Poland celebrates Independence Day on November 11 to mark the anniversary of recovering its sovereignty after more than 120 years of foreign rule.
The Schools Sing National Anthem initiative has been held on the last working day before Independence Day since 2018, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
Poland’s top education officials joined school students in singing Dąbrowski’s Mazurka on Thursday.
Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek visited a high school in Miejsce Piastowe in the southeast of the country, the PAP news agency reported.
Meanwhile, his deputies Marzena Machałek, Tomasz Rzymkowski and Włodzimierz Bernacki sang the national anthem with schoolchildren in the central towns of Wołomin and Warta and the southern town of Grybów, according to officials.
Millions of schoolchildren sing Polish anthem to mark Independence Day
The Schools Sing National Anthem initiative was launched in 2018 when Poland celebrated the 100th anniversary of its independence, the PAP news agency reported.
At the time, 4.8 million children and 475,000 teachers sang Dąbrowski’s Mazurka in 24,400 schools and kindergartens across Poland, joined by 13,700 students and 1,000 teachers in 109 Polish schools worldwide, according to officials.
In 2021, Dąbrowski’s Mazurka rang out in some 21,000 educational establishments throughout Poland, sung by almost 4 million students and around 380,000 teachers, officials said.
Poland regained independence on November 11, 1918, the day World War I ended, after 123 years of partition by Russia, Austria and Prussia.
One of the highlights of this year's festivities will be the opening of a new Mausoleum of the Polish Presidents-in-Exile.
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Source: PAP, gov.pl