1. L A T V I A

2. RIGA

3. Riga’s 4th special boarding school

4. OUR EMBLEM AND FLAG

5. ADMINISTRATION Principal: Inta Pastere Vice-Principal of Curriculum: Tatyana Smirnova Vice-Principal of Methodological Work: Inga Balabka Vice-Principal of Extracurricular Activities: Kristīne Hirshte Vice-Principal for Counseling and Guidance: Stanislava Navicka Finance Manager: Konstance Bankova Vice-Principal for IT issues Snezhana Vasenkova

6. PEDAGOGICAL STAFF School employs are: 50 teachers and supportive staff

7. OUR SCHOOL School was established in 1960th year. We are one of 6 9 special education schools in Latvia now. Riga’s 4th special boarding school is the educational institution for children with special needs : mental problems and other side diagnoses . This school year our school has 147 pupils .

8. Students, completing the course of education through grade 9, receive a primary school diploma without passing state exams . Depending from ability and their own will, they are able to continue their development in next 3 grads that is vocational training. We are a minority school … … and teaching takes place in two languages : the Russian and Latvian.

12. Students whose level is C have special program for job skills training . When these students completing 3 year’s course of education training, the student receives the school closing certificate.

13. BOARDING For those students who do not live in Riga (school location), or they have very serious social and economic conditions, school can offer to live at school from Monday to Friday. We are 4 bedrooms, each of them have 18 beds.