District Educational Officer K. Lingaiah said that schools would continue to function after the annual examinations for classes 1 to 9 till the last working day on April 23.
Responding to a news item “Controversies Mar School Exams” published in these columns on Thursday, the DEO said that the Director of School Education had instructed that all schools would function till April 23 even after completion of annual examinations for the primary on April 6 and upper primary and high schools on April 8 and 11 respectively.
In order to engage students and teachers in the schools, the DSE had prepared the following programme for the primary schools from April 7 to 23. The teachers should conduct remedial teaching for the children, who are poor in reading, writing and arithmetic. Students should be allowed to read books in the library and children literature.
The teachers should take up story telling by the students. Teachers should conduct word building activities such , dictation of words, paras both in English and Telugu for half an hour, practice of simple arithmetic, tables etc.
For upper primary and high schools from April 9 to 23, the teachers should educate the students about co-curricular activities given in the teacher handbooks such as health, physical education, art and culture education, value education, life skills, work and computer education. The teachers should also tell the moral and ethical stories, the DEO added.
Stating that the textbooks would be supplied to the schools before reopening day, the DEO said that the government had taken up this programme for the building of capacities of the students and there was no need of textbooks. He also clarified that the examinations were being conducted smoothly.
Teachers told to conduct remedial teaching for the children, who are poor in reading, writing and arithmetic
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