The Learning School

In the school year 2002-2003 our school joined The Learning School programme developed by the Centre for Citizenship Education. The major objective of the programme is to improve the quality of work at school covering various spheres connected with its proper functioning. Another aim or rather advantage of participating in the programme is that all the schools are supposed to help and support each other. There are two levels in which the programme is carried out.

The level of Diagnosis

The level of diagnosis involves making assessment the purpose of which is to evaluate the quality of work at school. This evaluation is made using questionnaires prepared by CEO. What comes as a result of this assessment is a report prepared by a different school. In our school such a diagnosis was made in September 2002. The report was prepared entirely on the basis of the questionnaires and later on written by the diagnosticians from the Public Comprehensive School in Lniano. The presentation of the report took place during a teaching staff meeting in January 2003. The leaders of diagnosis from our school prepared a similar report about The Complex of Comprehensive and Secondary Schools in Ratajki near Chodzież.

The level of standards

This level started from a careful analysis of the report prepared by the teachers. The next step involved forming Task Teams the members of which set the standards in each section which constitute the school quality map: I .Education results, II. Teaching and learning, III. School as institution, IV. School and the external environment. During the next teaching staff meetings all the teachers participating in the programme discussed the most important areas of the school work. They set standards and the most important objectives they wished to achieve. Additionally they also determined the success indicators in each area. This stage hasn’t finished yet. It started in November 2003 so for the last eight years we have been formulating various ideas and implementing certain tools intended to help our school design and bring about satisfying changes. There has been a number of trainings provided by CEO trainers. Our directors(Ewa Joachimiak and Józef Ryzop) and the leaders of diagnosis(Katarzyna Lewandowska, Hanna Kalinowska) and the leaders of standards (Anna Gazińska, Anna Koszur, Ewa Kordylewska) took part in those trainings.