Excitement builds ahead of the special opening ceremony.

The 2025-2026 school year will be the first year that teachers and students nationwide will participate in the opening ceremony at the same time, raising the flag and singing the national anthem together, while also watching the special opening ceremony live from Hanoi via television broadcast.

From early morning on September 5th, students everywhere excitedly went to school to attend the opening ceremony, welcoming the new school year. Reporters from SGGP Newspaper were present in many localities across the country to record the atmosphere of the first special "2-in-1" opening ceremony of the education sector.

According to information from the Ministry of Education and Training, approximately 1.7 million teachers and nearly 30 million students nationwide participated in this special opening ceremony.

>> Images of students and teachers excitedly celebrating the opening ceremony of the 2025-2026 school year:

Students at Tran Phu High School in Phu Tho Hoa Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, eagerly welcome the new school year. Photo: VIET DUNG

Students at the Binh Chanh Inclusive Education Development Support Center (Ho Chi Minh City) eagerly return to school to celebrate the new academic year. Photo: HOANG HUNG

The mother meticulously prepares her child before the special opening ceremony. Photo: HOANG HUNG

Students of class 10A5 at Hong Ha Secondary and High School (Ho Chi Minh City) excitedly check in before the opening ceremony. Photo: DUNG PHUONG

Huong Phung Border Guard Station ( Quang Tri province ) presents gifts to poor students in the border area before the start of the 2025-2026 school year. Photo: VAN THANG

Huong Phung Border Guard Station (Quang Tri) presents gifts to poor students in the border area before the start of the 2025-2026 school year. Photo: VAN THANG

Major Nguyen Thi Van, a Border Guard officer in Quang Tri province, is the "foster mother" of Mai Thi Nhu Tuyen and Mai Quoc Tuan (students at Huong Phung Primary School) under the "Helping Children Go to School - Children Adopted by Border Guard Posts" program, taking them to the opening ceremony of the new school year. Photo: VAN THANG

At the Vietnam-Laos border, students from Huong Viet Kindergarten (Huong Lap commune, Quang Tri province) enthusiastically performed a cultural show to celebrate the start of the new school year. Photo: VAN THANG

Teachers and students of Phuc Dien Kindergarten, Hanoi, celebrate the opening ceremony of the new school year. Photo: PHAN THAO

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