Hand washing drills for pupils

Washing hands e. coli infections in BergenWashing his hands.Photo: Heiko Junge / SCANPIX

Many excited school kids will get to meet their teachers and classmates on Monday for the first time in six weeks. Now a slightly different school day awaits.

“Hand washing is the first thing we will talk about after students are welcomed in the school yard,” says Principal Thomas Hansen at Ellingsrudåsen School in Oslo to NTB.

Good hygiene measures are at the forefront of preventing coronavirus infection when schools reopen after several weeks of home-schooling.

The last thing the kids have to do before they leave home – and the first thing to do when they arrive at school – is to wash their hands.

Believes the kids will manage
There will be hand washing both before and after meals. Every time you cough or sneeze, and of course after a toilet visit. In addition, the hands should be washed every time they come in from outside activity or play time, or go from one activity to another.

Are pupils able to follow this down to the age of six? The principal has good faith that things will go well.

“We know that the students have been working on this at home. Hygiene has been part of the homeschooling program, but the youngest probably need some help and support from adults,” says Hansen.

Opening for 250,000 students
For 250,000 pupils in primary school, everyday life moves a little closer to normality.

In the same way as in kindergartens, the advice is to divide into smaller, regular groups (max. 15 pupils per teacher), more outside time and to keep distance. If you are ill, you should be at home.

The pupils should basically have the same subjects and the same number of hours as before. Students who have the right to special education should, as far as possible, continue to receive this.

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