Belarusian students kick off new school year

Back-to-school ceremonies will be held in all schools of Belarus on 2 September.

More than 2,600 secondary education institutions re-opened for the new academic year; about 1.07 million students would study there, including about 105,000 first-graders.

Every first-grader in the country traditionally received a book as a gift “Belarus is our Motherland. A Letter from the President of the Republic of Belarus A.G. Lukashenko to First-Graders”.

Five educational institutions were put into operation in the new academic year. The Kindergarten - Primary School in Vitebsk is designed for 850 students, of which 290 places are for elementary school students. Two secondary education institutions opened in Minsk Oblast: one for 930 students in Soligorsk and the other for 1,020 students in the village of Kopishche, Borovlyany Village Council. Minsk Gymnasium No. 42 moved to a new building for 1,020 places in the Lebyazhy neighborhood. A new school building opened in Mogilev.

The first lesson was titled “We have something to be proud of, we have something to cherish!” In the Year of Quality and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders, students will discuss the biggest achievements of Belarusian people, the values that are important to preserve for the sake of the future.

In the new academic year, 3,700 preschool institutions for about 355,000 young Belarusians opened in the country.