Parents taking their children to school buses after making sure they carried sanitiser bottles in Delhi-NCR, as schools are set to resume offline classes from Friday after more than two years. Along with the students were ready to receive. While many schools reopened on Friday, many others plan to resume offline classes for all grades from Monday.
Sudha Acharya, president of the National Progressive Schools Conference (NPSC), which has over 120 private schools as its members, said students were eagerly waiting for the day. “It is after two years that schools are reopening and students were excited to be back,” she said.
Acharya is the Principal of ITL Public School, Dwarka. In her school, the teachers organized a special prayer meeting for the students. “The teachers had prepared a special display for the students and it is like a festival today. Yesterday, we bid farewell to class 12 students. At 11 am we will hear the Prime Minister’s Pariksha Pe Charcha.” Modern Public School, Shalimar Bagh, reopened on Friday for pre-nursery class only, while students of all other classes will be called from Monday.
“Today only pre-nursery students came to the school to attend offline classes. From Monday we will open for all students from Pre-Nursery to Class 12. We want to make the reopening process as comfortable as possible for students, parents and teachers. “In these two years, a lot has changed and we are adjusting to these changes. We are ready to resume classes in these ‘new normal’ times, while also prioritizing face-to-face learning as students have missed out the most,” said school principal Alka Kapoor of Pacific World School. According to Pro-Vice Chairperson Nidhi Bansal, steps have been taken to maintain cleanliness and hygiene.
“Our focus is to make children comfortable and to motivate them to talk about their problems and emotional or mental crises that the pandemic has had on children and how to solve them in the best possible way,” he said. Schools across the country were closed in 2020. The nationwide lockdown in March to contain the spread of COVID-19. Schools reopened briefly in many states before the second wave in April 2021, but had to close shortly thereafter.
Schools reopened but had to be closed in Delhi due to alarming levels of pollution. While they reopened in phases, the hybrid mode of classes – online and offline – became the popular approach and students were allowed to attend classes in schools only with the consent of their parents. Shubhi Soni, Head, Shri Ram Wonder Years, Rohini said, “Our school is excited to welcome our bundles of joy to the campus as we open for offline learning from April 4. The school is colorfully decorated so that the students can be recharged. positive energies and embrace them in a brick and mortar landscape, she said.
“Regular temperature check-up of children will also be done to reduce the risk of COVID-19. A full time nurse has been trained and deputed to oversee the compliance of all norms. We are reopening the school in a phased manner to gradually settle the children in a new environment. Soni said, “Starting with bonding time class, children will be asked to come according to the short time slots to get acquainted with the school environment, peers and teachers.”
Anshu Mittal, Principal, MRG School, Rohini said that they are excited to welcome our students back to offline classes after a gap of two years. “Various welcome activities have been arranged in the school to make the students and teachers feel comfortable.
“The ice-breaking exercise is planned to create a cheerful relationship between students and teachers to erase the disconnection faced by them during the pandemic period. Peer interactions will also be conducted to encourage student relations and rivalry,” she said. However, the parents complained about transportation being an issue. Parents of a class five student of Shri Ram Global School in Noida Extension Said that the first day was a bit chaotic especially for the parents as some school buses were running late and they received many messages about the delay.
“The bus was delayed by about 30 minutes and I was late for work,” he said. However, he welcomed the resumption of offline classes, saying it would be a welcome change for the students. “My son was earlier studying in Nagpur and today is his first day in his new school. He has been attending online classes in this school since last one year.
“He will meet his friends. The students were comfortable with the idea of online classes, but it will be a good shift for them as they get back to a proper routine.”
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