New South Wales public school students will return to classrooms full time from Monday after weeks of remote learning and a staggered return to campus.
Students began returning to school for one day a week from 11 May, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian at the time announcing plans for a complete return to face-to-face learning by the beginning of term three in late July.
Earlier this month Ms Berejiklian said it was their "strong recommendation" that "face-to-face teaching needs to start".
"And of course, where adults are concerned, which is the main concern, we need to exercise good social distancing, whether it's in a teacher's staffroom or whether it's a drop-off point," she said at the time.
At the time Ms Berejiklian urged parents to take their children back to school, but said they would not be punished if they chose to keep them at home.
While schools are set to return next Monday, there will be no assemblies or school trips in the foreseeable future.
Face-to-face learning has been gradually returning in NSW since last week, when some year 12 students at state and independent schools returned for an average of three or four days a week.
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