Approximately 1600 students had been signed up to physically attend a school site in term two as of Friday afternoon.

The ACT government this week recommitted to its plan to deliver online classes to public school students next term, with only a select number of schools to stay open to accommodate those who needed to be looked after.

The ACT's four specialist schools will remain open, while the Muliyan Off Campus Flexible Learning Program will continue to operate.

Ms Berry told 2CC radio that based on the number of students who had been registered as requiring supervision, about 10 school sites across the city would likely need to remain open.

The exact number and location of the sites will be confirmed on Wednesday, she said.

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Students will follow the same online curriculum as their year-level peers, regardless of whether they are learning from home or at one of the supervised school sites.

While the government is pushing ahead with its remote learning plan, it has opened the door for more schools to reopen if coronavirus restrictions are eased in the coming months.

Ms Berry on Friday reassured students, parents and teachers they would be given "plenty" of warning ahead of any potential reopening of school sites.

"If we start thinking about moving back to having lessons in schools, we are going to have to carefully do that," she told ABC radio.

"There will be plenty of notice, plenty of planning and a very considered reintroduction to the opening of our schools."

Ms Berry said the public school system was prepared to deliver online learning for "two weeks, two months or however long its takes". But she indicated it was her preference to deliver online learning for all of term two, given that was the approach students, parents and teachers had been planning for.

The ACT's public school system is taking a different approach to NSW, where students will start returning to classrooms from the third week of term two.

Canberra's catholic students will also learn remotely next term, although all of the schools will remain open for those requiring supervision.

ACT Catholic Education director Ross Fox said every student would have access to a remote learning program regardless of whether they were learning from home or at school.

Emmaus Christian School had planned to reassess the need for remote learning four weeks into term two.

But principal Erik Hofsink said it was now eyeing the possibility of bringing students back earlier after Prime Minister Scott Morrison's national cabinet agreed to a set of principles for managing schools amid the pandemic.

But Mr Hofsink said it would be "untenable" to have half of the school's students studying at home and the other in classrooms.

He said vulnerable students would see the greatest benefits from a return to face-to-face learning.

"It would be naive, or borderline unprofessional to state there is no risk to our more vulnerable students," he said.

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