Province announces supports for students who’ve fallen behind due to pandemic disruptions

It is expected that around 38,000 students in Grades 2 and 3 will receive literacy programming aid while 25,000 will get help for numeracy supports.

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LaGrange gave a few examples of what this money can be used for, including moving students to smaller groups or one-on-one supports, hiring additional staff, implementing new numeracy programming for younger learners, and improving communications with specific groups of parents.

Although funding will not be available to those in high school, the minister assured that they will take factors related to the pandemic into consideration for them as well.

“Diploma exams offer an exam-writing experience that our current Grade 12 students may not have had throughout their whole high school years. In fact, since March of their Grade 10 year, many have transitioned between in-person and online learning multiple times and may not have written an exam at all.”

In recognition of this, Grade 12 diploma exams this year will only count for 10 per cent of their final grades, compared to 30 per cent from before. Provincial Achievement Tests (PAT) will still be done as previously planned.