Students from BEHS No.2 (Myoma) perform Pyi Myanmar song to mark the 97th National Day 2017 ceremony in Dagon Township, Yangon on 13 November 2017. Photo: Myanmar News Agency
A 97th National Day 2017 event and a pre-100th year anniversary of Myoma school held yesterday morning in the assembly hall of No. (2) Basic Education High School (Myoma), Yangon.
No. (2) Basic Education High School students first sang “Pyi Myanmar” song and then head of Dagon Township Administration read the 97th National Day message sent by President U Htin Kyaw.
Afterwards, Union Minister for Education Dr. Myo Thein Gyi said Myoma National High School has a grand tradition of producing many educated youth with nationalist fervor. Myoma school begins on Shwedagon Pagoda during the first college boycott in 1920. At that time, college students taught first to tenth standard students in the pagoda Zayat (a shelter and rest place for travelers and devotees paying homage to the pagoda and a shelter where people can gather to talk and share news). A nationwide campaign was organized to open schools not only in Yangon but all across the country resulting in opening of 93 national schools. When these schools were established, they were called national schools and ethnic national schools while Myoma School became the central national school. The day the school was established was seen in the record as 17 December 1920 and on 17 December 2020, it will be the 100th year of its establishment. The day it was established became the National Day and National Day events were held every year. Looking back at the history of the school, it was at its zenith during Sayagyi U Ba Lwin’s time. The school produced Myanmar’s first prime minister as well as many outstanding sons and daughters of the nation. It was also during Sayagyi U Ba Lwin’s time that the present three storey school building was built. Foundation was laid for the school with Myanmar architectural features on the 9th National Day in 1929. After two years, it the new school building was opened on 1931 National Day (Friday). This school will be 100 years and has the possibility of becoming a national heritage building. Thus, it must be maintained. All in all, of all the national schools that were built all over the country, Myoma National School is at the top and the responsibility to retain this lies in those who are related to this school.
The Union Minister then presented gifts of honors to two students who achieved six distinctions. A former Myoma school student delivered a greeting message after which Daw Su Su Lwin, daughter of Sayagyi U Ba Lwin presented a gift of honor to Maung Myat Hein Khant who achieved five distinctions. Finally, Yangon Region Hluttaw Speaker U Tin Muang Tun and officials presented certificates of honors to winners of 97th National Day essay writing contest it is learnt. —Myanmar News Agency
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