The 780,000 CP students will not escape this.
This Tuesday, the Ministry of National Education announced that the national CP assessments – a kind of standardized level exam, launched by Jean-Michel Blanquer in 2019 – will take place a week after the return from the February holidays in each zoned.
This system, which also exists for CE1, sixths and seconds, should have taken place at the end of January for CPs, after a first session in September, but had been postponed indefinitely by Jean-Michel Blanquer, in the wake of the strike on January 13, in order to take into account the impact of Omicron on the school.
For zone B, the first to return from vacation, they will therefore take place between February 28 and March 11, then, for zone A, in the period from March 7 to 18, and finally, for zone C, from March 14 to March 25.
The teachers will have a week to enter the results by computer, before revealing them, "in mid-May", indicates the Ministry of Education.
The teachers' unions wanted to cancel them
Not enough to satisfy the teachers' unions, which were almost unanimous: according to them, the good idea was to cancel these evaluations.
“In view of the difficulties caused by the health crisis, colleagues above all need teaching time”, summarizes Jean-Rémi Girard, spokesperson for Snalc.
Same story with Guislaine David, general secretary of Snuipp-FSU, the main first-degree union: “With schedules completely shattered by the Covid, many sick teachers and students, classes could not move forward. on learning!
There is a need to make class, to reunite the collective… ”she believes.
Because these national assessments, which at CP consist mainly of math and French exercises, are quite time-consuming.
“It spreads out over a week, obviously not full time, but an hour here, an hour there.
This cuts the pace a bit,” notes Stéphanie, a teacher in Seine-et-Marne – who says she is “not opposed in principle” to these assessments.
A “photograph” of the level of the students
Rue de Grenelle, we are assured that, precisely, the period makes these evaluations even more important.
“They will allow us to see the impact of the health crisis on learning and therefore adapt teaching as closely as possible to the weaknesses of the students”, estimates Édouard Geffray, director general of school education (Dgesco).
According to its own figures, the ministry indicates that, during previous evaluations, 55% of teachers said they had detected weaknesses thanks to them, and 84% said that they allowed them to confirm a weakness already detected.
Nationally, adds the Dgesco, these assessments are "an extraordinarily valuable tool" to have a "snapshot" of the level of students in a year "marked by the Omicron variant".
Impliedly, they will have to answer the question: have absences due to Covid slowed down learning?
During the first confinement, with the closure of the schools, the system had shown that the level of the children had dropped significantly, before being caught up the following year.
