Grundzāles Pamatskola is an elementary school in Latvia with 78 students across 9 forms from preschool to 9th grade. It prides itself on high academic achievement, with an average mark of 7.00 for grades 4-9 and a third of students participating in regional olympiads. The school also excels in sports like orienteering, high jump and javelin. It aims to provide a well-rounded education through activities like choir, folk dancing, art and music school. The small student body and prescribed curriculum present some weaknesses, but opportunities exist through European projects to strengthen connections across generations.

1. GRUNDZĀLES PAMATSKOLA

2. THE AIM IS TO SHOW THE WAY,
THIS CALLS THE HEARTS TO HILL
OF LIGHT!
The aim is to creat such surroundings
that let every child perfect him now
intellectually, now physically.

3. THE MAIN FACTS
• There are 78 pupils at Grundzale Elementary
school.
• There are 9 Forms.
• There are 16 qualified teachers at school, our
head mistress is Mrs.Valda Elstina.
• To graduate the school pupils need to pass 4
exams.
• We are like a private school with state
finansing.

4. Preschool department
Two groups: kittens (1-4 years)
and ladybirds (5-6 years old)
3 teachers, 3 teacher’s assistents

5. WE ARE PROUD OF
• Average mark is 7,00 among pupils 4.-9.grade.
• 1/3 of pupils participate in regional
olympiades.
• In OECD research our school is at 29th place
among more than 300 schools

6. We are proud of our teachers
Our teachers
are high
qualified,
eveybody has
“added value” -
they sing,
dance, play
theatre,
volleyball, are
bee keepers,
fanatic
orientierist

7. WE ARE PROUD OF
our education of interests
We have a choir and 3 national folk dance groups. 66 pupils (totally
in school is 77) participated in XI Pupils’Dance and Song Festival
Many pupils attend sport school, art school and music school in
Smiltene.

8. WE ARE PROUD OF
our achievments in sports
Agnija Caune is a world champion in
orientiering

9. WE ARE PROUD OF
our achievments in sports
We are the best in high jump and javelin-
throwing

10. WE ARE PROUD OF
our achievments in sports
We have our own skis. Pupils start skiing
in preschool.

11. WE ARE PROUD OF
“being green”
Sorting paper and
PET bottles

12. WE ARE PROUD OF being green
Project “Mammadaba” (“Mothernature”) –
make birdhouses, plant trees

13. WE ARE PROUD OF
our school board
Our parents made advent wreaths for every
classroom
This year they
helped
to set up school
radio;
to draw paintings
on the wall,
to make
hopscotch,
to organize
Activity Day

14. SWOT of project implementation
• Strengths – comunication among teachers is
close, everybody knows everything,
• Weakness – not so many pupils, so not many
works; prescribed and fixed curriculum
• Opportunities –
• Threats – unclearness about intelectual
output and payment; differences between
demands from NA and our accounting office

15. Project implementation in
preschool
Map of partner countries

16. Erasmus wall

17. Athem of project
Bridging three generation.mp3

18. • More info about Latvia in web-page
• http://www.li.lv/lv/pakalpojumi/prezentacijas
• More info about Grundzale pamatskola
grunsk.tk
• Thanks for your atention!
• dacekalnina77@inbox.lv