Both JCoSS and JFS will require pupils to wear masks in communal areas such as corridors when they return to school, though not in class.
The Hasmonean Multi-Academy Trust previously announced a similar policy for their boys’ and girls’ high schools.
So far the government will only require masks to be worn in English schools in areas where tighter social distancing controls are in force because of the higher incidence of Covid-19 cases.
Otherwise, it has left it up to individual schools to decide on whether masks should be worn.
