Africa Educates Her Campaign - Angola. Season 3. Don't Miss Out! Webisode 20

Girls back to school after lockdown. Day 20

With reopened schools, it's important that precautions are taken both inside and outside the classroom to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 

Teachers have a critical role to play in ensuring students understand the precautions they should take to protect themselves and others from COVID-19, and it is important they lead by example in the classroom.

Our today's guest is Meury, she will share with us her deeply school observation.

Hello! My name is Meury Manuel David Dala, I am a high school student, I am in the 11th grade, I am taking a course in administration and services.

When the coronavirus arrived, it was an unexpected global impact and because of this, schools were stopped. I was not expecting us to return to classes so early because the positive cases of Covid-19 were increasing in each passing day, but thank God we managed to returned to studies last year.

When we went back to study it was something different because my school adopted the regime of one week Yes (studying) and another week No (not studying), we were very limited, we had to wear masks constantly until now we are forced to wear them because of the pandemic.

Being at school I noticed that most of my colleagues returned to classes and others did not because they are part of the risk group as well as some teachers with health problems have not returned to school.

The negligence I observed.

The school created some safety conditions, by placing some buckets with water, but not all of them were working, there was no soap only water.

We had a school guard who was checking our temperature, but students were not obliged to check, whoever wanted could check but whoever did not want, could pass through the classroom normally.

Although they gave us guidelines to maintain social distancing among the students, still there were negligent teachers who joined together the two large groups of students in the same classroom and were not forcing us to wear masks, the teachers themselves also were not wearing masks.

In the period of writing exams, teachers gathered all students on the same day because they did not want to conduct the exam on different days. The classroom was all crowded and no one complied with the social distance rule, students sat two by two in desks and teachers did not correct this, the school fans were not working, it was extremely hot, our school uniforms warmed very much, the face masks bothered us.

Anything positive?

I also noticed that my school has held many lectures and social events to help people most affected by the pandemic.

But even so, I think the school should do better. The washbasins don't work, there's no soap or bleach, they should fix it.

The school also needs to strictly oblige students to comply with the preventive measures against the coronavirus. Checking the temperature, wearing the face mask and maintaining social distance are very important factors.

Teachers must encourage students to get into the practice of regularly washing their hands and / or applying hand sanitizers at key moments, such as entering and leaving the classroom; touching surfaces, learning materials, books, and after using a tissue to blow their nose.

Even with clean hands, encourage students to avoid touching their eyes, nose and mouth. Germs can transfer from those areas on to their clean hands and spread around the classroom this way.

Reinforce frequent handwashing and sanitation and look for needed supplies. Prepare and maintain handwashing stations with soap and water, and if possible, place alcohol-based hand sanitizers in each classroom, at entrances and exits, and near lunchrooms and toilets.

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