CROATIA – OŠ DR. BRANIMIRA MARKOVIĆA (RAVNA GORA)

Dr. Branimir Marković Primary School is situated in Ravna Gora, a small town in the heart of Gorski Kotar region with a population of 2,430 people.
The school employs 19 teachers, 2 librarians and an educator. It is run by the  headmistress  Nataša Možgon Kauzlarić, M.A.  The school staff has always been devoted to fostering true values ​​that greatly influence the upbringing and education of children, as well as meeting and broadening the needs and abilities of each individual student, and  monitoring his or her progress. This results in a high quality  teaching, together with the variety and abundance of extra-curricular and outside-school activities offered, which enables our teachers to creatively engage students in making outstanding results.
Having Eco-school status, our teachers  strive to develop awareness among our student′s about the importance of protecting and saving the environment.  Moreover,  we enrich our schoolwork with various projects, especially volonteering in order to promote volunteer values ​​among students and teachers. In addition, we carry out extracurricular activity "Citizenship Education" through which our students are taught  how to become responsible and active citizens of our country and the world.
Constant collaboration with  the pre-school education provided within Dr. B. Marković Primary  School,  contributes to develop our students potentials. Also,  all our students and teachers benefit  from successful cooperation with children′s parents, locals, numerous associations within the Ravna Gora Municipality and beyond.
 So far, the school has been awarded  with numerous honours at the county and state levels for success and results in advancing pedagogical theory and practice.