- {jcomments off}Premiere Academy’s deepest compassion goes out to all who have been struck by coronavirusoutbreaks throughout the world and most especially in Nigeria. These are no doubt challengingtimes for every one of us, which is why we are doing our part to help prevent the further spreadof the virus, while also supporting the needs ofour students, parents, employees and our otherstakeholders.As you may know, as an Academy, we have and always will always put the health, safety andsecurity of all our internal and external stakeholders first. Our approach is simply grounded inour organisation’s purpose, which ensures that we continuously strive to set the pace by creatingneeded solutions to every challenge in our community and workplace - hence our pride in ourmotto: The Pride of the Nation.Our Board, Management and staff are all deeply concerned by this rapidly changing situationand we wish to assure you that we are constantly monitoring events as they unfold. We arecontinuing to take direction and guidance from relevant government authorities and healthofficials, and we will endeavour to synchronize our efforts and responses with those of othernations around the world, drawing on best practices to stem the spread of the virus.We are doing our utmost to protect our students, parents, employees and our community at thisdifficult time in the following ways:Protecting students’ health, well-being and continuing studies.A few of days ago, we heeded the directive of the Federal authorities to close all schools andeducational institutions until further notice. As a responsible Academy, we want to believe thatall our students are at home and in safe hands with their parents. To this end, we advise allparents to ensure and implement a ‘stay at home’ policy while frequently washing hands withsoap and running water, using hand sanitizers and maintaining a good personal hygiene regime.In the last few days, we deployed holiday assignments for all our students in order to facilitatecontinued researching, reading and advancing their knowledge, not just academically but also ontopical global issues (see below). We plead with our dear parents and guardians to ensure thatthe students comply with our request for them to continue to study at home and also to adhere toour advice to keep safe.Protecting the health and well-being of our workforce and encouraging remote workingIn strict adherence to recommendations to reduce large gatherings and increase social distancing,Premiere Academy has asked the majority of its workforce to work remotely. We intend to returnto normal operations only when the situation is brought under control. At the moment we willcontinue to work remotely and re-evaluate our academic calendar and plans.Planned events and serving our current and prospective/future parents.Since the coronavirus outbreak began, we have been focused on ensuring our dates and earlierplanned events are adjusted to suit the guidance and recommendations of the relevant authorities:
- 1. Mothers’ Day celebration: This planned event has been cancelled until further noticedue to the crowd it was intended to attract, while we continue to celebrate our mothers inno small measure for all their efforts and supports even from a distance.2. Entrance examinations: We have made open and available all our online platformsincluding writing by appointment. We do not intend to risk the health of pupils applyingto join the Academy by September 2020 until the virus and its effects have beencontained finally.Safeguarding our guests and stakeholders.In our efforts to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus, we have temporarily closed for allentries in and out of our facility except for those whose appointments are confirmed whileprotective measures will be adhered to at the entrance. We will continue to evaluate the situationand determine potential re-opening dates at the appropriate time.The health and wellbeing of our guests and employees are important to us, and these temporaryclosings are in line with guidance from government and health officials to reduce largegatherings of people.In the meantime, all enquiries and appointments should go through the following contacts:Admissions-09039507773, Administration/Principal-0905599891 Academics-Finally, Premiere Academy as a community continues to sympathize with affected families so farand encourages our students, parents, workforce and our ex-students around the globe to takeseriously the directives and measures rolled out by the health and relevant authorities to keepsafe and healthy during this period.Thank you for your co-operation and may God continue to protect all of us.Rowland E. EnoPrincipal
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