Comenius Meeting in Mersin, Turkey The Bookworms of Europe 19th October – 24th October Working Conditions in Slovakia Katarína Balážiová

● academic staff: 55 teachers, 13 subject committees ● 1 lecturer from Germany ● 1 lecturer from Australia ● 1 school psychologist ● 1 educational consultant ● age average 42,5 years ● non-academic staff: 22 employees

● Basic work time: 22 lessons per week ● We teach from 5 to 7 lessons a day ● Average extra work time: 2 lessons and more ● One lesson takes 45 min. ● Breaks last from 5 minutes to 20 minutes, ● Lunch break 30 minutes ● Extracurricular activities: 2 lessons per week

● 7 pavilions ● 23 basic classrooms ● 3 specialized laboratories ● 4 multimedia classrooms ● 5 computerized classrooms ● 1 library ● 14 cabinets for teachers (3-4 teachers per cabinet) ● 6 officess for administration staff and directorate

● 1 common teachers´ rooms ● 1 room for meeting parents ● 1 small gym ● 1 big gym ● 1 aerobics gym ● Language school (about 73 of our students), language exams: DSD (Deutsche Sprachdiplom) ● Canteen: 510 diners, two optional meals

● 2 basketball courts ● 1 football pitch ● 1 volleyball pitch ● 1 jogging track ● area for shot put ● the runaway landing area with sand

● 142 comptures ● 17 PC projectors ● 11 interactive boards

● Comenius - The Bookworms of Europe ● Unesco - The Living in Europe ● (Czech Republic, Austriam, Hungary and Slovakia) ● Europe - Sch ülbrucke Europe 2013/2014 ● The Future of nations in EU

● Organisation of in total: 19 projects ● Project Tutoring ● Project Superclass ● Project London Tour ● School Olympiads in various subjects

● Once per week, 1 or 2 lessons ● 20 courses available, 309 students ● 22 excursions, 8 excursions abroad ● 96,5% of our students go to universities ● Total rating of our school: 1,61 ● Total rating for A level (school leaving exam) 1,84

„We wish our school and its new directorate the very best in the future, continuing success and the heartiest congratulations on its 95th anniversary“ Academic staff, Golianova

● School is fairly well-equipped but there is still space for equipping classrooms with modern technologies ● School provides its students with various extracurricular activities ● School has a very low number of students with special needs in comparison with other partner schools

● Teachers work with many talented students but they are loaded with a much paper work ● Mostly teachers of foreign languages work on international projects