Students are scheduled to come back to school on September 1, attend an opening ceremony on September 5 and begin the new academic year on September 7...
Students are scheduled to come back to school on September 1, attend an opening ceremony on September 5 and begin the new academic year on September 7. Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training has directed schools to get well-prepared for welcoming students back together with COVID-19 response plans.
The 2020 – 2021 school year takes place in the context of COVID-19 outbreak, which requires schools to ensure conditions for teaching and learning, meet curricula requirements as well as protect health and wellbeing during the pandemic. Under the direction of the Department of Education & Training, before the back-to-school day, schools have to check preparations for the new school year, accelerate construction and repair (if any) with priority given to works on classrooms, libraries, water closets and water supply systems; arrange and supplement teaching equipment; assure infrastructures and teaching equipment for the use of new 1st grade textbooks, provide sufficient textbooks for students; ensure sufficient teaching staff, especially the 1st grade teachers, meeting required training standards; coordinate with local authorities and organizations to persuade children to go to school and reduce school drop-outs, etc.
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To prepare for welcoming students back amid COVID-19, the Department of Education & Training has required schools to clean-up and disinfect rooms and kitchens, prepare hand washing faucets, quarantine rooms, medications, face masks, disinfectants, hand sanitizer, thermometers, etc. School staff, teachers and students coming from epidemic areas such as Da Nang, Quang Nam, Hai Duong and Hanoi are asked to complete health declaration. In addition, schools are asked to propagate and guide the installation of Bluezone application; provide training on epidemic prevention and control and the detection of suspected COVID-19 cases; and announce epidemic prevention hotlines to administrators, staff, teachers, students and their parents.
The COVID-19 control and prevention hotlines are 0911662233, 0965391515 and 0349323115 (the health sector); 0833636000, 0369818489 and 0905174608 (Department of Education & Training). The Department of Education & Training has built specific response plans in case of COVID-19 transmission in school settings.
The new school year ceremony will be simply held to ensure safety. The Department has asked schools to have back-to-school plans with the opening ceremony in response to COVID-19. Specifically, body temperature checks and use of face masks are required for all delegates, staff, teachers and students attending the opening ceremony. Any cases with a fever, cough or breathing difficulty must be taken to the medical room for examination, monitoring and treatment.
After the opening ceremony, schools will focus on stabilizing and maintaining the learning environment for the start of the first semester (from September 7), ensuring the education plan for the entire academic year, organize activities at the beginning of the school year in accordance with actual specific conditions and the pandemic prevention and control guidance. The Department of Education & Training will pay inspection visits to some schools in Khanh Hoa on August 31 to check preparation plans for a safe return to school, according to the leader of the Department of Education & Training.
Khanh Hoa Boarding Ethnic Minority School has more than 260 students, including 100 tenth-graders. Students will return to the boarding school on September 3. Earlier on September 1, the school will conduct clean up and disinfection; make desk arrangement and prepare more disinfectants. No cases returning from epidemic areas or epidemiologically associated cases have been reported so far. Teachers are responsible for guiding students to protect their health and limit going out; kitchen staff to focus on assuring food safety, etc. During this period, it is important to provide a safe environment for teaching and learning and create a sense of feeling safe at school, says Le Bien Hai, Principal of Khanh Hoa Boarding Ethnic Minority School.
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Translated by N.T
