Millions of school students have returned to classrooms this week after two years of interrupted learning thanks to COVID-19.

Students in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra will be provided with free rapid antigen tests, while in other states students will need to monitor for symptoms and test if symptoms appear.

There are hopes schools will, in the main, stay open, but there’s widespread acceptance that case numbers will rise, which is leaving some parents, educators and students nervous.

Today on Please Explain, education reporters Natassia Chrysanthos and Adam Carey join Bianca Hall to look at the return to school.