Zespół Szkół w Pobiedziskach is a public school in a small town Pobiedziska with about 10000 inhabitatnts. It is situated close to Poznań Airport (20km) and in a historical place, connected with the birth of Polish nation with lots of monuments and places worthseeing. The landscape is picturesque among beautiful forests and lakes.

There are about 1000 students in our school which contains a primary and a gymnasium( junior high school). Many of our pupils are so-called Euro-orphans – parents work abroad and visit them rarely , their relatives or grandparents take care of them. Most of them are of rather low economic status. They cannot afford for travelling during holidays even in our own country.There are 10 students of special needs and they are in a separate class. Students start learning at the age of 7 and ends primary at 13, then go to the gymnasium and finish it when they are 16. We focus on languages learning (Englisg, German) ICT skills, Internet safety and sport. At school there are both indoor and outdoor playgrounds, karate, judo clubs, climbing wall and many other sports facilities. We have a school journal and a theatre in gymnasium.We cooperate with local institutions: Municipality, town libraries, Center of Culture, folk ansamble etc. Our students enter high quality secondary schools, mainly in Poznań and many of them continue education at Poznań Universities.

This year we have 4 Erasmus+ project. One of them is KA201 project which includes one University and one NGO apart from school partners. I am a coordinator of it. It finishes next school year that’s why I am looking for a new challenge. Before we were running also a few Comenius projects. I was a partner in one of them.I coordinate a project “We protect our children” run by “Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę”Fundation (former Dzieci Niczyje) in our school. We are going to apply for an e-Safety label. I am also eTwinning ambassador and promote this program among Polish teachers. I participated in EUMIND project (Europe meets India0 which was a result of Comenius course on e-journal 2014. Annually I engage my cgildren in Global Art Exchange – it’s very attractive form of gaining knowledge abour other peers from abroad.Thanks to this program I started to exchange snail-mail letters with a school in Uganda which was accepted by my students enthusiastically.We have European School Development Plan  and plan to apply for KA1 this school year to in order to strenghten our staff profiles.

Pupils are motivated, they actively participate in transnational projects, mobilities, thus gain awareness of European citizenship and cultural diversity.They take part in afterschool activities (football club, folk dance club and many others) .Our students choose different schools, most of them continue their education in secondary schools in Poznań with different profiles, some go to technical school in order to get competences for getting a job.

This year we have 4 Erasmus+ project. One of them is KA201 project which includes one University and one NGO apart from school partners. I am a coordinator of it. It finishes next school year that’s why I am looking for a new challenge. Before we were running also a few Comenius projects. I was a partner in one of them.I coordinate a project “We protect our children” run by “Dajemy Dzieciom Siłę”Fundation (former Dzieci Niczyje) in our school. We are going to apply for an e-Safety label. I am also eTwinning ambassador and promote this program among Polish teachers. I participated in EUMIND project (Europe meets India0 which was a result of Comenius course on e-journal 2014. Annually I engage my cgildren in Global Art Exchange – it’s very attractive form of gaining knowledge abour other peers from abroad.Thanks to this program I started to exchange snail-mail letters with a school in Uganda which was accepted by my students enthusiastically.We have European School Development Plan  and plan to apply for KA1 this school year to in order to strenghten our staff profiles.

My KA201 project was the only one in a region of  Great Poland 2015 and one among only 12 in an entire Poland. I believe it was my personal andmy school succes, too.

Our school is involved in European projects  but we still need teachers of other subjects with communicative knowledge of English so it would be useful to apply for KA1 course for that group. There is a need to educate young people in Science that is why we aslo would like to apply for KA2 on this subject in the nearest future.

My present and future priorities are to encourage more teachers in my school to participate in EU projects, to strenghten their professional profile, especially in the field of language learning. I am going to continue work in eTwinning, Erasmus+ and other international projects in order to strenghten my professional profile, promote our school abroad, to raise awareness of European Citizenship amd muliculturalism, to motivate pupils to learn languages and use ICT.

Probably there will be a reform of education in the nearest future which will change the structure of our schools but now we still don’t know if it is accepted.

Because I teach regularly besides my European project work I meet some difficulties from parents complaining about my absence form time to time.

I can surely recommend at least 10 teachers who are eager to work with me in an Erasmus+ project. Six of them are English teachers. Four of them cooperated with me in former Comenius, 6 cooperate in Erasmus+. They are highly motivated and hard-working teachers who like challenges.