Agenskalna State Gymnasium

The beginning of our school was detected in the 17th century, when in 1681 the town council decided to base school across the river Daugava with subject – the German language. View into the past

The name of our school was changed many times since 1688, when it was called Hagenshof. It was named Agenskalna girls’ school, Stadtische Volkschule, Riga’s secondary school nr 73, TU Agenskalna college, but it became Agenskalna State Gymnasium in 1996.

Our school’s headmaster is Inara Gaile.

Now in our school there are studying 800 students and 56 qualified faculty, teaching science and humanity subjects, and many of them are authors of the textbooks, that are used in many schools in Latvia. Children from many regions of Latvia are learning in 26 classes. Recently the school was renovated and now students have the opportunity to live in the hostel with all amenities.

Number of the students

The teachers

There are 56 teachers in our school. They teach Latvian, literature, English, German, Russian, math, geometry, sport, music, economics, informatics, biology, chemistry, physics, history, geography, technical drawing, history of art, philosophy and psychology.

Education programs In gymnasium it is offered to acquire math and natural sciences’ program with three subprograms, where children can more profoundly acquire: 1)physic, math and informatics 2)biology, chemistry 3)math, economics and informatics, as well as general program with more profound studies in literature, history and English.

In the second term of every year students from pro-gymnasium are working on projects in history, sciences, art and other subjects; students from gymnasium are preparing their research work and presenting it to their schoolmates and teachers.

Achievements Since 2000 Agenskalna State Gymnasium has been one of the top ten schools in Latvia. The students of our school are achieving success in science contests in state and even World. Five years our gymnasium is in the leader position.

Sport

There are such free time activities as basketball, volley-ball, floor-ball, frysbie and aerobics and we have School’s Sport Day every spring.

Sports day

Long jump

Running

Cycling

Tug-of-war

School has an aerobics hobby group. Students from pro-gymnasium and gymnasium are participating. Aerobics’ program consists of many parts. The most talanted schoolgirls form the school aerobics team. In 2005 they visited Inderoy, where they demonstrated their performance.

Success in sports Our school’s floor-ball team takes the first positions in Riga’s championship.

Traditions in esthetic education School choirs: 1)men’s choir “Hagens” 2)2 gymnasium mixed choirs 3)Choir “Mūžīgais strauts” These choirs are one of the best choirs in Latvia, singing in many shows in Riga and in other parts of Latvia. They also have visited Germany, Finland, Norway, Bavaria, Lithuania. Also the folk-dancing group “Vainags” were taking part in dance festivals in Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Russia and Turkey.

Co-operation There is a co-operation between AVG and Inderoy’s secondary school. Gymnasium was taking part in Latvia- Norway students’ project “Folklore Traditions in Latvia and Norway” program. We also had a “Comenius” project named “My Town, My Europe” between Latvia, France, Italy and Poland