The bell rang again today - the 2023/24 academic year starts in schools. Almost one million students attend school, including 94,000 first graders. New this year is that the winter and spring break will be longer, but the summer vacation will start later. The last day of school is June 21.

Students will spend a total of 179 days in school this academic year. The first day of school is September 1 and the last is June 21. This year, the winter break will be one week longer and the summer break shorter by the same amount.

There will be a total of three breaks during the school year. In autumn, it will last from October 28 to November 5, in winter from December 22 to January 7, and in spring from March 28 to April 7, you don't have to go to school.

More resources than ever before, HUF 2,600 billion, will go to public education next year

There have been many innovations in education, with which our country can compete with most countries in Europe - the parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of the Interior spoke about this at the National Opening of the School Year in Győr.

Bence Rétvári listed: the government bought more than 100,000 new digital devices, reduced the amount of teaching material and the number of compulsory hours.

"1,925 schools had bandwidth expansion and we installed Wi-Fi in nearly 4,000 school buildings. We tripled the resources for child feeding, increased the resources for the school milk and school fruit program tenfold, and almost doubled the number of school psychologists," said Bence Rétvári.

Without learning and the knowledge it provides, there is no prosperity - and this is what the State Secretary for Public Education talked about. Zoltán Maruzsa said that the students are provided with all the conditions to be able to study.

"You can learn with the help of modern tools, with the help of teachers prepared from smart textbooks: you have many opportunities, but you must seize them and make use of them," said the state secretary.

This school year, around 716,000 students across the country, including almost 94,000 first-year students, will begin their studies in elementary schools, and 242,000 will cross the threshold of secondary schools.

School bells ring at 8 a.m., which officially marks the end of the summer vacation and the start of the 2023/2024 school year.

Hungarian charity services help thousands of children start school

Hungarian charity services have filled the school bags of thousands of children in recent weeks. The school supplies packages include tools that are essential for the start of the school year. It is not too late to help, for example, the Catholic Caritász is waiting for donations until the middle of September.

the Ecumenical Relief Organization also contained watercolors, pencils, and notebooks. The packages are given to children living in difficult circumstances.

"In the past two weeks, we were able to fill the schoolbags of two thousand needy children across the country. This required a very serious job, nearly a hundred of our volunteers and colleagues worked in this program," said Kristóf Gáncs, the communications director of the Ecumenical Aid Organization.

The Baptist Charity Service also helps with the start of the school year. With their Sulipakk campaign, they support thousands of needy people, as does the Catholic Charity. They help enroll ten thousand children in about eight hundred settlements of the 16 dioceses, including Ukrainian children.

"These gifts help them to spend money better on other things, at least they don't have to spend it on school bags, pen holders, or other equipment," said Anita Herczegh, the charity ambassador of Catholic Caritasz.

The Hungarian Reformed Charitable Service handed over its packages to underprivileged children as part of a theater visit.

"The beginning of the school year in September is a period that means an extraordinary expense for parents, and we see that year after year the supporters take it to heart to be able to help children in need," said Zsófia Dobis-Lucski, communications manager of the Hungarian Reformed Charity Service .

The Hungarian Reformed Charity Service is able to help 1,358 children start their school year thanks to donations in the motherland and beyond.

Source: hirado.hu / M1

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