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Primary School No. 4 in Koszalin is a small and safe school, with the
friendly or even familial atmosphere. Thanks to the engagement of all
the school staff we can be proud of:
• being awarded with the certificate ‘The School with Standard’ (the
certificate no. 603/2003)
• getting the title of ‘Pupil-Friendly School’ dated to 1st March
2005
• entering Little Baseball League (we are the only school in our
province with the baseball team) and getting the certificates in 2004,
2005, 2006
• receiving the highest number of points in the measurement taken by
Education Office in Szczecin, branch office in Koszalin in May 2005
• entering the Zachodniopomorska Network of Schools Promoting Healthy
Lifestyle dated from 18th September 2005 (decision no. 11/2005)
• being awarded with the certificate ‘Zachodniopomorska School of
Quality’ (certificate no. 073 dated to 14th June 2006).
Moreover, the school takes part and
works on many Polish national and European programmes. We are one of not
many primary schools in Koszalin carrying out the program
Socrates-Comenius. We’re cooperating with schools from Finland,
Germany and Latvia.
We are also cooperating with the
organization called Polish Community which gives us a chance to have a
contact with the school in Egliszki, Lithuania.
In our school there are lots of interesting educational programmes as
well as innovative ones on different subjects in progress, which enrich
and attract the obligatory school programmes. After school time we offer
our learners a lot of additional classes to choose from such as subject
clubs, the flute band, the music band where they can develop their
interests or hobbies. They can attend the meetings and work for
different organizations like LOP (League for Preservation of Nature),
the School Government, The European Club and PCK (Polish Red Cross), too.
On 17th March 2006 we were awarded with the PCK Badge of Honour of the
3rd level (no. 148705) by Creative Schools Society and PCK Main Board.
What’s more, in 2005 we started the School for Parents.
Every year we plan and organize a lot
of school parties. Some of them have happened to become our tradition,
for example taking the oath by the first-class learners, St Andrew’s Day
party, Santa Claus Day, Nativity Play, the class Christmas meal, the
carnival party, collecting money for the charities like WOSP or Help for
Animals, writing Valentine’s cards, the first day of spring, music
concerts, meetings with the local authorities on Government Bodies’ Day,
Sports Day, Children’s Day and the graduates’ party.
Furthermore, every school year we organize and take part in many
different school or interschool competitions. To give some examples of
the competitions we organize, we should mention: the Interschool
Prophylactic Competition “I have healthy lifestyle, I am free from
addictions”, Koszalin’s Christian Song Competition, the Interschool
Ecology Competition, the Interschool Competition in the Knowledge of the
European Union, the Interschool English Song Competition, etc. What is
very important for us is the fact that each year our pupils are
successful in many competitions and get the rewards for their
educational achievements from the Town President of Koszalin, Miroslaw
Mikietynski.
To fulfil the list, we also should
boast about organizing sport competitions in table tennis, cross-country
race, track-athletics, winter two-event competition, three or four-event
athletics competitions or high jump by music. However, our learners try
to participate in many other interschool sport competitions – in judo,
karate, swimming, mini football for boys and girls, athletics
anti-alcohol meetings and relay cross-country races.
In general, our school is, as the
learners themselves say very special, because everything we do, we do it
only for our children.
1. The proposal of the project title
Traditions and Customs of the Festivals in the School Calendar.
2. The project makers
- the national institution – Primary School No. 4 in Koszalin
- participating countries (and possibly the type of the institution) – the European countries (primary schools)
- institution which could be the project coordinator – Primary School No. 4 in Koszalin
3. The project duration – 3 years
4. The language for work – English
5. The objectives of the project:
- teaching about traditions and customs of the most popular festivals celebrated by our nations
- promoting our national culture among learners
- organizing school parties due to our festivals
- creating the visitors’ books or albums from the school festivals
- sharing the national culture with other countries by the Internet
- learning about different cultures of the participating countries
- promoting our schools
- motivating the foreign language learning
- exchanging messages and communicating in English
- organizing the art exhibition of the learners’ works, creating the visitors’ books or albums with photos, video or CD/DVD recordings and building the website about the festival parties celebrated by our schools
- organizing the teachers’ meeting in the participating countries, discussing the project implementation and presenting the final results
- learning about the teaching methods and education systems in the participating countries
6. The project is addressed to – primary schools teachers and learners
7. The plan of our activities:
autumn 2005
- looking for partners
- organizing the preparatory visit, discussing the main concepts and objectives
of the project, choosing the project coordinator, planning the work on the project
1.02.2006.
- applying to the National Agency
school year 2005/2006
- the preparatory seminar
- discussing the methods and forms of the work on the project
- lessons about the festivals celebrated in our countries
- organizing the art classes to make cards from the calendar for the chosen festivals
- selecting the most interesting and creative works
- organizing the art exhibition of the learners’ works in our schools
- making the national calendars out of the prettiest cards
- exchanging the calendars with the participating schools
school year 2006/2007
- the preparatory seminar: sharing the teaching experience about the previous year
lessons about the festivals and planning the work for the next year
- analyzing results and evaluating the first part of the project
- organizing the school parties to celebrate popular in our countries festivals
- taking photos, recording and collecting all the documents from the parties
- organizing the exhibitions of the visual materials from the parties
- building the visitors’ books or albums with photos, video or CD/DVD recordings
school year 2007/2008
- the preparatory seminar to present and exchange the albums
- analyzing the results and evaluating the second part of the project
- teaching how to build the websites on IT lessons
- creating the website and adding there all the information about the national festivals,
the traditions of their celebration and visual materials from the school parties
8. The expected results, ‘products’:
- making the school festivals calendar out of the learners’ art works
- creating the chronicle of the school parties
- building the website about the traditions and customs of the festivals celebrated in our country
- all the documents collected while working on the project
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