Tran Dai Nghia High School

Tran Dai Nghia High School For The Gifted is a semi-boarding school in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for grades 6 to 12 (ages 11 to 18). It is a partially state-funded selective high school which specializes in foreign languages.It"'s current headmaster is Mr Nguyễn Bác Dụng, a chemistry proffessor.

chool establishment

Founded in 2000, the school was named after Professor and Academician Trần Đại Nghĩa, an inventor of weapons who invented Bazooka and SKZ in the Vietnam War. [cite web
url=http://vietnamnews.vnanet.vn/2004-09/13/Columns/In%20History.htm |title=September 13 in History |date=2004-09-14 |accessdate=2007-06-10] The school was set up with the facilities from the Lasantaberd Institute which was established in 1877.

It was the first school to have Intensive English program in Hồ Chí Minh City.

It is one of the 3 most well-knownFact|date=June 2007 schools in Hồ Chí Minh City (together with High school for the Gifted and Le Hong Phong High School)

Its first generation of students (7-year-course) has just graduated from high school since May, 2007.

chool facilities

The school has many academic facilities, including a library, 3 well-maintained computer labs, an audiovisual room and a multimedia room.

The school is designed to accommodate semi-boarding work, including dining room, rooms for taking naps.

There are 5 blocks in the school: the main block in the center for the school managing board and four A, B, C, D blocks for classrooms around.As the number of students has increased every year, the number of classrooms and teachers has also risen. Up to this school year there have been 64 classrooms, over 100 teachers and the number of this year’s students is 2960.

Learning method and students' opportunities

Besides the academic methods, the school has some more practical approaches like doing the experiments, watching documentary films and carrying out the the real-life projects assigned by teachers. This gives more interest to the students so that they can remember lessons better.

Teachers of the school try to use scientific and efficient methods to make the knowledge easy to understand and memorize. This makes the qualification and the results be more and more promising. Most of the teachers are also friendly and not very strict, so the stress of schoolwork on students can be reduced.

A large number of TDN high school students can speak English fluently.

In addition, classes of grade 10, 11 and 12 are ranged in to specializing classes like English majoring class, Math majoring class, Literature majoring class, Chemistry majoring class and Physics majoring class. There are also triple-subjected classes : Math-Chemistry-Physics and Math-Literature-English classes.

A growing number of scholarships are won by students, which provide opportunities of further study abroad.

Indoors and outdoors activities

The school is a semi-boarding one in which students stay from 7:00 am to 4:10 pm or 5:00 pm, due to the number of classes. While students can go home for lunch, it is traditional that students have lunch and stay to take a nap at noon, creating a family atmosphere amongst students.

Classes are broken into 4 periods for grade-6,7,8 students and 5 periods for the rest in the morning. Lunch time is thus various: grade-6,7,8 students are supposed to have lunch at 10:20, whilst grade-9,10,11,12 ones at 11:15. In the afternoon, classes start at 1:15 and usually last until 4:20, sometimes 5:00. On Saturday, students except grade-6 ones attend morning periods. After that, they can go home or attend some outdoor activities.

There are a lot of contests and competitions so every student can show their abilities and be more energetic and flexible in life:vague
* Singing contests (singing in English and French).
* National teachers’ day celebration (Vietnamese singing competition).
* Spring festival.
* Sports competitions.
* Well-bred students.
* more ...

Photos of school and pupils

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