Children return to the classrooms on the Shropshire border
The youngest primary school pupils returned to the classrooms in Chirk, the Ceiriog Valley and villages on the Wrexham/North Shropshire border today.
Education bosses at Wrexham Council urged people not to drop their guard as the foundation phase pupils went back to school.
The under eights in Powys have returned throughout this week. But Wrexham Council decided to wait until today because of higher positive cases of Covid.
The said there would still be lots of restrictions in place to limit the transmission of the Coronavirus.
Councillor Phil Wynn, Lead Member for Education, praised parents and carers who, he said had done a brilliant job of home-schooling during very difficult circumstances.
"Whilst this is good news for everyone involved with young people’s education it’s not a reason to drop our guard.
“We’re very pleased to see children returning to our schools but there’s still lots of restrictions in place to limit the transmission of Covid-19 in our communities. We all need to remain patient for a while yet to ensure we don’t return to square one when we had the highest number of positive cases in Wales.
“Please continue to work from home where possible, wear a face mask when dropping off and picking up your child, don’t hang about the school gates talking to other parents, school bubbles apply in schools only and children should not be mixing out of school. We should also be mindful that we can only meet up to four people from two different households when we exercise outdoors.
“If we all do this we can hopefully see further progress being made to lift restrictions and get our older children back to school.”
