School

As we become older we realize that there are some essential things and places we always long to come back to. They are certainly our birthplace, our home and the school we went to. We will always be indebted to our teachers for the rest of our lives.

I went to one and the same school for eleven years. Our gymnasium is one of the leading in Grodno region for girls and boys from 6 to 17. As all pupils I go there five times a week. Our classes start at 8:30 a.m. and last till 3 p.m. So we usually have six lessons a day.

Our school looks nice and lovely. It’s a clean and attractive three-storied building. The school building itself is of a typical design with the same layout as you can see in many other schools in Belarus. When you enter the school you will see a large entrance hall, cloakrooms, there is a gym, a library, a wardrobe and straight is the canteen. Our school offers the best facilities for all students. There are classrooms for different subjects, such as English, History, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Geography, Biology, Literature etc.

The teachers in our school are very skilled. They try to give us all their knowledge and awake our interest to their subjects and to self study. Besides the school subjects, our teachers tell us about everything, about different problems of our world.

Traditions in our school – it’s something that has existed for a long time. In our school, we have similar traditions as in Britain. We have such events as Teacher’s Day, Autumn Sports Week, School Olympiads, Women’s Day, Health Day, Reunion Day, The Day of knowledge, the Last bell, Graduation Day.

I’ll never forget my school, my favorite teachers and my classmates. It’s my childhood and it’s the happiest period in one’s life, to my mind. It’s a period of becoming adult, achieving knowledge, and choosing your way in life.