The National Archives celebrates the distinguished and creative individuals in the Historians Club
The National Archives of the Ministry of Presidential Affairs and the We Are All Emirates Society signed a memorandum of understanding this morning, with the aim of strengthening joint national action and achieving many common goals between the two parties.
Honoring more than 500 creators and destinations who participated in the fourth session
The National Archives celebrates the distinguished and creative individuals in the Historians Club
The National Archives honored the winners of the Student Historians Club competition award in its fourth session, which targeted students from eighth to eleventh grades in public and private schools in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra. The Student Historians Club competition, which is adopted and sponsored by the National Archives in cooperation with its strategic partner represented by the Abu Dhabi Education Council, comes within the framework of the National Archives’ endeavors to channel students’ energies into well-studied and directed national historical programs that contribute to the development of society, building and strengthening the student’s personality, and consolidating moral values and lofty principles.
The National Archives linked the activities of the fourth session of the Student Historians Club competition to the national values affirmed by our wise leadership. The course came in some of its axes in response to the initiative to support the curricula with the subject of moral education, and in other axes it also came in response to the initiative (2017 is the year of goodness). Also, some of the landmarks of the dear country and its ancient historical heritage.
At the beginning of the ceremony, His Excellency Majid Al Muhairi, Executive Director of the National Archives, delivered a speech in which he welcomed all the participants and attendees, and congratulated the winners. In his speech, he indicated that the projects that participated call for happiness and pride, and express the creative creative energies of the students. He highly valued his happiness for the national, societal and cultural activities. Artistic, literary, and other activities for the members of the Student Historians Club, which continue throughout the year, especially those wonderful activities that touch souls with their humanitarian nature, such as volunteer services, visits to the families of the martyrs, the wounded, and the injured among the valiant heroes of our armed forces, and their keenness to plant the martyr’s tree in schools.
Al-Muhairi added: The generous attention that our National Archives pays to students in the preparatory and secondary cycles by directing their energies to national programs that contribute to inculcating the principles of good citizenship in the student, consolidating his moral values, promoting loyalty and belonging to the homeland and its wise leadership, and consolidating the national identity. This is the path of the wise leadership and its aspirations and hopes in building the human being that it attaches most of its attention to, especially the youth, who we all agree are the wealth of the nation and the guarantee of its future.
His Excellency the Executive Director thanked the Abu Dhabi Education Council, the strategic partner in this renewed success achieved by the Student Historians Club.
The Student Historians Club, with its activities and events, is a pioneering national project adopted and sponsored by the National Archives. In the national upbringing of generations of students, and it is certain that the goals that the National Archives aspires to behind this project have begun to be embodied in a tangible reality represented by the creativity of students and their supervisors in the club’s competition. They were distinguished by their national and community activities.
The categories of the fourth session of the Historians Club competition project revolved around the best historical model, and Al Fahidi Fort in Dubai was chosen based on its status. As it is the oldest building in Dubai, the best narrative material narrated in the oral history style chosen by students, the best historical magazine, which is about the righteous martyrs of the homeland, and the best presentation within the framework of the lofty initiative represented in supporting the "moral education" of the school curricula.
The Student Historians Club competition approved 93 projects from 49 schools. The honoring ceremony for the fourth session of the Student Historians Club witnessed the honoring of more than 500 creators and entities who participated in the club competition and its activities in celebration of the following categories: students who won first, second and third places, coordinators, who are the teachers supervising students The schools that won first, second and third places, and parents, as it is not possible for a student to succeed and innovate in isolation from the environment in which he grows up and thrives.
And in line with the directives of His Highness the President of the State to make 2017 a year of goodness, the new session of the Historians' Club witnessed honoring the prominent figures in the field of community, national and voluntary activities that translate the meanings and characteristics of good citizenship and national values that enhance loyalty and belonging to the homeland, which made the Historians' Club a cell of activity throughout the year, and the National Archives also distributes certificates of appreciation to all participants in this year's competition.
The works presented by the participants demonstrated their loyalty and belonging to the homeland, their pride in its identity, history and heritage, their adherence to its values and culture, and their pride in the glories of the founding leaders and their great legacy. and the high-quality educational services received by state schools, and the participating works expressed our students’ faith in national and behavioral values, and cognitive and societal values, which gave their participation in the Student Historians Club competition and the rest of its activities a special character that made it close to the hearts of the various segments of society.
It is worth noting that the fourth session of the Student Historians Club competition has arranged the winning schools for the first place as follows: From the public education sector, the Al Maha Joint School for Girls won the category of the best model of "Al Fahidi Fort".
In the category of the best historical magazine entitled “The Martyrs of the Nation,” the school (Al-Fouah for Basic Education) won. As for the category of the best presentation, which is related to the initiative to support curricula with the subject of moral education; It was won by (Umama Bint Al-Harith School for Secondary Education), while (Qatar Al-Nada Secondary School) for girls won the best narrated story subject “Oral History”, as it dealt with the aspects of ancient life in the Emirates in its various aspects.
With regard to the private education sector, (ADNOC Male Schools) ranked first in the category of the best model of "Al Fahidi Fort", while the female branch of (ADNOC) schools won in the category of the best historical magazine entitled "Martyrs of the Nation", and the (Al Ittihad) School for Girls in Al Ain excelled in In the category of the best presentation, "Moral Education", and in the category of the best narrated narrative material, "Oral History", Al Ittihad School for Girls in Abu Dhabi won the first place. The stories dealt with the life of the founding leader, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan - may God rest his soul - and his charitable initiatives, coinciding with the Year of Giving 2017.
Within the categories of the award, exemplary families were honored whose efforts were evident in the excellence of their children, and in line with the initiative (2017 is the Year of Giving), schools that excelled in community issues and volunteer work were honored. Primary and secondary schools, Al-Baaya School for basic and secondary education, and Al-Jahili School for secondary education.
The honoring also included the pioneers of the resident and organizing committees, in the National Archives and in the Abu Dhabi Education Council - from the Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra branches. The National Archives appreciated the efforts of all the students who participated in the Student Historians Club competition this year. Mr. Farhan Al-Marzouqi, Director of the Institutional and Community Communication Department at the National Archives, awarded each participant a certificate of appreciation.
It is noteworthy that the attendees and participants followed the details of two distinguished projects, the first on the moral education initiative of Al-Ittihad National Private School - Al-Ain, and the second in the field of oral history, entitled "The Way of the Emirates of Good" presented by Al-Ittihad National Private School.
Participants in the ceremony from the administrative apparatus in state schools, parents of students, and the students themselves praised the role played by the National Archives as an essential partner in the national upbringing of generations.
