Thanh Chuong 1 High School received the Third Class Labor Medal

Many achievements in 60 years of development

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Vo Van Mai - Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training; leaders of Thanh Chuong district and generations of cadres, teachers and students of Thanh Chuong 1 High School.

In 1961, when the country was still at war, the North and South were temporarily divided, with the urgent need to study and train human resources for the new development stage of the country in the revolutionary homeland, rich in the tradition of learning, Thanh Chuong, the Nghe An Provincial Administrative Committee decided to establish Thanh Chuong High School - the predecessor of Thanh Chuong 1 High School today. This is the first high school in Thanh Chuong district and one of the first 5 high schools in the whole province.

After 60 years with both advantages and difficulties, Thanh Chuong 1 High School has always strived to fulfill its political tasks, contributing to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation in general and the educational and training cause of the country and homeland in particular.

From this school, more than 3,000 cadres, teachers and students joined the army, youth volunteers, and frontline laborers to fight against the US to save the country; more than 400 people heroically sacrificed their lives and many left part of their blood and bones on the battlefields.

The school has trained more than 30,000 high school graduates; of which nearly 10,000 have been admitted to universities and colleges. In particular, many students have become leaders and managers in Party and State agencies at all levels; senior officers in the Army, professors, doctors, People's Teachers, Meritorious Teachers, People's Artists, successful businessmen, talented writers, poets, journalists, good workers and producers...

In recognition of the school's achievements, the Party and State have awarded the school with noble titles: Third-class Labor Medal (1996); Second-class Labor Medal (2001); First-class Labor Medal (2008); National Standard School and Cultural Unit (2004); Prime Minister's rotating flag (2003-2004 school year); 40 times awarded flags and certificates of merit by the Ministry of Education and Training and the Provincial People's Committee; 20 years (1991-2011) the school was continuously recognized as an excellent advanced unit of the province; the Party Committee achieved the title of clean and strong for 10 consecutive years (2001-2010) and was awarded the flag by Nghe An Provincial Party Committee twice.

In particular, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its founding, Thanh Chuong 1 High School continued to be honored to receive the Third Class Labor Medal (second time) from the President, and was awarded a Certificate of Recognition by the Provincial People's Committee as a National Standard High School in 2022.

The Ministry of Education and Training awarded Certificates of Merit to the school and 8 individuals with many achievements in the education and training career. The Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 5 individuals with many outstanding achievements in the emulation movement; the school and many individuals also received Certificates of Merit from the General Confederation of Labor, the Provincial Confederation of Labor, and the Trade Union of the Nghe An Education and Training Sector.

Building high quality key schools of the province

Speaking at the ceremony, on behalf of the provincial leaders, comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council commended and congratulated the achievements of generations of teachers, staff, workers and students of Thanh Chuong 1 High School in recent years.

“Reviewing the history of construction and development, the school needs to continue to promote the revolutionary tradition, studiousness and good study of Thanh Chuong homeland, the glorious 60-year tradition of the school to continue to make efforts and strive to achieve even better results in the coming time” - the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council emphasized.

To do so, schools must continue to promote advantages, overcome difficulties and challenges, strengthen political and ideological education, education on revolutionary traditions, traditions of studiousness, traditions of respecting teachers, associated with promoting "studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style" and implementing the campaign "Each teacher is an example of morality, self-study and creativity", major movements, campaigns and policies of the Party, State at all levels and of the Education and Training sector.

The school also needs to focus on innovation, improving educational management, innovating teaching methods; innovating testing, assessment and examination work; taking care of comprehensive education quality; improving mass quality, key quality, aiming to successfully build a high-quality key school of the province.

At the same time, the school needs to continue to build, foster, and comprehensively train a team of cadres and civil servants in terms of expertise, educational skills, qualities, and ethics; each teacher must be a role model for students to follow, to meet the requirements of the Education and Training sector in the innovation period, first of all implementing the new general education program and the integration and development trend of global education, training global citizens.

Along with that, the unit must take care to build a healthy educational environment, green - clean - beautiful landscape, truly a friendly school - active students; life skills education, integrating integrated education for students.

Comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh also requested the Party Committee, authorities, and socio-political organizations to effectively implement specific plans and measures to build facilities and a healthy educational environment, creating conditions for the school to excellently complete its tasks, maintain its traditions, and continue to become a bright spot in the educational career of Thanh Chuong district in particular and Nghe An province in general.

On this occasion, comrade Nguyen Nam Dinh presented 20 "support to school" gifts to students in difficult circumstances.