The Ministry of Education will celebrate tomorrow Saturday the Saudi Flag Day, which falls on March 11 of each year. This complies with the royal order, which reflects the interest of the wise leadership in the flag's symbolism and its national connotations. Furthermore, it recognizes its responsibility and duty to promote the values of citizenship, belonging, and loyalty, and the importance of the flag as a manifestation of the state's strength and sovereignty, and a symbol of cohesion, coalition, and national unity.
The Ministry seeks by celebrating this occasion to deepen and promote national values in the hearts of students, both citizens, and residents. In addition, it aims to implant the importance of the flag and its symbolic connotations in the minds of students, as the development of the Saudi flag tells the story of the homeland and its renaissance stages. It also represents a commitment to the flag system and its standards, which is an important aspect of respecting its symbolism, and its national and historical connotations that refer to monotheism, justice, strength, growth, and prosperity.
The Ministry of Education is organizing a number of events to celebrate Flag Day in all its sectors as the Minister of Education raises the national flag tomorrow, Saturday, in front of the Ministry's head office. The events will include holding a number of activities in schools, education departments, and offices in the regions and governorates in conjunction with students returning to school next Sunday. The activities will also include renewing the flag, ensuring its conformity and validity with specifications and standards, and organizing a student scout march titled "The National Flag" to enhance the status of the flag in the hearts of students and to boost student pride, loyalty, and belonging. In addition, cultural contests (for articles, poems, murals, and patriotic phrases) will be held to enhance pride and belonging.
The activities also include raising the flag in the morning assembly next Sunday, having the students and staff chant the national anthem, and dedicating the school radio to glorifying the national flag, explaining its history and symbolic implications within the " Voice of My Country " activity. The events also include allocating the first ten minutes of the first class to talk about the flag's history and using art education lessons in schools to spread the culture of the national flag and draw stages of its development that enhance national unity and belonging.
On March 11, King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud—may God rest his soul in peace—approved the Saudi flag in the form that we see today. The flag includes the testimony of monotheism, which stands for peace, and Islam, on which the state is based, as well as the emblem of the sword, which symbolizes strength, dignity, loftiness, wisdom, and stature. The flag was also a witness to the campaigns to unite the country that the Saudi state waged for three centuries, and the citizens, male and female, took from it a lofty banner of glory that would not be set back.