Treasury of deeds, witness of the past
We’ve got an excursion at the museum at school 3. There is a museum here.
It is dedicated to the history of school education in
Slonim. The idea of its creation belongs to the first headmistress of the
school L. M. Pekarskaya. The exposition of the museum has two main sections.
The first one is devoted to the history of native school, the second one - to
the history of school education in Slonim. Here you can find information and
exhibits about schools, teachers, pupils, some interesting facts from their
lives. Unique exhibits about such teachers asL.M.Pekarskaya., G.I.Masko,
A.I.Sluchko, V.M.Chertopolohova, V.V.Rakut, M.G.Trofimovich ,S.S.Buben,
V.S.Molchanov, A.R.Bumagin and others are in our museum.
One of the stand stells us about the professional
activity of L.M.Pekarskaya.We can’t help paying attention to the history of our
school and its development. Here you can see the photos, documents of final
preparations for the school opening, photos of the first classrooms and other
relics.
The main value of our
school is our students. Everything we do at school is done for them. One of the
stands tells the visitors about school traditions, extra class- activities
which take place at school regularly. These are some of them: International
festival “Friends” of 1999, regional tourist meeting of 1990, talent shows, etc.
Speaking about the history of school education in
Slonim we can’t but mention the fact that the basis of education development in
Belarus was the spreading of writing system connected with Christianization of
Belarusian lands. That’s why schools at churches and monasteries were the first
educational centres. Church education was combined with thehome one for a long
time. For some centuries Zhirovichi monastery was the main educational centre in
Slonim and its surroundings. There was the Brotherhood School in Slonim. Later
Jesuit College was opened. There were two boarding schools for noble people.
The Basilian School for noblemen was transformed into
the county 3-form school at the end of the 18th century. Since 1854
a private Jewish School was opened. And since 1859 a private boarding school
for girls was opened, which became the female 4-form school in the middle of
the seventies. Primary folk schools for children and philistines were opened in
1859. In 1862 there were 45 schools of the same sort. But more than half of the
population were illiterate.
The system of schools worked till World War I. The War
Time which continued till 1921 didn’t give the possibility to work properly.
143 primary schools Polish language schools worked in Slonim in 1925. There
were 2 Jewish schools and only 7 schools with the Belarussian language as a
separate subject. There was the private female seminary named after
Marcellina Dvorovskaya. It existed till 1936.There was male public teacher’s
seminary during 1921-1936 in Slonim. Only children from rich families were
accessed to these seminaries. There were teacher’s courses in Slonim as well.
After the reunion of western Belarus and theBSSR a lot was done in the sphere
of national economy. 88 schools began to work in Slonim. 78 of these schools
worked in the countryside. 13 thousands of the illiterate were taught in 143
schools.
But everything was destroyed during nazi occupation. It
was reported that 45 schools and all the hospitals of Slonim had been bumed and
destroyed. It happened on August l3,1944. As newspaper «Baratsba»wrote:
«Children moved to forests, escaping from police attacks. It was necessary to
open a forest school and invite teachers there». It was declared from June 1,1944
in order to give children necessary education and skills. Children began
studying with great enthusiasm. The material basis of education was poor.
Brick school buildings stayed safely after the war only in Ozemitsa, Zhirovichi and
Khmelnitsa. All the other secondary and seven-year schools had to use other
buildings for work. And only after the war the situation in the sphere of education
in Slonim began to change for the best.
From the memories of Michael Georgievich Trofimovich , the head of Slonim regional department of education in the
1957-1962:
«The system of
education inSlonim had been established only by 1957. 112 schools were in
operation. Among them -15 secondary ones, 28 eight-year schools and 69 primary
schools, 2 orphanages.Albertin orphanage was reorganized into a boarding
school. 980 teachers taught 13500 pupils.
The schools of the region were provided with pedagogic
stuff (in accordance to that time). Most of teachers graduated from Baranovichi
Pedagogical Institute and colleges. One of the most important goals of the
government was introduction of progressive experience and providing the
teachers with distant studying in pedagogical institutes. Methodologist groups
invarious subjects were organized.
A lot of attention
was paid to the pupil's health. Schools were equipped with a small amount of
furniture.
