Slovakia-Gymnázium P.J.Šafárika - P.J.Safárik Gimnázium Rožňava

  • Grammar School of P.J.Šafárik was founded in the 17th century in the Gemer region.Grammar school of P.J. Šafárik in Rožňava focuses on general education at a four-year,five-year and eight-year study.It offers four courses which are four-year study in Slovak and Hungarian language, eight-year study and five -year bilingual study.Currently we have 420 students and 35 teachers.The school is traditionally focused on teaching foreign languages, but our students also have very good computer skills.In each class, students have the opportunity to study English, German, French, Russian and Italian.Our school is ranked 2nd in the Košice Region.We have participated in various projects.The biggest Erasmus + project which we were participating was KA201 Handbook for reluctant, struggling and poor readers where we created intelectual outputs and focused on the improvement of reading literacy.We consider the project as the biggest success and according to the evaluation by the teachers from other schools, the project is still beneficial.The intelectual outputs are used not only by our school but as well by the schools in our region.We are planning to use some of the methodologies created within that project as well in this new project proposal and we are planning to introduce these methodologies to our new partners.The key people involved in this project will be the teachers of Slovak and English languages, history and culture and art, IT teachers and the teachers of Economics. Key people:Eva Szanyiová teaches English language, British and American literature.Tatiana Chocholová a teacher of English language and Economics. They are responsible for the reading literacy activities at our school. These teachers are very experienced with Erasmus + projects and other European grant projects and they will be responsible for the management of the project. Zuzana Polonyová teaches English language, British and American literature and is responsible for the eTwinning projects at our school and she will be in charge of dissemination on the eTwinning portal. The teacher experts who will be the teacher experts creating the cross-curricular lesson plans focused on WWII. : Stefan Hronec, teaches English language and History in Slovak language, History in English language. He is in charge of improving not only the language skills of our students but as well to enhance their interest in history. Lýdia Kalinová teaches Slovak language and literature, she has experiences from the project where we created intelectual outputs focusing on reading literacy. Stanislava Strinková teaches English language and Cuture and art in English language. We have chosen these teachers according to their interests in the project and the project will involve experienced ones but as well new teachers who will gain new project skills and knowledge. In case these persons leave their post in the future there are teachers who teach the same subjects so they can be replaced as we have 35 teachers.