SECONDARY & VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IN KRZYWIŃ
Our School is located in a touristicly attractive region. In the past eleven years (1993 – 2007) of functioning, the school has developed a lot and strenghtened its position on educational market. We have created an opportunity to gain modern, thorough education.
Our graduates feel at home in the modern world of knowledge, technology and culture and boldly face all the challenges of adult life. We make up a community in which there are good relations student – teacher – parent.
The time devoted to gaining knowledge for our students becomes an intellectual adventure and gives them a chance for an interesting and useful youth.
Ø the most important values on which we base our actions are love, wisdom and freedom
Ø unanimous cooperation between teachers, students and parents
Ø the right to the distingness of thought and views
Ø sensitivity to the feelings of each person
Ø reliable gaining, deepening and passing on the knowledge that will be useful in fulfilling responsible roles in society
Among the majors most often chosen by our graduates are economics, information technology, marketing and management, biology, Polish philology, mathematics, tourism, pedagogy, psychology, chemistry and pharmacy.
The graduates from our vocational school are well prepared for working as a baker, a confectioner, a sales assistant, an electrician, a mechanic, a carpenter, an upholsterer, a bricklayer, a cook, a hairdresser, a locksmith, a painter and as a mechanic and operator of agricultural machines. They willingly continue education getting secondary education.
l Biological group
To students interested in biology Dr Krzysztof Kujawa proposes:
Ø Participation in a biological contest (collecting research material in the area and working out a project)
Ø Taking part in the contest for Young Scientists of the European Union
Ø Publication of the research in scientific periodicals
Ø Sight-seeing tours to unique nooks of Poland
l The club of National Geographic’s friends
The club has been in existence since 2001 with Geography teacher Grażyna
Kuźmińska in charge of it.
Ø The club possesses an unusual collection of year’s issues of National Geographic since 1932 in English version which have been given to the school by Cioromscy family from Chicago.
Ø The members of the club have established contacts with famous travellers, tourist and sight-seeing group from Secondary School No. 1 in Leszno and National Geographic club from Bukowina Tatrzańska
Ø We publish club school newspaper entitled ‘EARTH’ and organize sight-seeing tours
TRAVEL BROADENS THE MIND…
Within the confines of cooperation with French region Le Beny-Bocage our secondary school runs summer exchange programme for youth. The students improve their language skills, get to know the beauty of France and make new friends.
LITERARY AND ARTISTIC CAFÉ
Within the confines of meetings the youth:
Ø Edit literary school newspaper ‘Nota bene’
Ø Participate in journalist workshops
Ø Prepare themselves for theatre performances and recitation contests
During the meetings with famous poets of the region, our young novices read their pieces of writing and listen to critical comments of the masters. Original décor of the place heightens a unique atmosphere of the meetings.
MODERN TEACHING BASE:
Ø Constant Internet link, direct access to the Internet
Ø Two computer studios
Ø Multimedia studio
Ø Computer and audio-video equipment in each classroom
Ø Each computer in the local net
Ø Body building gym
Ø Gymnasium
Ø Building of a full dimension hall (the end of the investment in 2004)
COOPERATION WITH UNIVERSITIES
Ø Lectures of the research workers from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Polytechnic in Wrocław and Vocational College in Leszno
Ø Seminars and laboratory classes at Academy of Medicine in Wrocław
Ø Cooperation with the research workers from Polytechnic in Hamburg during the realization of the virtual project of Krzywiń (learning to operate the ArchiCAD programme during information technology classes)
Ø Participation in the research carried out by the research workers of Polish Academy of Sciences Research Station in Turew
MOREOVER THE SCHOOL OFFERS:
Ø Classes in Secondary School and Vocational School in morning hours
Ø Regular trips to theatre performances and to the cinema
Ø Groups of interest concerning Polish, Mathematics, Biology, Information Techology, History, Physics, Chemistry, French and the European Union
Ø Opportunity to get a scientific and social scholarship (apart from the scholarship esablished by the Prime Minister) which is allocated for one term and paid monthly
Ø Some classes from different subjects take place in the computer studio
Ø Cooperation with Secondary School in Brzeg
Ø Numerous trips connected with the history of the region, the history of art and museum classes
Ø School wire broadcasting centre