Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter An­tho­ny Gar­cia says the at­ten­dance of teach­ers at both pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools, is above 50 per­cent.

The Min­is­ter gave an up­date at a news con­fer­ence Fri­day morn­ing.

"We are very heart­ened by the re­sponse of teach­ers to­day," he said.

He added: "In the ma­jor­i­ty of our schools we have had an ac­cept­able area of at­ten­dance that tells us that the ma­jor­i­ty of teach­ers de­cid­ed to ac­cept their re­spon­si­bil­i­ties to their stu­dents."

He said that of the sev­en ed­u­ca­tion dis­tricts, the at­ten­dance at pri­ma­ry school was 50 per­cent.

The fig­ure was 53.5 per­cent across sec­ondary schools.

He said that the av­er­age day sees a 70 per­cent turnout.

"Learn­ing and teach­ing went about in the large ma­jor­i­ty of our schools to­day," Min­is­ter Gar­cia said.

He added that there was a 100 per­cent turn-out of staff at the EC­CE lev­el.

The min­is­ter added that the school-feed­ing pro­gramme, se­cu­ri­ty and trans­port for schools all went well.

"We are mov­ing in the right di­rec­tion in spite of some of the chal­lenges that face us," he said.

Min­is­ter Gar­cia said that there was al­so a near 100 per­cent at­ten­dance lev­el at the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion to­day.