The most important task of the school is being
active in multilingualism, flexible curriculum, overview of the curricular
plans and contents along the school vertical, cross-curricular activities and
formative monitoring.
As a part of self-evaluation, we give special
emphasis on reading literacy. We carry out mutual lesson observations where we
observe cross-curricular activities, reading literacy development or formative
monitoring. We are endeavouring to educate children as well as to upgrade educational
plan of the school.
Teachers use e-classrooms in their lessons
(Mahara, Moodle, Google Classroom). We participate in the international project
Start the change, carried out by Mladinski center Dravinjske doline (Youth centre
of the Dravinja Valley). The project is based on transmission of democratic
values, basic human rights, cross-cultural understanding, voluntarism and
active citizenship among the youth. The aim of the project is to prepare young
people to become responsible and educated members of our society.
We have implemented an intergenerational
project which promotes voluntary work. The students work as volunteers at the
retirement home, kindergarten and school for students with learning
disabilities. They also help each other with schoolwork.
A lot of attention is given to preparation of
healthy school meals for our students and employees.
Two years ago, we stopped offering drinks with
added sugar. Now only water or sugar-free tea are available. We have been consulting
a clinical dietitian to get some guidelines for providing quality and
energetically balanced meals.
One of the major events organized by our school
is called Žur pod goro where our students and their parents are involved in different
sport activities during the day.
Children with special needs
We offer individual professional help for the students
with special needs, provided by special educational needs teachers, class
teachers, teachers teaching different subjects, pedagogues and a psychologist.
Gifted children
In the 4th grade we carry out assessments
for identifying gifted children. We implement enriching workshops covering
different topics for these children. At the beginning of the school year class
teachers organize individual meetings for children and their parents. The aims
of the meetings are to present workshops or camps offered during the school
year, to prepare individual programmes considering the student’s goals and to
get to know the student better.
Violence
School rules have been updated regarding
violence at school and different activities which should positively affect the
classroom atmosphere have been planned. We have joined the international
project by Društvo za boljši svet (Association for better world). The project started
in 2017 and is supposed to last for 5 years. Three classes are included in the
project and 5 teachers are qualified to work with them.
European projects
We have been taking part in ERASMUS+ projects
for several years, especially in the programme KA1 which enables us to send our
teachers to structured courses and job shadowing.
Three Erasmus+ KA1 projects for the years 2014,
2015 and 2016 have already been completed. The main contents of the projects
were teaching lessons for children with special needs and educating the
teachers to lead international projects. Eight employees were sent to the
international course for conducting international projects in Porto, organized
by the IFEL institute. They are actively involved in international projects,
and four of them are included in Erasmus+ work group.
We are working on a running Erasmus+ KA1
project for the year 2017.
Before Erasmus+ we had taken part in COMENIUS
project “Friendship Makes the Universe Smaller” and an eTwinning project.
In 2018 we received a Quality Apple award for
the project “Connected in Diversity” for the most quality and outstanding
international project which lasted from 2015 to 2017.
Computer science
We are experienced in using ICT. Robotics is
one of the main extra-curricular activities at our school. We work with
Makeblock mBot and LEGO Mindstorms. We take part in the FLL competition with
LEGO Mindstorms. Programming is also a part of Robotics (Arduino, Micro:bit,
Raspberry Pi, HTML, JavaScript, Python, etc). We work with Virtual Reality (Youtube, FB, Thinglink, Google expeditions,
Roundme, CoSpaces,… ) and make VR movies in Pinnacle. We have 15 VR glasses
used for teaching different school subjects. We have a 360 -degree camera for
making films and photos. We have a multimedia studio where we make films, work
with photos, stop animations, sounds, radio, etc.
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