Extra cleaning measures are in place to keep students, staff and parents safe from contracting the virus.

“The schools are putting in place COVID-safe plans to ensure that the school drop-off and pick-up is fine and, also, that there’s extra cleaning if needed and the teachers will be socially distant,” Palaszczuk told Today this morning.

“We’ve got our plan in place and we're ready for next week.”

One measure includes banning parents from within the school grounds.

“The parents won’t be able to go into the school gates,” Palaszczuk said.  

“They’ll be putting in place very clearly where parents can drop off the kids, they will leave the car, go in the front gate.”

The government will assess the situation on May 15 and students may return to full-time on-site learning by May 25.

On the other hand, Palaszczuk said Queensland won’t rush into reopening cafes and restaurants until it is safe to do so.

“When we’ve got kids back at school, we’ve got parents being able to work more productively at home, it sends a signal we can move to the next stages and get people back into the workforce,” she said.

“But let me stress this: You can’t do everything all at once. 

“You’ve got to take it a step at a time, make sure your measures are working, make sure you’re not having outbreaks, and then you can keep going forward.”

Despite large crowds of people ignoring social distancing rules at Burleigh Hill on the Gold Coast on Sunday, Palaszczuk believed the much of the community was listening to advice from authorities.

“I think people in Australia understand we are actually living in the lucky country and we have put in lots of measures in place but we can’t unravel everything too quickly,” she said.

“We’ve got to be measured and we’ve got to be responsible because these are people’s lives we’re dealing with.”

Queensland reported five new cases of coronavirus overnight.

Palaszczuk said three of those were “old cases” that had already been recorded in other states.

Of the other two cases, one was a close contact of a confirmed case on Brisbane’s southside and the other was on the Gold Coast.

There have been 1043 people infected in the state since the start of the outbreak and at least 980 of those have recovered.

There are nine people in Queensland hospitals, four of whom are in intensive care.