Students of Hung Dung 2 Primary School experience weaving sedge mats, making clay pots... on the schoolyard

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These days, along with the whole country joyfully welcoming the Vietnamese Teachers' Charter Day, at Hung Dung 2 Primary School (Vinh City), after a beautiful performance by 5 classes in the commemorative rally and receiving the Emulation Flag of the Provincial People's Committee Chairman, teachers and students of the school returned to their familiar lessons.

In a corner of the school yard, where there is a house roofed with bamboo and thatch, teacher Nga and the 5th grade students are preparing for a practice session on weaving sedge mats.

Local education class at Hung Dung 2 Primary School. Photo: Hoai Thu

“After the students learned about the traditional sedge mat weaving craft of Hung Hoa commune (Vinh city), today they practiced weaving mats,” said Ms. Nga. Then, she carefully guided the students in their practice. One student sat weaving, another student helped put the materials in place. In no time, the sedge mat began to take shape. The students practiced quite skillfully and were especially excited and passionate. After the practice session, the students returned to class with bright smiles, and recounted in detail the knowledge they had been taught.

The visual teaching model is a sturdy bamboo and thatched house built with the contributions of raw materials and skillful hands of parents of grade 3 students and teachers. It was formed after half a month of teachers, students and parents working hard and wholeheartedly to build it. All the decorative items, including production tools such as sedge mat weaving frames, clay pot turning tables, pot sets and rice paper making tools; and farming tools such as plows, harrows, hoes, shovels, shoulder poles, brocade items, etc. were all donated to the school by parents.

“Parents found the idea of ​​building a house to serve the school’s local education classes very practical. Therefore, after communicating the idea and launching the campaign to parents, we received almost 100% agreement, and after only about a week, parents donated hundreds of artifacts. At the same time, parents themselves split bamboo, tied bamboo strips to build the classroom and decorated the objects,” said Ms. Tran Thi Thuy, parent of a student in class 3D.

“I brought three tools, baskets and trays woven from rattan and bamboo. My mother bought those tools from the Thai ethnic people in Con Cuong. Each of my classmates has an item to donate to the exhibition to serve their studies. Every time my classmates come to class, they all like to visit the exhibition booths because there are many beautiful and interesting objects” - Le Binh Nguyen, a student of class 3D happily "showed off".

Ms. Hoang Thi Thuy - Principal of Hung Dung 2 Primary School said: "Based on the desire to arouse love and interest in local educational activities and create a useful practical experience space for students right on the school campus, we came up with the idea of ​​building a model of "Local Education Corner". From that idea, the school has coordinated with traditional craft villages, historical sites, famous landscapes and landscapes to learn and collect content and tools to make famous products of craft villages in Nghe An".

After that, the school cooperated with parents to organize extracurricular activities to build a local education model on the school campus. The model is a small hut, a block model with easy-to-find materials (bamboo, reed, ...), including tools to make products of the craft village: Tools for making sedge mats (Hung Hoa commune, Vinh city); Pots and stoves for making rice paper (Do Luong); famous products of craft villages in Nghe An.

Local education teaching model at Hung Dung 2 Primary School. Photo: Hoai Thu

After the model was completed, the school directed professional groups to flexibly apply the timetable, organize for students to learn about local traditional occupations and have them experience "Training to be artisans of traditional craft villages" right in school.

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The combination of school - family - society in building visual models to help students experience and acquire knowledge about localities right at school has shown very positive results.

Students are excited to experience and acquire knowledge about local culture and traditional occupations. Photo: Hoai Thu

Students become excited, love the learning content and love going to school. Besides, being able to organize teaching and practice right at school also helps save costs for local tours.

Ms. Hoang Thi Thuy said that through statistics, surveys of school students and the process of monitoring their daily activities, the percentage of students interested in local educational content has increased from 40% to 100%.

In particular, in the content of Economic Geography, Career Guidance and Politics - Society, Environment, the flexible application of teaching methods, forms and educational activities has helped the rate of students more interested in learning to over 95%. The rate of students understanding the content of local education has increased significantly, especially in the content of politics, society, environment from 20% - 98%.

Booth displaying traditional handicraft products of Nghe An built by the school in collaboration with parents in the yard of Hung Dung 2 Primary School. Photo: Hoai Thu

In fact, at Hung Dung 2 Primary School, the coordination between "School - Family - Society" has helped mobilize many forces and organizations to participate in educational activities with the school such as: Military units, Ward Youth Union, people in the ward, craft villages... This approach has gradually eliminated the concept that "socialization" work is only about paying money to the school.

With the concern, creativity and efforts in teaching and learning, especially in leadership and orientation, in the past 2 consecutive school years, Hung Dung 2 Primary School has achieved the title of Excellent Labor Collective; in the 2020-2021 school year, the Minister of Education and Training and the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded a Certificate of Merit, recognizing the school as meeting national standards level 2, and educational quality assessment level 3; in the 2021-2022 school year, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded the Emulation Flag.

The quality of comprehensive education for students in the past 2 years has affirmed its leading position in the city's primary school system. At competitions and exchanges at all levels, students of Hung Dung 2 Primary School have always been honored.