The school year in Cantabria will start in September with a protocol against the coronavirus "quite similar" to the previous one , in which "strict" measures are maintained, especially indoors, but with the relaxation of others, some already from the beginning, such as It is the flexibility in extracurricular activities, and others when the level of risk of transmission of the virus in the autonomous community decreases.
In this way, since classes resume, the celebration of complementary and extracurricular activities and the use of shared material will be made more flexible.
To ease other measures, such as the possibility of face-to-face
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This was announced by the Minister of Education, Marina Lombó (PRC), who this Tuesday explained at a press conference the general organizational protocol for the development of educational activity for the next application course until the end of the health crisis . which will be published tomorrow, August 18, in the Official Gazette of Cantabria after obtaining the approval of the General Directorate of Public Health.
MOST PREVENTIVE MEASURES ARE MAINTAINED
Taking temperature; the signing of the responsible declaration by the families committing to not send schoolchildren to centers with Covid symptoms or in quarantine and to respect the contingency plan of each center; staggered entrances and exits; the 'bubble groups' in Infant or Primary; hand hygiene, or ventilation are some measures already implemented last year that will be maintained.
The same applies to the use of the mask, which will be mandatory from Primary School and recommended from 3 to 5 years, both indoors and, at least during the beginning of the school year, in the playgrounds.
The counselor explained that, although currently the mask can be dispensed with in open spaces where the interpersonal distance of 1.5 meters can be maintained, she has indicated that it has been decided that in schools it is also mandatory outdoors "because "It would be exceptionally difficult for teachers and staff of the centers to have to guarantee the maintenance of this distance at all times."
Lombó has assured that this measure, like the rest, will be reviewed periodically with the health authorities, with whom he has guaranteed there will be "daily" contact.
In this way, the mask can only be dispensed with when eating and drinking; in the practice of Physical Education outdoors and if the 1.5 meters can be maintained.
«We would all have liked to be able to recover normality from the beginning of this course but it is necessary to maintain the measures. "They will be in force as long as necessary," said the counselor, who, however, has stated that both the "experience" acquired the previous year (in which in-person attendance returned) and the vaccination of teachers and the one that will be carried out last year students over 12 years old allows them to face the new course "with greater calm and confidence" and in a "more optimistic" way.
RELAXING MEASURES
And, as he explained, the "deeper" knowledge of how Covid is transmitted allows some measures to be relaxed this course, some from the beginning and others "when the epidemiological situation allows it."
This is the case of the possibility of interacting outdoors, something that will happen "when the indicators improve" and Cantabria is in a "new normal" situation (this is level 0).
When this situation is reached, they will be able to interact with each other in outdoor spaces in this way: in centers with three or more lines per grade, all students in the same grade will be able to interact; In those with two, those from the same cycle may do so, and those with a single line will allow the interaction of students from the entire stage.