With enthusiasm at the start of the new school year
For the seventh time the Academic Secondary Comprehensive Schools of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice and Rybnik inaugurated a new school year. A total of seventy-eight students joined the first class.
The inauguration of the new school year in Gliwice school was attended by Prof Dr Hab.Eng Marek Pawełczyk, the Rector of the Silesian University of Technology, and by Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Bożena Skołud, Vice-Rector for General Affairs. The festivities began with the singing of the national anthem and the academic anthem “Gaudeamus Igitur” by the student choir.
"I am very impressed with how enthusiastically the students welcomed their teachers," said Professor Marek Pawełczyk, the Rector of the Silesian University of Technology, who officially inaugurated the new school year with a symbolic bell and addressed words to first-graders. – “You are secondary school pupils, but also members of the Silesian University of Technology community. This University is here, in this building, where there is also one of its faculties, and there are others around. From the very beginning you are part of the Silesian University of Technology. Try to reach into it as deeply as possible. May you be interested in what is happening at the University. It is up to you how you use its facilities, as well as the wealth of knowledge of its academic staff. You chose this school, although it was not easy to get to it, because it already has a well-established reputation. We hope that thanks to your success, it will become even better”.
During the event, the first-graders were sworn in, and the inauguration ended with the presentation of “The Universe within reach” by Benjamin Kopiec, a fourth-grader who is a scholarship holder of the “Endeavor Scholarship program” and who in July took part in a training at the Space & Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.
“I always tell students that the next generation must be better than us. Otherwise there will be no progress. You are our hope. That is why I wish you that the coming years will bring you and society this progress and the benefits resulting from it” - said Prof. Bożena Skołud, Vice-Rector for General Affairs.
Education in the first classes of ALO in Gliwice began with 52 students – 26 each in a class with a polytechnical and architectural profile.
“Our motto is “Secondary School is like the University”. For our new students, there are a number of benefits. From year to year, the level of our school goes up. All the more I congratulate all the new pupils” – said Dr Małgorzata Borysławska, director of the Academic Secondary Comprehensive School of the Silesian University of Technology. “I am very happy that all the pupils returned after the holidays smiling and enthusiastically welcomed the teachers. Our graduates also attended the inauguration. The relationship between pupils and teachers is very important to us. We make sure that there is a warm atmosphere here”.
The inauguration was also held at the Academic Secondary Comprehensive School of the Silesian University of Technology in Rybnik. There, twenty-six pupils began their first class – thirteen in each of the technical and architectural profile. Krzysztof Lazaj, director of ALO in Rybnik and Dr Hab. Zygmunt Lukaszczyk, director Branch of the Silesian University of Technology in Rybnik welcomed the guests.
- “In addition to the traditional first-graders’ vows and artistic program, we also listened to a lecture by third-graders’ on the interpretation of one of the famous paintings” – explains Krzysztof Lazaj, director of ALO in Rybnik. – “New pupils have a great opportunity to participate in projects, foreign trips, PBL projects or mentoring programs. I wish them all the best in the new school year.”
