Da Nang’s education sector has been making necessary preparation for the new 2022 - 2023 school year which will begin on September 5.

The Trung Vuong Secondary School based in Hai Chau District is preparing facilities to welcome students in the new 2022-2023 school year. Photo: NGOC HA

Rechecking school facilities

Currently, schools across the city are reviewing their facilities in preparation for welcoming pupils back to school, especially primary schools urgently completing facilities for day-boarding services.

As noted by our reporters, after 2 years of not offering day-boarding because of COVID-19, a number of items serving day-boarding such as pots, pans, along with pupils' personal items like bowls, spoons and napkins are totally damaged.

Currently, the school is inventorying and liquidating equipment that is no longer in use and buy new replacements, as well as making estimates on the collection and expenditure of food and service fees, waiting for the first meeting for parents during the school year to collect opinions.

Similarly, in order to prepare for the new academic year, the education and training offices of the districts have closely directed local schools to recheck their facilities.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, Deputy Head of the Education and Training Office in Thanh Khe District, said that the district-level department has directed schools to review their facilities to ensure the organisation of two sessions per day, and develop a plan of teaching 2 sessions/day and day-boarding for the new school year.

The focus will be on ensuring environmental sanitation, and food hygiene and safety right from the beginning of the school year, as well as negotiating with pupils' parents about day-boarding fees.

In a similar vein, schools in Hoa Vang District have actively made minor repairs from their budgets.

Schools citywide are focusing on rechecking facilities to prepare for the new school year. IN THE PHOTO: Pupils of the Hai Chau District-based Nui Thanh Primary School in a session. Photo: NGOC HA

Ensuring rights of pupils

Aside from facilities, the municipal education sector has paid special attention to preparing teaching and learning equipment according to the New General Education Curriculum 2018.

Importance has been attached to implementing municipal People’s Council Resolution on buying textbooks for pupils who are children of poor families and are orphaned by COVID-19, and children of families living near the city’s poverty threshold and studying in public and non-public schools, and continuing education centres, citywide.

As for ensuring safety of pupils from COVID-19 before entering the new school year, on August 17, the municipal Department of Education and Training required schools and relevant agencies to encourage pupils to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Reporting by NGOC HA - Translating by M.DUNG