School is about to start, but in response to the epidemic, all primary schools in Hong Kong can only continue to maintain a limited time for half-day school for the time being.
The affiliated school of Fujian Middle School, a direct-funded elementary school located in Yau Tong, continues to actively prepare for the restoration of full-time face-to-face classes, and strive for full-time classes.
Principal Xu Qu Yihua also stated that he plans to introduce a new timetable after the resumption of full-time classes. After lunch, there will be no regular classes, instead of homework counseling time and flexible arrangements for physical and personal growth activities.
In addition, the school has noticed that the epidemic has a certain impact on students' emotions, so it plans to implement emotional education in the new school year, aiming to teach students to understand their own emotions, manage emotions properly, and manage interpersonal relationships.
In the new school year, elementary schools can only maintain a limited time for half-day classes, and the affiliated school of Fujian Middle School has drawn up a new timetable and arrangement for full-time classes once they are available.
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Elementary school students who fail to get vaccinated can only go to class for half a day
The school day is approaching, and the Education Bureau recently announced that if school staff and students have a second-dose vaccination rate of 70%, they can respond to full-time face-to-face classes, lunch and other extracurricular activities according to the actual situation.
However, since the minimum age for vaccination is 12, the full-time face-to-face instruction has not benefited primary schools, which means that primary schools can only continue to maintain a limited number of classes for half a day in the new school year.
The affiliated school of Fujian Middle School, a direct-funded primary school in Yau Tong, continues to actively make preparations for the restoration of full-time face-to-face teaching.
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100 faculty members get at least the first dose of vaccine before school starts
However, the affiliated school of Fujian Middle School, a direct-funded primary school in Yau Tong, continues to actively make preparations for the restoration of full-time face-to-face teaching.
Principal Xu Qu Yihua said that the school has arranged more than 110 faculty members in the school. Except for pregnant women, at least the first dose of vaccination has been completed before the start of school.
Although he hopes to resume full-time face-to-face classes as soon as possible, Principal Xu pointed out that, unlike the previous full-time "all-day classroom" model, the school hopes to take the opportunity to introduce a new "true full-day" class schedule, that is, there will be no regular classes after lunch. Change to 30 minutes of homework tutoring time, allowing students to complete most of the homework in school, and flexibly arrange physical, artistic and personal growth activities according to each student's individual needs.
"Students have fewer disputes, but they have fewer opportunities for growth in disguise"
Principal Xu also pointed out that under the epidemic, half-time classes were implemented. He noticed that because students had too little time to get along with each other, they had "less disputing but less growth opportunities in disguise". In addition, they couldn't arrange extracurricular activities and students could not establish success outside of their studies. Sense, has a certain impact on personal development.
She also bluntly said that the epidemic has lasted for a long time, and there may not be a vaccine suitable for children to be vaccinated in the next two to three years. She asked, "Is it only allowed for a generation of children to grow up in a half-day system?"
She said that in the past there has been communication with parents and the school has taken adequate measures to prevent the epidemic. Many parents support and hope to return to full-time classes. In addition, the epidemic situation in Hong Kong has been relatively stable in the past few months. She hopes that the Education Bureau will allow schools to gradually "normalize change".
The affiliated school of Fujian Middle School intends to implement emotional education from the new school year, aiming to teach students to recognize their own emotions, manage emotions properly, and manage interpersonal relationships.
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Under the epidemic, it is found that students need to learn more ways to deal with emotions
Principal Xu pointed out that after returning to the half-time class, he noticed that the students "reacted differently" in terms of social skills and handling, and believed that the school needed to strengthen emotional education.
In addition, the school conducted a survey on emotional education needs in June this year, and interviewed 254 school students and 340 parents in the form of questionnaires.
The survey found that more than 30% of the interviewed parents believed that their children’s emotions were significantly worse and fluctuated than before the epidemic. More than 90% of the parents agreed that their children needed to learn more ways to deal with emotions; 40% of the interviewed students agreed that they were caused by the epidemic. Disturbance, worry, anxiety and other emotions.
School-based educational psychologist Shen Li Yihui pointed out that under the epidemic, the school’s change of schooling mode will have an even greater impact on the upper grades and primary one students. Some senior class students who value grades may have the opportunity to worry about affecting their promotion to middle school and causing psychological pressure. Grade students also have the opportunity to not have enough time to adapt to the new environment.
Therefore, the school intends to implement emotional education from the new school year, aiming to teach students to understand their own emotions, manage emotions properly, and manage interpersonal relationships.
The school will open a 4D laboratory to allow students to learn by experiencing different emotional themes.
Xu Qu Yihua (second from left), the principal of the Fujian Middle School affiliated school, said that he noticed that students "reacted differently" in terms of social skills and dealing with things, and believed that it was necessary for schools to strengthen emotional education.
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In the afternoon, the plan was changed to extracurricular activities
In addition to enhancing emotional education, Principal Xu also noticed that during the past epidemic time, even if schools implemented half-time classes, they were able to complete the courses, which did not affect the students' learning level.
However, before the epidemic, the “all-weather classroom model” was adopted. After school, students had to participate in different extracurricular activities and were exhausted. Therefore, the school began to plan a “true all-day” class schedule.
The new class schedule under "True Full Day", each class will be five minutes shorter than the previous full-time class. There are eight classes every day, each 30 minutes, and two breaks during the period. All classes are at noon every day It ends at 12:55.
In the afternoon class, the school will set a 30-minute homework counseling time after lunch. The rest of the time will add a "free time for sports, art and personal growth". Students can freely choose activities of interest, such as emotional education, school team training, top-notch training , Multiple Intelligences Interest Class, etc.
In addition, the end of school time will remain the same, but students no longer need to spend extra time participating in school extracurricular activities.
The school also plans to add interdisciplinary learning and implement different interdisciplinary learning topics based on grades. The content is diversified and interesting, such as space travel, tabletop game design, biodiversity, etc.
The affiliated school of Fujian Middle School intends to implement emotional education in the new school year.
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Yan, who is preparing to enter Primary Six, used to participate in school team training from time to time after school.
He pointed out that in the past, he had to stay in school for training until 5 o'clock from time to time. "Go back to the housing estate at 6 o'clock and start doing homework before 8 o'clock after eating and taking a bath." If there is a dictation or test the next day, "Warm I don’t have time to relax myself.”
Leung, who entered Primary Five, also pointed out that in the past when full-time classes were in class, extra time was needed to participate in extracurricular activities after school. "If there was a dictation on the other day but the school team the day before, I would worry about being unhappy and stressful. ."
Leung's mother felt that the school's planned "true full-day" class schedule no longer only focuses on academic development, but can take into account the all-round development of students.
She also said with a smile that in the past, during full-time classes, women would complain from time to time that "there was no time to rest and play." I believe the new schedule will allow students to complete extracurricular activities and most of their homework before school time.
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