As Senior High Schools (SHSs) prepare to re-open on Monday, June 22, heads in the Eastern Region have assured that all arrangements were in place to receive both the final-year and form two students.
These arrangements, they said, include availability of veronica buckets, soaps, alcohol-based hand sanitisers among others to be used by the students and staff when they return.
Addressing journalists during a disinfection exercise in his school by Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) on Tuesday, the Assistant Headmaster, Administration of Pope John’s SHS said they are expecting about 1,055 students.
He noted that, all room allocation for the students had already been done by the senior house master.
The exercise was part of an arrangement between the Ministry of Education, the Ghana Education Service (GES) and ZGL to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the SHSs.
He said the school had resolved to allow six (6) students to sit around every table instead of twelve (12) adding that “students per class has also been cut down to 25 instead of 50.”
This he explained, was part of steps to make sure that the students observe the social distancing protocols.
Mr Adjapong, who was joined by the Senior Housemaster, Eric Bampoe, and the Assistant Headmaster, Domestic, E.F. Bedjabeng, appealed to the old students association to support them with more veronica buckets, hand sanitisers and nose masks.
Also, Headmaster, Academic of Oti Boateng SHS, Francis Terkpertey indicated that to ensure the adherence of the social distancing protocol, a 12-unit classroom block has been completed.
“We will enforce the physical/social distancing protocol in the dormitories as well,” he assured.
“…we have also bought thermometer guns that would be used to take the temperatures of the students who will be coming. We have also purchased alcohol-based hand sanistisers, Veronica buckets and nose masks which would be given to the students to use,” he revealed.
The Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs, Emma Akyea-Boakye, disclosed that her outfit will disinfect 137 SHSs and 1997 basic schools in the Eastern Region.
According to her, the disinfection exercise, was the second part of their agreement with the ministry of education and the GES.
“We will complete the SHSs coming Friday and the basic schools next week Friday,” she revealed.
“Our district officers and supervisors have been deployed across the region to supervise the exercise,” she noted.
At the St Roses pre-school, New Tafo, the Headmistress, Mrs Love Agyapong, said, for a strict adherence to the Covid-19 protocols, her school will run a shift system.
She added that, they have purchased veronica buckets, hand sanitisers and nose masks as part of measures to prevent Covid-19 outbreak in the school.