Bac Yen Thanh High School: Proud of 40 years of development and construction
(Baonghean.vn) - 40 years ago, in the Ru Dat area, the first opening ceremony of the second branch of Yen Thanh I High School was held. The school was located on a difficult land, carrying with it aspirations, ambitions and beliefs about "Our school is like a river carrying heavy alluvial soil, bringing water to irrigate...".
School for students in "difficult areas"
In the late 70s of the last century, the whole Yen Thanh district had 3 high schools, but the large northern area of the district had no schools.
At that time, although many children in communes such as Phuc Thanh, Hau Thanh, Hung Thanh, Lang Thanh, Ma Thanh, Tien Thanh, Tan Thanh, Duc Thanh, Do Thanh, Tho Thanh, Hong Thanh and Phu Thanh... finished secondary school and wished to continue their studies, due to difficult conditions and long distances, only a few children from well-off families had the opportunity to go to Hoa Thanh commune (Yen Thanh 1 High School) to study.
The pressure on studying at that time was very great, so in the early 80s, the People's Committee of Yen Thanh district issued a policy to build a second branch of Yen Thanh I High School in the northern area of the district and assigned a number of district officials and enthusiastic people to the school construction committee.
The policy was immediately approved and supported by the people. In the early days, after surveying the location in Ru Dat area, the border area between Lang Thanh and Hau Thanh communes (the current location of the school), thousands of students, teachers and local people were mobilized to level the ground.
By 1982, the construction of the school began. The new school was simple at that time, with 3 rows of level 4 houses for classrooms and offices. In addition, there were also teachers' houses. On September 12, 1983, the first opening ceremony of Branch 2, Yen Thanh High School was held, with 9 classes and nearly 300 students...
The generation of those who first laid the foundation stones for the school have not forgotten the difficult days when “there was nothing yet”.
Those were the days after school hours when teachers and students cooked bricks and burned lime to get materials to build buildings for teaching and learning; dug trenches and fences for the school.
Back then, without the help of the government and parents, it would be difficult to have a spacious school like today...
Speaking of the school's development process, we must also mention the year 1991, when, implementing the policy of rearranging the school network, Yen Thanh district decided to merge Branch 2, Phan Dang Luu High School with Lang Thanh Secondary School to establish Bac Yen Thanh Secondary School.
This is also considered a new page in the school's history, marking many changes when the school rearranged the teaching staff, from a high school to a two-level school, in which, in addition to 5 high school classes, there are also 4 middle school classes from grades 6 to 9. At this time, the image of teachers cycling to each locality to mobilize students to go to school has become familiar, many students after a period of absence have asked to return to school.
The valuable thing is that although in the 40-year history of building and developing the school, this is the period when the school has the fewest number of high school classes, but that does not mean there is a lack of outstanding faces.
In particular, from the 1993-1994 school year, the school began to have excellent students in the province and in the following years, the number of excellent students in the province gradually increased in number and awards.
With the increasingly expanding scale, in August 1996, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee signed Decision No. 2998/QD-UB to separate Bac Yen Thanh Secondary and High School into two schools: Lang Thanh Secondary School and Bac Yen Thanh High School (later called Bac Yen Thanh High School). The name Bac Yen Thanh High School officially existed from this time.
Real teaching, real learning, real quality
Looking back at the 40-year process of construction and growth, although Bac Yen Thanh High School encountered many difficulties at times, it is from these difficulties that we can see more clearly the efforts, determination, dedication and responsibility of the school's teaching staff.
The most obvious change is in the quality of education, thereby building the school's reputation, becoming a place of trust for generations of parents and students.
As the acting Principal of Bac Yen Thanh High School from the 1992-1993 school year and later the Principal of the school until 2002, teacher Nguyen Hoang (later Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training) has many memories during his years with the school.
In the face of many difficulties, we determined that in order to improve quality, we must build discipline and order, overcome the situation of "both school, camp and cow pasture", teachers must ensure teaching hours, comply with regulations on lesson plans, professional group activities, and observing colleagues...
Students must attend school regularly, not skip class, review old lessons at home, and do homework assigned by teachers... In addition to maintaining strict discipline, the school also focused on motivating and encouraging, giving monthly bonuses to teachers, and rewarding excellent students even though the school's budget at that time was very limited.
Right after its implementation, in the first year (1993-1994 school year), the school had 4 students achieving provincial excellent student awards. During the development process, the school also focused on building its team. When the school was first established, there were many stages when the school leaders had to go to each house to persuade teachers to work at the school.
The school has the initiative to organize a "Socialization Conference" with the aim of helping localities grasp the situation of the school; support the school to improve its facilities; encourage children to study at the school; ensure school security and safety. "Teaching truly - learning truly - quality truly" and building the "Two Good" emulation movement are also slogans that the school has maintained for many years, which is both a motto and a consistent orientation for educational activities in the school. Many policies and initiatives of the school still have many practical values.
That is the “Private Wall” – an initiative of Principal Nguyen Trong Hung. There, students can write, draw anything, express any opinion on it without being controlled!
This teacher also expressed the view that “Each student is a separate universe in which he is the center, the teacher is a planet; let’s influence that universe to develop well and in the right direction”, in response to the movement to build friendly schools, this is also another way to call building happy schools – a policy that the Education sector has only recently launched. The dedication and devotion to students of previous generations of leaders and teachers has become a tradition, adding strength to the school community in the later stages.
At each time, despite different circumstances, the school always promotes the spirit of solidarity, creating all conditions for teachers in the school to develop their capacity and creativity in teaching and learning. In particular, from 1996 to now, after officially changing its name, the school has grown strongly, affirming the quality of education; reputation and brand.
From a school in a difficult area, the school has gradually built a spacious infrastructure, with 5 high-rise buildings for classrooms, practice rooms and functional rooms. Equipment has been gradually invested in synchronously and modernly, meeting the increasingly better requirements of teaching, learning and educational innovation.
In addition, the teaching staff is increasingly invested with 100% standard and above standard, many teachers have won high prizes in competitions for excellent teachers and excellent homeroom teachers.
Over the past 40 years, Bac Yen Thanh High School has enrolled and graduated more than 16,000 students; thousands of students have passed the university entrance exam; more than 600 students have been excellent students in the province, many of whom have become good workers, holding important positions in the Party and State apparatus. The number of students passing the university entrance exam with high scores honored by the Provincial People's Committee is among the top high schools in the province with 18 students. Most recently, at the Provincial Excellent Student Competition for Grade 12 in the 2023-2024 school year, the school had 30 students winning prizes, including 1 student who was the valedictorian in Biology, with 19/20 points.
Sharing about the results achieved, teacher Nguyen Ba Thuy - Principal of the school added: Bac Yen Thanh High School has achieved the achievements it has today, first of all thanks to the leadership and direction of Party committees and authorities at all levels through the periods; the close and direct direction of the Department of Education and Training; the attention and support of agencies, departments, branches, and organizations at all levels; the attention and coordination of parents and social forces; the solidarity, consensus, and constant efforts of the school's teaching staff.
In particular, it is the efforts, diligence, creativity in studying and striving of generations of students over the past 40 years. We appreciate the results achieved and will continue to strive to improve so that the school will forever be the pride of generations of students, the trust and love of the Party Committee and the people of Yen Thanh district./.
