{"id":2947,"date":"2020-02-08T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T08:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2020-02-08T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T08:14:43","slug":"school-bags-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"School Bags &#8211; Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Research carried out in Maltese schools over the past years has indicated that schoolbag weight is a recurrent issue that school children have had to deal with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excessive weight of schoolbags can have a negative impact on children\u2019s dispositions and health and it is for these reasons that the Directorate for Educational Services has drawn up guidelines for schools, learners and parents in a bid to remedy the problem.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Studies carried out by the Directorate for Educational Services within the Ministry for Education and Employment have indicated that the causes of heavy schoolbags are, in the main, attributed to the carriage of textbooks followed by that of files and water bottles. Students also take to school objects not related to schooling.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guidelines here under are intended to create further awareness of the issue in question and, more importantly, to provide concrete indications as to how the problem can be alleviated. Parents are encouraged to take on board the proposals indicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MEE-SchoolBag-Guidelines-Gwida-G\u0127all-Istudenti-Tal-Primarja-u-s-Sekondarja.pdf\">Gwida g\u0127all-Istudenti<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MEE-SchoolBag-Guidelines-Gwida-G\u0127all-Istudenti-Tal-Primarja-u-s-Sekondarja.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MEE-SchoolBag-Guidelines-Gwida-g\u0127all-g\u0307enituri.pdf\">Gwida g\u0127all-\u0120enituri<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MEE-SchoolBag-Guidelines-Gwida-g\u0127all-g\u0307enituri.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MEE-SchoolBag-Guidelines-Guidelines-For-Students-Attending-Primary-And-Secondary-Schools-.pdf\">Guidelines for Students<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MEE-SchoolBag-Guidelines-Guidelines-For-Students-Attending-Primary-And-Secondary-Schools-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MEE-SchoolBag-Guidelines-Guidelines-for-parents.pdf\">Guidelines for Parents<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/MEE-SchoolBag-Guidelines-Guidelines-for-parents.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research carried out in Maltese schools over the past years has indicated that schoolbag weight is a recurrent issue that school children have had to deal with. Excessive weight of schoolbags can have a negative impact on children\u2019s dispositions and health and it is for these reasons that the Directorate for Educational Services has drawn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/?p=2947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School Bags &#8211; Guidelines<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":2954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/arthur-edelman-W8gT-Tx5YmU-unsplash.jpg?fit=1024%2C767&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ccUg-Lx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smc.zabbarb.skola.edu.mt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}