Privat Liceum in Leszno The European Club in Prywatne Liceum Ogólnokształcące in Leszno (Poland) was set up in September of We began with discovering Poland. We had to discover our culture. That was natural for students and myself as well. They want to know more and more about our country and our culture. We started also from studying our knowledge about the European Union and European institutions and the other European countries as well.

The school is a non-public school with rights of a public school. It has been functioning for six years in the local educational market. Since it is a part of a wider institution, and therefore is financed in a special way the students have classes in small teams oriented at individual assistance. English and German are compulsory languages, and French, Italian or Russian are optional. The students come from different families, not necessarily well-off, but they all want to learn. The school supports financially its students, including exemption from the school fee or payment for commuting. The staff is well trained and experienced in teaching small groups. The teachers are very involved in the school life as well as extra-class activities.

Comenius – financial support of our work

€ € € Money matters… - efficient use of the different national and international exchange programmes - support from the local authorities or institutions - creative fundraising - reducing costs for mobility projects with the help of the (exchanging) partner school(s) - financial contribution of pupils ‘ parents)

Discovering Poland Leszno – Poland 2003

Visiting Europe Trip to Bratislava

Como Lake - Italy

Vilnius –Lithuania-2005

Tejo river – Portugal -2004

Our contacts We interact with : Einstein Gimnazium from Bratislava - Slovakia Senvage Secondary School from Vilnius - Lithuania Escola Basica from Lisbon - Portugal Istituto Statale Carlo Porta from Monza in Italy Sore Al Skole from Lillehammer in Norway and schools from Chile and Japan.

We can meet friends

Our School European Club is like small centre of European education. This is informal association of students and teachers. It supports school education.

One of our exhibition- about Portugal

Forms of activity - collecting materials and information available, - organizing sessions at school and local levels, - organizing cultural and artistic events, - taking part in different events like: theme exhibitions, competitions and international projects; we took part in many project in the net of European Clubs - the last one was project on the title "Allor la paix " with many european countries like Italy, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Russia, Norway, The Netherlands and Portugal

Our work is also a promotion of our region

Forms of activity *organizing European day and week - which are devoted to individual countries and European Union problems), * promoting exchange information and documentation between School European Clubs, * rganizing students exchanges between School European Clubs in Poland and in Europe, each year we visit another country first it was Slovakia, then Czech Republic and in March we go to Italy to Milan, * hosting teachers from another countries: last year we hosted one teacher from Kiev Business Lyceum, * taking part, as a coordinating school, in Socrates Comenius programme with schools from Slovakia, Lithuania and Portugal The project is entitled: Landscape: nature, history, art and protection.

It is possible to meet other cultures

In May 2004 ( our membership in European Union) targets were changed. Here are some main targets:  O rganise students and teachers exchange who take part in Comenius project visit. In 2004 we have guests from Germany, Lithuania Portugal and Slovakia. In 2005 we visited Portugal and Lithuania, in 2006 Italy and Portugal,  Study about culture of European countries and learn languages; there are two compulsory languages in our school : English and German and on the second grade the students could choose the third one: Italian, Spanish or French,  Organise European Week in school inviting students from different gimnaziums,

We worke on different subjects „Red book” The world heritage

Study about European Union because people in our country just do not know what European Union does - functioning of common market and equal economic development, - the four freedoms, - removal of borders and internal security problems, - refuges and emigrants and their laws, - problems of the enlargement, - the future enlargement in 2007, - ongoing social, economic and political transformation processes,