The Scots School's second term commencement has been pushed back a week in a bid to further reduce the study impacts for students from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Scots has brought forward a week of the July holidays to make the Easter holiday three weeks with the school to resume on May 4.
"From the commencement of term two we have made provisions to enable students of essential workers and any students where they do not have adequate internet in their homes to be supervised on campus during the period of Scots@Home," principal Peggy Mahy said.
"We will continue to follow government guidelines and monitor the local situation and hope that we may be able to stage further student return to campus and face-to-face learning in term two.
"The biggest challenge will be re-opening the boarding house.
"But many of these students are also the most impacted due to poor internet connections in our regional areas.
"We have been providing personalised learning to these students, but can't wait for them to return on site."
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is ramping up the pressure to keep classrooms open and federal education minister Dan Tehan went a step further in ordering independent schools such as Scots to provide in-person education to children from term two or risk losing federal funding.
Mr Morrison said schools remaining open was important for children who can't learn at home including those whose parents were essential workers.
"We will lose many things in the course of fighting this virus," he said.
"One thing that I know teachers are united on, with their parents, is we do not want one of those things to be the loss of a child's education, giving up a whole year of their learning."
Mr Tehan has been asked by Christian Schools Australia to withdraw his threat.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she was keen to see an increase in face-to-face teaching next term.
Ms Mahy said the initial decisions made by the school were in response to a "raft of information" relating to risks to boarding schools and working parents who were returning from overseas at the time.
"We made a hyper-vigilant safety response at that point," she said.
"But since then we've been able to assess the situation and stage our first entry back to face-to-face learning.
"At the same time our year 12 teachers, if they are well, and their year 12 students are also well and doing a prac subject, they are able to make an appointment to come into the school and use the art or technology equipment.
"If it's at all possible we will start to roll back (measures in place) and increase face-to-face teaching.
"But it might not be the whole school at once and all sorts of things will be explored to make it all work."
