Chinanews.com, Beijing, February 7th (Reporter Yuan Xiuyue) After the Lantern Festival, the "extremely long winter vacation" is coming to an end, and universities, middle schools, primary schools and kindergartens across the country are welcoming the start of school one after another.
What are the requirements for returning to school?
Is nucleic acid testing still required for the spring semester of 2023?
How about physical education?
Primary and secondary schools in Chongqing have ushered in the opening of school one after another, and students have entered the campus one after another.
Chen Chaoshe
What are the requirements for returning to school?
Starting this week, universities, middle schools, primary schools and kindergartens across the country will usher in a new semester.
In terms of school start time, many places require staggered return to school.
As required by the Lanzhou Municipal Bureau of Education, in the spring of 2023, the "staggered time and peak" will continue to be adopted. The third and third grades of junior high school will officially start on February 6, and the first, second, first and second grades will officially start on February 13. Kindergartens, primary schools, and special education schools officially opened on February 15.
The countdown to the start of school has entered, and many education departments and schools have successively issued notices for returning to school, requiring students to do a good job of health monitoring before the start of school.
As required by the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, 7 days before returning to school, teachers, students, and staff should carry out daily health self-tests and report to the school.
Fever, dry cough, fatigue, sore throat and other symptoms should be tested for antigen or nucleic acid. If the results are abnormal, they must report to the school truthfully, and delay returning to school, and work and study at school without illness.
Many schools require students to fill out the "Reports for Abnormal Health Conditions", and some require students to complete a "check-in" of health monitoring information collection. Some schools also require students to report personal COVID-19 vaccinations and COVID-19 infections before returning to school.
Some schools also require that an antigen or nucleic acid test be done the day before school starts.
In addition, many places have different regulations for the courses and final exams that were affected last semester.
The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education issued a reminder letter, strictly prohibiting organizing students to return to school in advance to make up lessons and organizing any form of exams.
The Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Education informed that according to actual needs, timely and appropriate arrangements can be made in the new semester, but within two weeks of the start of the school, the school will not organize centralized examinations.
It has also been notified in many places that the final exams for each grade of junior and senior high schools will be organized and implemented after the start of the spring semester in 2023.
In Hefei, Anhui, on the eve of the opening of primary and secondary schools, parents and students are choosing globes.
Photo by Yang Xiaoyuan
Do you still need to do nucleic acid in the new semester? Will offline classes be suspended?
In the spring semester of 2023, do I still need to do nucleic acid?
Will offline classes still be suspended?
Many colleges and universities have made it clear that the school will no longer carry out nucleic acid testing for all employees, and students do not need to provide a negative nucleic acid test certificate when entering and leaving the school gate and public areas of the campus.
The recent work deployment meeting of the Fuzhou education system for the new semester mentioned that when the epidemic is not prevalent, people outside the school will no longer need to check the nucleic acid certificate when entering the school;
Recently, the Comprehensive Team of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council issued the "Operational Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Infection Epidemics", which put forward specific requirements for the prevention and control of campus epidemics.
In terms of nucleic acid testing, the guidelines require that, according to actual needs and local conditions, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens carry out appropriate antigen or nucleic acid testing such as teacher and student screening, round inspection, and random inspection. Teachers and students will no longer provide nucleic acid certificates when entering and leaving the school. To enter the campus, a nucleic acid or antigen negative certificate must be provided.
Colleges and universities no longer carry out nucleic acid screening for all staff.
Unless it is really necessary to return to school across regions, teachers and students of colleges and universities do not require nucleic acid certificates when they enter and exit the school gate and public areas of the campus.
The guidelines also mention that schools without epidemics carry out normal offline teaching activities.
During the peak period of the epidemic, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens adopt strict closed management, and colleges and universities can implement district management.
After the outbreak of the epidemic in colleges and universities, timely take measures to evacuate personnel such as reducing interpersonal contact, implementing online teaching, and adjusting teaching arrangements.
For primary and secondary schools, when the proportion of infected people is relatively large, offline classes can be stopped and online teaching can be implemented in units of classes or grades.
Once an infected person appears in the kindergarten, temporary closure measures should be taken in time.
Data map: Students at Lanzhou Foreign Language Senior High School in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, take physical education classes outdoors.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Gao Zhan
How about the physical education class in the new semester?
How to teach physical education in the new semester has attracted people's attention.
The above-mentioned guidelines of the Comprehensive Group of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council require that teachers and students in the recovery period are not organized or required to participate in strenuous exercise.
Education departments in many places have also responded to this. For example, the Guangzhou Education Bureau issued the "Guidelines for Offline Teaching of Physical Education and Health Classes in Primary and Secondary Schools in the Spring Semester of 2023", requiring students to check their physical fitness and physical health before the start of school.
The guidelines mentioned that schools must assist students to check the physical fitness and physical health of students through methods such as "Borg subjective fatigue perception assessment", "physical fitness status test" and "myocardial function test", establish files, and dynamically grasp students' health During the epidemic, the "four people" (inpatients, severe patients, myocarditis patients, pneumonia patients, etc.) during the epidemic need to provide a health certificate before they can attend classes, and strictly formulate the recovery exercise content and exercise volume.
The Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Education requires that schools reasonably arrange physical education in the new semester, and do not organize or require teachers and students of "Yangkang" to participate in intense sports.
The Jinhua City Education Bureau requires strengthening health guidance for infected teachers and students during the recovery period, and does not organize or require teachers and students during the recovery period to participate in strenuous exercise.
Within 2 weeks after the start of school, in principle, all kinds of highly competitive sports competitions and other activities will not be organized.
Before the start of the new semester, students in many places have experienced the "extremely long winter vacation" of online classes plus winter vacation.
The education departments in many places require that students' mental health before and after school start be paid attention to.
For example, as required by the Fuzhou Municipal Education Department, analyze the new situation of the epidemic and the trend of ideological and psychological changes of students under long-term home conditions, and conduct early research, judgment, early prevention, and early intervention on possible ideological and psychological problems.
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