UAE .. Court procedures for a safe school season

Next Sunday in the UAE, the school year 2021-2022 will start, which will witness the return of about one million and 100,000 students to attend attendance studies in schools, after nearly a year and a half of applying hybrid and distance education due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This comes in line with the state's directions to return to normal life, and after full coordination between the various concerned authorities, and taking into account the application of all precautionary and preventive measures in order to ensure the safe return of students and all cadres working in the educational sector.

Educational institutions in the country require students aged 16 years and over, educational staff, administrative staff, support services, parents of students, and others, to obtain Covid-19 vaccinations to attend schools, while exempting those with an exception certificate from taking the vaccine. .

During the briefing of the UAE government on the developments of the emerging corona virus, which was held on August 22, the protocol for operating educational facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic was announced, which includes a set of guidelines and controls related to the operation of educational facilities in the country, which include nurseries, child care centers and government school education. In addition to public and private higher education, training centers and institutes in various regions of the country.

The protocol will be activated after giving a period of 30 days, starting from the first school day, in order to give an opportunity for all non-vaccinated students to take the vaccine. They are less than 12 years old and not vaccinated, and vaccinated students from 12 years of age and over are subject to a monthly laboratory test /PCR.

As for unvaccinated students, who are 12 years old and above, they must perform laboratory tests / PCR / weekly .. The option of distance learning will be available to them and to all age groups, whether they are vaccinated or not, and parents will be required to download the Al-Hosn application for their children to prove the status of vaccination and the results of the vaccination. Examinations by printing certificates and bringing them to school.

The educational facility is committed to managing the process of exit and entry through the gates, and maintains following precautionary measures and preventing crowding during their gathering in lessons and rest periods.. A physical distance of one meter will be applied, with posters placed on the ground to identify parking spaces in all facilities without exception.

The facility must allocate an isolation room in accordance with the requirements set by the Ministry of Health and Community Protection and follow the procedures for dealing with suspected or confirmed cases of Covid-19. By the competent authorities to ensure the health and safety of students on school buses.

For its part, the Emirates Foundation for School Education has completed all field preparations in preparation for the students’ return to their schools and ensuring their health and safety, along with the teaching and administrative cadres through a package of preventive and precautionary measures and measures that would secure this return without hindrances within the attendance, while keeping the distance learning option in place. lol.

The Foundation confirmed that its field teams rushed to prepare the schools and ensure their readiness immediately after the announcement of the return of attendance education in the various schools of the country, as all 564 public schools that will receive students upon their return have been sterilized, in addition to drawing up plans and scenarios. The various distribution of students in the classroom in light of the application of physical distancing measures according to the decision of the competent authorities in the country.

The Foundation worked to provide school uniforms for students for the next academic year in more than 110 outlets in various regions of the country, in order to save parents time and effort, noting that no change was made to the school uniform compared to previous years.

In a related context, the Department of Education and Knowledge in Abu Dhabi revealed the updated policies to return to private schools and educational partnership schools prior to the start of the new academic year, which are consistent with the decisions issued by the Committee for the Management of Emergency, Crises and Disasters caused by the Corona pandemic in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

The updated policies included reopening student play areas, resuming physical education programs and extra-curricular activities while adhering to precautionary measures, allowing school food halls to resume cooking services while adhering to ad hoc measures, and continuing to apply the large group system to reduce the risks of the spread of the Covid-19 virus and its repercussions and reduce cases of transfer. for the distance education model.

The updated policies stipulated increasing the accommodating capacity of class groups at the lower levels who are unable to adhere to physical distancing measures from 10 to 16 students in each group.

Upon returning to the classroom, students will be able to attend physical education classes and practice various activities, including swimming, with the application of a set of precautionary measures based on risk assessment, as schools will be required to sterilize halls and areas for sports activities and equipment used in the period between each use from different groups, and to In addition, schools will resume organizing extra-curricular activities exclusively for school students, with a commitment to implement risk assessment mechanisms and safe operating procedures.

In turn, the Supreme Committee for Crisis and Disaster Management in Dubai announced the gradual return to the in-person education system for the 2021-2022 school year in all Dubai private schools, as the school year begins by giving parents the freedom to choose between “attendance education” and “distance education”, on the basis of That everyone commit to full attendance education on the school campus starting from the 3rd of next October, in addition to the return of various school activities while adhering to all precautionary measures as a major factor for the safe return to private schools in Dubai.

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