Students against extinction

CZECH REPUBLIC

 

Our school offers vocational subjects that are not taught so often. The school has branches in three towns;Karviná, Ostrava, Zlín and offers its students many after-school activities connected with the branch of their study. There are about 290 students and about 50 teachers in three branches. The headquarters is in the small town of Karviná in the North-East of the Czech Republic near Ostrava which is situated in an area with a long mining history.

The headmistress Slavka Krystová Florková is the headmistress for all branches. Students in our school start studying    at the age of 15 and their education lasts 4 years. There are 20-25 students in a class and the number of girls and boys   is roughly the same. In the framework of our educational program, the school offers students a very specific scope of security and legal activities. It includes important subjects such as law, criminology, special physical training, economics. After the graduate gets a complete secondary education, they can continue their education in the sphere of the security forces of our state, such as the army, the police, the prison, etc.

Our motivation is to help the students and teachers to develop their communication, language, IT, social and creative skills which will be used in their future life, both personal and professional. The project will also support and develop the organizational skills of the key persons as well as other teachers and students. The project work will lead to students’ better school attendance and involvement in this kind of cooperative work.

As the school in Ostrava is situated in a disadvantageous region, the unemployment of young people is high so participation in European projects allows students to be aware of the school education. Therefore, our students from this region will participate.

In our project team, Mrs. Slavka Krystová Florková (headmistress) and Miss Alexandra Florková (teacher of economic subjects and educational consultant) have already participated in Erasmus+ projects so they will share their experience with the other teachers. They have economic education so they will be responsible for all financial matters in the project and Alexandra Florková will be the coordinator of the project, too. The project team (headmistress, the coordinator of the project and other teachers) have organizational, language, ICT skills, and the project would be a great opportunity for them to extend these skills as well to contribute to the project sharing their skills and knowledge with other partners.

We are going to disseminate the project results in several ways – through a project and school websites, Facebook, newsletters, various promotional materials, leaflets, posters, meetings with other teachers, young people, partners, town representatives etc. We are going to promote not only the project itself but also the Erasmus+ program in public to show other people opportunities for such international cooperation.