Fundacja Edukacja + Terapia

description of organisation

The Foundation was established to support students and their families in the educational process. With a view to ensuring the highest possible level of education, the Foundation is active in organising education at pre-school, primary and secondary school level. It also undertakes activities supporting educational, physiotherapeutic, artistic, sports and recreational activities.
The main areas of activity of the Foundation are social assistance, assistance to families and individuals in difficult life situations and equalisation of opportunities. Activities for the benefit of professional and social integration of people threatened with social exclusion, maintenance and dissemination of national tradition, popularisation of Polish identity and development of national, civic and cultural awareness, activities for the benefit of national minorities and regional language, activities for the benefit of people with disabilities, promotion of human rights, activities for the benefit of equal rights for men and women and activities supporting the development of democracy, activities supporting activities for the benefit of European integration and development of contacts and cooperation between societies.
The Foundation has under its custody a Non-public High School, which implements a form of open teaching based on individual planning of work with a student in accordance with the assumptions of critical thinking, implementation of a curriculum focused on the individual's pace of development and learning abilities, respect for dignity. The institution offers consultations with specialists and therapies: a psychologist, a rehabilitation specialist, a speech therapist, a Sensory Integration therapist, a TUS trainer. Home education is also provided at the secondary school.
The primary school has been operating since 1.09.2015. It was established on the initiative of parents, it is based on the model of close cooperation between the family and the school. We want to give children the highest quality of education, keeping in mind the individual predispositions of each student. Children gain skills through experience. Teachers focus on awakening the children's love of reading, gaining knowledge about the world, nurturing their passions and enjoying learning. They help find the individual talents, the 'mastery' that lies dormant within each child. We know that the period in which school-age children find themselves is the "golden time of the child" and our task is to pack them a "suitcase" full of best experiences that will allow them to establish happy families in the future, and enjoy the reputation of good professionals and good people. As one of 7 schools in the Silesian Province, we have the Certificate of the School Teaching Critical Thinking. There are no bells at school. The school is located in a building with 17 classrooms, in which high school and primary school classes are conducted. In addition to the usual classrooms, we have an instrumental music room, a therapy centre, a sports hall and a quiet room. We organise extracurricular activities such as ceramics, yoga, ukulele lessons, drama, ballet, chess and support classes for daily language education. We run workshops and weekend activities to support interests and skills. The classrooms are adapted to the needs of students with Asperger's Syndrome and Childhood Autism. The school has a language profile. Pupils study two languages of their choice. They can choose between English, German, French and Spanish. There are 5 hours per week of the main language and 4 hours per week of the second language. We also have an extended mathematics profile. Each class has 5 hours of maths per week. In the current school year we have 8 classes and 131 pupils. The pupils of our school are children from 7 to 15 years old from rural areas. We operate in the urban-rural municipality of Pszczyna. Our pupils include gifted children as well as those who require psychological, therapeutic and educational support. 10% of our pupils are diagnosed as having Childhood Autism or Asperger's Syndrome, for which we have support teachers. We provide home education for pupils from the Silesian Voivodeship and Europe. We offer adapted methods and forms of work during school lessons and wide support of therapists, rehabilitators for pupils with diagnoses of various disorders and deficits. The therapy centre provides pupils with thematic and psychological support. We use such therapeutic methods as pedagogical therapy, EEG Biofeedback, GESR - VERIN Biofeedback, Neuroflow ATS, Johansen Auditory Therapy, Hand Therapy, Social Skills Training, RUS, SI Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, Sociotherapy, Psychological Therapy. Teachers realise original subject projects in cooperation with Silesian University and Castle Museum in Pszczyna. Students actively participate in the cultural life of the region, spend time outside the school on trips and take part in educational projects.