due course.

Adefisayo said that private primary and secondary schools in the state were permitted to resume from Monday, Sept. 21, 2020.

She said that the state government strongly encouraged school owners to put safety first and open in phases similar to the plans for public schools.

According to her, phased opening also includes strategies for staggered resumption in the mornings, classes on alternate days during the week and teaching through various distance learning methods.

”Schools must also comply with safety protocols and hygiene guidelines as instructed by the state government through the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA).

”The office of education quality assurance will continue to monitor and evaluate schools’ preparedness.

”Please note that pre-primary classes and schools in both public and private schools will remain closed until further announcements are made.

”The state government wishes to remind schools that the pandemic is still with us and we must in all situations, make the safety of our children, teachers, parents and our community as a whole, our first priority,” she said.

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