On these days, temperatures in Quyet Chien and Ngo Luong communes of Tan Lac district have dropped to very low levels at night and in early morning. To protect students’ health, schools in local mountainous areas have carried out various measures to keep students, especially kindergarten ones, warm.
A teacher at the
Quyet Chien Kindergarten in Quyet Chien commune, Tan Lac district, cares for
the sleep of semi-boarding students.
Bui Thi Hien, Principal of the Quyet Chien
Kindergarten, said that all classrooms of the school have been sufficiently
equipped with blankets, foam mattresses, and water heating systems while doors
and windows are closed tight to prevent cold air. Daily meals are also
supplemented with more nutritious food. Therefore, the student attendance rate
has always topped 98% despite the cold weather.
Nguyen Van Yen, Principal of the Ngo Luong
Primary and Junior High School, noted temperatures in mountainous areas are
much lower than in low-lying areas, so teachers have actively carried out
measures to keep students warm. Before the winter, the school and
representatives of students’ parents had checked classrooms and donated money
and labour to repair the facilities to ensure classrooms are protected from
cold winds.
The mountainous communes of Ngo Luong and Quyet
Chien are providing semi-boarding services only at the preschool education
level. Besides limited infrastructure at some schools, the life quality of
residents in some villages remains modest. That has led to certain difficulties
in ensuring daily activities, nutrition, and warmth for students.
Basing on weather conditions each day, local
schools have rescheduled morning classes while letting kindergarten students
stay at home if temperatures are 10 degrees Celsius or lower, and primary and
junior high schoolers if temperatures fall to 7 degrees Celsius or lower.
Schools will arrange classes later to make up for those days off.
In addition, kindergartens in the two communes
have also paid attention to ensuring nutritious meals, warm learning and
sleeping places, and necessary medicine. They have cancelled unnecessary
outdoor activities and called for donations to support students. Teachers and
staff members of the educational sector in Tan Lac have also contributed money
to purchase winter clothes for disadvantaged students.
Thanks to various measures taken by schools in
mountainous Ngo Luong and Quyet Chien to protect students’ health in winter,
student attendance along with teaching and learning activities have been kept
stable, thus helping improve local educational quality.
