What is a typical school day like in the time of COVID-19?

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On Sunday, GEMS New Millennium School, Al Khail, was one of the 200-plus private schools in Dubai reopening after six months since March, when the pandemic forced schools to close.   It was not a typical first day back at New Millennium, or any other school, owing to the changes introduced to safeguard against coronavirus.    Full Article here:  See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos

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00:00After six long months of remote learning and working from home, it's been nice to be in

00:20school.

00:21Seeing the kids' face and their cheerfulness on their face and their smiles makes our day.

00:27So happy to be back in school and we look forward to have a wonderful year.

00:30I feel that the face-to-face learning is much more effective compared to that of distance

00:35learning due to the very fact that when you sit at home, you have a number of distractions

00:41but at the same time, it is not as effective as going to school.

00:45And the reason I chose face-to-face is because of the fact that you have your teachers in

00:50front of you, they are a big motivation for you.

00:52At the same time, you get to meet your friends and many more reasons.

00:55I chose face-to-face learning because I felt that it is more routine and we students will

01:01be disciplined because we have a lot of distractions and it's better to be at school.

01:05I mean, I missed the learning at school, the interaction with teachers and the aura the

01:10school has.

01:11So it's been great and I just can't wait to buy it in my class and greet my teachers and

01:19get started.

01:20So I am very happy and excited since I recently moved to Dubai and I have started coming back

01:26to GEMS New Millennium.

01:28As you can see, it has been a long time since I saw everyone in real so I am very happy

01:35to see everyone at last.

01:51I have been a teacher and an educator for 25 years now, more than 25 and I never could

01:58have foreseen this day coming.

02:00So watching the little ones especially coming in a very different gear was definitely tugging

02:10at my heartstrings.

02:11But what it also proves is that it is a human spirit that will conquer and above the fear

02:18of the pandemic.

02:19And I think that was very reassuring for all of us.

02:22Definitely a very upbeat atmosphere across the school.

02:26I have been speaking to students who are very thrilled to meet their peers in person, to

02:31meet their teachers in person.

02:33Teachers of course are very thrilled to have the students back.

02:36We have had plenty of tweets that went up from the teachers' ends and across faces where

02:41teachers literally were dancing to joy welcoming the students back.

02:49Thank you very much.

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