Deserving of the name of the hometown school of Red Village

(Baonghean) - Entering the new school year 2015 - 2016, teachers and students of Hung Dung Secondary School (Hung Dung Ward, Vinh City) were excited to receive the Certificate of National Standard School. This is the result of many years of striving, overcoming difficulties to achieve many achievements in teaching and learning of the school...

Hung Dung Secondary School is honored to be located on the famous revolutionary land of “Red Village”. Since 1939, with the tradition of studiousness, the “Tu Van” association (four villages of Van, Thien, Vinh, Khai) here has mobilized people to build schools, as a place to teach children in the area... that is also the predecessor of today’s Hung Dung Secondary School.

Since the 1990s of the last century, Hung Dung Secondary School has been chosen as a practice place for teachers, students, and pupils of schools and pedagogical colleges in the city. In addition, the quality of teaching and learning at the school has always been stable, trusted and assured by parents. In particular, for a long time, although Hung Dung Secondary School was only a school located in the suburbs, the economic life of the people was still difficult, but the school still continuously reaped many achievements in the career of educating people. Tradition and achievements have also been the foundation and motivation for the school to be determined to build a national standard school in the new period.

English practice hour of Hung Dung Secondary School students.

The school's project to build a national standard school was proposed in the 2011-2012 school year, however, the policy had been built many years earlier, starting from the actual needs and increasing requirements of a school located in the city center. The construction process was not easy, because although the school had been established for many years, its assets and facilities were very modest; in which, apart from two rows of practice buildings sponsored by the UNICEF program more than 20 years ago, most of the classrooms were rudimentary, dilapidated level 4 houses. To overcome this, the school boldly advised and proposed to the Party Committee and authorities at all levels to see the necessary minimum needs for facilities, so that they could have an investment plan and overall construction planning.

In addition, improving the quality of teaching and learning is also highly focused. The school has directed professional groups to develop detailed curriculums for subjects, plans for organizing and implementing educational activities... Integrating to ensure the implementation of knowledge and skills standards in accordance with the orientation of developing students' capacity, suitable for the actual conditions of the school. Actively innovate teaching and learning methods in the direction of promoting positivity and proactive creativity; effectively use teaching aids and equipment, apply information technology. Diversify teaching forms for subjects and educational activities in accordance with knowledge content, educational topics, and student levels. Focus on assigning tasks and guiding students to study at home, extracurricular activities...

Regarding the teaching staff, the sense of responsibility has been increasingly enhanced since the policy of building a standard school was implemented. Not only actively self-studying to improve their qualifications, the school's teachers are also enthusiastic about innovating teaching methods and writing experience initiatives. The school currently has a sufficient number of teachers and 100% of teachers have qualifications that meet the prescribed training standards, of which 90% are above standard and 9% have a master's degree. The number of teachers who have achieved the title of excellent teachers at the city level or higher accounts for 25%. Thanks to the constant innovation of methods, professional development and dedication and responsibility, the quality of teaching and learning at the school continues to be maintained and improved; the rate of students dropping out and repeating grades has decreased, the number of excellent students has increased; on average, each year the school has 15% of students classified as excellent, 99.5% of students are promoted to the next grade. In the 2014-2015 school year, the school had 31 students who achieved excellent city results, 7 students were recognized as excellent provincial results. The school is in the top of the city in terms of the number of students admitted to specialized high schools with 39 students admitted to Vinh University High School for the Gifted and 17 students admitted to Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted. Not only striving to assert themselves in their studies, with the attention and education of teachers, the school's students are always exemplary in ethics and lifestyle, understanding of the law, actively participating in activities to maintain security and order inside and outside the school.

Spacious campus of Hung Dung Secondary School.

The above achievements are also the basis for parents and local authorities to trust in the quality of teaching and learning of the school. Therefore, although the local conditions and people are still difficult, every year, the school receives material and spiritual support from the parents' association. Hung Dung Ward People's Committee also strives to invest more than 6 billion VND to build a new 3-storey classroom building with facilities to meet the requirements of teaching and learning. Coming to Hung Dung Secondary School in the new school year 2015 - 2016, parents and students are excited with the spacious classrooms, fully equipped and modern. The classrooms, traditional rooms, library, English practice rooms, and IT practice rooms are invested to meet the prescribed standards. The school campus is well cared for by teachers and students, shaded by green trees and is truly a "friendly" environment for the school's study hours and extracurricular activities.

Being recognized as a national standard school also shows a new breakthrough development of the school and acknowledges the school's tireless efforts over the past long journey. Talking about this result, teacher Ninh Viet Tang, Principal of the school shared: "Striving to build a national standard school is difficult, but maintaining this title is even more difficult. Therefore, in the coming time, the school will continue to improve the quality of comprehensive education, further promote the tradition of studiousness, good teaching - good learning, strive to complete the school year's tasks to respond to the trust of parents and students and be worthy of the revolutionary tradition of the heroic homeland of Lang Do".

My Ha