► Are school canteens a place where the virus is spread? At the end of 2020, the Institut Pasteur joined forces with the National Health Insurance Fund, Public Health France and the Ipsos Institute to better understand the circumstances in which the virus is transmitted. Result: “Meals play a central role in these contaminations, whether […]
Tag: primary school
Covid-19, the slow start of tests in schools
The start of the school saliva test campaign is slower than expected. Launched after returning from winter vacation, it is mainly intended for elementary and kindergarten students for whom nasopharyngeal tests can be complicated. But the goal posted by the Minister of National Education of 300,000 weekly tests in mid-March seems difficult to achieve. ” […]
Covid-19: keeping schools open, a French “exception”
“A French exception [dont] there is every reason to be proud. “ This is how Jean-Michel Blanquer commented, Tuesday, March 2, on France Inter, the strategy of keeping schools open since September, where many countries have chosen, at one time or another, to re-define children. and adolescents. Historian Claude Lelièvre thus calculated that in one […]
Schools: Terra Nova advocates a “different strategy to fight against Covid”
“Does the school remain open on principle? “, wonders the Terra Nova think tank, at a time when the controversy swells around the reduction of the health protocol, decided on February 12 by the Ministry of National Education. “The note was written before the decision, which confirms that the ministry is making choices in principle, […]
Why has the health protocol become more flexible in schools in the face of the English variant?
Tracked with concern by the health authorities, the British variant no longer benefits from special treatment in schools. Since 1er February, a confirmed case of the mutation resulted in the immediate closure of the classroom, when three virus diagnoses “General” imposed the same decision – with the exception of kindergarten, where the ax fell from […]
In the heart of the educational city of Chanteloup-les-Vignes
He is a teenager like so many others, who masks his shyness by looking at the ground, his hands buried in his pockets. That day, however, Thierno, 14, has a new insurance. A film crew questions him about the program “A great school, why not me”, in which he has participated since the beginning of […]
Separatism, the majority are trying to save their measure on homeschooling
The restriction of family instruction (IEF) was the surprise announcement of President Macron’s speech on 2 October. Four months later, she appears to have become Bill’s Achilles heel ” reinforcing respect for the principles of the Republic ”. Article 21, which replaces the declarative system with an authorization device for families wishing to educate at […]
Covid-19: in the face of variants, a new protocol in schools
Increasing curves, closures which are multiplying (96 establishments and 444 classes as of January 29 against 64 establishments and 371 classes the previous week): contamination in schools is accelerating, with the additional threat of the English variant. This led, on February 1, to the closure of an elementary school in Strasbourg after the identification of […]
Self-containment, do we need an apology for school?
Confine yourself for a week before Christmas to avoid contamination during family Christmas Eve. The idea, put forward by the scientific council, was relayed by the government. This logically led the executive to invite the French who plan to find relatives potentially vulnerable to Covid to telework when possible and not to send their children […]
Level of students in math, the challenge of training teachers to raise their heads
What does the Timms study say? Four years after a previous edition which had sounded the alarm, this study carried out in 2019 shows that our students of CM1 and 4e are stuck at the very end of the ranking in mathematics and science. In CM1, for example, France comes last in the European class […]