After corona: start-up of education is tailor-made
Primary education can cautiously restart on 11 May. This start-up is tailor-made, according to reports in the regional and national press. One school emphatically does not order mudguards for teachers, the other does. But all schools have one thing in common: 'We won't start right away with: here's your math book, get started.'
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Primary schools will reopen on 11 May, the cabinet decided. But that date may not be reached everywhere. For example, the foundation Samen Between Amstel and IJ (STAIJ) asks parents to take into account the possibility that the schools will open later. Because the employees are busy preparing for the reopening, but at the same time have to keep remote education up and running. And director Arnold Jonk does not intend to force his employees to continue working during the holidays, he tells AT5 and NU.nl. "Certainly not after the past period."
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Director Jeroen Goes of the Fluvium schools around Geldermalsen also does not want to disturb his staff during their holidays. "We have to be careful with our people," he says in the AD. The schools want to use Monday 11 May for the final preparations, and will be open from 12 May.
But fourteen Nijmegen primary schools that wanted to keep their doors closed on May 11 were met with a storm of criticism, writes Trouw. The umbrella board of the Sint Josephscholen foundation in Nijmegen went through the dust a day later. “We made a wrong assessment,” the school board writes to the parents. "My apologies for this." Schools will now open on May 11.
Model
After the opening date has been set, the question arises: in what form will education be organized? Most schools in the country seem to be opting for the model where children go to school two days a week. 'This is to limit movements around the school as much as possible,' says director Jan Veenker of the West Brabant Public Primary Education Foundation in Trouw. There is no physical education on Wednesdays, so that teachers have time to review homework assignments and put together lesson packages for homeschooling.
The Veenendaal students of the CPOV school board are taught all week, but only half days. Half of the class comes in the morning, and the other half in the afternoon, says chairman of the board Johan van Leeuwen in the Gelderlander. 'We think it is especially important for the vulnerable children that they are brushed up every day at school, for example in language and arithmetic. The other part of the day they work at home.'
Also at Stichting Katholieke Onderwijsbelangen Rivierenland (SKOR), with schools in Tiel and Beesd, among others, pupils come to school every day. "We have deliberately chosen not to skip days," said director-director Maurice Gloudi in the AD. 'Then you get parents who say,' Another day would be better for me '. You can't take that into account. '
Splashback
Some schools of the Keender foundation in Haaksbergen also opt for half days, taking into account the family composition. 'Parents with three children can hardly be made to drive up and down three times a day,' says director Debby Verhoeve in De Twentsche Courant / Tubantia.
Naturally, all schools pay a lot of attention to hygiene. 'Washing hands' is the motto everywhere, but after that the measures differ. 'We are not going to start on a splash screen,' says director-manager Rien Roelofse of the GAVE education group in Veenendaal de Gelderlander.
There will be plexiglass in front of the teachers' desk. And we ordered plexiglass masks - the 'welding shield
At the Stichting Katholieke Onderwijsbelangen Rivierenland, they do, says director Gloudi in the AD. 'There will be plexiglass in front of the teachers' desk. And we ordered plexiglass masks - the 'welding shield', so to speak - for when teachers have to get close to the children. For example, in case of an accident in the kindergarten groups.'
And one teacher is not the other, says director Jorien Griffioen of De Markesteen in Zwolle to the AD. “For some it is a lot more exciting than for others. That has to do with the age of colleagues, but also with the home situation of some. ' There are teachers who want to stand in front of the classroom wearing gloves, others don't.
Other way around
If a teacher is in a risk group - for example due to a partner who is seriously ill - then there is always the experience gained with digital education in recent weeks, says Gloudi of SKOR. 'Then it will be homeschooling, but the other way around. Then the teacher is at home and gives remote instructions to the students, who are in the classroom under the supervision of a teaching assistant.'
You should leave the restart to the employees on site, they know exactly what is practically possible in the buildings
Well, in fact every school uses its common sense, says board chair Stéphane Cépèro of Lowys Porquin in Bergen op Zoom in BN / DeStem. 'You should leave the restart of education to the local staff. They know exactly what is practically possible in the buildings. The situation per school is too different for the board to arrange that from above. ' And yes, there are national guidelines and a protocol. 'But that's an advice that schools are allowed to deviate from. As long as they substantiate their decision, 'says Cépèro.
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Common sense is also used at Opo Deventer and at Stichting Dam (Deventer and Almelose Montessori schools), says director Yvonne de Haas in Trouw. Suppose a school is well in the coat. "That school would like to get the whole group 8 to school several days of the week, to say goodbye in a good way. Group 8 consists of 15 children. Do you have to keep half of that? Then that common sense will come to the looking corner."
We realize that there will be hardly any enforcement, but we want to avoid possible misunderstandings in the future
Reopening remains tailor-made, says director Hannelore Bruggeman of Scholengroep Veluwezoom in the AD. 'It is conceivable that you make walking routes for one school and that this is not necessary for another, because it has more entrances.'
Attendance officer
Chairman Cépèro of Lowys Porquin will, incidentally, report parents who keep their child at home on 11 May with the attendance officer. 'We realize that there will hardly be any enforcement, but we want to avoid possible misunderstandings in the future. Suppose that a parent disagrees with a school advice the next school year and states that the student has received too few hours of education. Then it is important to know whether the child has been kept at home contrary to the rules. '
What all schools have in common is that on May 11, and the days after, extensive attention will be given to what has happened in recent weeks. 'The first week will be a bit of processing', Griffioen director of De Markesteen expresses the prevailing opinion. 'We really don't start with arithmetic and language right away.'
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