About Studenka
First, a few words about Studénka, where our elementary school is located. Studénka itself is located in the Czech Republic in northern Moravia, near the city of Ostrava, in the beautiful Moravian Gate lowland with numerous ponds on the Oder River. It has a long tradition of wagon manufacturing, which is why the Studénka Castle houses the Railway Museum. The natural beauty of the town's surroundings, charming nature, cycling trails that are part of European routes, winter and summer recreational activities, and unique flora and fauna systems make Studénka a peaceful place to live in and an attractive place for tourists.
About our school
Our primary school is named after Cardinal František Tomášek, who was a Catholic priest, educator, and theologian.
Currently, the school has 350 pupils aged 6 to 15.
Our school's priorities are a safe environment for students and teachers, bullying prevention (peer program, school psychologist), critical thinking, environmental studies, supporting a healthy lifestyle and healthy eating in our school cafeteria, interest in science and computer science, interest in national and international cooperation, and language preparation for international Cambridge certificates.
We assess pupils in the first year verbally; we have introduced the genetic reading method and Professor Hejný's mathematics. The entire school supports pupils in developing reading and writing literacy, which are closely related to critical thinking. Our teachers have completed RWCT courses (reading and writing for critical thinking), and many of them cooperate on the PŠÚ project (Helping Schools to Succeed) at the national level.
At the school, we have a Student parliament, a wide range of clubs, and we participate in various competitions and performances. Students have the opportunity to go on study tours to German and English-speaking countries. The school organizes adaptation stays across all grades every year, a ski course, a Garden Festival, a Christmas market, and a Halloween haunted school. Students who are interested in history appreciate excursions to Hrabyně, Birkenau, or Auschwitz. Technicians appreciate excursions to a printing house or to various engineering companies.
We also invite experts from various fields to the school, and they organize interesting discussions for us.
Students have the opportunity to do sports not only at school, as they can use the outdoor gym or the grass football field, or the artificial basketball court right next to the school.
Our students and teachers would also like to participate in an international partnership. We would thus have the opportunity to compare our knowledge and experience at any time during our studies with the reality in other European countries, share ideas, gain experience, solve common problems via the Internet, and cooperate in the creation of study materials and activities implemented within the framework of various partnerships. In addition, international cooperation activities are the best way to implement the knowledge acquired during the educational process. Our students can also benefit from improving communication skills, language skills, comparing educational systems and teaching methods, and thus improving the quality of foreign language teaching at our school. In addition, students become proud of their school, local environment, and culture, their self-confidence increases, their social skills improve, they can get to know people and cultures of other countries, and develop respect for them. Intercultural education should be part of the life of every school.