The problem of insufficient student activity venues needs to be solved urgently (people’s attention)
In April of this year, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the “Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Physical Fitness and Health of Primary and Secondary School Students”, requiring primary and secondary schools to arrange 30 minutes of large break physical activities every day. Students should be arranged to walk out of the classroom during each break. relax. However, the reporter found in the investigation that due to the small size of the campus and the surge in the number of students in some schools, the problem of insufficient student activity venues needs to be solved urgently.
“The school was built on the scale of 24 teaching classes, but now there are 37 classes. There are nearly double the number of students, and there is a serious shortage of student activity spaces.” A parent of a primary school in Liaoning Province said, “The school playground is only 200 meters away. On the runway, students do exercises in batches, with the lower grades in the morning and the upper grades in the afternoon.”
The reporter interviewed central urban primary schools in four places in Liaoning. From 2016 to 2020, the number of students in the central urban areas of the four places increased by more than 20,000, but the area of activity venues decreased by nearly 5,000 square meters due to construction and other factors. The area is reduced by 3.29 square meters.
Wenyuan Primary School in Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, Henan Province is a newly built primary school in 2016. It covers an area of about 20 acres and has 24 teaching classes. Although the school has only been established for 5 years, the school space has become “powerless”. In order to accommodate more students, the school moved the reading room to the staircase corridor, and the classroom was designed as a multi-purpose room as much as possible. At the same time, the underground and roof spaces were also transformed, and the function rooms were moved to these places as much as possible.
“The lack of venues for primary school activities exists in different places in different places.” said a principal of a primary school in Liaoning Province. “This situation is even more obvious in the central city.” According to media reports, a primary school in Shanghai With an area of 18 acres, the activity venue for more than 1,500 students is 3 basketball courts and a 50-meter track. Physical education classes can only be used for sports that do not require high venues, such as shuttlecock kicking and rope skipping. There are also schools that arrange students in open spaces such as the steps of the teaching building and flower beds when doing inter-class exercises, and even open up the open space on the roof as a temporary playground.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient activity venues, many schools have carried out innovative explorations. Some schools in Henan have renovated basements, garages, etc., moved the library, calligraphy room, art room, activity room, etc. to the basement, and used them in groups to partially solve the shortage of school classrooms. Some schools remodeled classrooms by adjusting tables and chairs to achieve flexible switching between ordinary classrooms and activity rooms; others borrowed from nearby stadiums to carry out sports activities to improve the environment for student activities.
An educator who has been teaching for more than 30 years said that the school’s “exploitation” of internal space or borrowing venues can alleviate the lack of space for activities, but to fundamentally ensure sufficient space for student activities, it is necessary to achieve a balanced development of compulsory education , To avoid excessive concentration of students in a few schools.
Zhao Haiqian, director of the Decision-making Consultation Department of the Shenyang Education Research Institute, said that the education administration department should scientifically predict the allocation needs of educational resources, use the Internet, big data and other means to scientifically predict the changes in the number and structural distribution of the school-age population, and at the same time work closely with government departments. The changing trend of the school-age population, scientific and reasonable planning of resources such as education funding, teacher staffing and school layout, and achieving high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education.
Our reporter Xin Yang Bi Jingjin
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