Základná škola Ožďany

Orientation of the school 2008/2009

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From 1 September 2009 we started teaching according to the School Educational Programme that is available on our home page. There you can find our school objective. Forms 1 and 5 proceed following new plans.

1. Foreign language teaching

English - I. and II. forms optionally

III. - IX. forma obligatory

French, Russian - can be taught according to interest in afternoon groups.

According to School Educational Programme we will teach English from 2nd form and a second foreign language - German or Russian - from the 6th form. Compared to the State Educational programme we give 2 extra lessons to foreigh languages.

2. Introduction of the 0. form - it started through the Phare project,we have a complete equipment of the pupils´room and the parents´room with furniture and teaching aids; the sanitary facilities are suitable for pupils of this age. In the future it is going to work in case there will be enough pupils. If ther are not enough pupils for the 0 form, pupils of the 1st form will be in the class.

3. Participating in the international Socrates project , partnership with schools abroad -5 states, we work 3 -rd year, vyhodnocujeme 3.rok a hľadáme vhodné projekty pre ďalší školský rok.

4. A rich spare-time group activity through educational vouchers.

5. Work of OKC IMA ( Regional coordinating centre of ideal youth activity) at our school, which has a lot of group members - pupils of our school. OKC IMA is part of IMA(Ideal youth activity) in Bratislava, which manages and financially supports it.

6. Rich sport activities on the newly built playground through Open school - sport.

In the summer: football, tennis, volleyball, street hockey and other not traditional sports.

In the winter: ice rink on the playground - ice hockey, skating, cultural activities - carnival, etc.

From 1 September 2008 we founded a sports class with football orientation and we support sports activities for other pupils in interest groups and facultative subjects.

Pupils have good results in competitions.

7. Foreign language teaching for teachers - as part of the Socrates project the teachers have the possibility to attend an English language course belonging to a language school. The course ends with a certificate. This school year 7 teachers have started the 3rd year of their studies in the language school.

8. Implementing teaching of computer skills into all forms.

1. stage in optional subject and afternoon group activities and also obligatory subjects.

2. stage in Informational technology lessons and obligatory school subjects in the morning, groups - computer group, Robolab, krúžky - počítačový, Robolab,spare-time activities in the school club in the afternoon.

9. Organizing a School Academy every other year, a skiing trip every other year, swimming course for young pupils every third year, dancing course with a final "first ball" organized with the help of Parents´ council of our school every other year.

10. Taking care of children with special educational needs. They are integrated in two special classes for children for mentally handicapped children, pupils with other handicaps are integrated in standard classes.

11.Work in projects - this school year:

a/ Socrates - Comenius subproject, evaluation and dissemination of results

b/ Language Laboratory, work in it

c/ Open School - Sport - continuing the activities

d/ Enviroproject- this year we got it for the 2nd time

e/ Internet Library - activities in it