Lahore: To prevent school children from extremely hot weather, the Punjab government has changed the timings for regular classes in schools for the summer season on Wednesday.
As per the notifications, the public and private schools in Punjab will start from 7:45 am to 1:15 pm. On Fridays, the regular timings will end at 11:45 am.
Similarly, the double shift schools will start at 7:45 am to 12:15 pm, and the second shift will be from 12:45 pm to 5:15 pm in Punjab.
It should be noted that the provincial authorities change public and private school timings given weather conditions, law and order situations, etc to ensure the safety and facilitation of school-going children.
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Before this new timings of schools in Summers in Punjab, the Punjab provincial government changed the school timings for the winter search which was implemented from February to April 15 due to extremely cold weather.
During the cold weather, the regular classes in public and private schools were being conducted from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm in the boy’s schools whereas the girl’s school timings were from 8:15 am to 2:15 pm.
On Fridays, the school closing time for boys was 12:15 pm and for the girls, it was 12:00 pm.
On the other hand, the double-shift school timings were 7:45 am to 12:15 pm and 12:30 pm to 5:00 pm for the second shift without any break.