back to school plan is supported by public health, the IWK Health Centre and education partners. Nova Scotia seeing drastic increase in homeschooling interest The province’s approach includes staggered recesses and lunches, enhanced cleaning protocols, distancing in classrooms, and mandatory masks in hallways and on buses.A class will be treated as a bubble to minimize contact with other students.
In-school assemblies and other large gatherings will not be permitted. Cafeterias and school food programs will deliver food to students and students will eat lunch at their desks.Each school will also have an isolation space where students who feel unwell can wait to be picked up by the parents.The Education Department will provide sanitizer.