{"id":347997,"date":"2025-09-07T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=347997"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:42:13","slug":"d-g-s-to-reopen-on-september-15th-1-week-after-start-of-new-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/d-g-s-to-reopen-on-september-15th-1-week-after-start-of-new-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"D.G.S to reopen on September 15th, 1 week after start of new academic year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_320608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320608\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-320608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dr.-Jeffrey-Blaize.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dr.-Jeffrey-Blaize.png 425w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dr.-Jeffrey-Blaize-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jeffrey Blaize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chief Education Officer Dr. Jeffrey Blaize has announced that the new academic year will begin on Monday September, 8 2025. However, he said the Dominica Grammar School which was also set to open its doors on Monday will reopen on Monday, September 15.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u00a0On Monday,\u00a08th\u00a0September, our students will be reporting for duty\u00a0and as far as we are aware, we have been monitoring\u00a0[and] everything seems to be pretty much OK for us in education,\u201d he told the media. \u201cWe have settled our teachers. They have done the professional development training over the past two days.\u00a0 We are keenly anticipating the presence of our students on Monday, because \u00a0we are going to start implementing some aspects of our reform, \u00a0particularly the revised timetable, \u00a0ensuring that schools adhere to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Dr. Blaize the Ministry of Education had a very good\u00a0principals\u2019\u00a0engagement on Wednesday\u00a0, August 27 where they were sensitized\u00a0on some of the aspects of reform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey are well aware of the aspects, but we had to go over some of them to make sure that everybody understood and received additional feedback even from our principals, but they really embraced the areas that we are going to be considering for reform,\u201d he explained. \u201c\u00a0So all our schools will be on board.\u00a0The\u00a0only exception, as you might have aware is the\u00a0Dominical Grammar School that will resume on the 15th of September for our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Blaize added, \u201c\u00a0But our teachers have reported for school, even at the Dominical Grammar School as we speak, so\u00a0they are preparing for the students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, he noted that the Ministry of Education will \u00a0hold its National Principal\u2019s Meeting where both primary and secondary school principals will be invited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said there are\u00a058 primary schools\u00a0and\u00a015 secondary schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chief Education Officer Dr. Jeffrey Blaize has announced that the new academic year will begin on Monday September, 8 2025. 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