With a return to the yellow phase of pandemic recovery comes a little relief for staff and students in Anglophone South School District.
Students and teachers can now wear masks less and some extracurricular activities have returned.
From kindergarten to grade eight, class bubbles can have excursions and field trips if they are able to do safely. The Sistema and Strings programs can also be held in person.
Superintendent Zoë Watson reflected on dealing with COVID-19 in the school system for a year during Wednesday night’s monthly District Education Council meeting.
“We never heard of distancing or masks or bubbles, just how many things. Yellow, orange and red,” Watson said.
District Education Council chair Rob Fowler noted the “resiliency” of everyone with what they had to deal with over the last year.
“An amazing accomplishment. I know there are shortfalls and there always will be when dealing with something you never dealt with before but, on the whole, it’s been an amazing job done by Zoe and this team here and everyone in the school system,” Fowler said.
Watson noted 130 students in Anglophone South are continuing with home learning plans.
She called the return to the yellow phase “good news” for their 69 schools.