Our school is a public school. Our school attend children from local villages. Education starts at the age of six (or five) years in primary school. Next is the lower secondary level consisting of three years in gymnasium, starting at the age of 13, ends with an exam. Students take an exam which consist of three parts: humanistic, mathematics- scientific, and modern language( English).
There are some students with special needs. They are from a local children’s home and need special attention and care. From this reason we need to cooperate with a psychologist and social workers. There are a few grading systems used in our school:
- grades from 2 to 5 and descriptive final grades (in primary school, classes I- III)
- grades from1 to 6 (in primary school, classes IV –VI and in gymnasium
- 1(insufficient)
- 2 (initially poor, later renamed passing)
- 3 (sufficient)
- 4 (good)
- 5 (very good)
- 6 (excellent)
Concerning the school:
Headmistress: Mrs Dorota Kowalik
Number of students: 215
Number of teachers: 25
Number of classes: 10 ( a reception class, 6 classes in a primary school, 3 classes in a gymnasium)
Resources:
sport hall, library, dining-room, nursery, day -care room,
students’ sweets and food shop
Subjects taught in our school: Polish, maths, geography, history, biology, chemistry, science, PE, ICT, art, music, English, German, religion, design technology
Holidays which we celebrate:
1 November – All Saints’ Day
11 November – National Holiday of Independence
24 December- Christmas Eve
25 December – Christmas Day
26 December – Boxing Day
1 January – New Year’s Day
First Day of Easter
Second Day of Easter
1 May – National Holiday
3 May – National Holiday of 3rd May
15 August – The Virgin Mary Assumption
Special events and ceremonies we celebrate by preparing presentation, assemblies, balls:
September – ‘Trekking with Umbrellas’.
13th October – Teacher’s Day , National Education’s Day
11th November – National Holiday of Independence
30th November – St. Andrew’s Eve party.
6th December – St. Nicolas’ Day ( Santa Claus )
25th December – Christmas Day ( a nativity play)
January – fancy dress ball
21st January – Grandmother’s Day
22nd January – Grandfather’s Day
18th February – Saint Valentine’s Day
3rd May – the anniversary of the proclamation of Constitution of 3rd May
26th May – Mater’s Day
1st June – Children’s’ Day
June – The school founder’s Day
June – Summer festival ‘Welcome of the Summer’
June –‘ Komers’ a ball for the gymnasium graduates
The participation in European projects:
I.2001 ‘Development , production and distribution of a school newspaper’.
( our partners: Germany, Latvia, Estonia)
II.2009 ‘Young and old living together’(our partners: Turkey, Germany, Latvia)
Our students can wider their knowledge and interest attending additional classes like: choir, sport club, art workshop. Some of the students who have got special needs can be under care of speech therapist. There is also a psychologist for those who need any kind of support.
To shape social awareness we’ve got students government in gymnasium. They perform very actively and efficiently in the school life.
Main goals of the school learning programme and education in our school are concise:
- to learn about the integration of modern education technologies (especially ICT)into the curriculum and the new teaching and learning strategies to shape mutual understanding of the most important values
- to ensure that the young student is capable of completing set tasks in reading, writing, and mathematic
- to ensure that the young student is capable of thinking.
- to be capable of complex problem solving,
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