chennai city schools are planning to focus on moral science classes sports activities bridge courses and counselling when schools reopen for classes i to x after summer vacation on monday following instances of unruly behaviour of some students throughout the state in march and april the school education department asked schools not to take regular classes in the first week the model timetable for classes vi to x also allocates one period every week for moral science classeswe will conduct light topics like music drawing craft and moral science classes in the first week said v shanthi headmistress vidyodaya girls higher secondary school in t nagar grt mahalakshmi vidyalaya matriculation higher secondary school in ashok nagar has made moral science classes mandatory from 202223we will not tell a story and ask students to listen and reproduce it we will introduce a book which focusses on leadership language and listening skills in the class they will do group activities and workbooks children will make decisions for themselves and find out what is right and wrong said agnes rita principal of the schoolbesides the school is also planning to conduct bridge courses for all students till june 30 teachers will brush up key concepts that the students learnt in the previous year she added some schools want to give importance to sports activities in the first weekwe want to introduce regular school life with more importance to sports and classroom activity in the first few days it will help children to come out of the pandemic said gj manohar principal of mcc higher secondary school in chetpetvana vani matriculation higher secondary school in iitm campus is planning to conduct an assessment test for students from lkg to ix to identify the learning gaps after identifying the common areas of concern among the students we will conduct a one week bridge course for students said m sathish kumar principal of the schoolthe school will assess the reading writing pronunciation and comprehension application of the concepts and other skills learnt by students if student has any individual issue we will ask the parents to focus those who need help we will conduct special classes in the evening he addedmeanwhile government schools are planning to conduct classroom activities and admissions in the first week