Despite the 5th wave of coronavirus, Jean-Michel Blanquer has confirmed that the school holidays which began on December 18 would not be extended in January. Calendar.
[Mise à jour du 20 décembre à 9h25]. The 5th wave of Covid-19 is increasing in France and in Europe and the Omicron variant should become the majority in mid January. However, France does not currently plan to extend the Christmas holidays which started on December 18 and end on January 3. “(It’s not) the preferred hypothesis“, said Jean-Michel Blanquer on December 20. “From the start, there has always been pressure to close the school as soon as there is an alert and I have always resisted this pressure as much as possible because the school is not an adjustment variable, it is essential for our children and therefore, it’s the last thing to be closedr (….) This is what we do last because we put children first in all our decisions, children first“, explained the Minister of National Education on LCI.
The wave of coronavirus had brought Belgium to bring forward the dates of the Christmas school holidays, where they began on December 18, a week earlier than expected, in kindergarten and primary. The question had also been debated within the French government, which finally ruled on December 6 during a defense council. Lhe hypothesis of bringing the school holidays forward had been ruled out. “We must not accustom people to the fact that we go to school, we don’t go “ Jean-Michel Blanquer said on December 7 on RTL. “School is serious, school is good for children,” he recalled, also specifying that “one of the great lessons of the global health crisis is that children are not doing well when they are not going to school “. Changing the school calendar is therefore not the course envisaged for the moment by the government. In contrast, the school health protocol is reinforced: it has gone from level 2 to level 3 with the wearing of the mask inside and outside and a limitation of sports activities outside. here are the Christmas holidays 2021, which are identical to all the pupils of zone A, B or C.
The Christmas holiday dates are the same for the pupils of zone A, B or C. They started the Saturday December 18, 2021 and end on Monday January 3, 2022
Zone A | Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers | From Saturday, December 18, 2021 to Monday, January 3, 2022 |
| Zone B | Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg | From Saturday, December 18, 2021 to Monday, January 3, 2022 |
| Zone C | Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Versailles | From Saturday, December 18, 2021 to Monday, January 3, 2022 |
For the students of the zone A (Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, and Poitiers), the Christmas holidays began on Saturday, December 18, 2021. Students will resume classes at the start of the following year, on Monday, January 3, 2022 .
For zone B (Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg), the Christmas holidays also take place from Saturday December 18, 2021 to Monday January 3, 2022.
Pupils in zone C (Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Versailles), have been on vacation since on Saturday December 18, 2021 and until Monday January 3, 2022.