Our school was founded in1989,
as an independent 8-grade institute with one class on each grade. The building
is relatively small, but also that's why it is intimate. It is situated in the
historical centre of Szentendre, one of the most beautiful parts of the town.
The building contains 8 classrooms, 5 special rooms, 1 gymn, a small library, a
teachers' room, 3 office rooms and convenience rooms. Using the adventages of
the building we work on strengthening the intimate character of our school, to
provide an athmosphere of collective spirit for our students.
The basic principle of our pedagogical
programme and activity is child-centredness, on which we mean empathy,
encouragement, trust, raising self-confidence, helping
to success and love.
We try to do our best to
achieve that children would go to school with pleasure, they would enjoy
themselves here, they would acquire necessary knowledge thoroughly enough, they
would consider learning important, their skills and abilities would develop and
that they could reach self-realization. In the centre of our methodological
culture we have placed the procedure of experience-like teaching-learning. At
first its feasibility was confirmed by our experience, then we chose the topics
of our in-service trainings more and more consciously. Each member of our staff
has participated in a forest school preparation project, the Gordon teacher's
efficiency developing training and a learning strategy methodological course.
In 1996 we participated in the trainig of Soros Foundation for self-developing
schools. This training has contributed to the consideration of our activity,
the well-founded and circumspect completion of our pedagogical programme. We
focus on eco-friendliness way of thinking in our school.
Environmental education in our school
Our aim is to form our students environmental knowlegdes, to develop their skills
of problem solving and to frame their
emotional approaches skills by
pedagogical methods. All this is a process which affects to the whole person
and personality and we can realize this only, if we doing our job in the name
of i tat every field of our school life. In the course of our 25 years working,
amongst others at first place we have won „ECO-SCHOOL” title.
Manual skills development
We interpret the manual skills development in a complex way.
This involve the subjects, the free time activities, namely the whole of our
tutorial and educational system. The tasks/lessons/duties will be broadened
concentric(a)ly and reach all students int he school. Important thing is to
strenghten the unity of vision-touch-thinking-action, and with the help of this
unity we would like to educate students work’s of high standard. The manual
skills development – the best of our belief – help to form the habits of
learning and working, help to follow the role of procedures/actions, support
the practical use of tools and implements, the basic/elementary habits of
working (correct posture, share of working, punctuality, economy, to avoid
accidents, etc.) and the right/correct pace.
Foreign languages
Nowdays we feel the need and the importance of learning
languages. We have decided that teaching foreign langugages will be one of the
main direction in our school. Knowing a foreign language helps to get
acquainted with other cultures, to be interested in other folks. Through
learning a foreign language our students start to appreciate their native
language, they honour their own cultural values and learn easier other
languages. We are intent on focusing on
-taking notice of our students age specialities - to strenghten our students self confidence, to
dvelop their self-knowledge during learning a foreign language.
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