Active kids for a better future

We want this partnership to be a partnership for the future, to work together for our children, for our future.

We are a public primary school in the small town Hustopeče, South Moravia. The school provides full primary education from the 1st to the 9th grade. There are 59 teaching staff, of which 41 are teachers; and 24 non-teaching staff. A school psychologist, a special pedagogue, and a school prevention methodologist work at school. 671 children aged between 6 and 16 attend twenty-six classes. Our school is visited by local children and children from nearby villages too. Children come from different social backgrounds. The school focuses on teaching foreign languages; information literacy and sports education. The school is a complex of buildings. Buildings of primary education, a school workroom, a gym and a school dining room. There is also a covered school playground. We have these special subjects: IT lab, arts lab, physics lab; natural history lab and worksroom. Children and teachers collaborate on school projects such as the Day of the Earth, Europe with the children, the Citizens ets. and the eTwinning projects. During the year, children participate in sports tournaments, excursions, theater performances, olympiads. At school we try to apply modern teaching methods. We support student autonomy, develop critical thinking and self-reflection. We use group work and project days. The reconstruction of school will make it easier to use information technology. The project team has four standing (etwinners) and other colleagues. We will share new insights and experience of mobilities with colleagues at school methodological meetings. We would also like to involve our parents, the grandparents of our pupils, to take them to our chosen themes. And to familiarize them with the issue in more detail. From our point of view, there is an important contact with partners through information and communication technologies and mutual cooperation not only during teacher meetings but also throughout the project. Children learn a foreign language from the first grade, but they can not communicate with a foreign student so far. We do not think there is a better way than if the pupil himself understands why he actually learns the language. Children from some social classes have never been abroad, and the culture of Europe’s countries is only known from books and television. Knowing it and its specifics would be of great benefit to them in the future. It is important for us as a school to prepare pupils as much as possible in the field of education and needs of the modern world – to be able to communicate, to collaborate and to solve problems.