Kalajoki upper secondary highschool, finland
The Kalajoki Upper Secondary Highschool is located in the town of Kalajoki in the north of Finland. The highschool is located in a rural area with the main industry coming from agriculture and tourism.
Students come to the school from surrounding villages and towns and in recent times the school has fought hard to increase its courses and activities for these students. This has resulted in the school created courses for students that can be taken outside of the normal curriculum and include such courses as: horse riding, international studies, media and drama to name a few. These courses will also be important for the completion of this project as media and drama will be especially important for the theme of this project. Main curriculum subjects has also started to be instructed in English as part of the schools development.
The cooperation between the Kalajoki Upper Secondary highschool and the Bilingual Secondary Grammar School of Balatonalmádi have been in cooperation for many years both informally and formally.
The Kalajoki Upper Secondary highschool will act as the coordinator of this project having previous Comenius coordinator experience.
Students come to the school from surrounding villages and towns and in recent times the school has fought hard to increase its courses and activities for these students. This has resulted in the school created courses for students that can be taken outside of the normal curriculum and include such courses as: horse riding, international studies, media and drama to name a few. These courses will also be important for the completion of this project as media and drama will be especially important for the theme of this project. Main curriculum subjects has also started to be instructed in English as part of the schools development.
The cooperation between the Kalajoki Upper Secondary highschool and the Bilingual Secondary Grammar School of Balatonalmádi have been in cooperation for many years both informally and formally.
The Kalajoki Upper Secondary highschool will act as the coordinator of this project having previous Comenius coordinator experience.
balatonalmAdi bi-lingual highschool, hungary
The Bilingual Secondary Grammar School of Balatonalmádi is a state school offering Hungarian – English bilingual education for students of 14-19, preparing them for higher education.
The school is located in a touristic area in the town of Balatonalmádi, with about 9 000 inhabitants near Lake Balaton, which is the largest fresh-water lake of Central Europe. It is ca. 140 km from Budapest, the capital of Hungary. Out of the 350 students 200 are boarding students, who travel home only for the weekends, because they are from all over the country. We have about 40 teachers at our school.
Our pupils study English, as the target language of their studies and one of German, Italian, Russian and Spanish as their second foreign language. They do Maths, History, Biology and British and American Culture and Civilisation in English, the rest in Hungarian. We are planning to involve pupils that are 14-18 years old in the project.
Role in the project: We are going to be one of the partner schools.
The school is located in a touristic area in the town of Balatonalmádi, with about 9 000 inhabitants near Lake Balaton, which is the largest fresh-water lake of Central Europe. It is ca. 140 km from Budapest, the capital of Hungary. Out of the 350 students 200 are boarding students, who travel home only for the weekends, because they are from all over the country. We have about 40 teachers at our school.
Our pupils study English, as the target language of their studies and one of German, Italian, Russian and Spanish as their second foreign language. They do Maths, History, Biology and British and American Culture and Civilisation in English, the rest in Hungarian. We are planning to involve pupils that are 14-18 years old in the project.
Role in the project: We are going to be one of the partner schools.