Primary Schools to Extend Autumn Holidays by Another Week

By , 30 Oct 2020, 09:59 AM Lifestyle
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STA, 30 October 2020 - The autumn holidays will be extended for a week for the pupils of primary schools in Slovenia, the government spokesman Jelko Kacin told TV Slovenija on Friday. Remote schooling will resume in secondary schools, and kindergartens will continue providing only urgent daycare. All other restrictions remain in force as well.

Primary and secondary schools have holidays this week and primary schools pupils will remain at home next week due to the epidemiological situation in the country.

The extension aims to limit contact and hence stem the spread of coronavirus, government spokesman Jelko Kacin and Education Minister Simona Kustec said on Friday.

Kustec said the decision was informed by messages from primary school head teachers, who reported many coronavirus patients in the ranks of the teaching staff. The one-week extension will give them time to recover and reorganise.

Head teachers at secondary schools, on the other hand, proposed that classes continue remotely since they are well prepared for remote schooling.

Kustec said the missed primary school classes will be held through the remainder of the year and an extension of the school year was not currently on the table.

Since the start of this week kindergartens have been providing daycare only for children whose parents work and cannot secure daycare.

Since kindergartens are officially run by local communities, mayors have been given discretion to keep them open in the event of urgency, and this system remains in place for now.

More than 90% of kindergarten children stayed home or were put in other forms of care this week.

Universities switched to mostly remote classes at the start of the academic year and classes will continue according to the guidelines that they have put in place.

Kustec said the move was designed to "contribute to the situation calming down". "We need optimism and the feeling of normalcy," she said.

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