Innovative: Kampala Parents’ Sch. Opens On-line Classes For Pupils To Compensate Time Lost In COVID-19 Lockdown

By Spy Uganda

The Management of Kampala Parents’ School (KPS) has decided to open an Online schooling program, so as to allow pupils study at home during  the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown.   

The initiative, according to officials from the school, is aimed at keeping pupils engaged in their studies during the COVID-19 lockdown such that they don’t lose track.

TheSpy Uganda has learnt that KPS online classes will kick off on Tuesday 26 May, 2020 starting with Primary five, six and seven.

On the other
hand, classes for Primary three and four will start on 29 May, 2020 whereas top
class, Primary one and two will start on 4 June, 2020, hence parents have been
advised to prepare  their children adequately.

This
development is aimed at keeping pupils attached to the normal schooling routine
until the date the government will see it fit to open all schools, Universities
 and Tertiary Institutions which were closed
following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Uganda.

Officials
from the school revealed that registration for all interested parties is
ongoing and that these online classes will be followed by physical classes once
permission is granted by government to reopen schools.

It should be noted that in April this year, KPS, which is owned under the Ruparelia Group of companies,  offered to provide lessons for primary seven pupils on major TVs in Uganda , through live lessons at a free cost until the end of the  COVID-19 lockdown.

The lessons
are broadcast throughout the week from Monday to Friday starting at 11:00 am to
12:00 pm, and on Saturdays- 8:00am to 9:00 am, as a way of helping the pupils
keep abreast with the lost time, so as to prepare them enough for the Primary Leaving
Examinations (PLE).

KPS, just
like all other schools and universities, were closed in March this year after President
Yoweri Museveni announced a national lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

But the
President, during his Monday 14^th National Address on COVID-19, said
that all Education institutions resume operation June 4^th, for only
finalists or students in candidate classes and that the rest will have to wait
until the situation normalizes.

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