China News Service, Beijing, September 1 (Xu Jing Du Yan) Today, 1.4 million primary and middle school students in Beijing officially opened.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the children of Fengtai Primary School of Beijing No. 11 School entered the campus one after another after temperature measurement and disinfection, and ran to the graffiti wall, amusement area, photo zone and other areas for activities.

With the implementation of Beijing's "double reduction" policy, this semester, students' study and life will usher in new changes.

On September 1, 1.4 million primary and middle school students in Beijing started school.

The picture shows the students of Fengtai Primary School of Beijing No.11 School entering the school after their hands are disinfected.

Photo by Zhang Xinglong

Take multiple measures to ensure the safety of primary and secondary schools

  On September 1, Beijing's primary and secondary schools and kindergartens were fully opened, involving more than 3,000 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the city.

The reporter saw at the gate of Fengtai Elementary School of Beijing No. 11 School. Teachers and policemen stood at the gate to greet students entering the school.

  According to Cao Jun, the principal of Fengtai Primary School of Beijing Eleventh School, before the start of school, teachers and students returning to Beijing from the school have completed the 14-day health monitoring in Beijing and submitted a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours.

Environmental disinfection in all places of the school has also been completed before the start of school. At present, the school has sufficient reserves of various epidemic prevention materials.

On September 1, 1.4 million primary and middle school students in Beijing started school.

The picture shows students from Fengtai Primary School of Beijing No. 11 School playing a game on stilts.

Photo by Zhang Xinglong

  She said that after the school starts, the school will sort out daily health monitoring and regular nucleic acid testing systems for different groups of people.

At the same time, students go to school in time-sharing shifts, take their body temperature through a dedicated channel when entering the school, and enter the school after hand disinfection; strictly implement the epidemic prevention system of opening windows for ventilation and daily disinfection without special weather in September.

  She also emphasized that after the beginning of school, the school will be strictly closed for campus management, and irrelevant personnel are not allowed to enter.

On September 1, 1.4 million primary and middle school students in Beijing started school.

The picture shows students of Fengtai Primary School of Beijing No.11 School playing a bubble game.

Photo by Zhang Xinglong

After class service to realize students' self-development

  In the new semester, Beijing requires all schools at the compulsory education stage in the city to provide after-school services to all students, and schools provide after-school services for at least 2 hours a day.

For individual students who have real needs, the school may appropriately extend the after-school service hours on the basis of consultation with parents.

  Lu Haoxuan, who is in the sixth grade this year, is a member of the tennis team of Fengtai Primary School of Beijing No.11 School. After 4:30 in the afternoon, he will go to the tennis team for training.

He told reporters that the club activities are from 4:30 to 5:30.

In addition to tennis, students can also choose other sports and art activities.

  Cao Jun introduced that creating an educational environment suitable for children's growth is a key strategy for schools to respond to the "double reduction" policy.

In order to improve the quality of curriculum education, the school has completely planned the students' one-day school life through overall design, giving children a greater platform for self-development.

  In terms of after-school services, the school has positioned the after-school services as a time for children’s self-development. The total duration is extended to two and a half hours, of which half an hour is fixed as sports time. Students in school can do it regardless of whether there is a physical education class on the day. To exercise outdoors for 1 hour every day.

  In order to improve the quality and types of clubs, all outstanding professional teachers within the school offer club courses; actively recruit excellent professional students from colleges and universities, and participate in educational internships in the form of opening clubs in the school; graduates from outstanding universities such as Beijing Institute of Technology and National University of Science and Technology The students continue to contact their alma mater and open the children’s science window through the Science Hundreds of Science Lecture Hall.

The school also cooperates with off-campus institutions to introduce skills project courses suitable for children.

  In addition, in order to draw closer the relationship between home and school and parent-child, the school opened a parent classroom.

Ms. Bian is currently engaged in insurance work, and her child is in the third grade this year.

She said that the school invited her to come to the classroom two days a week to popularize the origin of insurance and other content for the children, and enrich the children's life knowledge reserve.

  Cao Jun said that in order to popularize more open life knowledge to students and build a consensus and open learning community, the school will cooperate with parents, teachers and students of colleges and universities, and off-campus institutions, and strive to realize that children can enjoy high-quality educational resources and high-quality in the school. Education services.

On September 1, 1.4 million primary and middle school students in Beijing started school.

The picture shows the students of Fengtai Primary School of Beijing No.11 School doing practical activities in the vegetable garden.

Photo by Xu Jing

Life-oriented curriculum enhances learning and practice

  In terms of curriculum arrangement, Cao Jun introduced that the school is making every effort to promote learner-centered life-oriented curriculum, using project learning, theme teaching and other methods to promote children to "do" middle school, deep learning, and make learning more meaningful.

  After the opening ceremony in the morning, some students came to the school’s vegetable garden.

Lin Zihan from the second class of the fourth grade told reporters that the task assigned by the head teacher today is to discover the problem of plants in the vegetable garden and find a beast that can solve this problem from the "Shan Hai Jing".

Through observation, she found that the soil in the cornfield was relatively dry, the leaves of some plants were "trapped" by insect pests, and in some places the soil was hard, "even if the seeds were sprinkled, they would not grow."

  According to Wu Meng, the head teacher of the second class of the fourth grade, in daily campus life, students will come to the vegetable garden to observe animals and plants from time to time.

After grasping this interest of the children, she combined it with the "Shan Hai Jing", hoping that the beasts in the book could establish a connection with the children's lives, and help students apply natural knowledge related to it.

"Stories like "Shan Hai Jing" are not difficult for children to read, and they can also enable them to use their imagination. Every time children discover new plants or catch insects, they are very satisfied."

  Cao Jun said that in the new semester, the school will assign more practical homework to students, designing challenging tasks and other methods to make the homework practical, applicable, and exploratory; extending the homework completion cycle to make the homework completion cycle more flexible .

  The so-called "double reduction" refers to reducing the burden of on-campus homework and off-campus training for students in the compulsory education stage.

Since the beginning of this year, Beijing has taken the lead in launching the “double reduction” special governance action nationwide, with two-way efforts inside and outside the school, simultaneous online and offline governance, and joint management of both inside and outside education, and achieved initial results.

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