[Photo] Common home for ethnic minority students in the highlands

NDO - 68 years of construction, development and growth, up to now, Dien Bien Provincial Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities has met national standards, is a bright spot of ethnic education, promoting and shining the title of the leading flag of the education and training sector of Dien Bien province.

Dien Bien Provincial Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities is a specialized high school model, exclusively for children of ethnic minorities in the whole province, playing a key role in the ethnic education career of Dien Bien province.

In the 2023-2024 school year, the school has 19 classes including 8 grade 10; 5 grade 11; 6 grade 12; with a total of 665 students from 17 ethnic groups, including 29 students from very small ethnic groups such as Cong, Sila and Lu.

The school currently has 19 classrooms, 6 subject rooms, 21 administrative management function rooms and 56 solidly invested dormitories to meet the teaching and learning requirements of the school in the current period.

Every year, the percentage of students with good and excellent academic performance accounts for over 95%; students with good and good conduct accounts for over 98%. The percentage of students eligible to take the high school graduation exam every year is 100%. The percentage of students passing the graduation exam every year is 100%, in which all subjects are higher than the average of the whole province, many subjects are higher than the average of the whole country, leading the emulation cluster of ethnic boarding schools.

Implementing the Decision of the People's Committee of Dien Bien province on upgrading the scale of ethnic boarding schools in the period of 2018-2025, the school is being invested in, renovated, and supplemented with facilities to upgrade the scale from 19 classrooms with 655 students to 30 classrooms, with more than 1,000 students.

In addition to improving the quality of formal teaching, the school has always paid special attention to nurturing excellent students over the years. The percentage of students participating in the teams each year accounts for 45% of the total number of students in the school. The percentage of winning prizes each year is 66% of the number of students participating in the competition, ranking 2nd in the province, and 1st among non-specialized high schools in the province.

The school also pays attention to extracurricular activities and creates favorable conditions for students. Teachers and students of the school are actively practicing to participate in two competitions: Thai Xoe Performance of Dien Bien Province in 2024 and the first Dien Bien Province Student Street Dance.

The dance competition: Spring dance circle with the participation of 180 students from the Ethnic Boarding School has completed the practice to prepare for the competition. The students are very eager and excited to participate in the festival to have the opportunity to interact with friends of the same age from other localities in the province.

In addition, the school's Board of Directors regularly pays attention to and selects students from each class to participate in competitions organized by the City Department of Education and Training as well as the Dien Bien City Youth Union, specifically Dien Bien Echo; School Folk Dance Competition; National Costume Performance in response to the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory.

Along with that, extracurricular activities associated with topics and themes that are close and suitable to the psychology of ethnic minority students have helped them become more confident in life. Typically: Competition to learn about "Traffic safety"; "Competition to learn about drugs"; "Clean water and environmental sanitation"; "Propaganda to popularize laws on preventing human trafficking and child abuse"; "Propaganda on basic knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention"; "Competition to learn about the beauty of national cultural identity"... Thanks to that, the comprehensive awareness of students in the school has been raised.

After school hours, physical education and sports activities right on the school campus are very popular with students, both improving their health and increasing solidarity among classmates as well as with students from other classes.

Students in the same class will be arranged to eat, sleep and live together in a room with 8 friends. In their free time, each student chooses their own way to relax, some listen to music, some read books, some play the instrument.

For students here, teachers are not only the ones who impart knowledge but also the spiritual support, guiding them in life skills and daily routines from eating, drinking, sleeping, resting...

In addition to class time, teachers also take the opportunity to learn ethnic minority languages ​​to get closer to and impart knowledge to students more easily. They practice playing musical instruments, play soccer, volleyball, badminton, etc. with students in their daily lives, even during breaks after school.

Because they live and eat at school, students only visit home during long holidays and summer vacations. Therefore, all contact with their families is through daily phone calls or unscheduled visits from their families.

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