Many primary, junior, and senior high schools across Da Nang have organised numerous interesting extracurricular activities in a bid to help their pupils enhance their living skills, uphold solidarity, promote the spirit of sharing in order to develop their postive personality and attitude.

Nui Thanh Primary School’s pupils visit the historical relic site K20

The Nui Thanh Primary School in Hai Chau District is a typical example.

The school now has a total of over 1,500 pupils in 33 classes, around 50 of them are from poor families. Therefore, the school board has paid special attention to educating their pupils to help their friends in trouble and misfortune.

Mrs Huynh Thi Thu Nguyet, the school’s Headmistress, said since the start of this academic year, her school’s Study Encouragement Association has granted scholarships to poor pupils, especially those in very difficult circumstances, in order to help them pursue their academic dreams. In addition, her school has encouraged their pupils to donate their used textbooks to disadvantaged pupils at the end of the school year.

Annually, the school launches a programme to appeal for its pupils to give their old warm clothes to poor ones in mountainous areas of Quang Ngai and Quang Nam provinces in November and December.

Notably, a meaningful ‘Feeding the Piggy Bank’ programme is launched by the school every year.

Accordingly, each class will feed a piggy bank, and the pupil will save their pocket money in their piggy banks to help others in need.

Thanks to this, the school has collected 20 million VND from piggy banks every year to do charitable activities.

In addition, numerous extracurricular activities have been organised at some historical relic sites in the city. Included are a relic site of a bomb attack leaving 45 pupils in Man Quang Ward dead, the Hoang Sa Exhibition House, the Museum of Da Nang, and the historical relic site K20. These activities have helped them to understand more about the past resistance wars, and respect the value of life.

Moreover, teambuilding games have been oragnised to help the school’s pupils enhance their communication and teamwork skills.

Located in Hai Chau 2 Ward, the Tran Van On Primary School has many pupils living in difficult circumstances. The main reason is thought to be that most of parents of the school’s pupils are small traders and manual labourers so they have spent little time with their children.

In an effort to prevent its pupils from dropping out of school due to poverty, the school raises between 100 and 200 million VND every year to help poor pupils.

Also, the school saves between 25 and 27 million VND from its ‘Feeding the Piggy Bank’ programme.

Meanwhile, the Le Quy Don Senior High School for the Gifted has organised many meaningful extracurricular programmes.

In particular, in September, members of the school’s C&S Club visited orphaned children who are being cared for at the city-based Charity Houses No 2 and No 5.

Apart from organising exciting games for children, the club members presented gifts of necessities for winter, totalling nearly 8 million VND, to 37 disadvantaged children.

On the occasion of the 71^st anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs' Day (27 July), the school’s Youth Union organisation organised the ‘A Journey Back to the Roots’ programme on 18 July. Accordingly, Youth Union members burnt incense at the Bo Bo Monument in Dien Tien Commune, Dien Ban District, Quang Nam Province, and visited some heroic Vietnamese mothers there.

The programme provided the opportunity for the school’s Youth Union members to understand more about national glorious revolutionary traditions and patriotism, and the sacrifice made by heroic Vietnamese mothers during the national struggle for independence.