Bulgaria

  • The activities of the project have received funding from the European Union

    BULGARIA

    Gorna Oryahovitsa is a town in northern Bulgaria. Province, not far from the city of Veliko Tarnovo.
    Vicho Grancharov Secondary School was founded in 1822 and is one of the leading schools in Gorna Oryahovitsa. There are 440 students and 55 staff. Students, 1-12 grade, are 6-19 years of age. When students finish the seventh grade, they are chosen by means of exams, carried out at a national level. There is a variety of majors, they can choose from - Modern Languages (English, Spanish, Russian), Informatics, Information Technologies, Arts and Music. The teachers are highly qualified in their respective fields. Both students and teachers often receive prizes for their accomplishments on national and international level. The school is fully-equipped with facilities, needed for the qualitative education and training process. 
    The school takes part in a lot of European projects. There are various extracurricular activities, whose purpose is to develop the knowledge, abilities and talents of the students. Among these are individual work with gifted students in the fields of foreign languages and Art. The use of ICT in our school is at a high level, we have an Informatics and Information technologies team of students, who takes part in national competitions and Olympiads and wins prizes. A large number of our graduates continue their education in prestigious universities in the country and abroad.
    Students are of varied social and financial status, some of them are at the lowest economic level in society. The number of the ones coming from broken and step families is increasing every year. There are students with specific educational needs, who are at risk of social exclusion, due to some health problem- mental or physical. 

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