Country: Poland
City: Pobiedziska
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website: www.pobiedziska.szkola.pl
Zespół Szkół w Pobiedziskach is a public school in a small town Pobiedziska with about 10000 inhabitants. It is situated close to Poznań Airport (20km) and in a historical place, connected with the birth of Polish nation with lots of monuments and places worth-seeing. The landscape is picturesque among beautiful forests and lakes.
There are about 1000 students in our school which contains a primary and a gymnasium( junior high school). Many of our pupils are so-called Euro-orphans – parents work abroad and visit them rarely , their relatives or grandparents take care of them. Most of them are of rather low economic status. They cannot afford for travelling during holidays even in our own country. There are 10 students of special needs and they are in a separate class. Students start learning at the age of 7 and end primary at 13, then they go to the gymnasium and finish it when they are 16. We focus on language learning (English, German) ICT skills, Internet safety and sport. At school there are both indoor and outdoor playgrounds, karate, judo clubs, climbing wall and many other sports facilities. We have a school journal and a theatre in gymnasium. We cooperate with local institutions: Municipality, town libraries, Center of Culture, folk ansamble etc. Our students enter high quality secondary schools, mainly in Poznań and many of them continue education at Poznań Universities.
This year we have 4 Erasmus+ project. One of them is KA201 project which includes one University and one NGO apart from school partners. I am a coordinator of it. It finishes next school year that’s why I am looking for a new challenge. Before we were running also a few Comenius projects. I was a partner in one of them. I coordinate a project “We protect our children” run by “Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę”Fundation (former Dzieci Niczyje) in our school. We are going to apply for an e-Safety label. I am also eTwinning ambassador and promote this program among Polish teachers. I participated in EUMIND project (Europe meets India) which was a result of Comenius course on e-journal 2014. Annually I engage my children in Global Art Exchange – it’s very attractive form of gaining knowledge about other peers from abroad. Thanks to this program I started to exchange snail-mail letters with a school in Uganda which was accepted by my students enthusiastically. We have European School Development Plan and plan to apply for KA1 this school year to in order to strengthen our staff profiles.
Pupils are motivated, they actively participate in transnational projects, mobilities, thus gaining awareness of European citizenship and cultural diversity. They take part in after-school activities (football club, folk dance club and many others). Our students choose different schools, most of them continue their education in secondary schools in Poznań with different profiles, some go to technical school in order to get competences for getting a job.
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