What start time of the first period for primary school students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in the 2024-2025 school year under Official Dispatch 5432/SGDDT-GDTH in 2024?
What are regulations on periodic assessments of primary school students in Vietnam?
Based on Article 7 of the Regulation on the evaluation of primary school students issued with Circular 27/2020/TT-BGDDT, the guidelines on periodic assessments of primary school students in Vietnam are as follows:
(1) Periodic assessment for academic contents of subjects and academic activities
(i) Mid-term in the first semester, end of the first semester, mid-term in the second semester, and the end of the school year, subject teachers evaluate students based on frequent evaluations, required achievements, and specific manifestations of each subject's competency components, for each subject and educational activity according to the following levels:
- Excellently completed: effectively fulfilling the learning requirements and frequently showing specific manifestations of the competency components of the subject or educational activity;
- Completed: fulfilling the learning requirements and showing specific manifestations of the competency components of the subject or educational activity;
- Not completed: not fulfilling some learning requirements or not showing specific manifestations of the competency components of the subject or educational activity.
(ii) At the end of the first semester and the end of the school year, for mandatory subjects: Vietnamese, Mathematics, Foreign Language 1, History and Geography, Science, Informatics and Technology there are periodic tests;
For grades 4 and 5, there are additional periodic tests in Vietnamese and Mathematics in the mid-term of the first and second semesters.
(iii) The periodic test paper should align with the required achievements and specific manifestations of the subject’s competency components, including questions and exercises designed at the following levels:
- Level 1: Recognize, recall, or describe the learned content and directly apply it to solve familiar situations or problems in learning;
- Level 2: Connect, arrange certain learned contents to solve similar problems;
- Level 3: Apply learned contents to solve new problems or give reasonable feedback in learning and life.
(iv) The test papers are corrected, commented, and scored by teachers on a 10-point scale, without decimal points, and returned to the students. The scores of the periodic tests are not used to compare one student with another. If the results of the end-of-semester and end-of-year tests differ significantly from frequent evaluations, teachers may propose to the school for the student to take another test to accurately assess their academic performance.
(2) Periodic assessment for formation and development of traits and capacities
Mid-term and end-of-term in each semester and the end of the school year, homeroom teachers cooperatively evaluate students with other subject teachers based on comments, specific manifestations during frequent evaluations of each student's main qualities and core competencies according to the following levels:
- Good: Well meets educational requirements, clear and frequent manifestations.
- Satisfactory: Meets educational requirements, manifested but not frequently.
- Needs improvement: Does not fully meet educational requirements, unclear manifestations.
What start time of the first period for primary school students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in the 2024-2025 school year under Official Dispatch 5432/SGDDT-GDTH in 2024? (Image from the Internet)
What start time of the first period for primary school students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in the 2024-2025 school year under Official Dispatch 5432/SGDDT-GDTH in 2024?
On August 30, 2024, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training issued Official Dispatch 5432/SGDĐT-GDTH 2024 DOWNLOAD.
According to Section 3 of Official Dispatch 5432/SGDĐT-GDTH 2024 which regulates the study time for primary school students (study hours for primary school students in HCMC 2024-2025) as follows:
The principal should actively arrange the school’s plan, build a flexible and appropriate timetable, with a minimum of 7 lessons each day, encouraging 4 lessons in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. Besides the 7 lessons in the general education program each day, the school can design the School Program and plan to organize additional activities depending on students' needs and capabilities and agreement with parents.
After daily study hours, the school can develop plans to organize after-school clubs for students until they are picked up. These plans must be approved by the competent authority before implementation.
The school must ensure the daily schedule as follows:
- For classes with two sessions per day:+ The first lesson of the morning starts from 7:30 and no later than 7:45;+ The first lesson of the afternoon starts no earlier than 13:30.
What are regulations on notebooks for primary school students in Vietnam?
According to Section 4 of Official Dispatch 5432/SGDĐT-GDTH 2024 which regulates notebooks for primary school students in Vietnam:
Each grade level should uniformly use three types of line notebooks:
- Math Notebook: Used to record math-related knowledge and practice exercises.- Vietnamese Notebook: Used to record Vietnamese language-related knowledge.- Lesson Notebook: Used to record other subjects.
Grade 1 students are not required to have a Lesson Notebook, but are encouraged to start using it from mid-second semester of the school year.
Note:
- Students can write Reading Assignment Sheets or Reading Diaries in the Vietnamese Notebook.
- For grades 4 and 5, students are encouraged to listen and record important lecture content in the Vietnamese Notebook.
- If students have already taken notes and done exercises in other types of notebooks, they are not required to have additional line notebooks and vice versa.
These are some of the early year activities, preparing for the new school year. The Department of Education and Training requests the leaders of the Education and Training Department, principals of multiple-grade schools (including primary schools) to disseminate the above content to the entire school teaching staff, parents, and students to prepare thoroughly, safely, and successfully accomplish the tasks for the 2024-2025 school year.
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