The School bell rings. From all directions, the children come running to the end of that Pause, some with a Mouth guard. First graders Jacob jumps on “his” field number 5, Lena has the number 2 on the schoolyard. Using colorful numbers marked circles, the boys and girls keeping in Corona times distance. All students assigned to the Eichendorff primary school in Meerbusch, Germany, and fixed digits.
On a sign of the teacher, the children rush into the school building after the other, sorted, always right on the green arrows in the stairwell. The groups are halved. But starting Monday, it will again close: normal operation in all primary schools in NRW is announced from the Ministry of education. Full class strength without the 1.50-Meter rule in the classroom.
Several States want to teach after the summer holidays and again in the control operation, some of them level, at least in the primary even before the holidays. Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein have just made the start of daily lessons for all pupils in the class. Now you look forward to the most populous state, with around 600 000 primary school students.
“is It good for children”
“most of The children are happy. It is important that the school year complete at least halfway in the operation,“ says Martina Arntjen, head of the school in Meerbusch. “It would be otherwise very stressful, to go with such an uncertainty in the holidays. It is good for the children and also psychologically the right time.“ In spite of the sophisticated organization it was in the last few weeks, sometimes a big mess at the Düsseldorf-given – day rolling System with divided small groups. In the Week, it came in the Eichendorff-Grundschule in five to six hours of classroom teaching per child.
In the school with 232 children and nine classes, the conditions are favorable. In the building is a lot of room, there are four separate entrances and a large yard. All 14 teachers are on Board. Nationwide, about 80 percent of primary school teachers for work in the classroom according to the recent survey of the Ministry, the average of Europe.
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Clear rules and guidelines
“Our students have the rules all of the great internalised. On Monday it will be therefore difficult, because now a new concept is coming back,“ says Vice-principal Nora Pricking, class teacher of 1c. The procedure from Monday, explains it so: “Each of the two classes using one of the four entrances to the school building, one comes at 8: 00 and the other at 8.15 PM.” Also lunch break are offset in time. “In the hallway, points and routes are marked and we are excited to see if that would work with so many children at the same time.” A little contradictory from your point of view: Outside the Classroom should be kept to a distance, “but in the classroom it is with 28, 29 of the children, again very nice and cozy.”
The learning groups should remain by default; it is strictly prohibited in the building, in the breaks, even in the case of full-day care after school. Not an easy task for the schools. In Meerbusch, more tables and chairs to be carried to the classes. Letters to parents with explanations of the new concept are sent out. Teachers and parents were split operation with a view to the rule, observed head of the school, Arntjen. “Some are afraid and fear because of a contagion.” Others are glad that it is almost ready full. dpa/Patrick Pleul/dpa-Central picture/dpa/icon image school children are taught in a class room of an elementary school.
“Stripped-down operating full-version”
to offer all schools of nearly the entire schedule, as in Meerbusch. In the two weeks leading up to the summer holidays, it will operate on a “stripped-down full version” in addition to running, believes Anke Staar of the national parent conference. As realistically, you could take a day, two, three hours of teaching. Under the parents ‘ rule is great uncertainty as your child then be taken care of. Because the premises for the whole day, was not sufficient in many places, by far.
Some students have developed deficits. Seat it is to stay in NRW in this school year. But a voluntary Repeat keeps Arntjen advisable for some boys and girls. School psychologists fear that the gap between the performance fell apart strong and weak students significantly. It is a fundamental Impact threatened “” on the pathway.
What the children themselves say?
And what do the children say? Lena, who wears a Mouth guard like the class stuffed animal, Niko, has a bit of fear: “Maybe the other children have Coronavirus.” The seven-year-old Léonas is excited. “I can finally see all my friends. I think it’s nice that we no longer need to keep a distance. Distance is stupid.”
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