Poland

Szkola Podstawowa im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie w Olesnicy

Maria Sklodowska-Curie Primary school in Olesnica is not a particularly large village school, enabling each pupil to be wellknown and valued as an individual. The school is conveniently located in a quiet and serene setting among the green parks, lakes and woods. The building itself is historical with a long family tradition of von Luttwitz family. The interior of the school is continuously being renovated and improved to meet our children, teachers and parents’ needs. Inside features include a cosy library, a specific learning support room to ensure we cater for the individual needs of every child, a well-equipped multimedia room, a small hall and a tiny kitchen.

We offer a wide range of subjects as well as a selection of extra curricular activities and clubs such as: drama club, choir class, dance class, sports club, swimming lessons, lessons building up creativity and competence in Maths, and English.

Our team of staff is creative, committed and caring. We take pride in delivering high standards of teaching to ensure that all our students reach their full potential and enjoy their learning. Our teachers try to offer an innovative and inspiring learning opportunities for children to learn new skills and develop their interests. We also provide for the ones who need extra support in some areas of the curriculum or for those with personal, social, emotional and developmental difficulties. We always encourage a team approach- to teaching and caring for children to enable them to reach their full potential and help them develop their motivation. We wish for our students to become caring, tolerant, multicultural people who respect other people’s beliefs, traditions and understand different cultures and religions. We hope that after graduating from our school they will be able to take up new challanges and be successful in their future life endevours .

The school is involved is some national projects and programmes that raise students’ awareness and understanding of some health and social aspects of life. The projects include: Running for health, Do not smoke next to me, please, Mega Mission, Archi-Adventure, Fruit and Vegetables, A glass of milk, Healthy Breakfast. We organize open public concerts and local events that promote childrens’ talents and hobbies. Considering that we are a village school where most of our children come from poor environment we also organize various trips to big cities, places of interest, national parks, museums and theatres. We also organize overnight school events to give them equal chances to experience the world and to let them socialize.

Key people reponsible for the project are: Magdalena Nojszewska – an English Teacher, Małgorzata Kurek- an English teacher, Natalia Stachowiak -school administration staff, Natalia Głąb- a school SEN teacher and school consellor, Katarzyna Pietruszka- Karlik – a German and Maths teacher and Joanna Maćkowiak – a school Head Teacher and a Maths teacher.