Starting next month, 57000,<> students in Hangzhou's Qiantang District will be able to sleep on their stomachs during their lunch break
Why is the matter of napping so much attention
Reporter Qiu Yina
"It's so happy, I hope the whole country will come to copy the homework!"
"Envy, student naps are really important!"
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Recently, many parents of primary and secondary schools in Hangzhou have praised Qiantang District, and from May 5, 1,46 students in 57000 schools in Qiantang District will fully realize their lunch break "lie down". How important is a student's nap? How does it feel to sleep lying down? How can schools sleep lying down?
The nap thing
Ninety percent of students have needs
For naps, in fact, many schools attach great importance to it. Yueyahe Primary School in Qiantang District, Hangzhou, conducted a questionnaire survey related to napping, and 90% of the children had the need for napping.
"Especially the younger children who have just risen from kindergarten have a greater demand for naps, not only want to take a nap, but also want to listen to stories before going to bed." Zhang Rui, deputy principal of Yueyahe Primary School, told reporters, "Although some children can't sleep, it doesn't mean they don't need to take a nap." They were active at first and didn't want to sleep, but when they saw other classmates sleeping, they would slowly feel sleepy and gradually fall asleep. Otherwise, if you go to class in the afternoon, you will definitely not have the spirit. ”
Speaking of the students' lack of energy in the afternoon class, Zhang Ying, director of the Student Office of Jingyuan Middle School, felt very deeply.
Every day at 12:20 noon, King Yuan Middle School enters the lunch break, the school does not force students to take a nap, students can choose to go to the library to read books, or study in the classroom.
Some homeroom teachers will suggest that students close the curtains in the classroom at noon and take a nap together. After the nap, students generally go to class more energetically. Teacher Zhang teaches English, and one class is scheduled for the first class every Monday afternoon, "Some students do not take naps, and they can clearly feel their eyes wandering during class." ”
Teacher Zhang said that the teacher stood on the podium and saw clearly, some students tried to support their eyes, their heads went down little by little, their notes were crooked, and the quality of the class was greatly reduced.
"As teachers, if we have classes in the afternoon, we will also take a nap at noon." Teacher Zhang said that when students take a good nap at noon, their spirit will be much better when they write homework in the evening.
Although it is said that they do not sleep at noon and collapse in the afternoon, students want to sleep, and they may not be able to sleep comfortably.
Qian Xiaohua, director of the Hangzhou Qiantang District Education Bureau, told reporters: "All primary and secondary schools in the district have the habit and tradition of napping, which is basically based on sleeping on the stomach, which is actually very detrimental to the healthy development of students. ”
The students of Jingyuan Middle School are currently napping on their stomachs, and when they wake up, their faces are red from sleep. Teacher Zhang Ying will ask students to go to the bathroom to wash their faces, stand up and move around before class.
Xiao Li, a second-year junior high school student, told reporters that if you rest on your stomach on the table for 30 minutes, you must alternate your left and right arms at least 3 times, otherwise you will feel numb, "even if you pad the pillow, it is the arm that is stressed." The trouble of sleeping on the stomach does not stop there, Xiao Li often because of the arm pressure to the eyes, wake up to slow down for a while to recover, and the bent body will compress the stomach, if you are full at noon, it is uncomfortable, and you have been hiccups in the afternoon.
For young students, it is a little difficult to sleep on their stomachs, and Principal Zhang Rui said: "When sleeping on their stomachs, there will be students who turn their heads around and always want to talk to others. So the younger students sleep on their stomachs a bit like 'whack-a-mole', either this head is up, or that head is raised. In fact, the teacher also understands, after all, it will be uncomfortable to lie on your stomach for a long time. ”
In the sample questionnaire survey conducted by Yueya River Primary School, many students proposed that they wanted a larger nap environment, and it was best to sleep lying down. The school has successively opened a stepped library and comprehensive classrooms in the Roman Forum as nap classrooms, providing students with eye protection patches to combine napping and prevention and control of myopia.
In fact, the project of lying down and sleeping, Hangzhou Qiantang District has been exploring. In 2021, Xingfuhe Primary School launched a lying sleep pilot. In the past two years, this project has been well received by the parents of students. Director Qian Xiaohua told reporters: "The results of lying down at Xingxinghe Primary School have become the best research and demonstration for our whole district to promote. ”
The benefits of lying down, in fact, schools know, there are pilot schools to give excellent models, but there are still many schools difficult: where can students lie down?
The reporter learned that many primary and secondary schools in Qiantang District of Hangzhou City are not spacious, and the classroom area is about 60 square meters, which is not realistic if you lie down and sleep in the classroom.
In the face of different problems of each school, the solution strategy of Hangzhou Qiantang District Education Bureau is to fully "combine" this article. Director Qian Xiaohua gave an example, such as considering the problem of the venue, how to make full use of the existing space resources such as comprehensive classrooms and gymnasiums to expand and transform the space and functions of the corridor. Simply "copy and paste" the model school will not work, you need "one school, one plan".
Teacher Zhang Ying sent two photos to reporters, and Jingyuan Middle School chose a recliner that can be reclined and sit. Middle school students are tall, can't take the cushion flat to sleep in the classroom, this kind of chair is usually a normal backrest chair during class, during the lunch break, the chair turns, pulls, and puts down, students can lie down with their heads on the table, and tall students can also pull into an "extended version".
In addition to arranging nap classrooms, Yueyahe Primary School also transformed ordinary classrooms, and students moved desks and chairs to the center of the classroom at noon, and then laid nap mats, and a simple nap bed was built.
Director Qian said that the special funds of the District Education Bureau's "Lie Down" project have been allocated to primary and secondary schools, so that schools have no financial worries. At present, all primary and secondary schools in Qiantang District have submitted school-specific sleeping plans, and next Monday the Education Bureau will convene experts for unified demonstration.
Talk about it
About napping
What the hell is the learning?
Do students sleep on their stomachs or lie down during lunch break? This is not really a new problem. Zhu Bingquan, deputy director of the Department of Child Health Care of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine, told reporters that when the school has conditions, students prefer to lie down for napping.
Dr. Chu explained that sleeping on the tummy is relatively incomplete for the child's body. The hand is pressed under the face, and the arm muscles are not relaxed; When the entire face is facing down, the blood supply to the eyes increases, and there is a certain pressure on the eyes, "the human body is curved when lying on the table, and the muscles near the spine are always kept in a relatively tense state."
"When sleeping, the body needs more blood to supply to the brain to help remove some metabolites," Dr. Zhu said, "lying down helps the body to circulate blood and let people get enough rest." ”
There are many post-80s and post-90s who say that we sleep on our stomachs every day when we go to school, and it doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
Dr. Zhu told reporters that whether lying on the table or lying on the mat, the first meaning of the lunch break is to rest, as long as you can fall asleep, sleeping on your stomach is also a way to rest. If the school cannot provide conditions for lying down, children can get up and move after napping to relieve the stiffness caused by sleeping on their stomachs.
Of course, there are many people in life who do not like to take a nap. Dr. Chu said that napping is a very individualized need, "some children are energetic, but the forced nap is more active in the afternoon class, and the school can be adapted to the situation." (Qianjiang Evening News)