Primary schools to fully reopen next week
Ljubljana, 28 May - Fourth and fifth graders will return to school on Monday, the first day when the Covid-19 epidemic will no longer be in place. Those in grades six, seven and eight will return on Wednesday, Education Minister Simona Kustec told the press on Thursday.
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Primary school children in forms 1-3 going back to school.
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This represents a full reopening of primary schools after children in the first three grades returned to classrooms on 18 May and those in ninth grade this week.
Also as of 1 June, children from the first three years will no longer be split into smaller groups of up to 15 children per classroom, going normally back to their original classrooms with their original classmates, the minister said.
Distance learning will meanwhile continue for secondary school students, expect for those in their final year, who returned to classrooms on 18 May to prepare for the school-leaving matura exam.
Schools closed on 16 March when the country went into lockdown four days after the epidemic was formally declared.