The Education Bureau (EDB) announced earlier that starting from today, not more than one-sixth of the students in all schools can return to school for learning activities for not more than half a day.

A secondary school in Chai Wan has arranged for S6 students to return to school. The school has installed safety plastic boards at each desk in the classroom and placed disinfectant materials in the lobby and classrooms, etc. The morning assembly of the school has also been changed to broadcasting, and the headmaster has reminded students to clean the plastic boards by themselves.

A Secondary 6 female student said that she was nervous about going back to school after two months and was not used to having to get up one hour earlier than she did at home. She said that although the timetable for attending classes at school and at home was more or less the same, her attitude in school was more serious and she felt more pressurised. She was worried that she could not keep up with the progress of her studies because she had not practised the examination papers during the period when she was suspended from attending classes.

Other students felt nervous and uncomfortable about going back to school, worrying that their attitude would be relaxed and affect their learning progress. If they needed to switch to face-to-face courses again, they would try their best to prepare for the exams and study on their own.

Mr Lam Tat-ho, Principal of CNEC Lau Wing Sang Secondary School, said that as they had to prepare for the Diploma of Arts Examination in Form 6, they were arranged to go back to school to handle the School-based Assessment (SBA) for some of the subjects, and that face-to-face courses were more effective than online learning.

He said that in the afternoon, arrangements will be made for S5 students studying Visual Arts to return to school for remedial lessons, as the relevant subjects have more physical homework to deal with, and arrangements will be made for S1 students to return to school to get to know their classmates and class teachers in the future.

With regard to the resumption of face-to-face teaching in two phases from 23 September, Lam considered that some students could be arranged to return to school for remedial lessons as a "warm-up" phase, so as to review the epidemic prevention procedures and the arrangement of recess, etc., and then arrange for more students to return to school in a gradual manner, so as to enable the school to adapt more easily.