SAYREVILLE – Students in the Sayreville School District are scheduled to continue receiving instruction through a hybrid model that combines in-person and remote learning in January 2021.
Superintendent of Schools Richard Labbe provided an update on the district’s schedule in a Dec. 21 announcement.
During the 2020-21 school year, because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, many Sayreville students have been receiving their education in a hybrid model that consists of in-person instruction and remote instruction. Two cohorts of students have been attending school on alternating days.
Some students have only been receiving remote instruction if their parents selected that option at the beginning of the school year.
According to Labbe, pupils in kindergarten through fifth grade are in phase 2b of the district’s plan where the cohorts receive in-person instruction on two days (Mondays and Tuesdays or Thursdays and Fridays) and remote instruction on three days.
Students at Sayreville Middle School (SMS) and Sayreville War Memorial High School (SWMHS) – sixth to 12th grade – are in phase 2a where the cohorts participate together for in-person instruction on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
There is also a third cohort of pre-Kindergarten pupils and self-contained students who receive in-person instruction on four days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
The first week of January, however, will provide only two in-person days on Jan. 5 (a Tuesday) and Jan. 7 (a Thursday). The remainder of the week will be fully remote, according to Labbe.
The middle school, high school, pre-kindergarten and self-contained students will receive in-person instruction on both days, according to Labbe. The two cohorts of kindergarten through fifth grade pupils will receive one day each of in-person instruction, the day depending on their cohort.
For the remainder of January, excluding Jan. 18 (Martin Luther King Day where the schools will be closed), the students are scheduled to continue receiving the hybrid model as intended. Kindergarten through fifth grade pupils will have three days of in-person learning, middle and high school students will have two days of in-person learning, and pre-Kindergarten and self-contained students will have four days of in-person learning, according to Labbe.
