Projects

At our school, a project is a way of learning by doing: with a goal, a plan and a result you can see.

What a school project is

Students work on one topic for several weeks or the whole year. They gather information themselves, share out tasks and at the end show the result to others. It might be an exhibition, a guide, a game, a radio play or a garden bed.

A project combines several subjects and teaches what is hard to learn from a textbook: planning, teamwork and speaking in front of an audience. We run it as part of regular classes, so taking part is free and includes every student.

We work at two levels:

• school projects – involve many classes, last the whole year or longer and are run by a team of teachers with a coordinator;
• class projects – each class carries out one project of its own during the school year.

Our school projects

Every project has a coordinator, a plan for the whole year and a description of its results. On the project page you will find its goal, how it runs and contact details for the teacher in charge.

International programmes

We work with schools from other European countries: in the Erasmus+ and eTwinning programmes, through correspondence with partner schools and in student exchanges.

Class projects

The class chooses the topic together with the form teacher, most often from the students' own suggestions. It might be, for example, birds around the school, a board game about the school, a guide to the trees in the park or a radio play based on a set book.

We show the results publicly, to other classes and parents. Class projects are not graded – what counts is the teamwork and what the students have learned.

Who we work with

We work regularly with the public library, the community arts centre and the forest district. Together we run reading meetings, workshops and outdoor activities.

We choose only a few projects and see them through to the end. This way each one has time, a supervisor and a result that stays at the school.