President Akufo-Addo during his 16th address to Ghanaians on the covid-19 pandemic announced that all KG, primary and first-year JHS, SHS students are to resume in January 2021.
According to him, the Ghana Education Service (GES) will make the necessary adjustments to the curriculum to fit the situation. All second-year JHS and SHS students will be returning to school on October 5, 2020 and all safety measures against the virus would be put in place.
“The next academic year will resume in January 2021 with appropriate adjustments made to the curriculum to ensure that nothing is lost from the previous year,” he said.
“The Ghana Education Service, after further consultations, has decided to postpone the remainder of the academic year for all nursery, kindergarten, primary, JHS 1 and SHS 1 students.”
“With Junior High Schools operating with class sizes of thirty (30), and Senior High Schools with class sizes of twenty-five (25), SHS 2 and JHS 2 students will be in school for ten (10) weeks to study, and write their end of term examinations,”
“The relevant dispositions will also be made so that the presence at the same time in school of all streams of students can occur in safety,” he added.
