Chennai: Starting today till this weekend, there will be a five-day break in online classes for school students in Tamilnadu, to help them refresh.

According to School Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan, a brief vacation has been planned for the school students to help reduce their stress.

“On normal occasions, students are provided quarterly and half-yearly holidays. But due to the Covid-19 pandemic, schools had to switch to online mode of teaching. With Chief Minister K Palaniswami’s consent, online classes and telecast of video lessons on television channels will not be conducted from 21 to 25 September,” he had said.

Meanwhile, the Minister has ruled out shift-based classes when schools reopen across the State and said all the classes would start functioning simultaneously.

“All classes will start functioning simultaneously when schools reopen in the State. There will not be classes in shift, as all the schools have adequate infrastructure,” he told reporters.