Cayman Education News
Beyond the classroom: Cayman schools respond to COVID’s impact on students, families
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Cayman Islands schools are not limited to what occurs in the classroom – or via remote learning.
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Cayman Islands schools are not limited to what occurs in the classroom – or via remote learning.
The level of student performance varies significantly among Cayman Islands public primary schools, with differences in results only partly explained by assessments of students’ pre-existing “thinking abilities”, according to the Education Data Report 2021.
Teaching in the Cayman Islands during the COVID-19 pandemic has been, in a word, ‘exhausting’. Many of the country’s teachers say their current workloads are simply not sustainable, according to school inspectors’ reports.
Leadership and staff at George Town Primary School have been working diligently throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but those extra efforts have caused educators to feel “overwhelmed and burnt out”.
We’ve updated our earlier analysis of public school enrolment and capacity to reflect September 2021 student numbers.
Students from Red Bay Primary and First Baptist Christian School have now tested positive for the virus.
Six students and one preschooler have tested positive for COVID-19, the government reported Friday.
George Town Primary will reopen for in-person classes on Monday, 4 Oct. The school has been closed since 14 Sept., after a student tested positive for COVID-19.
Prospect Primary School will reopen Thursday after a Year 6 student tested positive for COVID-19.
Students and their households who are in the required 14 day quarantine and are not a known COVID positive case, are to be tested at the end of their quarantine period.