Students participating in the programme “Fruit and vegetables at school” are given fresh fruit and vegetables (prepared for direct consumption, ripe and healthy) and juices, 2 or 3 times a week. The children receive apples, pears, strawberries, blueberries, carrots, sweet peppers, radishes, cherry tomatoes and kohlrabi, and fruit and vegetable juices. Every child participating in the programme receives a portion containing one fruit product and one vegetable product at a time. Fruit, vegetables and juices cannot contain fat, salt, sugar or sweetening substances.

Our school promotes a healthy lifestyle, equipping students with the knowledge and abilities that are essential to make choices for the purpose of improving one’s health. It carries out a comprehensive, pro-health education, including both students and parents in health-promoting activities.

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The program’s aim is to show students the importance in the practical functioning of each human being of: universal knowledge, familiarity with IT, understanding of languages, creativity and being open to new challenges.

In the project the students visit various businesses, find out in practice what the job of a banker, doctor, lawyer, confectioner, baker, air traffic controller etc. looks like in practice, what their responsibilities are, what issues they have to deal with on a daily basis, what gives them the greatest satisfaction and joy from their work. At school there are meetings with interesting people who have achieved success in a particular field or do an interesting job.

Students have the possibility to ask questions, gain first-hand experience of the work of specialists and carry out interviews with them.

Every year our students, along with their supervisors, go on a trip during the school year to the Kłodzko area for a 5-day programme: EuroWeek – School of Leaders.

EuroWeek is an international programme which aims to develop the participants’ intellectual abilities, leadership skills, creativity, communication skills and interpersonal abilities by using various techniques and a cross-cultural approach.

English is the main language of communication. The participants of the programme are groups of children and teenagers from different European countries.

In this project we will be making new contacts with schools all over the world. Our students, as part of this program, already correspond with students from California.
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An educational-informative campaign for students of classes 1-3, the organiser of which is the Town Hall of Bielsko-Biała, and the patron of which is the Silesian Department of Education. The campaign’s aim is to instil the rules of protecting the natural environment into children, teach them the rules of saving energy, recycling and re-using of natural resources, and pro-environmental lifestyle.

SuperCoders is a Polish nationwide educational programme of Foundation Orange (Fundacja Orange), the key element of which is learning the skill of programming. It is aimed at primary schools and students aged 9-12. Throughout the duration of the programme children learn the skill of programming and the basics of robotics, and discover a world of new technology. During meetings future SuperCoders learn about programming in practice and further their knowledge. They also develop their creativity, ability to think logically and teamwork skills. This could potentially arouse the young programmers’ future professional interests. After all, a programmer is a job of the future!

An effect of the students’ work during sessions is an independently constructed and programmed robot.

The programme “Coding Champions” (“Mistrzowie Kodowania”) is carried out by Samsung Electronics Poland in co-operation with the following partners: Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej (Centre of Civic Education), Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska (Digital Centre Project: Poland), Fundacja CoderDojo (CoderDojo Foundation), Fundacja Rozwoju Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego (Foundation for the Development of Informational Society) and Stowarzyszenie “Rodzice w Edukacji” (“Parents in Education” Society) with the support of the group SuperBelfrzy RP (SuperTeachersRP). Its aim is to promote the teaching of programming in Polish schools.

About programming

Programming teaches many skills which are crucial in today’s world – informed use of technology, analysis of information, using knowledge in practice, creativity, independent reaching of solutions and work in a team. Thanks to programming young people learn to understand the world around them and the changes occurring in it. They are not only passive recipients of technology, but are able to use it to carry out their own projects.

We are concerned with ensuring that such an important area of modern life is not reserved only for a select few. We want to show that learning the skill of programming can be fun and easy – for students and teachers alike.

The basic element of digital safety in schools is the knowledge and awareness not only of students, but also of parents and teachers about potential threats and risks of using the Internet and modern digital technology. The project Cyfrowobezpieczni.pl – Safe Digital School was created in order to effectively respond to the problems and challenges connected with safe use of the resources of the cyberspace in Polish schools. This is a widespread campaign for informed and safe use of the Internet including sessions and workshops for students, teachers and parents.

Our Forest School programme has been running since the primary school first opened. Along with our similar programme in our kindergarten, it was launched with guidance from a UK certificated Forest School leader.

WHAT IS FOREST SCHOOL?

UK Forest Schools were inspired by an approach to education which began in Scandinavia in the 1950’s as a way of teaching children about the natural world through first-hand experience outdoors. Outdoor learning is now an important part of the Scandinavian school curriculum, particularly in Denmark and Sweden.

THE VALUE OF FOREST SCHOOL

Children now spend far less time outdoors than their parents and grandparents did. This is partly because of the increase in traffic, the loss of open spaces where children can play freely, and concerns about children’s safety. In addition, increased use of the computer, TV and video games means that many children are spending more of their leisure time indoors.

Forest School provides a challenging but safe learning environment which enables children to:

• be physically active
• be creative
• take risks
• develop confidence and self-esteem
• learn about the natural world
• work both independently and with others

WHAT HAPPENS AT FOREST SCHOOL?

All children in Classes 1-3 spend one afternoon each month at Forest School, when they are taken by bus to the forest in Wapienica. An important part of the Forest School ethos is that children should experience the natural world in all seasons, regardless of the weather (except in the case of strong winds).

All Forest School lessons are delivered primarily in English, with additional support in Polish where necessary. The children play organised games that are related to the natural world. They take part in woodcraft activities, eg building shelters, making simple objects from natural materials etc. They also have the opportunity to spend part of each session on free play.