Welcome to
Le Van Tam Primary School
School Background
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF
LE VAN TAM PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Le Van Tam Primary School was founded in 2007. At first, the school was named “Ward 1 Primary School” which is located at 30, April 30 street, Ward 1. From 2011-2012 up until now, the school has been relocated to a new campus located at 12 Le Thi Rieng street - group 30 - cluster 3 - Ward 1, Cao Lanh City (main point). By 2014-2015, the school has 9 more intensive English classes at the Continuing Education Center.
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The school was solidly built. At the main point, there were 30 classrooms, 6 working rooms, 1 stadium, 6 functional rooms for teaching English, Music, Fine Arts and Informatics. It has an adequate number of equipment necessary for teaching and learning. The school yard is lined with dal, planted with lawns and trees, variety of flowers, and has a clean landscape.
There were 64 staff and teachers, 49 of them were women. There are 3 managers, 55 teachers (there are 14 subject teachers), 1 full-time teacher, 1 general teacher in charge of the Ho Chi Minh Youth League team, 6 employees; and 100% of officials and teachers have professional qualifications up to and above standard (Universities and Colleges: 60/62, excluding janitor). Currently, the school has 20 competent teachers at City level, 21 at Provincial level, and 2 at the National level. In 2017, the school won an excellent labor collective award. In 2018, the unit received the emulation flag of the Prime Minister.
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At the end of each school year, the school recorded an average of 100% who finished the curriculum; 80% of the students were rewarded for their outstanding academic achievements and good academic achievements. Every year, students from the school attended and win prizes at competitions. Especially in this school year, the school had 136 students who won prizes at city-level contests and 2 provincial prizes. By the end of the year, all 5th graders have completed 100% of primary education.
With the goal of attaching importance to reality, Le Van Tam Primary School's self-assessment has been completed and assessed to reach level 1 in November 2017. This is considered to be a laborious, industrious and hard-working process with the full focus of the self-assessment Council members and all staff, teachers and employees in the school.
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(Translated from the original copy of SÆ LƯỢC QUÁ TRÌNH VÀ PHÁT TRIỂN TRƯỜNG TIỂU HỌC LÊ VÄ‚N TÁM)
Academic Support System
Le Van Tam Primary School extends its academic support to achieve quality education to its students. Various programs were introduced to fulfill the vision and mission of the school. These programs are the following: 1.) Martial Arts, 2.) Lantern Making, and 3.) Remedial Instruction.
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Martial Arts
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Students at Le Van Tam Primary School performs a martial arts exercise as part of their daily routine.
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Every morning, the students of Le Van Tam Primary school, along with its faculty performs a martial arts exercise as part of their curriculum to help strengthen the physical body and also to learn self-discipline. This is a good way to motivate students to keep their bodies healthy and to preserve the Chinese culture. It would also help them happy and energetic so that they will not feel tired and bored inside the classroom.
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Lantern Making
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Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese tradition passed to the Vietnamese. It is a children festival celebrating the returning of the first show of the sun after the winter. Although Vietnam is a tropical country, they are keeping this tradition every year. This activity is part of their curriculum too. During this time, children will make lanterns and families eat mooncake together in their dinner.
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Remedial Instruction
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Some students who cannot catch up with the lesson will undergo remedial class. It is a kind of a one on one tutorial where the teacher is doing supplementary teaching to the student until he or she can understand the lesson already. It is done after the class or during breaks. Usually it lasts for a short period of time and must be spend wisely. This program was proven effective until now and most schools use this program in schools with high rate of slow learners. Parents can also involve in this program if possible, because many reasons why parents cannot teach their students at home due to lack of spare time.
Teaching System
The teaching system in Le Van Tam Primary School follows the curriculum imposed by the Ministry of Education and Training where children must require to finish five years of primary education, four years of studying in the secondary education, divided by two cycles, and an additional three years of study of vocational or technical education. According to their statistics, the said school has a rate of 100 percent who proceeded in secondary, 80 percent of them were given an outstanding academic award, including those who were given a recognition for good academic performance. The school is also active in extracurricular activities. According to them, 136 contestants were able to garner awards in the city-level competitions and two awards in the provincial level.
Learning Sources
Textbooks
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Lessons taught by the students rely mostly on textbooks and teacher's guide. The learning competencies were already indicated in the book, thus making it easier to ready the lesson. Most of textbooks were written in Vietnamese, so SEA participants were having a hard time translating it. The problem is not all words in the book can be translated because they have some sayings that must be preserved at all costs. Translating directly can be very dangerous as to distort the meaning of every sentences.
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Smart Televisions
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One way of presenting the power point presentation is through a television, but this is not just a simple one, but a smart t.v.. Smart televisions can browse the internet, open youtube and watch some videos that will engage learners. Though it is not interactive, it can be used for presentation purposes. Each classroom has an available smart t.v.'s for the teachers to use. It is also teacher-friendly, because they will not spend on making traditional materials already, instead, clicking is enough to present their lessons easily.
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Interactive Smart Boards
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The future face of classroom is here. Interactive smart board lets students write, point and draw in projected white boards. It is an excellent tool for learning because it can easily catch student's attention.w
