PRIMARY SCHOOL NO 1ul. Grunwaldzka 137-300 LeżajskPOLANDwebsite: www.koperniczek.republika.pl/

Primary School No 1 named after Nicholas Copernicus in Leżajsk

Primary education Primary education is

comprehensive and obligatory for all pupils. Primary school No 1 is coeducational like most public schools in Poland. Since 1999/2000 children between the ages of 7 and 13 attend it for a period of 6 years.

General education in primary schools is divided into two stages:

fist stage including grades I to III – integrated teaching

second stage of education including grades IV-VI

Grades I-III (integrated teaching)

Compulsory educational activities:

Intergrated teaching Religion/ethics Modern foreign

language Hours left to the

school head’s discretion

Grades IV-VI

Stage 2- grades IV-VICompulsory education activitties : The Polish language , History and civics , Modern Foreign languages, Mathematics, Natural science, Music, Art, Technology, Computer science, Physical education, Lesson witch Class Tutor Religion / ethics Hours left to the school head’s

discretion

Classes in our local swimming pool „Oceanik”

School principal Mr Ryszard Pysz in his office and on a plane with school

pupils

The upstairs hall

Exhibition in the school common room

The common room

The school library

Computer laboratories

Our staff Integrated teaching: Teresa Pysz Maria Lizak Krystyna Krawczyk

School canteen: Edyta Kubicka-Karcz Zofia Martysz Ewa Kielar

School pedagogue: Grażyna Dąbal

Library: Izabela Szynal

Science: Krystyna Goździewska Polish: Barbara Długoń, Maria Ostolska English: Barbara Pióro-Mazurek, Małgorzata

Murdzia Maths: Andrzej Mazurkiewicz, Katarzyna Szuty Computer Science: Paweł Szpunar, Ryszard

Pysz Technology: Paweł Szpunar, Art: Krystyna Krawczyk Music: Konrad Oniszczuk History: Ewelina Leboda Physical Education: Gabriela Jedlińska,

Małgorzata Martyszko Religious Education : nun Maria Stadnyk

Teachers of English

Barbara Mazurek Małgorzata Murdzia

On a school trip

Chess tournament

School football team in Norwegia

A visit to our local museum

School play

Little actors on stage