Thursday, 28 March

GHS, GES outline exit guidelines for second-year Gold track students after exam

Education
Gold track SHS students will vacate on Friday 31 July 2020

Second-year Gold Track Senior High School (SHS) students have been asked to go on vacation after sitting their end-of-semester exam.

However, final-year SHS students are to remain in school to prepare for and sit their final examination.

A joint press statement from the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ghana Health Service, jointly signed by Directors-General Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwah and Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, respectively, outlined how the students were to be discharged home in three groups upon “successfully” completing their first semester programme on Friday, 31 July 2020.

According to the release, the first group will consist of students of schools “where no positive case of COVID-19 has been recorded”.

Students of those schools “can vacate and go home.”

The second group is made up of schools that “had a positive case but has not reported any new positive case within the last two weeks”.

Students of this category of schools, can also “vacate and go home.”

The third group will be made up of “any school that had a positive case within the last two weeks.”

The statement explained that “all contacts within the Gold track” in the last category of schools, “will have their vacation delayed for assessment and observation before they can be allowed to go on vacation and parents of such students will be notified.”

President Akufo-Addo ordered a partial opening of schools for final-year and second-year Gold track students to enable the final-years to prepare for their final examinations and for the second-year Gold track students to complete their first semester programme.

The students, thus, reported to school on 22 June 2020.

The management of both the GHS and GES commended “their staff for their commitment, dedication and sacrifices in the interest of the students”, while urging the public, “especially parents, to continue to support our final-year students with prayers, as they continue with their final examinations.”

 

 

Source: Classfmonline.com