On December 30, the Suzhou Municipal Education Bureau issued a notice on the work related to the winter vacation of primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the city in 2023. Suzhou The second semester academic calendar for primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the 2022-2023 school year has been officially released.
Suzhou primary and secondary school kindergartens will have winter vacation on January 12, 2023, and the winter vacation will end on February 5, 2023. Schools should guide students in arranging their winter vacation life by issuing letters to parents. Secondary vocational schools decide their own winter vacation time based on the school’s actual work conditions.
comprehensively evaluates semester grades. There is no unified final written examination for primary school, junior high school and senior high school students. Primary schools can use process evaluation methods to comprehensively evaluate semester grades. Junior high school students and first-year senior high school students can use mid-term scores plus process evaluation to comprehensively evaluate semester scores. The final exams for the second and third graders of high school are scheduled to be held after the start of the spring semester of 2023. The specific time will be notified later. The province's general high school academic proficiency examination (for sophomores and some seniors) originally scheduled to be held in January 2023 has been postponed to the end of February and early March.
In the spring of 2023, kindergartens in primary and secondary schools in the city are scheduled to officially start classes on February 6, 2023 (students will register on February 5). The semester for all primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the city will end on June 30, 2023, and summer vacation is initially scheduled to start on July 1. Each school can make appropriate adjustments to the final exam time based on actual work needs. Unless there are special circumstances, the start of the fall semester is scheduled to be September 1.
will do a solid job in holiday safety education and safety management. Schools in various places must firmly establish the concept of "life first, safety first" and carry out safety education activities such as fire prevention, electric shock prevention, food poisoning prevention, accidental injury prevention, traffic accident prevention, telecommunications and network fraud prevention, drowning prevention and other safety education activities before the holidays, to comprehensively improve the safety protection capabilities of teachers and students, and effectively enhance parents' awareness of safety responsibility. It is necessary to highlight the prevention of injuries to students caused by setting off fireworks and firecrackers, using open flames, etc. All schools must strictly manage safety during holidays, strengthen campus safety inspections, and implement various safety management measures.
effectively protects the physical and mental health of teachers and students. Schools in all regions must fully implement the optimization and adjustment requirements for epidemic prevention and control, further optimize school epidemic prevention and control work, strengthen students' awareness that "they are the first person responsible for life and health," educate students to master necessary personal epidemic protection knowledge, and protect the health of teachers and students; they must refine holiday campus management plans. Campuses implement closed management in principle, and health monitoring should be done for outsiders who enter the school for work needs; pay attention to the health of teachers and students, and do a good job of checking the health status of all teachers and students before returning to school. It is necessary to pay great attention to the mental health of students. In view of the characteristics of students who stay at home for a long time, strengthen communication between home and school through offline home visits, phone calls, WeChat, text messages, the Internet, etc., understand students’ home study life and physical and mental health conditions, and guide students’ parents to pay attention to educational methods and methods, strengthen communication with children, and respect children. Healthy interests in children, cultivate good study and living habits in children, help students grasp the rhythm of homework throughout the winter vacation, encourage children to actively participate in sports, literature and art activities that are beneficial to physical and mental health and cultivate sentiments, guide students to work and rest on time, take the initiative to undertake housework, use electronic products scientifically and rationally, and not be addicted to online games. It is necessary to inform students and parents of provincial and municipal psychological assistance hotline numbers such as "Teacher Su" of the Suzhou Healthy Growth Guidance Center for Minors to increase awareness and encourage students and parents to call for help when needed.
enriches students’ holiday life. Schools in various places should, based on local conditions, keep close contact with families and communities, make full use of youth off-campus activity centers, libraries, museums, cultural centers, gymnasiums, labor education and comprehensive practice bases and other places to provide students with more beneficial activities. Guide students to adhere to a regular schedule, strengthen physical exercise, carry out useful reading, participate in social practice, and share housework during the winter vacation. Guide parents of students to establish correct educational concepts, pay more attention to their children's physical and mental health, not blindly follow the trend and participate in social training, arrange more activities suitable for students' interests, hobbies and specialties, and improve students' comprehensive quality.
arrange holiday homework reasonably. Each school must effectively coordinate the total amount of winter vacation homework and reduce the homework burden. No written winter vacation homework will be assigned to the lower grades of primary schools; the total amount of winter vacation homework assigned to each subject per day in the middle and upper grades of elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools will not exceed the usual number of homework requirements to ensure that students have sufficient time to independently arrange holiday activities. Arrange an appropriate amount of winter vacation sports homework to help children develop sports habits. Improve the quality of students' homework, advocate the assignment of active, experiential, exploratory, and practical homework, and guide students to improve their practical innovation ability through their own hands and brains.
Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Gu Qiuping
Proofreading Tao Shanggong
