Provincial and Territorial Return to School Guidelines

• Students, families, teachers and staff should plan for a full return to the classroom in September.

• Online learning programs and homeschooling will remain available for students.

• Based on guidance from the Provincial Health Officer, students will not be organized into learning groups when classes start in September, but will continue to be required to stay home when feeling sick, wash their hands and complete daily health checks.

• Health and safety guidelines for September 2021 will be made available soon.

2021/22 resources are currently in development and will be added mid-August.

All school are returning to in-school instruction.

• Sports, fitness activities, extra-curricular activities, field trips, and dance resume regular activities.
• School-wide plan for enhanced cleaning and disinfection should continue to be in place.
• There are no guidelines for physical distancing for students or staff.
• Full Saskatchewan curriculum will be taught by teachers.
• Provincial exams are optional for the 2021-22 school year.

• Move activities outdoors when possible (for example, lunch, classes and physical activity) and consider moving classrooms outside when space and weather permit.
• Where physical distancing is not possible, students must remain within cohorts with a minimum distance of one metre.
•  Extra-curricular activities, including sports, optional programming and field trips, are allowed, as long as the activities follow current public health recommendations and orders at the time.

In elementary and secondary health and physical education courses, the use of gymnasiums, swimming pools, change rooms, weight rooms, indoor physical education equipment and shared outdoor equipment are permitted with distancing. High and low-contact activities are permitted:

• High-contact activities are only permitted outdoors. Masking is not required.
• Low contact activities are permitted indoors. Masking is encouraged but not required indoors for low-contact physical activities if a minimum distance of two metres can be maintained between cohorts and as much distancing as possible maintained within a cohort.
  • School swimming pools are permitted, with physical distancing around the pool area encouraged to discourage mixed-cohort congregating.

Further guidance on health and physical education will be shared with school boards.

• Normal school organization, without restrictions requiring stable class groups

• Extra-curricular activities, sports and filed trips are able to proceed in accordance with public health guidance and orders.
• Sharing equipment that can be cleaned is permitted. Anything that can't be cleaned, look at alternatives but if required to be used, encourage hand hygiene before and after use.

• Physical education will be outdoors, when possible, and activities that require students to come into contact with one another will be limited. Emphasis on avoiding direct physical contact and minimizing shared equipment.

• Priority for outdoor classes should be given to physical education.

• All sports, intramurals, and extra-curricular activities should proceed only within class cohorts, without competitions. Emphasis on avoiding direct physical contact and minimizing shared equipment.

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• Masks are not required during participation in physical education activities.
• Sports and physical education class should be encouraged and continued with enhanced cleaning and risk mitigation strategies in place.
• Ensure hand hygiene before students enter the gym and after they leave the gym. Students should perform hand hygiene before and after sports, activities, outdoor play, and playground use.
• Where hand hygiene cannot take place, equipment must be disinfected between user groups.
• Outdoor play and learning have many benefits for children and youth. Schools should incorporate outdoor learning activities into the curriculum as much as possible.

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