There are two schools in Kamloops where high school students won’t be on the quarter system when school restarts next week.

Brock Middle School and the Kamloops School of the Arts will stay on a linear system, taking up to eight classes all year round.

School district board chair Rhonda Kershaw says all other high schools will have a quarter system, with students taking two classes for 10 weeks, with four quarters through the year.

“There is a possibility that it might limit some course choices, but that will depend very much on school by school. The quarter-mester system has actually been run at different schools throughout the history. I know that I’ve talked to a few people who either taught in the quarter-mester system or attended during a quarter-mester system. The semester system is more common now though,” Kershaw says.

The change to a quarter system has been made to limit contact between students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Students return to school for orientations on Sept. 10 and 11, before regular classes restart on Sept. 14.