Back to School for Local Students

It's back to school time, with students returning to classrooms for a new year.

Dr. Tarmo Poldmaa - Principal of Wawa's Sir James Dunn Public School - explains students should be ready for the return to class.

Poldmaa says staff are looking forward to "a normal opening" and a normal year after more than two years impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, noting pandemic-related restrictions - like masking requirements - have been lifted.

Chapleau Elementary and Second School Vice Principal Lisi Bernier says elementary students start in class today.

Bernier also notes the breakfast club will return in the future, but that isn't available today, as secondary students will be in the cafeteria.

Bernier says secondary students will then find their first period class, with a normal schedule the rest of the week.