Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Date of the school start celebrations for first graders variable

Schwerin (dpa/mv) - The school start celebrations for first graders in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania no longer have to take place on the last Saturday of the summer holidays from the coming school year.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Date of the school start celebrations for first graders variable

Schwerin (dpa/mv) - The school start celebrations for first graders in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania no longer have to take place on the last Saturday of the summer holidays from the coming school year. In the future, every school can decide with the parents whether the celebration will take place on the usual date or a week later, on the Saturday after the first week of school, said Minister of Education Simone Oldenburg (left) on Wednesday in an interview with the radio station Ostseewelle. The school conference, in which the parents are involved, should decide on the date.

Some schools would like to hold the school entrance ceremony at the end of a welcome week, when the first graders have already gotten a taste of school life. The teachers could also be relieved, who previously had to organize a lot in the last week of vacation. And some elementary school students who help design the welcome program have not yet returned from vacation in the last week of vacation.