Lithuania

Our school is located in the city of Klaipedia, an urban city in Lithuania with the population of about 200 000 citizens.Nowadays, Klaipėda is an industry, business, education and science, health, tourism and recreation, administrative center. Historically, Klaipėda is one of the most successful developing municipalities in the Western Lithuania.

Our school is a primary school that teaches students age 6-15. We have classes with intensive learning of music. Progymnasium carries out purposeful artistic (musical) education in accordance with individual education plans approved by the Ministry of Education or prepared and coordinated by the Ministry of Education, organizes additional education of pupils.

Children from 1st to 8th grade are additionally trained to play their chosen musical instrument (piano, violin, accordion, accordion, flute, guitar, percussion and Lithuanian folk instruments), participate in musical groups, represent the school in city, national and international events.

An extended day group is organized, special pedagogical assistance is provided for children with special needs, and special needs children are educated in basic classes. Pupils in the progymnasium are provided with healthy and safe educational conditions.

School vision. The school, which provides primary and basic education, is open to change, forming a distinctive, aesthetic education culture of the school community and healthy living skills.

Mission of the school To educate a cultured, independent, proactive, responsible person in his / her choices considering to their natural powers, needs and school opportunities.

Our school aims:

• Provide students with a basic moral, socio-cultural and civic maturity;

• Provide basic literacy and technology literacy;

• To help students develop their self-determination, choice and further learning;

We believe that beside developing artistic competences in our students, we should teach them responsible citizenship. We do our best to involve them in different projects in order to make them socially responsible. This is our first Erasmus+ project as a partner school. We have experience in eTwinning projects as follows: - eTwinning project ‘’My favorite animal” and ‘’Proud to be European; - eTwinning project “An exchange of hand made Easter cards and comparing Easter tradition“.

To learn more about the way we implement project activities, please visit us on

https://sites.google.com/vyturioprogimnazija.lt/klaipdos-vyturio-progimnazija/erasmus-projektas