

I LOVE DRAMA,
I LOVE LIFE
2013 -2015 Partnership
Szkoła Podstawowa Związku Nauczycielstwa Polskiego w Łodzi
We are a private primary school situated in Łódź, which, due to economic reasons, used to be the second largest city in Poland. We are situated more or less in the centre of Poland, around 130 kilometers from our capital city, Warsaw. Our city has the population of around 700 000.In our school learn about 150 pupils from very good families (middle class but good economic status).
The children commute from various parts of the city, but mainly from the suburbs, and are mostly driven to and from school by their parents. The bonds between students and their parents are rather strong and well-established, and parents have a lot of influence on what happens in the school (since it's a private one).
The classes are small and comfortable (around 15 pupils per class).Our school teaches the subjects that are meant to be taught by the curriculum, although some of them are taught in extended amount of hours. The children learn English from the very beginning to the end of their primary education in the amount of 4 and 5 hours per week.
In the fourth year they start learning German (2 hours a week). They also have extended number hours of such subjects as Mathematics, Biology, Geography, Polish and Physical education. Swimming is also obligatory (2 hours per week), although we do not have a swimming pool and the children have to commute to one.
The school offers lots of extracurricular activities such as sports, English, German, chess, Maths, journalism, History classes, so that children can improve their knowledge and develop their interests and passions.
The last Lifelong Learning Programme project we participated in was called "We All Came Here From Somewhere". It dealt with a broad spectrum of various cultural topics, such as music, art, literature, customs, traditions and food. It had 16 partners form all over Europe and provided our school with grand knowledge of Europe, taught us how to be more tolerant, more united and open-minded towards all that is happening on our continent in order to be a good citizen of Europe.