Safety orientation for students

To ensure that every summer is truly fun and safe for students and children, close, coordinated, and effective cooperation from the three main "pillars" is needed: family, school, and society.

Firefighters instruct students in Bien Hoa city on the use of portable fire extinguishers during the 2024-2025 school year. Photo: Dang Tung

These are solid foundations, working together to develop a comprehensive and synchronized solution to ensure the safety of children and students during the 2025 summer vacation.

Proactive prevention

To prevent subjective causes of accidents and injuries to students during the summer, families play a crucial role in educating , protecting, and guiding their children on accident prevention from an early age. Specifically, each adult in the household needs to spend more time caring for, talking to, and listening to their children; understanding their thoughts, desires, and activities during the summer. Minimize the participation of students and children in spontaneous activities without adult supervision and approval.

Ms. Pham Doan Trang (residing in Tan Mai ward, Bien Hoa city) believes that every student and child needs to be equipped with essential knowledge and life skills. Adults need to guide children in safe traffic participation, absolutely not allowing them to drive motorbikes when they are underage or do not have a driver's license; instructing them on safety principles when swimming, how to identify dangerous areas, and basic drowning rescue skills…

The government requires provincial People's Committees to be responsible for disseminating information and educating children to raise awareness and compliance with regulations on preventing accidents, injuries, and drowning, especially in locations with potential risks of drowning. It is particularly important to clarify the responsibilities of agencies, departments, schools, and families in ensuring the safety of children during the summer break.

Along with the responsibilities of families, schools and educational institutions must effectively fulfill their function of educating and guiding children and students on skills to avoid accidents and injuries during the summer. This should be done even before the summer vacation begins by equipping students with safety knowledge. At the same time, schools can coordinate with organizations, cultural centers, and associations to organize life skills courses, summer camps, sports clubs, arts clubs, etc., for students to participate in; preventing students from seeking recreation in unsafe places such as rivers, streams, ponds, and lakes.

In early May 2025, the Provincial People's Committee requested a clear definition of the responsibilities of state management agencies in education, schools, classrooms, and individual teachers in ensuring traffic safety for students. In particular, ensuring traffic safety for students should be included as one of the criteria for evaluating annual performance of state management agencies in education, educational institutions, staff, and teachers, and for assessing and ranking student conduct in each semester and academic year.

According to Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training Do Huy Khanh, the department's leadership has instructed schools to guide communication and education on knowledge and skills for preventing and combating school violence, preventing crime and social evils, preventing drowning, and teaching safe swimming to children and students. At the same time, educational institutions are directed to proactively coordinate with relevant agencies, local organizations, and parents in monitoring and managing students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, ensuring that all children and students have a safe, healthy, and enriching summer vacation.

In addition, many state management agencies in the field of transportation and local authorities have proposed solutions to create a safe and healthy environment for students during the summer break. For example, the Traffic Police Department of the Provincial Public Security has implemented various measures to cooperate with schools to educate, raise awareness, and improve compliance with traffic safety regulations among students.

According to Le Kim Huong, Chairwoman of the People's Committee of Phuoc Tan Ward (Bien Hoa City), the local authorities have surveyed and posted warning signs in areas with rivers, lakes, ponds, canals, and construction sites that pose a high risk of drowning. They are also coordinating with schools to advise parents and students to be vigilant about the risk of drowning and to prevent children from playing near ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams during the summer break.

Developing healthy and enriching playgrounds.

On May 10th, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Official Dispatch No. 61/CD-TTg regarding the organization of the high school graduation exam, ensuring staffing for preschool and primary school teachers, and summer vacation for children and students in 2025. The Prime Minister clearly directed that during the 2025 summer vacation, provincial People's Committees should direct and guide relevant agencies and organizations to closely coordinate with the Youth Union and other mass organizations to create a healthy environment for recreation, life skills training, participation in foreign language, cultural, artistic, and sports activities, and physical development. The goal is to build a suitable environment for learning and using foreign languages ​​in the community; and at the same time create healthy recreational activities that attract the participation of children, students, and young people.

Traffic police officers instruct students in Bien Hoa city on how to wear helmets correctly.

Notably, the Government has requested provincial People's Committees and the Ministry of Education and Training to increase investment in facilities to support the organization of clubs for students to participate in physical activities, sports, and develop life skills, foreign languages, and arts; and to organize swimming lessons in educational institutions. At the same time, it emphasizes strengthening coordination between schools and families to create opportunities for children and students to play, participate in cultural and artistic activities, and develop physical and life skills during the summer; and to manage children and students to prevent accidents, injuries, and drowning.

This directive has received much support from the public as the 2025 summer vacation approaches. Mr. Cao Cong Hau (residing in Long Binh Tan ward, Bien Hoa city) said that it is necessary to increase beneficial and meaningful recreational activities at parks, cultural centers, sports centers, and libraries so that students and children have healthy and safe places to play. This will allow students to connect with their peers and develop themselves in a positive direction.

Clearly, addressing the existing safety risks for students during the summer requires coordinated and effective efforts from families, schools, and society. Specifically, families need to be a strong support system, providing knowledge and close supervision; schools need to guide, organize beneficial activities, and maintain connections; and society and relevant authorities need to build a safe environment and organize many healthy activities and playgrounds. Only then can we ensure a truly safe, joyful, and enriching summer, helping children and students develop comprehensively and avoid unnecessary dangers.

Dang Tung

Source: https://baodongnai.com.vn/dong-nai-cuoi-tuan/202505/dinh-huong-an-toan-cho-hoc-sinh-0d61130/