The priorities of Plavecký Štvrtok Elementry School are deeply rooted in fostering the holistic development and individual talents of every child, ensuring they are well-equipped to navigate the challenges of the 21st century. Through a commitment to Margaret Rasfeld’s pedagogical principles, the school emphasizes personal growth, responsibility, and independence through voluntary activities, preparing students to confront real-world challenges both within and beyond the classroom.
Plavecký Štvrtok Elementry School stands out for its innovative approach to education, including intensive German lessons from the first grade in collaboration with esteemed partners like the Goethe Institute. The school’s curriculum integrates subjects to provide a deeper understanding of context and application, while also promoting environmental education and healthy lifestyles. With a focus on inclusivity and individualized support, the school cultivates a nurturing environment where every child’s unique talents and potential are recognized and celebrated. Through modern methodologies and partnerships with experts, the school ensures that students receive a comprehensive education that prepares them for success and fulfillment in an ever-changing world.
Plavecký Štvrtok Elementry School:
- has introduced intensive German lessons in a creative, playful format from the first grade onwards in partnership with the Goethe Institute and the Chief School Inspector for Lower Austria;
- educates according to the principles of Margaret Rasfeld: leads to the discovery of one’s own strengths, to responsibility and independence through voluntary activities, teaches to cope with challenges in the real world and outside school;
- connects subjects for a deeper understanding of context and application of knowledge; has a passionate, inclusive team of modern educators – with a feeling for the harmonious development of every child, always ready to answer your questions (psychologists, special educators, teachers, pupil school council…);
- is part of European and national projects, cooperates with partner schools in Austria, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic; works with the most successful methodologies of today: the Feuerstein method, the Highly Effective Learning method, peer learning;
- develops alternative long-term educational programmes for the development of mathematical literacy through musical activities and programmes for the development of higher thinking functions and communication skills;
- promotes environmental education and healthy lifestyles;
offers a full-day education system; - implements support programmes for pupils and their families;
- Individualized approach to each pupil’s needs;
- Educational activities with experts in the fields of leisure education;
- modern, newly renovated vocational classrooms and classrooms;
Beginning in September 2019, we added dozens of new pupils, with more enrolling throughout the school year. Today we have pupils not only from the village of Plavecký Štvrtok and the surrounding area, but also from countries of the European Union.
- Our primary school emphasizes languages, communication or sports in its educational program focused on total inclusion, but also new subjects such as Science and Arts and Culture. Science connects, extends and promotes pupils‘ knowledge across the whole spectrum of school subjects, such as mathematics, history, languages, physics, geography, biology… and brings and consolidates pupils‘ knowledge and skills through an activating, modern and inclusive methodological approach. The Art and Culture curriculum connects not only theory and practice, but also links and consolidates knowledge and competences across several subjects such as: art, design, ethics, philosophy, history, geography and mother tongue or foreign language (English, German, Hungarian, Romani). At the same time, it promotes self- and national awareness, the world, its culture, or art in the overall context of a foreign language.
- We support every child’s talent, whether it is talent in sports, music, dance, theatre or languages, but also in mathematics, literature or science.
- We prefer an individual inclusive approach. We use modern interactive tools, modern and reformist approaches in Slovak language, Science, and Arts and Culture. In addition to the pedagogy of Margaret Rasfeld, we also use the FIE – Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment Method, which focuses on mediated learning, and VEU – Highly Effective Learning.
What are the school’s priorities?
- For every child to find their talents and experience a sense of achievement
- To understand the world and be prepared for the great challenges of the 21st century
- To learn self-discipline and the values of humanity
- Education for all students
- Identifying individual skills
- Fostering talent
- Developing social awareness
- To prepare for new challenges
- Developing brotherhood and friendship
- Promoting understanding and respect
- Protecting rights
Here you can find more information about Plavecký Štvrtok Elementry school.