The Greater Saskatoon Catholic School division and Saskatoon Public School division gave a better look of what classes will look like next week.

The two divisions gave tours of St. Nicholas school and Slyvia Fedoruk school Thursday.

Both schools will require masks for grades 4 to 8, with masks being recommended for younger students. Staff will be required to wear masks as well. At St. Nicholas school, masks that will be available in the main lobby as students begin the day.

Any students exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 or other sickness will be put into one of two isolation rooms, that both schools have.
At that point, parents or caregivers will be contacted immediately to pick-up the student and asked to call Healthline 811.

Classrooms will feature either individual desks that have been spaced a metre apart or desks with tape to divide the table into sections. Classrooms with supplied materials will use buckets to prevent the need for shared materials.

Water fountains have been covered but have a dispenser to fill up water bottles, while areas like student commons have been closed off to prevent gatherings in the hallways.

Sanitizer will be offered to students before each class and has been distributed throughout the schools. Furniture has been removed that is not easy to clean and sanitize. There will be directions on floosr for student traffic, including in some of the smaller gymnasiums where younger students will be for physical education. At Sylvia Fedoruk school, numbers have been marked on the floor with floor tape that will correspond with sanitizer bottles for any gym equipment used.

Sylvia Fedoruk school has 525 students enrolled this year and will start each day with muster points. Flags with teacher names have been placed outside, where students wills gather in their appropriate groups and be brought in one after another at the beginning of the day, and then the muster points will be used again at the end of the day for pick-up. Staggered lunch and recess schedules as well as assigned bathrooms will also be utilized at the beginning of the school year.

Students return to classrooms in both school divisions on Tuesday.