“Physical Education – Online”: a mixed format was invented for schoolchildren in the Belgorod Region

Training from September 1 in Belgorod will be organized in full-time format, the Ministry of Education of the Belgorod Region announced on August 29. However, there will be several formats for training in the region. In the zone up to 20 kilometers from the border, children will study remotely, and if schools are located at a distance of more than 20 kilometers, then in person. But each school determines its own format of education, taking into account the recommendations of the Ministry of Education of the region. “MK” learned from residents of border towns the details of the upcoming studies of their children from September 1.

On August 29, the Ministry of Education of the Belgorod Region announced that the windows of schools and kindergartens were pasted over with armored film in Belgorod

The quality of the work was personally checked by the governor of the region. 122 educational institutions had to have time to take measures to ensure the safety of children before the start of the new school year. 52 schools and 70 kindergartens in Belgorod received more than 65,000 square meters of special film.

In addition, as MK was told in the department, Belgorod parents can transfer their child to distance learning, even if their school works full-time.

“For this, parents only need to write an application at their school,” the ministry said. – Also, at any time, the student will be able to return to full-time education at the request of one of the parents.

In early August, all schools and kindergartens that will receive children in person were instructed to create shelters equipped with furniture, a first aid kit, water and backup lighting, and the staff was instructed to master the practical skills of providing first aid and knowledge of how to act in an emergency. Written consents were collected from parents and teachers for study and work in full-time format.

– We will study in a mixed format. Some of the lessons are in-person, some are remote, – a teacher from the city of Valuyki shared with MK. – There will be such lessons as physical education, technology, art and music online.

– And how, I wonder, will physical education online be held for children?

“The students will repeat the exercises that the coach will show them on the screen, and then they will have to make videos of their workouts and send them to the teacher.

– How did you react to the decision on the mixed format?

– This format is the most correct at the moment, since it is the prospect of children getting more knowledge for the future than the amount that the child received through distance learning.

Many of the parents we interviewed are quite satisfied with this situation. “The main thing is that the main disciplines, exact sciences are “live”! one of the mothers from Valuyki told us. – Okay, when I was still in elementary grades, I did my homework until the fourth grade without any problems. And you open the seventh grade mathematics textbook and try to explain something to a child who does not understand anything! According to Viber, learning is not at all what the teacher explains live.

– We moved from Shebekino to Belgorod, since June we have been renting a two-room apartment for 23,000 rubles. per month, – Anna told MK, whose son “goes” (now, alas, not in the literal sense) on September 1 to the third grade. – In general, we like it here, we settled down normally. I work as a copywriter, remotely. I decided not to transfer my son to a new school, he stayed in Shebekinskaya, they will study remotely. And tomorrow we will have a lineup in an online format.

– Have you already been told what the lineup will look like on September 1st online?

– While I don’t really imagine, we haven’t had this yet, but we were asked to dress up. Some kind of video will be shown to the children, congratulations… We will connect to the Sferum, this is a platform through VK.

– Why didn’t you want to transfer the child to a school in Belgorod?

– I don’t see the point in this, because not all children will study there in full-time format. As far as I know, only high school students who need to take exams, and first graders. Therefore, Shebekin children definitely do not belong there. She left her son in the usual team. Another thing is that from Belgorod it will be easier for us to study remotely using a computer, since the connection is better here. But how will Shebekin’s children study?! In Shebekino, after all, the Internet is very bad! Parents wrote a request about the Internet to the district administration, but did not receive a response … At the same time, I am disgusting about distance learning. My son is an excellent student, but it is so hard for me! Teachers are also sorry, they also suffer from distance learning. It is clear that all this is for security purposes. But learning at a distance is a darkness…

“Let the distance be better,” says the mother of a third grade student from Shebekino. – We survived the second class, now we must withstand the third, even though it will not be easy. We must hold on for the sake of our children. And we, parents, must help them with their studies, otherwise they will be left without education.

Residents of Shebekino also said that amid the shelling of their city, many parents took documents from local schools in the summer and moved with their children to safe regions, especially those with high school students. Because they don’t want their children to study at a distance in grade 9-10-11, which they do not trust.