TURKISH REPUBLIC THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION SAMSUN-HAVZA HAVZA HIGH SCHOOL As we are the candidate country to the EU,we are very eager to know other cultural values. As we are Turkish partner of the project,our school is in a disadvantaged area of Samsun / Havza. In our school the students are not in good social situations and also we have so many students having economical problems. We are public high school with 25 teachers and 430 pupils. It takes four years to graduate from our school. Some students can attend university after passing an exam called YGS.(University Exam) HAVZA HIGH SCHOOL

9th grades have the common cirriculum all over the country then they can apply to attend departments which they want to study. 9th grades have got compulsory lessons such as Maths,Physics, Foreign Language,Native Language,Turkish Literature, P.E., Chemistry,Biology,Geography,History. The students who are going to participate are in average years old and they received at least 5 years of English in school. But they are not so much interested in foreign languages like English. I hope this Project will help all of us to motivate them to English.

Our school has students and parents from social-economical disadvantaged area (villages) and the villages have a lot of houses in bad conditions, many families are poor. Most of them are dealing with farming in small fields. However their income is not enough to support their families’ needs. Therefore people in our region have to migrate to big cities because unemployment reaches high rates. Some students have to work after school to get the money necessary for living or they just help their parents farming. Our students have no other opportunities of coming into contact with students from other countries, of speaking English is a common issue. Our devoted teachers have the noble task of forming future members of society. For our students it is a big chance to contact with children of another cultural background and another socio-economic status.

OUR MISSION Our basic aim is to supply an educational atmosphere open to improvements and the use of contemporary teaching methods. In order to enrich this atmosphere, we understand the necessity of being open to many different kinds of scientific and creative studies proposed by our students. We intend to educate our students to be social and aware of their responsibility to their communities and the world, and dedicated to a life of creation and discovery in service of humanity.

OUR VISION In order to be a school which takes the lead and tries to be one of the top schools among the state schools, we follow closely a scientific breakthrough in the light of Atatürk's principles We aim to develop students’ awareness of being loyalty to Atatürk’s principles,and try to provide them with the sense of responsibilty for principles of Turkish National Education System, and also aim to get them democratic, open-minded, leader, respectful for human rights, and objective.

OUR SCHOOL’S HISTORY  Our school was opened at the building of İstiklal(Independence) Primary School in the Academic Year. After continuing to educate the students at the building of İstiklal(Independence) Primary School,our school moved to its building 25 May Secondary School in the years of  Then because of the growing needs it moved its new buildinh Havza High School. It is still keeping on educating students at this building. Our old building has been serving as a student hostel with 80 beds since 2001.

PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE SCHOOL  Our school has two close blocks, 4 floors, 2 entrances and a student hostel.  We have 24 classrooms, a lirary, a computer lab., physics and biology lab.  Our students play football,volleyball and basketball in the school garden and table-tennis in the canteen. Our success storıes  Our school is the 1st school in running competition in our county.  Our school is the winner of the essay contest in the province&county.  We are the 2nd school in YGS (University Exam) between  all the high schools in the province.  We are the 3rd school in volleyball tournament in the province

OUR STAFFS HEADMASTER Şevket SEZER PHYSICS 1ST ASSISTANT MANAGER Atalay CANDAN HISTORY ASSISTANT MANAGER Mevl ü t B Ü Y Ü K HISTORY TURKISH LITERATURE Ayşe AKSU TURKISH LITERATURE Cevdet Ç AVDAR TURKISH LITERATURE Faruk Ç ALIŞIR TURKISH LITERATURE M.Hilmi ALPASLAN TURKISH LITERATURE Nesrin YILMAZ TURKISH LITERATURE Z ü beyde DOĞAN G ü lfidan KAYACIK MATHS Nevzat OCAK MATHS Uğur OK Ç U MATHS Seda ATASOY PHILOSOPHY Murat D Ü KKANCI ENGLISH Adem G Ü M Ü ŞC Ü CONSULTANT CENGİZ TOZLU PHYSICS Esma KASAPLI PHYSICS F.Tolga ŞENG Ü LLENDİ BIOLOGY S ü leyman DENİZ HISTORY OF ART SELÇUK BOLAT P.E. S.Ahmet DİKMEN P.E. F ü rkan Ç AKIR HISTORY Mehmet MOLLAOĞLU HISTORY S.Ahmet ŞAHİN HISTORY Celil K Ö KSAL GEOGRAPHY Enis SARI GEOGRAPHY Emel ÖZEKİN URFALI CHEMİSTRY