Fuzhou Education Bureau reported yesterday that the school calendar and teaching plan for full-time primary schools in Fuzhou 2016-2017 school year was issued a few days ago. According to the regulations, the school should standardize the schedule according to the national curriculum plan and school calendar, and the time when primary school students arrive at school in the morning should not be earlier than 07:50.
It is understood that Fuzhou Education Bureau requires schools to further standardize the curriculum setting of primary schools and open up national courses. Resolutely correct the phenomenon of deepening the difficulty of the course at will, increasing and decreasing the course and class hours at will, catching up with the teaching progress and ending the course ahead of schedule. County (city) district education bureau and schools should standardize the schedule according to the national curriculum plan and school calendar. Primary school students should not arrive at school earlier than 7:50 in the morning, and should be postponed in winter and spring. Each county (city) district can properly adjust the work and rest time of remote and mountain areas, island schools and duplex teaching points according to local reality and seasonal changes. For students who really need to arrive at the school before opening the door due to special circumstances, the school should allow them to enter the campus early, designate special places to centrally manage students, and arrange special personnel to supervise on duty. Schools and teachers are not allowed to occupy weekends, holidays, summer and winter vacations and rest time to organize students to attend classes and make up classes collectively. Schools and teachers are not allowed to organize students to participate in social activities unrelated to education and teaching.
For the winter and summer vacation time that parents care about, the reporter learned that the first semester of the 2016-2017 school year starts on Wednesday, August 31, and classes are officially held on Thursday, September 1. The semester ends on January 14, 2017 (Saturday, lunar December 17), and the whole semester teaching time (including group education activities and review examination time) is 19.5 weeks. Winter vacation begins on January 15, 2017 (Sunday, lunar December 18) and ends on February 13 (Monday, lunar January 17). The second semester starts on February 14, 2017 (Tuesday, lunar January 18) and officially starts on Wednesday, February 15. The semester ends on June 30, 2017 (Friday), and the whole semester teaching time (including group education activities and review examination time) is 19.5 weeks. Summer vacation begins on July 1, 2017 (Saturday) and ends on Wednesday, August 30.
How many classes do primary school students have to take, and the teaching plan also has detailed regulations, including 26 class hours per week for grade 1-2 and 30 class hours per week for Grade 3-6; 40 minutes per class and 10 minutes rest between classes; strictly control the total amount of students’ activities at school, no more than 6 hours a day; Strictly control the total amount of extracurricular book homework, no written homework for grade 1-2, and the written homework for other grades within 1 hour. The school should ensure that students have one hour of campus sports activities every day. On the day when there is no physical education class, the school must organize students to have one hour of collective physical exercise after class in the afternoon. Fully implement the system of sports activities between classes, and arrange 25-30 minutes of sports activities between classes every day. The class hours of physical education courses should be used for the teaching of physical education practice courses. The school should arrange 10 minutes of eye exercises every day. Art courses account for 9%-11% of the total class hours and develop art courses with national and regional characteristics. Organize and carry out art activities for all students, establish student art associations or interest groups according to local conditions, ensure that there is a fixed time for art activities every week, and organize activities such as Chorus Festival, art exhibition and art festival every year.
Morning meetings, class team activities, science and technology sports activities, etc., are arranged by the school independently in the local and school curriculum. 1 class hour young pioneers activity is arranged for grades 1-6 every week, young pioneers activity class hours for grades 1-2 can be arranged in local courses and school courses, and Young Pioneers activity class hours for grades 3-6 can be arranged in comprehensive practical activities. Calligraphy education is mainly based on Chinese classes. It can also be arranged in art, art, comprehensive practical activities, local and school courses. Among them, 10 minutes of writing exercises should be arranged in Chinese classes for grades 1 to 6 every day, grade 3-6 arranges one class hour for calligraphy learning every week.
Environmental education classes are offered in grades 1-6, with 12 classes per academic year, arranged from local courses and school-based courses. The school should also include classic reading into the education and teaching plan, and include “Chinese classic reading” in the local and school courses and comprehensive practical activity courses respectively. The safety education course has no less than 12 class hours per year, of which one class hour must be arranged in the first week of each semester and the week before the summer and winter vacation. (Reporter Qi Rong)