St Patrick's Girls National School in the city has written to parents advising them that due to the size of rooms in the school, which is over 100-years-old, it will not be possible to allow the advised space of 1m between pupils, apart from those in 5th Class.The school, which has 222 pupils, plans to open on Thursday.
He said the advice from the Department of Education, when he contacted its school reopening helpline, was to "just do what you can". The standard size for a new build classroom is 80m². They state that because younger children are unlikely to maintain physical distancing indoors, achieving this level of distancing for children between Junior Infants to 2nd Class is not a prerequisite to reopening.
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