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The Government has deferred the reopening of schools in Harare for the Third Term to Wednesday 6 September 2023.
All schools were scheduled to reopen on Monday, 04 September 2023 and while the date has not changed for the schools in the country’s other nine provinces, the holiday for learners in Harare has been extended by another two days.
The latest development was announced by Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Secretary, Ndavaningi Mangwana, who, however, did not give reasons for the postponement. <a href="https://twitter.com/nickmangwana/status/1698308971965063313?s=20">Mangwana tweeted</a>:
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This is to notify that schools in Harare are now opening on Wednesday 6 September 2023.
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The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education confirmed the postponement via a post on X, formerly Twitter. It said:
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5">@MoPSEZim would like to notify all stakeholders that the third term opening date for Harare schools has been moved to Wednesday the 6th of September. All other schools open as scheduled on Monday the 4th of September.</div>
</blockquote>
Late last week, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education had to refute social media claims that the commencement of the 2023 Third Term had been postponed to 14 September.
In a statement, the Ministry said schools will open on 04 September as planned, adding that any official changes regarding school openings would be communicated through formal channels and not through social media.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Pindula News

Schools In Harare To Reopen On 06 September

Parents at some schools in Masvingo and Bulawayo withdrew their children from schools this Monday as there were no teachers.
Today was the first day the majority is pupils returned to school since the coronavirus lockdown was imposed in late March.
Parents who spoke to The Mirror said they had been told by school authorities that they can leave their children if they so wish but there were no teachers.
The publication’s efforts to get a comment for the Provincial Education Director, Zedius Chitiga were fruitless as his phone went on unanswered.
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education spokesman, Taungana Ndoro said he was yet to get reports from provinces about the situation on the ground.
Meanwhile, in Bulawayo, some learners found the gates at some school premises locked forcing them to go back home or wait for their parents and guardians.
Other schools reportedly sent parents messages prior the opening day telling them not to bring in their children.
Some schools have reportedly even come up with a calendar of teaching days where classes have been assigned two days of learning per week.
Bulawayo Provincial Education Director, Olicah Kaira, told CITE she was unaware that schools were turning back learners. She promised to investigate.
The examination sitting classes – Grade 7, Form 4 and Form 6 re-opened on September 28, the second group – Grade 6, Form 3 and Lower Sixth classes went back on October 26, while the rest of the classes were to follow on November 9.
Teacher unions said teachers are incapacitated and cannot go to work until the government restores their salaries to the pre-October 2018 levels when they earned between US$520-US$550. They are currently earning roughly US$40 per month.
<h4>More: <a href="https://masvingomirror.com/parents-take-children-back-home-from-vic-primary-on-day-one/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Masvingo Mirror</a>, <a href="https://cite.org.zw/schools-reopening-learners-stranded-as-few-teachers-turn-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CITE</a></h4>

Schools 'Lock Out' Learners

The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) has assured members of the public that it will improve the availability of buses to ensure that travellers are not disadvantaged.
ZUPCO marketing and public relations officer Sikhanyisiwe Ncube said the transport utility will intensify its operations to cater to the increased number of commuters following the reopening of schools for all classes this week. Said Ncube:
<blockquote>The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company will scale up its operations and scheduling initiatives to ensure that the commuting public is not disadvantaged.
We have a schedule of pick up points which we published September 30, 2020, to notify commuters, especially learners of the designated pick up points for our buses.
We have positioned point monitors at these points to ensure that order prevails as well as to keep updating our operations team on the prevailing situation at designated points.</blockquote>
This follows calls by parents who are appealing for more ZUPCO buses to ferry their children to and from school after the Government banned private kombis from operating due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Classes for learners from Early Childhood Education up to Grade Five, as well as Form Ones and Twos, start this Monday and this is the last phase of the school re-opening strategy.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/phase-iii-pupils-back-in-class/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Herald</a></h4>

ZUPCO Pledges Improved Service To Cater For Learners

Schools across Zimbabwe reopen today for next year’s examination classes — Grade Six, Form Three and Form Five — for the first time since classes were disrupted by the coronavirus crisis in late March.
This follows the return of three examination classes on 28 September, with final nine classes scheduled to return on November 9.
Reports, however, suggest that some school authorities were cashing in on the COVID-19 pandemic by forcing parents and guardians to buy school-branded masks for as much as US$5.
Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education director of communications Tongoona Ndoro said that it was illegal for schools to demand personal protective equipment from parents. He said:
<blockquote>We are investigating the issue where schools are said to be forcing parents to buy face masks at exorbitant prices.</blockquote>
Some schools are reportedly providing teachers with “incentives” as teachers’ unions have declared incapacitation since schools reopened nearly a month ago. A concerned parent said:
<blockquote>With what is happening it is better for us to pay the little incentives to teachers so that they return to the classroom to teach our children.
Our children have already lost a lot of time as they have been stuck at home for seven months without learning.
We just hope Government will urgently address the teachers’ concerns so that normalcy returns to schools. Our children’s future is at stake.</blockquote>
Under the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education’s standard operating procedures amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it is mandatory for learners to wear masks while handshakes, hugs and sharing of desks and textbooks have been banned.
Schools will now be required to keep records of teachers and pupils with underlying conditions without stigmatising them.
Further, a maximum of 35 pupils will be permitted in a single classroom as learners and teachers will be required to maintain a physical or social distancing of at least one metre while lunch breaks will be staggered.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/all-set-for-schools-reopening-today/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Herald</a></h4>

More Grades Return To School

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, MOPSE, has released the phased school calendar for the remainder of the 2020 academic calendar and the start of 2021.
In a notice issued on Tuesday by the MOPSE permanent secretary Tumisang Thabela, Phase One for the Phased School Term commenced on Monday, 28 September 2020. This is strictly for ZIMSEC examination classes, that is, Grade 7, Form 4 and Form 6.
Phase Two is for Grade 6; Form 3 and 5. It starts on 26 October 2020.
Phase Three is for the following Grades: ECD A; B; 1; 2; 3; 4 and 5; Forms 1 and 2. It commences on Monday, 9 November 2020.
This means that Phase One will run for 60 days, Phase Two for 40 days, and Phase Three for 30 days.
The Phased Term ends on Friday, 18 December 2020 and pupils will be going on vacation for only 17 days.
First Term 2021 begins on Monday 4 January 2021.

First Term 2021 Starts On 4 January

The Government is satisfied with the COVID-19 standard operational procedures (SOP) which have been put in place to ensure the safety of pupils after learning resumed on 28 September.
However, schools that are unable to provide water cannot re-open before the situation is corrected, a Cabinet Minister has said.
Addressing reporters during a post-cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Monica Mutsvangwa said schools have been linked with health teams and temporary isolation centres have been established at schools for learners requiring health attention and screening. Said Mutsvangwa:
<blockquote>Following the decision to allow for the phased reopening of schools, Cabinet noted that the dissemination of COVID-19 Standard Operational Procedures has laid the foundation for the establishment of Sentinel Surveillance Centres.
The centres will assist in monitoring adherence to COVID-19 protocols and promote a safe learning environment.
Every school has been linked to a specific health team. This strategy will ensure active Rapid Response at the local level.
Designated Temporary Isolation Holding Bays have been set up at each school for individuals requiring further health attention after screening.
There is mandatory logging and thermal screening at every school entry and exit point to enhance contact tracing and surveillance.
Schools that are unable to provide water are being advised that they cannot re-open before the situation is rectified.</blockquote>
Schools reopened on Monday for Grade 7, Form 4 and Form 6 students only, amid reports that pupils were sent back home at some schools as they do not have adequate personal protective equipment (PPEs).
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.zbcnews.co.zw/taxi-operators-to-resume-operations/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZBC News</a></h4>

Schools Without Water To Remain Closed

Parents with school-going children across the country are anxious due to a false start in the reopening of the schools on Monday.
Some schools sent pupils back home citing a lack of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and the absence of teachers.
Parents expressed their frustration to the Chronicle during separate interviews yesterday. Below are some of the views.
Mrs Mirirai Shumba from Mkoba 6 suburb in Gweru had this to say:
<blockquote>My daughter is in Grade 7 at Chikumbiro Primary school and she has been turned away. I had given her two face masks and a sanitiser but she said they were told that there are no PPEs for the teachers. So, we don’t know what is happening.</blockquote>
Mrs Sithokozile Moyo of Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo said:
<blockquote>We are actually wondering what exactly is happening because my two sons who are set to write their Grade Seven final examinations were turned away because there were no teachers. When I went to school to enquire the only excuse was that the classes were yet to be fumigated.</blockquote>
Mr Maxwell Chindanga from Athlone suburb in Gweru said:
<blockquote>My child is doing O-level at Chaplin High School and he is home now because he has been turned away. I understand the school is saying they are still to receive PPEs for the teaching staff and supporting staff and can’t risk having our children attending classes. They have been asked to check if the PPEs would have arrived tomorrow (today).</blockquote>
Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA), which represents 42 000 teachers said its members failed to report for duty due to incapacitation and lack of PPEs.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/new-rules-at-schools-sports-suspended-handshakes-hugs-banned/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chronicle</a></h4>

Parents Anxious After Schools Send Pupils Back Home

Zimbabwe’s schools reopened on a low key on Monday as pupils were turned away from some schools because there were no teachers to conduct lessons.
This comes after the Zimbabwe Teachers Association (ZIMTA), which represents 42 000 teachers said its members failed to report for duty due to incapacitation and lack of personal protective equipment (PPEs).
Other teacher unions such as the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) and the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) also declared incapacitation over the past few days.
ZIMTA chief-executive officer Sifiso Ndlovu told the Chronicle that their members resolved to boycott learning until the issue of PPEs in schools was addressed. He said:
<blockquote>Schools, especially public schools are yet to be equipped with PPEs and as ZIMTA we felt it was not proper to expose both teachers and pupils to COVID-19. Even parents don’t have money for PPEs and therefore you will note that most of our members failed to report for duty.
Government had also promised to recruit more teachers ahead of the reopening of schools and it wasn’t the case. Another issue is that teachers are incapacitated and they told us that they would have no bus fare to go to work.</blockquote>
Only ZIMSEC examination classes which are Grade Seven, Form Four and Form Six opened yesterday following Cabinet approval for a three-phased reopening of schools.
Grade Six, Form Three and Form Five classes are expected to open on October 26 with the rest of the pupils reopening on November 9.
Meanwhile, Cambridge sitting examination classes opened on September 14.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/new-rules-at-schools-sports-suspended-handshakes-hugs-banned/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chronicle</a></h4>

Schools Reopen Without Teachers

6000 teachers will be recruited by the government of Zimbabwe to help fill up the gap of teachers’ shortages that has been created due to the COVID-19 health guidelines to contain the pandemic, The Sunday News reports.
This was revealed by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education director of communications and advocacy, Mr Taungana Ndoro who said
<blockquote>We are recruiting about 6 000 teachers starting this term to cover for the workload which is coming with the trimming of classes. We have around 9 000 schools in the country so we need the teachers to take the extra classes that will be created.</blockquote>
Addressing the issue of school fees, Ndoro explained that the government had scrapped fees for the second term because:
<blockquote>….because in the first place there was no Term Two to talk about. School authorities must follow Government directives. The official school calendar was Term One and this one where schools are opening tomorrow. So, there was no Term Two in the first place, and the Government position is that no school must therefore demand fees for a term that was not announced and approved by Government.</blockquote>
Ndoro said schools that needed to increase fees were supposed to follow laid down procedure to do so:
<blockquote>There is a procedure that needs to be followed before fees are increased. The ministry only deals with an agreed position from the school and the parents. So, what comes before the ministry for approval is a position that would have been agreed between the parents and the school. Only then can they bring it to the ministry for consideration. So, we are saying it is high time that schools and parents settle on one agreed position</blockquote>
Public schools will open their doors for the classes that will sit for their final year in December tomorrow despite teachers declaring that they are incapacitated.
More: <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/government-to-recruit-6-000-teachers-term-two-fees-scrapped/">The Sunday News </a>

Govt To Recruit 6000 Teachers As Schools Reopen

Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education director of communications and advocacy, Taungana Ndoro, said that all teachers should report for duty on July 28, the date set for the return of examination classes in the phased reopening of schools.
Ndoro told The Herald that all teachers were needed back at work as schools opened, even though only examination classes would physically return to school.
Teachers are expected to offer alternative learning to those pupils who will not be physically present through alternative learning programmes. Said Ndoro:
<blockquote>… come July 28, all schools should be ready to open their doors to their phase one learners.</blockquote>
Under the phased reopening of schools, only Form Six, Form Four and Grade Seven classes will resume classes on July 28, while Lower Six, Form Three and Grade 6 pupils come in three weeks later.
Ndoro said learners should start paying their fees and levies as soon as learning resumes.
He added that the Ministry is working on a school calendar which will be shared with all education stakeholders in the near future.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/teachers-to-resume-work-on-july-28/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Herald</a></h4>

All Teachers To Resume Work On 28 July

The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) is holding consultations with relevant education stakeholders to come up with a new school term structure to guide the learning process.
The structure will factor in opening and closing dates, June examination classes, November examination dates, school fees structure and breaks during the term. MoPSE spokesperson, Patrick Zumbo, said:
<blockquote>We are working on a structure which will be ready in the next few weeks.
The structure will show how learning will be done and if there will be a break.
It is not an easy process, but we are working on it.
More information will be released when we have completed the structure.</blockquote>
The primary and secondary school year traditionally runs on three terms, each with three months but schools have been closed since March due to the coronavirus outbreak.
June examinations are scheduled to commence at the end of this month while the first group of learners, that is exam classes, starts lessons on July 28.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/new-school-term-structure-on-cards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Sunday Mail</a></h4>

Govt Working On New School Term Structure

South Africa has delayed reopening schools after their education authorities cited lack of preparedness in some parts of the country. Grade 12 and 7 students were preparing to go back to school after their schools were closed in March due to the pandemic that has brought the world on its knees.
Addressing the press today the country’s Education Minister Angelina Motshekga said;
<blockquote>It became clear that the sector was at different levels of readiness. There were key factors around safety for the coronavirus which have not been satisfied, like water. Some principals were not advised on time, some learners were on their way to school when they discovered that school is still closed.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, teachers’ unions had protested the South African Government’s decision to re-open schools as they said the threat of spreading and contracting the virus was still high. The country has recorded over 32 000 cases and over 600 deaths so far.
More: <a href="https://www.barrons.com/news/s-africa-delays-schools-reopening-due-to-lack-of-readiness-01591017303?refsec=afp-news">Barrons</a>

South Africa Postpones Re-Opening Of Schools

Zimbabwe Medical Association (ZIMA) president Dr Francis Chiwora said that it is worrisome that the government is seriously considering re-opening learning institutions at a time when there has been a spike in coronavirus cases.
He said the government should learn from other countries that have re-opened schools and experienced rapid increases in the number of COVID-19 cases. Said Dr Chiwora:
<blockquote>We should not relax. I think it’s worrisome that schools are planning on re-opening. We need to really decongest the schools especially considering that children may not be the best group to observe Covid-19 prevention measures.
However, the opening of schools is a bit worrying considering what has happened in France where after they opened schools they started recording new cases.
The best option for schools at the moment is virtual learning and the same applies to universities.</blockquote>
Dr Chiwora added that online learning has its own drawbacks, for instance, some disciplines such as medicine require practical lessons. He said:
<blockquote>We have medical students that have to do practical lessons, through dealing with patients. We need to emphasise the need for the public to observe social distancing while wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face masks and use of hand sanitizers.</blockquote>
The government recently announced that universities will re-open on Monday while it is working on modalities for the staggered reopening of schools.
<h4>More: <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/health-experts-warn-of-spiking-covid-19-cases/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chronicle</a></h4>

Learning Institutions Should Remain Closed For Now - ZIMA

Parents are reportedly divided over the government’s decision to reopen schools before the COVID-19 pandemic is contained, The Herald reports.
Some parents are saying sending schoolchildren back to school is putting them in harms’ way as they can’t maintain social distancing measures while other parents are saying the sooner the country learn to live with COVID-19 and reopen the country and schools the better.
One parent who spoke to the publication said schools were not the safest place for kids to be now:
<blockquote>Our children are not the most careful, we will have a crisis if they reopen. Children love playing and get in contact all the time. Sending them to school is sending them in harm’s way.</blockquote>
While another parent said schools cant close forever eventually they were supposed to be opened:
<blockquote>Covid-19 is not going away anytime soon. We need to accept that. There is no guarantee that next year Covid-19 will not be there. Let us ensure children go to school safely. If adults are going to work, then children can learn and write exams too. This is the new normal</blockquote>
Meanwhile, <a href="https://news.pindula.co.zw/2020/05/22/zimta-zinatu-artuz-against-june-exams-and-reopening-of-schools/">teachers unions have opposed the government’s decision to allow pupils to write June exams</a> and leaners to go back to school in phases.
More: <a href="https://www.herald.co.zw/teachers-unions-oppose-june-exams-schools-reopening/">The Herald</a>

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