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At an elementary school in Charlottenburg, children from a JÜL class, first and second grade students learn together here, they leave at 11.30 a.m., where parents with umbrellas and face masks are already waiting for them. Children report exciting but also beautiful first three and a half hours of school. Each child has his own place, divided into two rooms, 1.50 meters from the neighbor, measured exactly by the caregiver.
In this seat, and only there, you can remove the protection of the mouth and nose. If you just want to go to the trash, you need to put it back. Students are allowed to go to the bathroom by themselves, then they take a “toilet card”, which they put on the bathroom door, then they take the whole room and other children have to wait. Rest does not take place on the patio, but in the gym: enjoy games from a distance, without hitting or touching.
Here’s how it works: You can get as close as a meter, then you have to reach out and “Got it yourself!” call. In the morning, the classroom teacher explains the new rules first, then there is an assignment: What have you experienced in the past few weeks? – draw and write a text!
A girl writes about how she bought face masks with the whole family. A boy reports on playing soccer in the apartment. The teacher wants to know who is happy that the student has started again: 15 of the 18 children report, some immediately raised both index fingers.
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Johannes, a fifth-grade student at Nord Elementary School in Zehlendorf, was a little excited the morning before school. “I just had a weird feeling because the whole class was not there, just nine children, we were sitting alone at the big table where there are usually two,” he says.
And: “Rest in the yard was stupid, we couldn’t play, we couldn’t do any sports, everything was forbidden.” However, he was glad that he could finally see some friends again. “It was a great first day of school.” And his mother confirmed: “He came home very happy.”
Distance lines and directional arrows.
A primary school teacher in Steglitz-Zehlendorf reports that children now have lessons at different times, come and go to school remotely and in a one-way system. “In class, children find tables in front with names that are separated,” she says. Masks are mandatory when entering and leaving, signs indicate hygiene rules, there are supervisors on the stairs and in the bathrooms.
On the floor, as in the shops, there are distance lines and arrows, in front of the school there are colored tracks. Hands should be washed before class, only two children are allowed in the bathroom, all doors are open, of course, not the bathroom doors, to avoid smear infection. It is generally very quiet, but the effect is somewhat military. “Children are remarkably reserved.”
One week off
A 15-year-old student from a Steglitzer grammar school is very satisfied, because after a week’s break, the tenth grade returned to school. “Today was much better,” he says. “The first time two weeks ago, we all had to sit in the gym some distance away, it all seemed a little creepy.”
Now the class is quartered. They are usually 32 years old, “now I am in the classroom with seven other people at a distance between the tables,” and the teachers do the lessons in the usual way. “Fewer people are good, on the one hand, on the other hand, you have to be much more careful and do it more frequently. It is exhausting, ”says the student. This week the class will only have three days of school.
Different start of classes
At a Brandenburg primary school, classes started at different times. Sixth grade at 7:50 a.m., 8 a.m., 8:10 a.m. and 8:20 a.m., beginning at 8:30 a.m., then fifth grade. One student was anxious about the lesson and was disappointed that he had to stay away from his friends.
It was similar in a school in Potsdam. In the end, a twelve-year-old boy had not found the weeks at home without class so good. As the fifth grade of a free school, I still had mixed feelings about the first day. There were seven children in his class that day.
They were supposed to come to school in a ten-minute window, were greeted by teaching staff, and brought into the classroom without contact with other groups. There the tables were so far apart that they corresponded to the minimum distance. And on the tables where this did not work, the areas had been divided with adhesive tape.
He and his classmates were wearing their own face masks when they arrived. However, the school gave them new copies for the class. In the first hour it was more turbulent than usual. The seven children present, some of whom are close friends and who had rarely seen each other in the past few weeks, had accumulated a lot. When they were eating during the break, they sat down to talk together, not as closely as usual, but they were still familiar. No one else was in the dining room. Students rotate in small groups through the school building.
