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Vicho Grancharov Secondary School

  • Vicho Grancharov Secondary School

    Gorna Oryahovitsa

    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 630 students and 76 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, German, Spanish, Russian), Information Technologies and Arts. 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. We also have migrant students from Turkey, Russia, and Scotland.

                The participation in the project will be the only chance for most of the students to travel abroad and will give the students a more open-minded outlook to the world; help them become tolerant, active members of the society with a sense of civic duty. They will also have the opportunity to embrace the European system of values and share the perspectives for development.