2021-11-29
The company “Amurugol” helps the municipal budgetary educational institution “Varvarovka Secondary School” in the implementation of the project “Point of Growth”.
The history of the Varvarovka village school dates back to 1989, from the first days of the founding of a new coal mining enterprise in the Amur region – the Yerkovetsky mine. Today, more than 330 children living in the village study at the school. Amur Coal is a long-standing social partner of a secondary school in Varvarovka.
With the support of miners, the material base of the educational center “Point of Growth”, which appeared at the school within the framework of the federal project “Modern School” of the national project “Education”, was recently updated.
“We are keeping up with the times, and since September last year, the center for digital and humanitarian profiles “Point of Growth” has been opened at our school. For us, this is an opportunity to improve our digital and information literacy, it is the joy of creativity, working in a friendly team. The center is equipped with everything you need. “Projection Room”, “3D modeling”, “Robotics” – these and other programs are very interested in our students. During the day we come to work in the offices of the “Point of Growth” in computer science, physics, social studies, biology, technology classes. And after lessons until late in the evening, some collect walking robots, others work on social projects, and others master programming languages,” says Natalia Vasilyevna Minkova, the school’s director.
With the support of the miners of the Amur region, not only the educational, but also the sports infrastructure is being updated at Varvarovka school.
In 2018, a multifunctional sports ground with a training complex was built next to the school with the support of Amur Coal. One third of Varvarovka village school students are engaged in sports: football, volleyball, basketball, tennis, freestyle wrestling and skiing.
More than a hundred children are engaged in choreography and vocals. “We have two choreographic groups – “Entre” and “Grace”, the vocal ensemble “Impulse” and the folklore ensemble “Peas”. They successfully perform at festivals and competitions of children’s creativity of various levels,” explains the director of the educational institution.
Wide opportunities to work with modern materials are provided by the circles of artistic and decorative-applied creativity “Souvenir”, “Fantasy”, “Teremok”. The school has its own art gallery, where you can get acquainted with the creativity of pupils all year round.
“Today the village of Varvarovka is a modern village of coal miners with a population of more than two thousand people. It is pleasant to note that for more than thirty years the Amur Coal company has been with us, helping and supporting our initiatives. In our small village, in a small rural school, wonderful conditions have been created for the development, self-improvement, and successful study of children,” Natalia Vasilyevna Minkova noted.
