Created by primary school

Kosmonautu 15, Ostrava

This project is funded by European Union

• The old school buildings in the Czech Republic look very similar to our school. They are usually large buildings with a few floors, often with sports grounds behind the building.

• In the basement or on the ground floor there are cloakrooms with students´ lockers.

• On the ground floor are usually a hall way, the headmaster and the secretary offices, the administrative offices, the teachers´ meeting room, sometimes even a snack bar and some elementary classrooms.

School PlaygroundsOld lockers

Entrance hallA staff room

Office

• On the other floors is usually a long corridor with many doors leading to typical classrooms or teachers´ offices.

• Some classrooms are specially equipped for chemistry, biology or physic lessons or as a library.

• The gymnasium and workshops may be in another building as well as school canteen and school clubs which look after young pupils until 5 p.m. when parents return from work.

• Some schools also have an assembly hall.

• The hallways and staircases are decorated with pictures, notice boards, and flowers. There may also be some cabinets and glass cases.

• A teacher stands in the middle or walks along the corridor and looks after the pupils.

• Pupils are allowed to spend their breaks in the corridors, visit their friends, chat and walk.

• They mustn´t run, shout and smoke.

Classrooms in the Czech Republic are usually large rooms with large windows opposite the door, with rows of school desks and chairs with two aisles in between, a whiteboard and a shelf with coloured markers and chalks, a sponge and a cloth on the front wall, a teacher´s desk, a notice board, a few pictures, a wash-basin, a mirror and a waste-paper basket. Often there is an interactive board, cassette recorder, maps and other visual aids.

• After the bell when the teacher enters the room, the pupils stand up to greet her or him.

• The teacher makes an entry in the class register, marks absent pupils and then starts the lesson with revision of the previous lesson.

• The teacher examines the pupils individually by asking them to come to the whiteboard, pupils are asked to do an exercise, explain a problem, respond to teacher´s questions.

• Sometimes the whole class takes a written test.

• Mark one is the best, mark five is the worst.• The performance of the pupils who excel is

usually perfect, they are fluent and creative. • Sometimes the performance is rather

disappointing both for the teacher and the pupil alike. The reasons differ from not paying attention in class, not doing homework regularly and copying it in the break before the lesson, relying on one´s pretty face, cutting classes and not working consistently and systematically to spoiling one´s performance due to nervousness.

• The results range from excellent, very good, good, and satisfactory to failure.

• After examination the teacher explains a new subject matter and practices it with exercises.

• Before the end of the lesson he or she sums up the topic and sets assignments for the next lesson.

• If it is the last lesson in the classroom, pupils pick rubbish from the floor and shelves under their desks.

• They also put all chairs on the desks.

• Windows are closed and whiteboard is cleaned.

• The teachers are supposed to follow the curriculum but they are free to choose textbooks for their pupils.

• Textbooks are provided by school.

• Pupils buy their exercise and work books.

• Some pupils stay at school after school hours and take part in after-school activities such as singing in the choir, drama club, arts club or games. There is a little fee for those activities.

This was a short presentation ofa Czech school.