School life
In our school begins at the age of six. Many boys and girls usually leave school at the age of seventeen.
School year begins on the first of September. It is the Day of Knowledge. Children going to school with their bags and flowers on the first school day look so clean and nice. Some of them wear unifirms, but some don't.
Classes usually begin at eight. At primary school childfen have classes five day at week. Saturdays and Sundays are days off. Every day schoolchildren have five or four lessons. Pupils sit in rows and follow a regular timetable. There are many different subjects on the timetable. Children study Belarusian and Russian, Math, Nature Study, Art, Music, PE and Handicraft. Many schoolchildren study English. After the second lesson they have lunch.
When classes are over about one o'clock, many pupils have dinner ar school. After classes they go in for sports, dancing, drawing and other famous and interesting places, theatres and cinemas with their teachers.
Schoolchildren have autumn, winter and spring hoidays for ten days. School is over at the end of May an summer holidays are the longest.