Riga Estonian School
We live in Latvia, Riga. Riga is the capital of Latvia. We learn at Riga Estonian School. It’s the only Estonian school in Latvia. It resumed its work in 1989 and there were only two classes, but now we have students form 1.-9. The main aim of the school is to teach the Estonian language and give possibility to master Estonian culture, literature, music, history and tradition. Students have different skills in Estonian: some of them speak fluently because of the influence of their families, some know the language but not enough and there are pupils who don´t know Estonian and whose relatives don´t speak Estonian. We enjoy going to Estonia every spring – it’s the school’s tradition to travel to Estonia in May.
The Istituto Comprensivo della Val Nure was created in September 2015 from the union of two pre-existing school institutes. It covers a very large area in Piacenza province, from high mountains to the plain along the Nure valley. The area is not much inhabited, especially the mountainous places. The Istituto Comprensivo della Val Nure comprises:
- 3 nursery schools
- 5 primary schools
- 5 lower secondary schools
in 5 different villages:
(from the high valley to the plain)
Ferriere
Farini
Bettola
Ponte dell'Olio
Vigolzone
The pupils of the Istituto Comprensivo della Val Nure are not many, but foreigners are constantly growing in number.
Our school, Kiukaisten yhteiskoulu, is a secondary school that offers basic education to pupils aged 13-16. We have 98 pupils and 19 staff members, 13 of whom are teachers. Our school is located in a rural area in Eura (about 12 500 inhabitants) in the western part of Finland. The closest bigger towns are Rauma (39 km) and Pori (42 km).
Võru Kreutzwaldi Kool is a municipal school located in the town of Võru and it was newly created at the beginning of 2015 as a result of the education reform. The school is situated in a picturesque location on the shore of Lake Tamula in South Estonia. 679 students aged 7 – 16 study there in school year 2015/16. The number of teachers, assistants and supporting staff is approximately 90. The school has got a newly renovated modern house.
The individuality of each student is appreciated in our school, in addition the versatile development of students is supported. Moreover, there are classes for students with low achievement where they get special support from psychologists, social- and special educators, speech therapists and assistant teachers. For talented students there are English-biased classes where they can study English more thoroughly(more lessons per week).
The secondary school in Piaseczno is situated near Warsaw (15 km from the very centre of Warsaw, the capital of Poland). There about 700 students in our school who are educated in extended curricula in maths, biology, chemistry, geography as well as literature and computer science.
Older students of our school obtain very high level of education and good results in their exams, thanks to which they get to good universities in Poland as well as in Europe, because their level of English is also high.
There is an astronomy observation in our school and a video-tech study, where students learn how to make short films, how to review them. We also have our own school newspaper , which is published by our students every month. The articles are written by pupils from a journalist class.