Back to school: what to remember from Jean-Michel Blanquer’s announcements – actu.fr

“Reading, writing, counting, respecting others, for five new school days, I have said it over and over again, if we have not succeeded in this, we will not succeed in the rest. »This Thursday August 26, 2021, one week exactly before the Back to School, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer presented to the press, alongside other members of the government, the challenges of the year 2021-2022.

On the educational level in particular, the question of sport will be central this year, with the creation of Pass’Sport and workshops around the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In terms of health, the Minister confirmed the launch of a massive vaccination campaign in middle and high schools. The detail.

Extended free breakfasts

Deployed in 2019, free breakfasts at school that year had enabled 153,000 students not to come to class hungry. The operation, which aims to reduce food inequalities and thus support the most precarious families, will be “redeployed” for this new school year, announced Nathalie Elimas Secretary of State for priority education in France.

This redeployment will be in priority education (in Rep, Rep + and in priority districts of the city policy (QPV), editor’s note.) But also outside priority education, from the small section of kindergarten to CM2.

In total, more than 1,000 municipalities will be involved this year in the system, “Including 20 large cities such as Paris, Lyon”, and 500,000 students will benefit.

According to the latest government data, on average, at school, 3.4 students per class, from CP to CM2, do not eat breakfast before arriving in class. Among the reasons given, lack of appetite, lack of time, getting up early, stress, the absence of parents in the morning and economic reasons.

Launch of Pass’Sport, return of Pass Culture

“With the legacy of the 2024 Olympic Games, we must strengthen the anchoring of sport in society,” said Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, also present alongside Jean-Michel Blanquer.

Also, the 2021-2022 school year will see the launch of the Pass’Sport, presented last May by Emmanuel Macron. This allowance will allow 5.4 million young people aged 6 to 18 to benefit froma reduction of 50 euros on their registration in a sports club at the start of the school year.

At the same time, the Culture Pass will be back. This time it will be “extended to people under 18, from the 4^e at the Terminale“, Said the Minister of Education. As for the amount, it will represent on average “800 euros per year for each class in France”, in order to encourage “collective cultural activities which will be added to individual activities”.

France must be a sporting nation. Thanks to the pass’sport and the cultural pass, we must give more means to the pupils to do more sport and to benefit from more cultural activities.

Still on the sport theme, two educational programs will be launched: the ” know how to swim “ and the “Knowing how to ride a bicycle”, in order to “educate our children for the soft mobility of tomorrow”. In total, 17 million euros will be allocated for aquatic ease or the organization of blue classes, and 21 million euros over three years for learning to cycle, in particular to finance the purchase of accessible educational material. to children.

Make France a sporting nation
➡️ knowing how to swim and knowing how to ride a bicycle as fundamental knowledge
➡️ generalize 30 minutes of physical activities per day
➡️ promote the registration of 6-17 year olds in a sports club with the Pass’Sport
➡️ mobilize around the label # Generation2024 pic.twitter.com/6YpojGuiA4

– Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports (@education_gouv) August 26, 2021

Scholarship applications will soon be simplified

Another novelty concerning scholarship applications, this time: from next year, “families will be notified of their rights when they fill out their tax forms”. Details will be given on this subject in the coming months.

Start of the vaccination campaign in middle and high schools

Jean-Michel Blanquer, who presented a few days ago the new health protocol in schools, confirmed that the level 2 would be preferred in September and that the “test, alert, protect” strategy, implemented since the start of the health crisis, would continue.

Therefore, from the start of the school year, the strategy of screening tests “is being deployed in the first degree ”. The government expects 600,000 saliva tests to be performed each week. As well as targeted antigenic tests and self-tests will be distributed in the establishments.

Already announced, the vaccination campaign for 12-17 year olds will also be launched in September, thanks to “ephemeral centers in middle and high schools or nearby centers, with trips by student volunteers with parental authorization to be vaccinated” , detailed the minister.

To date, 57% of 12-17 year olds have already been vaccinated (…). 78% of teachers have completed their vaccination schedule and 11% will receive their second injection.

And always barrier gestures

In addition, the Minister recalled the importance of respecting barrier gestures (including wearing a mask, regular hand washing, ventilation of the premises, etc.). “We are also developing CO2 sensors, which correspond to the competences of the local communities that we respect, that we encourage, he continued. But they are not central in the fight against Covid-19. “

Regarding air purifiers, Jean-Michel Blanquer recalled that they were not “all the same” and that they “did not have the same virtues”: “they can be counterproductive, they do not replace the fact of opening the Windows “.

In conclusion, the minister assured that the return to Reunion Island and Mayotte had “gone well”. “This morning there were 0.2% of schools closed in Reunion,” he said.

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