The High School for Gifted Students in Social Sciences and Humanities organized a "Flower Arranging Festival" to celebrate International Women's Day (March 8th).

Unlike other Mondays, after the weekly flag-raising ceremony, teachers and students of the High School for Social Sciences and Humanities were divided into classes to participate in a flower arrangement competition. “The competition is an opportunity for us to bond more with our teachers. My teacher woke up at 4 am to buy flowers for us,” shared a student from the High-Quality Class 1. In the gentle spring rain, teachers and students carefully selected each flower and trimmed each leaf to create the most beautiful and meaningful flower arrangements, as a gift to women on the first International Women's Day at the school.

Flower vase for class CLC1

“We want to convey through our class's flower arrangement our feelings about the graceful and harmonious beauty of Vietnamese women. Gentle, patient, and enduring, yet they are also very strong, very proud, very beautiful in appearance, and have a pure and innocent soul,” – said Tran Phuong Linh in her class's flower arrangement presentation.

Flower vase for the Literature class

“Today, on behalf of all the male students in the History Specialized Class, we would like to extend our most sincere and heartfelt congratulations to the female teachers and students of the school. We wish you all good health, happiness, and much success in your lives, work, and studies,” enthusiastically shared Bui The Vinh, representing the History Specialized Class.

Flower basket from the History Specialized Class

In particular, during the presentation, the High-Quality Class 2 demonstrated their language skills by presenting in both English and Vietnamese. The students were extremely impressed by this performance.

The students of class CLC2 gave a bilingual presentation about their class's flower arrangement.

After 30 minutes of discussion and producing satisfactory products, the awards for "Most Creative Idea," "Best Theme," "Most Suitable Theme," "Spread the Word Award," and "Flower of the Year" were awarded to the History Specialized Class, Literature Specialized Class, High-Quality Class 2, High-Quality Class 1, and Geography Specialized Class, respectively. The teachers and students of the school were all happy and satisfied with the works of art they had created.

Geography class with a presentation by the class representative.

Concluding the program, Pham Ngan Giang, representing the Specialized Geography Class, said: “I would like to use these fresh, vibrant flowers to express my gratitude, which is difficult to put into words, to all women of all ages: thank you for being born as half of the world. May every woman always be as beautiful as these flowers. No matter what form or fragrance they possess, may they always proudly shine in their own unique way!”

Teachers and students of the school with their artworks.