Starting tomorrow, Irpin will adopt a hybrid format in which primary pupils attend school in person and continue lessons in shelters during air-raid alerts, while older students move temporarily to distance learning, the city’s education chief said.
Starting tomorrow, educational institutions across the Irpin community will switch to a new hybrid format, the head of the Irpin City Department of Education and Science said.
In each school, administrators have designated specific grades for face-to-face instruction, giving priority to primary-school pupils. Officials stressed that younger children need constant teacher supervision and are not yet ready for full-time distance learning on their own.
If an air-raid alert is announced, the youngest pupils will move to a shelter together with their teacher and continue studying the lesson material there. All other classes will temporarily switch to distance learning. The exact distribution of onsite and remote grades will vary from school to school, depending on facilities, shelter access, and staffing.
Parents will be told directly by their schools which classes are attending in person, when distance-learning sessions begin, and what shelter procedures pupils should follow.
The change is intended to keep lessons running when sirens sound while reducing the number of students in school buildings. A comparable age-split model has been discussed in Kyiv, where municipal authorities have weighed keeping first- and early-grade pupils in classrooms, including in air-raid shelters, while moving older students to remote or blended instruction; that proposal remains under discussion and has not been formally adopted.
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