Primary school Vugrovec-Kašina is one of the oldest public primary schools in the north-western part of Zagreb, that is proud of its rich cultural history and local traditions. The central school and three branch schools employ 68 teachers that teach around 600 students, over 30 students with special needs (age 6-14 years old). Beside its regular teaching hours schools are engaged in many activities, projects with significant results in county and state-level such as e- school pilot project that ensured great results in developing teacher digital skills and competences, as well as acquiring new knowledge adapted to the requirements of modern education. Furthermore, the school is proud on its reward in an international eTwinning project and especially on its International Eco school status received after significant results achieved in county and state-level competitions in ecology.
Based on its longstanding roots in the region the school nourishes intergenerational partnership with a elderly home that encourages empathy, volunteering spirit and active citizenship amongst the students.
More information about the school available on: http://os-vugrovec-kasina.skole.hr/
Our role in the project:
In order to ensure the implementation of project activities, the school engaged its administrative and professional staff to perform the administrative tasks of project management and reporting, while the professional part of the work, in accordance with the planned activities and results of the project, will be performed by professional team of teachers and educational workers.
The main goal of participating in the project is to improve the teaching ability of teachers and educational staff in STEM fields and to improve the STEM skills of students, including students with special needs (potentially gifted and students with disabilities) in regular classes and extracurricular activities.
The following activities for the development of teachers' abilities will be carried out in the Primary School Vugrovec-Kašina: education in the field of astronomy, education on content creation, organization and implementation of digital learning, education on digital photography and processing, education on digital video and editing; and various professional one-day and multi-day workshops in different fields.
To strengthen students' STEM skills, a variety of educational one-day and multi-day workshops and field classes in different areas are planned for the following extracurricular activities: IT group, ECO group, small florists, small astronomers, physicists, robotics, STEM English.
As the infrastructural modernization and equipping of STEM classrooms is a necessary precondition for the realization of regular and extracurricular contents, as part of the improvement of the STEM areas envisaged by this project, Primary School Vugrovec-Kašina will modernize and completely equip biology/chemistry classroom and physics/technical culture classroom with necessary equipment and teaching materials. A STEM garden will be formed inside the school, where nature, biology and chemistry classes will be held and it will be equipped with flower beds, greenhouses, incubators, composters and other related equipment.
