The corona tests in schools are definitely a great challenge.
Parents have been trained for this purpose at the Ickingen primary school.
Icking
- All over the country, educators, politicians and parents are racking their brains about how to get back to school with as little restrictions as possible.
In Icking you are one step ahead: A hygiene and test concept was developed in which committed, specially trained parents look after the children with self-tests in a separate room - and thus also relieve the teachers in the classroom.
Before the Easter holidays, the school principal Peter Lang wrote to the Ickingen parents and informed them about the planned concept.
Michaela Chucholowski, as chairwoman of the parents' council with the support of the general practitioner and student mother Dr.
Barbara Gundel and Tina Weber from the “Open All-Day School” gathered a large number of volunteers who were then instructed in the test system immediately after the holidays.
“Everything went really well,” says Michaela Chucholowski, who after all has two of her four children at the elementary school.
Extra rooms for the booger test
Due to the current figures in the district, however, school operations were reduced again after only one week, so that this week only the fourth grades are trained in alternating lessons and the "emergency group" is looked after. "I actually had the hope that if the children were tested twice a week, despite the increasing incidence value, the lessons would at least have been allowed to take place alternately," the 34-year-old regrets and hopes that "the politicians will soon understand and because of the well-functioning tests in schools from the hundreds value. "
For the tests, rooms were set up in Icking in which the children can carry out the so-called "Popeltest" (a smear in the front nasal area) under the guidance of the volunteers. For this purpose, the school building was diligently rearranged and worked on. A separate area is available for each class. Among other things, a test station was set up where other teaching materials are stored. Further stations are in the auditorium. Caretaker Walter Scholz built Plexiglas separating discs to give parents and students the necessary security and also made wooden holders for the tubes so that the sample tubes have a fixed place and cannot be confused.
Headmaster Peter Lang was particularly important for his almost 150 students: "We wanted to create the most calm atmosphere possible for the children in which they can test themselves." Otherwise you would have to supervise children themselves in the classroom and evaluate the tests at the same time.
The rector is happy about the commitment of the parents
In Icking, tests are always carried out between 7.30 a.m. and 8.15 a.m. before school starts.
After the smear and the evaluation by the helpers, the protocol sheet will be handed over to the secretariat.
So far, all tests have been negative, confirms the chairman of the parents' council.
Should a child ever have a positive corona test, the relevant teacher will be informed via the secretariat and the child will be carefully separated from the class.
Chucholowski: "This child would then be looked after until the parents can pick it up." After that, the parents would have to have a PCR test done by the doctor anyway to confirm the result.
Here, too, they thought about it and sought advice from a school psychologist in order to prevent possible stigmatization.
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The rector is pleased: “It was only possible to implement the concept in this form thanks to the very active support of the parents.
The response of this magnitude surprised me extremely positively. ”He and the staff are very grateful to the volunteers.
Lang puts it in a nutshell: "This is not the first time that this example shows how high the level of commitment from parenting is - an extremely important factor in terms of successful, fruitful cooperation."
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