Students will have to attend school in person from Week 4 of Term 2 or face being shut out from online learning modules and potential fines for absenteeism.
The state recorded an 85.6 per cent school attendance rate this week – the highest figure since students started departing in large numbers amid the coronavirus outbreak, but still 5 per cent lower than pre-pandemic levels.
Exceptions will be made for students with medical conditions or who are immunocompromised, or those with vulnerable family members.
These students will continue to have access to online learning modules.
An additional 20 teachers are being employed to assist those students with their remote learning through an existing unit of the Department of Education.
It comes after the state recorded one new case of coronavirus overnight, taking the tally to three in the past 14 days.
The new case is a woman in her 50s from Perth’s metro area who was “a close contact of a previous case”.
The number of active cases is back up to seven, with only one in hospital in the ICU and 538 recoveries.
So far, 61,267 have been tested across the state, with more than 10,000 of those living in the regions.
