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Ostrów Wielkopolski - Poland

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Poland

The City
Ostrów Wielkopolski with the population of over 72 thousand people is an important economic, educational, cultural and sports center in southern Wielkopolska, Poland. It is a capital and pillar of its district.
Ostrów is an important economic centre. Numerous firms, companies and banks have their seats in the town. In the latest years the development of new industrial branches has flourished. Predominant economic sectors: trade, electromechanical engineering (production of machines for fodder industry and production of railway wagons), food processing, chemical industry (production of paints and lacquers), wood industry.
The town offers a variety of educational services. Besides primary and lower secondary schools there is a well developed network of vocational and general education secondary schools. Also, more and more higher education schools come into being here. At the moment five higher schools are operative in Ostrów.
Ostrów Wielkopolski is a significant cultural centre of South Greater Poland. The town’s offer includes artistic events of regional, national and international range. Ostrów Wielkopolski is a town where music among other fine arts plays a special role. The town’s musical showpieces are festivals and series of concerts, the most important of which is International Festival “Chopin in the Shades of Autumn”
Ostrów Wielkopolski is one of those towns and cities which treat sport in its broad sense as an important side of life. In Ostrów Wielkopolski there are over 50 different societies, clubs and establishments dealing with sports activities. Our town is especially famous for its basketball, speedway and handball teams.




The School
Our school was founded in 1998 by Salesian Sisters. It is a primary school but in the same building there is also a lower secondary school and a general education secondary school. The school is catholic but it is attended by children both catholic and other religions.







Study Programme
The primary school is attended by about 480 pupils at the age from 7 to 13. The staff consists of 40 teachers. Our pupils follow a compulsory curriculum. In our school students have more foreign language classes than in other schools. English is compulsory from the 1st grade but the students can choose the second or the third foreign language. They learn German, French and Spanish.
The students take their final exams when they are 13, then they move on to a lower secondary school. Our students wear school uniforms.




Extra classes and activities

Besides attending the compulsory classes our students take part in some extra classes (they can choose from almost 50) e.g. such clubs as Art., Crafts, Drama, Dance, Football, Volleyball, Maths, History, Music.



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