1. PRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOL “SAINT SOFIA”

2. Where is our school Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria.
“St.Sofia” Private Primary School is situated at the foot of Vitosha mountain in Sofia. There is a new extension for the youngest pupils from prep-school to 3rd grade.
Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria.
It is biggest town of Bulgaria.

3. The building
Our school is situated in a beautiful old building. There is a new extension.
The school building itself incorporates 18 classrooms, separate rooms for EL and Arts teaching, a computer lab, 2 gyms, a nurse room and a psychologist’s office, a canteen, a staff-room and a Principal’s office; a basketball field, an tennis-court and ping-pong tables.

4. Our history
“St.Sofia” Private School is the first private primary school licensed by the Ministry of Education and Science as a primary school (1-7th grade) 19 years ago.
Now “St.Sofia” is school with leading position in the Bulgarian system of education.

5. European projects
“Saint Sofia” Private Primary School works already for 10 years on the international project “Socrates” and “Comenius” for collaboration in the field of education.

6. The students, as well as the teachers constantly communicate and exchange information by letters and Internet inoprmation on the projects. This happened to be a very interesting way to know our partners and learn in an interesting way..

7. School life The school organizes yearly:
Christmas concert at the end of December
May Piano Outplaying – a concert of the piano-players of the school
A big school concert

8. A series of other concerts and festivals, e.g the Letters Festival;
The End-of-the-Year celebrations,
Celebration of some typical Bulgarian and International holidays, etc.

9. We do not have uniforms in our school.
The Uniform
We do not have uniforms in our school.

10. Charity We have adopted two animals in Sofia Zoo We aid several state-
We actively cooperate with “For the Kids” Foundation and “Pokrov Bogorodichen”, giving assistance to Homes for mentally disabled children.
We have adopted two animals in Sofia Zoo
We aid several state-
owned kindergartens.

11. English
In ‘Saint Sofia’ Private School there is a working system for the preparation of children and their successful presentation at exams for a level in English language.
Pitman and Cambridge Qualification with different levels.

12. Sport
We are traditional participants in many competitions among schools in:
Minif-football
Table tennis
Ski
Basketball

13. ART At our school we offer interest classes dances and choreography
painting and applied arts
computer studies
music and piano and many other

14. Children from “Saint Sofia” Private Primary School take part in:
- Children’s Radio Choir
- Vocal-theatrical groups “Bon-bon”, “Kalinki” and “Talasamcheta”
- Dance formation “Usmivki”
- Children’s formation at “Ivan Vazov” National Theater
We actively take part in competitions on literary themes among schools.

15. Painting
We actively take part in competitions in painting.
- National competition “Let’s be good”, organized by “Idea” Foundation
- Competition for children’s painting “My World”
- In the person March, 1st-5th, 2003, KARIM Gallery presented an International exhibition of children’s paintings, organized by the Agency for Refugees at the Cabinet Council of Republic of Bulgaria.Paintings of seven students from our school were awarded;
Every year we organize all-school exhibitions of students art.