School in Zlotoria – Szkola Podstawowa
The Primary School in Zlotoria is situated in Poland in the north- east part of the country in the region Podlasie. Our school is placed in the small village called Zlotoria, around 15 kilometres from Bialystok and 200 kilometres from Warsaw, the capital of Poland. We have only 60 students at our school. The rate of unemployment is about 14%. The fathers of the families in order to find better opportunities and jobs go to work in the capital or go abroad. They come back at the weekends or even only during some holidays. Some children grow up not in the whole family. Some children at our school come from disadvantageous socio-economic background. Our school is a public school ,so the economic opportunity of the school is also limited. Our students come from rural area, so we face with some specific needs from them.
They don’t have the opportunity to study languages besides lessons at school and the small library doesn’t contain a lot of books to develop reading skills. However, there is a beautiful surrondings around us, the river Narew and many national park. Every year new tourists come to visit our beautiful region, that’s why the staff work cooperatively with the parents and try give children the possibility to study foreign languages and show how important to know the culture of other European citizens.
As our school is a small village primary school with the students and didn’t have the opportunity in the past to participate in the European projects and use languages in the real context of knowing other cultures and traditions. This project will help our students to:
- learn other languages and rise their motivation to discuss, read, write in other languages, especially in English,
- know better the culture and tradition of European countries,
- read books and short stories in the original form,
- learn making presentations, using the Internet to communicate and recording the voice
- develop art skill during producing illustrations or some art papers.
The participation in this project will involve parents and the local society. What is more, lessons will be more interesting and students like interesting lessons.
The Primary School in Zlotoria has finished the first part of the realization of Comenius project
Time has to do himself, that runs very fast, because not so far ago we started the realization of the first part of the project connected with Odysseus’s wanderings , and today we want to present the results of our work.
The pupils from our school have been realizing, with a great engagement, the first part of Odysseus’s wanderings for three months. Children together with teachers made the ancient vases. The first of them presented Odysseus going out on his ship to his home town, Ithaka, and on the second children painted the Trojan horse, thanks to which the Troy was conquered by the Greeks.
The Comenius project gave us the opportunity to know the ancient philosophy. And it happened so thanks to the answering on ten philosophical questions which our partner school from Hungary sent us. The questions together with the answers were translated into English language.
It is worth taking a part in Comenius project! You can not only polish foreign languages, but also know many great people, debunk the stereotypes, learn group working and above all you can live through the unforgetful adventure of learning the world.