Ibrahim Saleem (Abu Dhabi)
Students of public schools and private schools that apply the Ministry’s curriculum from the first to the twelfth grade will resume school hours today, marking the start of the third and final semester of the 2021-2022 school year, and the end of the third semester vacation, taking into account some of the amendments set by the Emirates Foundation for School Education. According to the frameworks for organizing work for school days during the month of Ramadan in general, and it included eleven frameworks.
The Emirates Foundation for School Education has informed government schools that school hours during Fridays, which are on April 22 and 29, will be “remotely”, according to a circular issued by it and published on the official website of the Foundation, as the circular included making adjustments to working hours in government schools during the month of Ramadan. Blessed one.
The Foundation clarified in its circular that from Monday to Thursday, attendance at the school will be for students and administrative and educational staff, and on Friday, April 22 and 29, work will be remotely for students and administrative and educational staff.
In detail, the Foundation defined the frameworks for organizing work for school days during the month of Ramadan in general, and included eleven frameworks, which are as follows: From Monday to Thursday: the school will be attended by students and administrative and educational staff, and on Friday, April 22 and 29: working hours will be “remotely.” » For students and administrative and educational staff, the number of official working hours for staff and teachers is five and a half hours, from Monday to Thursday, and three hours on Friday.
The total weekly hours for teachers and staff is 25 hours for all episodes. As for the working hours of the administrative and educational staff, it starts from 09:00 to 02:30 or from 08:00 to 01:30 during the days from Monday to Thursday, and for Friday from 09:00 to 12:00, or from 08:00 to 11 :00.
The number of 5 lessons has also been reduced from the basic quorum for the weekly lessons of activity materials, so that it has been converted to self-learning, and the number of lessons for the first episode from Monday to Thursday is 6, and Friday is 3 lessons.
The number of classes for the second and third episodes from Monday to Thursday is 7, and on Friday it is 3 classes.
Note that the duration of the class is 35 minutes, with two breaks per day, and there is flexibility in starting the students’ work hours at nine or eight, so that the bus routes and schools shared in the lines are taken into account.
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