School attendance rate rises to 90%

The attendance rate of students at government schools has increased steadily over the first two days of school re-entry raining from almost 75% in the first day to up to 90% in the second day.

Local Arabic daily Arrayah reported that a number of school managers stressed that there is not a single case of absence registered among the administrative and academic staff of the government schools, and the process of distributing school textbooks on students has been going on smoothly. Further, starting from Tuesday, the complete school day schedule has been implemented.They noted communication have been maintained with the parents of the absent students sending them SMS and WhatsApp messages to stress the importance of regular school attendance, especially that the first school term is short this year and there are constant assessments for the students throughout this period. Meanwhile, the educational process has been going well and normal since the first school day and parents are kept informed about the progress of their children. Further, schools are very keen to strictly maintain the safety and precautionary measures for the protection and well-being of all at the school environment,Nasser Abdulla al-Muraikhi, manager of a secondary school, stressed the high rate of student attendance at the second school day and starting from Tuesday a full school day have been implemented with seven periods a day except for Wednesday and Thursday, as students can go home one hour earlier. Besides, messages are send to parents on daily basis to urge parents to send their children to schools regularly to benefit from the classroom activities and extracurricular activities as well. Saeed Micehi al-Ahbabi, preparatory school manager, pointed out that during the first two school days, students were familiarized and introduced to the study plan and school regulations, and the textbooks were given to the students. On Tuesday, the educational process was active on full swing.Salem Ali Hashil, primary school manager, sees that this new school year has a very good start with the attendance rate amounting to up to 90% of the students within the first few days of the school re-entry. He said that the parents were briefed that attendance gives students some percentage of the final scores in addition to the other classroom activities and assessments.