| The Third Primary School Cakovec (III. osnovna škola Čakovec) is a primary school in a small town of Čakovec in the north-west of Croatia. The school is attended by about 380 students aged 7-14 and there are about 30 teachers and a psychologist. All students learn English from the 1st grade and most of them take up German in the 4th grade. Students are taught a wide range of subject - Croatian, math, art, music, biology, physics, chemistry, history, geography, technology, ICT, religion(mostly Catholic), physical education. Currently our school has about 15 students with Special Educational Needs (SEN), who have Individual Specific Curriculum “CEI” and have multiple disabilities, such as dislexia, disgraphia, myopia, ADHD. We have a good/healthy working environment among education professionals, with many teachers involved in extra-class projects and extracurricular activities. We try to have a diversified offer of projects and extracurricular activities, which are open to participation by all students. These are the following: "Journalism", "eTwinning Club", "Arts Workshop", "Technology Workshop", "The First Aid Group" , The Choir, Young Phycisics, Young mathematicians, Geography group,history group, The Book Club, Science club, The Little Citizens, Students` Cooperative Little Bees. Every year, several events are held in our school, such as: "Mathematical Kangaroo Contest"; "Mathematics League"; "Reading contest"; Competitions in almost all subjects"; "The Evening of mathematics", Modelling workshops, Robotics workshops, Microbit workshops, The Civics Education contest. Students take part in other competitions outside school, such as The First Aid Competititon. The school was an experimental school for introducing civics education before it had been introduced in other Croatian schools as well. We are the leading school in Civics education and every year we host the civics education contest where school present their project done in the area civic education. Since we were working on obtaining eco school status, our last year`s project topic was from the area of ecology and endangered species protection. Our school has participated in eTwinning projects for many years on different topics. Two years ago we were awarded national quality label and last year Etwinning School label. The environmental and health issue has also gained importance over the years and eventually we were awarded the Eco School label as well.
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