About 300 thousand students from the state network return to classes in the countryside this Thursday (31)

The return of classes in the public state schools of the education network in the municipalities of the countryside takes place this Thursday (31) for about 300 thousand students in the units of the State Department of Education (Seduc). It marks the beginning of the second semester of the 2025 academic year.

In the Metropolitan Region of Belém (RMB), 168 thousand students from the state public network returned to classrooms on July 14, in Belém, Ananindeua, and Marituba, following the special calendar due to COP 30 (30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change), in Belém, in November of this year.

In the three municipalities of the RMB, school vacations were divided into two periods: the first from June 30 to July 13; the second, from November 5 to 21; the latter coinciding with the holding of COP 30.

In Santo Antônio do Tauá, in the Guamá Integration Region, the management and teaching staff of the Celso Rodrigues State Full-Time School await the students with enthusiasm, highlights Physics teacher Fábio Jorge Ferreira. “We await the return of our dear students with great joy and expectation. We are all at school preparing to welcome them with open arms. We are already planning a special reception for this restart after the vacation, so that everyone feels at home again,” he said.

According to the educator, this second semester will be fast-paced. “We will enter an intense preparation rhythm for the National High School Exam (Enem) and for the Basic Education Assessment System (Saeb), evaluations that are fundamental for the future of our students.”

“I had the incredible opportunity to be selected for the Physics School at CERN, the largest Particle Physics laboratory in the world, located in Switzerland. The program, aimed at high school teachers, will take place in Lisbon and Geneva. I will be immersed in a cutting-edge research environment, participating in classes and visits to CERN laboratories. It will be twelve days of much learning, and you can be sure that I will return with a lot of knowledge and new experiences to share with my students and fellow teachers,” emphasized Professor Fábio Jorge.

At the Professor Benício Lopes State Full-Time School, in the municipality of Castanhal, Guamá Integration Region, expectations for this return to classes are high. “Our expectations for the second semester are the best. We hope for a second semester full of meaning and great achievements. The idea is to welcome our students with a lot of enthusiasm, embracing them with care, empathy, encouragement, and always aiming for socio-emotional well-being, which is extremely important, a healthy mind, a healthy body, and also intellectual, of course, aiming to reach their full potential within each grade. This is a year of testing, and we hope that our students consolidate all the knowledge they received in the first semester, which they will also receive in the second semester, knowledge passed on by our extremely competent teachers, so the expectation is that we can achieve the state goal and also increase our goal as a school in the state network,” stated Lene Lira, the pedagogical vice-principal of the school.

For student Thaissa Wengert, from the 2nd year of high school at the Desembargador Augusto Olímpio State School, in the municipality of Nova Timboteua, in the Rio Caeté Integration Region, returning to school is a pleasure. “The return to classes is such an important moment, and it is a pleasure to return. Whenever a new semester begins, it is a mix of feelings, anxiety, joy, challenges, and hope. I hope for a light, productive semester full of opportunities, as Seduc, along with the school coordination, provides us with great teachers, great professionals, free reinforcement, which is extremely important for our growth, both as people and as students, and encourages us to improve more and more,” she shared.

Expansion - In 2025, Seduc implemented 49 more units that adopted the Full-Time Education Program (PEI), totaling 162 schools with this pedagogical model, surpassing by more than five times the number of these institutions in the state public education network.

In addition to the increase in the number of schools, the impact of this expansion is clearly visible in the growth of enrollments. In 2018, schools in the full-time modality in Pará served 6 thousand students. In 2025, there was a leap to 48 thousand enrollments, an eightfold increase in service capacity.