Safety orientation for students

Fire prevention and fighting police force instructs students in Bien Hoa city to use portable fire extinguishers in the 2024-2025 school year. Photo: Dang Tung

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

Proactive prevention

To prevent subjective causes leading to injuries for students in the summer, families play an important role ineducating , protecting and guiding their children to prevent injuries early. Specifically, each adult in the family needs to spend more time caring for, talking to, and listening to their children; understanding their thoughts, wishes and activities in the summer. Minimize students and children participating in spontaneous activities without supervision and consent from adults.

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

The Government requires the provincial People's Committees to be responsible for propagating and educating to raise awareness and consciousness so that children know and comply with regulations on preventing and combating accidents, injuries, and drowning, especially in places with potential risks of unsafety and drowning. In particular, it is necessary to clarify the responsibilities of agencies, departments, branches, schools and families in ensuring the safety of children during the summer vacation.

Along with the responsibility of families, schools and educational institutions must do a good job of educating and orienting children and students on skills to avoid incidents and summer injuries. This must be done before the summer vacation begins by equipping students with safety knowledge. At the same time, schools can coordinate with mass organizations and cultural centers to organize life skills courses, summer camps, sports and art clubs, etc. for students to participate in; to avoid students going to unsafe places to play such as rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, etc.

In early May 2025, the Provincial People's Committee requested to clearly define the responsibilities of state management agencies on education, schools, classrooms, and each teacher in ensuring traffic safety for students. In particular, ensuring traffic safety for students is one of the criteria for annual emulation assessment for state management agencies on education, educational institutions, cadres, employees, teachers, and assessment and classification of student conduct in each semester and school year.

Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training Do Huy Khanh said that the department's leaders have requested schools to provide guidance on communication work, education on knowledge and skills to prevent and combat school violence, prevent crimes and social evils, prevent and combat drowning and teach safe swimming to children and students. At the same time, instruct educational institutions to proactively coordinate with functional agencies, local organizations and parents in monitoring and managing students, especially those in difficult circumstances, to ensure that all children and students have a safe, healthy and rewarding summer vacation.

Along with that, many state management agencies in the field of traffic and local authorities have proposed solutions to create a safe and healthy environment for students during the summer vacation. For example, the Provincial Traffic Police Department has taken many measures to coordinate with schools to educate, propagate and raise awareness of compliance with traffic safety regulations for students.

Chairman of Phuoc Tan Ward People's Committee (Bien Hoa City) Le Kim Huong said that the local government has surveyed and posted warning signs in areas of rivers, lakes, ponds, ditches, and construction sites with high risk of drowning. At the same time, they have coordinated with schools to advise parents and students to be aware of the risk of drowning; do not let children and students play near ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams during the summer vacation.

Developing healthy and useful playgrounds

On May 10, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Official Dispatch No. 61/CD-TTg on organizing the High School Graduation Exam, ensuring the staffing of preschool and general education teachers, and summer vacation for children and students in 2025. The Prime Minister clearly directed that during the summer vacation of 2025, the Provincial People's Committees shall direct and guide relevant agencies and organizations, closely coordinate with the Youth Union and mass organizations to create a healthy recreational environment, practice life skills, participate in foreign language, cultural, artistic, sports, and physical development activities. The goal is to build a suitable environment for learning and using foreign languages ​​in the community; at the same time, create healthy recreational and entertainment activities, attracting the participation of children, students, and university students.

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

Notably, the Government requested the Provincial People's Committees and the Ministry of Education and Training to increase investment in facilities to organize clubs for students to participate in physical activities, sports; practice life skills, foreign languages, arts, and organize swimming lessons in educational institutions. At the same time, strengthen coordination between schools and families to create conditions for children and students to have fun, participate in cultural and artistic activities, practice physical training, practice life skills during the summer; manage children and students to prevent accidents, injuries, and drowning.

This directive has received much support from the people as the 2025 summer vacation is approaching. Mr. Cao Cong Hau (residing in Long Binh Tan ward, Bien Hoa city) said that it is necessary to increase useful and meaningful recreational activities in parks, cultural houses, sports centers, and libraries so that students and children have a healthy and safe place to play. Thanks to that, students have the opportunity to connect with their peers and develop themselves in a positive way.

Obviously, to solve the existing safety risks for students in the summer requires synchronous and effective coordination from families, schools and society. Specifically, families need to be a solid support, equipped with knowledge and closely monitored; schools need to orient, organize useful activities and maintain connections; society and authorities need to build a safe environment, organize many activities and healthy playgrounds. Only then can we ensure a truly safe, joyful and rewarding summer; help children and students develop comprehensively, away from unnecessary dangers.

Dang Tung

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