After studying online for the past 19 months, younger students from the state, who are studying in Classes I to VIII, will return to schools on Monday.
This allows all the one million students studying from Class I to XII in Tamil Nadu to return to schools for the first time since March 2020.
The elementary education department asked the schools to hold storytelling, drawing and other creative sessions for the first two weeks to get children back into the academic environment.

Parents to whom TOI spoke said their children were excited to return to school from Monday after 19 months. Leeba, a parent from Tambaram, said her son Andrew Thomas, a Class VIII pupil, was excited to return to school and had his school bag and shoes ready a day ahead of time.