Laudium Primary school closed as staffer tests positive for Covid-19
In a Facebook post on Monday, the school said the decision to close was recommended by the health and education department.
The Laudium Primary School has closed its gates after an educator tested positive for Covid-19.
In a Facebook post on Monday, the school said the decision to close was recommended by the health and education department.
“We will go into lockdown for seven days with immediate effect and the school will be deep cleaned again. These measures are implemented for the safety of the children.”
The school is set to reopen on 22 June, next week Monday. Numerous attempts were made to contact the school directly. However, by the time the article went to print the school had not responded. The school reopened for grade seven pupils two weeks ago with the rest of the country.
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According to Gauteng Premier David Makhura, by Friday 56 schools in the province had reported Covid-19 cases. He said most of the reported cases were flagged before the schools reopened and affected mostly school staffer members. The area falls under Tshwane metro region three, which has one of the highest numbers of cases in the metro.
As of Saturday, Atteridgeville, Laudium, Pretoria CBD, Hercules, Danville, Saulsville, Lotus Gardens and Pretoria West combined had 537 confirmed cases out of 1 543 in the Tshwane metro.
Meanwhile, in a government notice last week Wednesday Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga released the amended school calendar.
She said after consultation with the council of education ministers, they had opted to amend the 2020 school calendar for public schools. The four school terms for 2020 gazetted are: Term 1: 15 January – 18 March, Term 2: 8 June – 7 August, Term 3: 12 August – 23 September and Term 4: 5 October – 15 December.
The school curriculum has been drastically impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak, which led to the government closing schools for more than two months.
Schools continue to operate under the outbreak, despite members of the Educators’ Union of South Africa going to court in an attempt to halt the reopening of schools.
The union was set to picket on Tuesday at the Union Buildings in Pretoria calling for the Motshekga?s removal.
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