Poland

  • Primary School Number 3 in Cieszyn - Szkoła Podstawowa Nr 3 z Oddziałami Integracyjnymi im. J. Korczaka w Cieszynie with 453 learners aged 6-14 in 8 grades and  about 60 teachers. It includes about 40 learners with special educational needs (suffer from different health problems; mental and physical). School specialists (psychologist, therapists, oligophrenic pedagogist, deaf educationist) prepare and introduce complex individual teaching programmes for these students. The idea of integration is to give these kids an opportunity to develop in the way similar to their healthy peers in everyday life situations. In 2004-2007: participated in EuropeanProject Socrates Comenius "Exchanges of experience in teaching young learners", in 2008-2011: numerous extra classes accomplished thanks to European Social Fund, for over a decade: together with schools from Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary forms transnational partnership whichannually organise the International Days of Sport. Therefore Polish school is experienced in transnational meetings organisation. Despite satisfactory results in English external test (over 80%) we find the number of English lessons limited. Apart from that, the tests focused only on listening andreading skills, it did not cover speaking skills at all. Since in natural process of language acquisition students learn first listening and speaking as primary language skills, we find focusing on these skills justifiable. We aim to create real life situations with real communicational needs which students will be able to fulfill through online face to face chats with peers. According to the school survey over 89% of students report they will definitely need English in their future careers. Another key competence is mathematical competence. External tests results show it tends to be the most difficult for our students especially reasoning and its practical application. Nevertheless the school survey taken among students prove above 80% of them recognise mathematics as absolutely necessary for their future careers. Therefore there will be innovative teaching programme "Maths in my life" introduced, it aims application of mathematics in everyday life. Both programmes intend to cover ideas of environmental education. The headteacher Mariola Lapczyk: project management, the authorised economist: finance monitoring, Klaudia Sikora: the coordinator, English teacher, a number of trainings on Erasmus Plus projects completed, author of English language innovative teaching programme, the initiator and the author of the project who collects ideas and institutes the project team: - IT specialist: dissemination, the leader of school promotion team, - Mathematics teacher: innovative teaching programme "Maths in my life" implementation - Science teacher: innovative teaching programme "Eco knowledge - eco thinking" implementation - evaluation leader, - teachers of English: responsible for eTwinning projects The headteacher of the applicant organisation will appoint any replacement for any persons who leave their post.

    School presentation video created by students of class 7:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAxYp_RWEOw