(HBO) – The Le Van Tam Primary School in Hoa Binh city is assessed as a leading primary education establishment in Hoa Binh province. In the 2020 - 2021 academic year, it won the first prize in the contest on creating "safe, creative, and effective” school spaces. The competition for primary schools was launched by the provincial Department of Education and Training.



Creativity corners made by students help build lively educational spaces to improve learning effectiveness. The photo was taken at the Le Van Tam Primary School (Hoa Binh city).

Ha Ngoc Lan, Principal of the Le Van Tam Primary School, said despite a modest area, the campus is always full of greenery and interesting experience corners. To give students such a safe, creative, and effective learning space, school leaders and teachers have made use of every vacant space on walls and along corridors to fill the school with greenery and creative ideas.

Each classroom is also a vivid space decorated by students, bringing about surprising and interesting outcomes, she noted.

Last academic year, 31 primary schools in Hoa Binh city took part in the contest on building "safe, creative, and effective” school spaces.

Meanwhile, others in disadvantaged areas are also making efforts to build a "safe, creative, and effective” educational environment. Thanks to the support from students’ families, the Da Phuc Primary School (Yen Thuy district) has managed turn itself into a colourful space where students can play together and enjoy themselves at their will during playtime and after school. At the Ba Khan Primary School (Mai Chau district), teachers have put their wholehearted effort into creating an attractive corner of folk culture, hoping to infuse patriotism and the love for the nation’s cultural identity into pupils.

The competition on building "safe, creative, and effective” school spaces was launched by the provincial Department of Education and Training in the 2020 - 2021 academic year, aiming to encourage schools to create a safe, friendly, and attractive educational environment for primary students. It attracted the participation of schools across the province, involving a large number of their pupils, teachers, staff members, and managers, as well as support from authorities, organisations, and students’ families.

This contest is viewed as a practical and effective solution to help better the use of school spaces and also an answer to the improvement of school infrastructure amid limited resources, thereby helping to better the quality of comprehensive education in primary schools.

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