Ensuring students’ safety when they are back to school

– After the Lunar New Year break in 2022, schools have welcomed students back to face-to-face study. Up to now, after more than a week of studying, through surveys, the epidemic prevention and control has been focused by schools with the goal of ensuring students’ safety at the highest level.

In the school year 2021-2022, the province has 675 school units, over 206,000 pupils and students. According to the report of the Department of Education and Training, on February 7, 2022, the districts and the city allowed students to return to school after the Lunar New Year holiday according to the plan and the prescribed time. In which, following the direction of the Ministry of Education and Training and the Provincial People’s Committee, 100% of schools in the province have organized direct teaching at schools right after the holiday. However, due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, many localities and schools have flexibly implemented teaching and learning in both face-to-face and online forms.

Students at Trang Dinh High School, Trang Dinh district strictly follow the 5k regulation when going to school

In Huu Lung district, on February 13, the whole district had ten teachers and 119 students of F0. Ms. Phan Thi Toan, Head of the District Division of Education and Training, said that due to the impact of the epidemic, there are currently 11 schools with parallel online and face-to-face teaching with 14 classes and 569 students. This will help students who are quarantined to prevent and control COVID-19 can attend online classes, ensuring program consistency for students. For schools with a large number of students, the Division has asked the schools to divide classes, such as even classes in the morning, odd classes in the afternoon to ensure distancing and effective epidemic prevention.

As far as concerned, before students returned to school on February 7, schools in the province cleaned, disinfected spray, re-checked classrooms and facilities for epidemic prevention arranged in areas of the school and classrooms and sent notices about the return to schools and new schedule to parents and teachers. Other essential epidemic prevention supplies such as hand sanitizer, backup facial masks, have been fully provided at the schools’ gate area. Along with that, schools also propagate and remind parents via Zalo group, Facebook, SMS, ask parents to proactively measure their children’s temperature at home and report the student’s health immediately to teachers. If there is anything unusual, the teachers will seek advice and direction in time.

To actively prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic, some schools have also mobilized socialization to organize for teachers and students to perform quick tests before returning to school. Mr. Dau Truong Huan, Principal of Chi Lang Secondary School, Lang Son city said: The school has 24 classes with 1,052 students. To ensure safety against the epidemic, on February 8, the school coordinated with the ward’s health center to organize a rapid COVID-19 test for all students and teachers. Thereby, eight F0 students were detected. As soon as the results were available, the school coordinated with health authorities to localize six relevant classes, spray disinfectant and organize for 307 students of these classes to take online classes.

Students at Hoang Van Thu High School, Lang Son city follow the epidemic prevention regulation when going to school

Regarding the organization of welcoming preschool students, schools pay special attention to reminding students to take 5K measures; coordinate with forces to organize channels for parents and students before entering and leaving schools to avoid crowding; request parents to work closely with the schools in monitoring the health situation and promptly inform the schools if the child has abnormal symptoms such as fever, cough, difficulty breathing, fatigue or relatives of children with close contact with cases of F0.

Mr. Hoang Quoc Tuan, Director of the Department of Education and Training, said: Due to the complicated situation of the epidemic, so in the coming time, schools need to continue to control the implementation of 5K regulation in schools, especially the wearing of facial masks and hand sanitizer for students and teachers before entering class; closely coordinate with grassroots health centers of communes, wards and townships to receive medical support when necessary. In particular, it is requested to periodically implement the disinfection regime at schools and classrooms; review the vaccination for students, speed up the injection of all vaccines for students aged 12 and over; proactively prepare all conditions so that when there is a policy of the Ministry of Health, the vaccination will be accelerated for children from 5 to under 12 years old.

According to the Department of Education and Training, on the first day back to school (February 7), 100% of schools in the province returned to face-to-face learning, of which 27 school units organized face-to-face and online teaching with a total of 142 classes and 5,256 online students. As of February 14, the province has 57 schools that teach face-to-face and online with more than 11,889 students studying online.