The Department of Education of the Government of Navarra wants the relationship between students to be as low as possible at the beginning of the school year from 4 to 7 September, for which it will apply the Protocol of Prevention and Ordination of Educational Activity of the Foral Government. This protocol is based on a system of "lockable sectors", composed of workers, students and certain specific spaces, which, in the most restrictive situation, will not be able to communicate with each other. The intersectoral relationship may become more flexible if the epidemiological situation of the pandemic improves.
The system of lockable sectors aims at the zoning of the people and the space they occupy, as a "bubble group", so that in the event of an outbreak of COVID-19, the measures that the health authority determines in that particular sector can be adopted and the rest of the sectors will continue to function "under a surveillance system".
The protocol is based on limiting the flow of people and the exchange of classrooms within each sector, so it will give priority to the teaching staff to attend the reference classrooms of the students. In this sense, except in the case of stable coexistence groups up to 4 years of Early Childhood and Primary Education, each student will be assigned a fixed school post, both in the ordinary classroom and in the separate and specific classrooms, to search for close contacts.
In relation to the stage of Early Childhood Education and the stage of Primary Education up to the fourth grade, the stable group of coexistence is understood as the students with a maximum of 25 people and the teaching team that attends it, practically isolated from the rest of the groups of the center. In these cycles the movement within the classroom will be free, without the need to reduce the separation between people of 1.5 meters or the use of a mask. The interaction between these groups and the rest of the students will be limited to the maximum, especially in the common spaces, such as the patio or the dining room, to which they will be incorporated in a rotational way and which will have a space to eat, being able, if deemed convenient, to use the classrooms.
The Department of Education believes that teachers can be "vectors that can penetrate the virus in all sectors", as they will move from classroom to classroom to office. It therefore provides for the maximum limitation of movement within the centre.
and considers that it is appropriate for each professional, whether a professor or a student, to have as far as possible a place and their personal working material.
Likewise, when several sectors use the same access routes to school, they must use them in a phased way to avoid concurrent agglomerations and movements in common areas.
The Plan of the Government of Navarra provides as a general rule that the ratio of students per classroom is determined in such a way as to respect the minimum interpersonal distance of 1.5 metres, for which a minimum area of 2.25 square metres per student is fixed. According to this criterion, the ability of the classrooms will depend on their size, there may be groups of up to 25 students in Elementary and Childhood, 30 in High School and 33 in High School if the classroom surface allows it.
Also, in view of the possible worsening of the situation of the pandemic, the Department of Education calls on educational institutions throughout Navarre to develop a digital teaching plan to enable them to close their classrooms.