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Updates to Safe Management Measures in Schools and Institutes of Higher Learning

Published Date: 26 April 2022 03:00 PM

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With the further easing of community measures from today, 26 Apr 2022, Safe Management Measures (SMMs) in schools and Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) have been adjusted to follow the national posture, including guidelines from SportSG and National Arts Council, as follows:

Schools

  • No group size and safe distancing requirements for school activities, including recess;
  • Mask-wearing will be required indoors as a default in schools. Unmasking indoors is only allowed for Physical Education, sports, singing, wind instrument playing, speech & drama, dancing and specific groups of students in language/literacy lessons;
  • Regardless of vaccination status, students will be able to participate in activities, including Co-Curricular Activities, National School Games (NSG) and Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Arts Presentation;
  • For NSG competitions, competing schools can send their student supporters to watch the semi-finals and finals at the venue, subject to the hosting venue capacity, and this would be extended at a later stage to family members and other spectators. Select competitions are also live streamed at https://go.gov.sg/nsg2022.
  • Residential camps for the MOE-Outward Bound Singapore (OBS) Challenge Programme and Outdoor Adventure Learning (OAL) cohort camps will progressively resume from around end-May;
  • TraceTogether-only SafeEntry check-ins in schools are no longer required. Nevertheless, students / staff are strongly encouraged to keep the TraceTogether (TT) application on their phones and/or hold on to their TT tokens, so that schools can step up contact tracing should this be needed.

Other SMMs such as schools' daily general screening of students' well-being and frequent cleaning of high-touch surfaces, will continue to be in place.

IHLs

  • No group size and safe distancing requirements in IHLs;
  • Mask-wearing will be required indoors as a default in IHLs. Unmasking indoors is only allowed for select activities (e.g. consumption of food and beverages, sports, live performances);
  • In line with national posture, Vaccination Differentiated Safe Management Measures (VDS) will only apply to events with more than 500 participants, and dining in at F&B establishments on IHL campuses;
  • TraceTogether-only SafeEntry check-ins in IHLs are no longer required.