Major changes in class schedules as another year of distance learning dawns at OLPS

Chryssa Jane Louise Dimailig — Staffer│8-St. Andrew
John Nickholai Echevarria — EIC │10-St. Augustine

August 7, 2021 — OLPS recently launched OLPS at Home V2.0 for the school year 2020–2021. With COVID-19 still ongoing and infections rising, the institution has decided to revamp its programs for both Online and Modular Learning platforms.

Notable changes have been observed for this school year particularly with class schedules. Rather than setting synchronous and asynchronous intervals, students will now only have either the entire afternoon or morning asynchronous or synchronous.

Pre-school and Grade School students will now have consecutive synchronous classes in the morning while Junior and Senior High School students are set hold their classes during the afternoon from Monday to Thursday.

Fridays are now packed with activities all-day long as morning sessions will be used for Homeroom and school activities, with the afternoon sessions used for enrichment programs.

Subjects like Araling Panlipunan, Filipino, and CLE who were all given only one slot a week in the schedule last school year were initially given two a week this year, but later reverted back to a once-a-week scheme due to schedule conflicts.

Official learning platforms are retained, meanwhile. Seesaw will still be used for students of Preschool to Grade 2, Google Classroom and Google Meet for Grades 3–10, and MS teams for Senior High school students.