The holidays end for hundreds of thousands of students, from kindergarten to high school, with different startings depending on the level.

Before this decisive moment for the children and their parents, as well as on the front of the epidemic, Europe 1 is looking into the organization of this return to classes, to school or remotely.

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This is a very important moment in a school year turned upside down by the endless Covid-19 crisis: kindergarten and primary school students are back in class this Monday, while middle school and high school students are back on their side remotely. Firstly.

And if the school is "not responsible for the epidemic", as the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Sunday, this return will be extremely scrutinized, on many points.

Here is what you need to know about the protocol, the planned arrangements and the entire planned device.

The calendar for this new school year

What is planned is first the return to classes of kindergarten and primary students on Monday.

After having been forced to organize, sometimes with difficulty, in recent weeks, parents are rather relieved, but some teachers remain worried, as Europe 1 has seen in the south-east.

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Middle school and high school students will resume in distancing as of Monday, but face-to-face from Monday, May 3, date of gradual deconfinement already envisaged by the government.

However, this re-entry will be accompanied by "strict conditions" and a "health framework as protective as possible".

For their resumption on May 3, the high schools will be in half-gauge, with an alternation between face-to-face and distance learning.

For secondary schools, the start of the school year will be face-to-face, except for 4th and 3rd year students of the fifteen departments most affected by the pandemic, who will also return to the half-gauge.

In addition, the patent, the baccalaureate in philosophy and the grand oral are maintained in person.

Protocol details

So much for the calendar, which is accompanied by a protocol presented Thursday by the government. It is based, in large part, on the massive deployment of tests, with 400,000 saliva tests starting next week in elementary schools and the target of 600,000 by mid-May. In addition, the government announces the order of 64 million self-tests. "They will be offered to all National Education staff from next week, then to all high school students from the week of May 10," said Jean Castex, with one self-test per week.

In addition, the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer announced that the classes will close as soon as there is a case of coronavirus.

To limit cases of contamination, the number 2 of National Education, Édouard Geffray, advises parents to take their child's temperature in the morning, as he explained on Europe 1, Sunday.

Is the canteen yes or no?

The canteen is at the heart of concerns, as the place seems conducive to contamination.

Between closing the canteens and absolutely encouraging students to eat there, Édouard Geffray evokes "a point of balance".

Because the canteen, he recalls, "this is what allows many children to have a balanced and guaranteed meal every day".

Also, he adds, "there is no automaticity in saying that the child should eat at home. After that, if the parents prefer their children to eat at home and if they have enough to eat at home. possibility, it is obviously not worse. But every child must be able to go to the canteen and benefit from it under ordinary conditions. "

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Our advice for the start of the school year

Before guiding your child on the way to school (or to the computer for a videoconference), here are some tips for doing well in that home stretch before summer vacation.

What we can tell parents and children is to check that they have their codes and password before the resumption.

If on Monday morning, at 8:30 am, you have to start all over again, you are wasting time, ”warns Édouard Geffray. 

"If you haven't already done so, you have to create an account on the Cned platform, 'My class at home'. You also have to look at the information given in the ENT (Digital Work Environments), because teachers continue to communicate messages via this platform ", explains Valérie Queric, principal of a college in the Oise and member of the National Union of National Education Management Staff.

From a technical point of view, "we sent recommendations to teachers and school leaders to distribute virtual classes well throughout the week," continues the number 2 of National Education.

We know that as many people telework, there is a large influx (of connections, editor's note) between 8 am and 9 am. "

Too premature a recovery?

"The fact of having closed the schools during the three weeks of school holidays made it possible to regain control over this epidemic wave", assures the epidemiologist Antoine Flahault, questioned on Sunday on Europe 1. "Will reopen them on Monday is it going to prevent the recession from continuing? I don't think so, at least for another week or two because we have an inertia that should continue. "

However, reopening schools on Monday for kindergartens and primary schools could have negative consequences in the medium term. "We need all countries to reach a deep epidemic decline, that is to say less than 5,000 cases per day in France. If this is not reached in mid-May, then the reopening of schools will probably have been a little premature. The reopening of schools can also be done within the framework of a health protocol which allows good ventilation of classrooms, which must be the high point of any prevention policy. "