Primary / Secondary School
About our school
Our school is one of thirteen public schools in Kladno, which is a town of seventy thousand people, located 25Km north-west of Prague in the Czech Republic.
Our school was founded in 1912 and its name is Základní škola a Mateřská škola Kladno, Zd. Petříka 1756, however it is more commonly known as Stará Amálka. The school campus consists of two interconnected buildings. There is a multifunctional playground next to the school buildings and a sheltered outdoor classroom. The school is in the town centre. It has two divisions: lower (grades 1 – 5) and upper (grades 6 – 9). The average class size is 30. There are approximately 530 pupils attending our school.
Under our current leadership we have improved the performance of our school to become one of the best public schools in Kladno.
We have extended our teaching programme above the basic curriculum by the addition of more IT, and by English language teaching in the dedicated language laboratory which was established in 2012. We have available a wide range of equipment including two refurbished gymnasiums, an IT room with 35 well equipped computers, 35 Apple iPads, video projectors and overhead projectors, interactive whiteboards, robotic toys Bee-bot and Blue-bot, robotic construction sets, 3D printer, 3D scanner, English and German language classrooms, dedicated classrooms for science, arts and music and a culinary science classroom.
Our school has also started to offer school snacks in addition to hot lunches in the school canteen. We also participate in “milk and fruit for schools” within the EU and state programmes.
Pupils from our school have been successful in their participation of different knowledge and sport competitions, like the Mathematic Olympics and English Olympics or the indoor hockey competition. The inside of our building is decorated with art produced by our pupils.
Additionally, we organise swimming training, a skiing course, a summer camp, short trips (e.g. Great Britain, Germany) and special English courses. A dedicated week of on premise creative and sport activities is offered for younger pupils at the end of the summer holidays. The range of free time activities increases every year. Our afterschool club (for younger pupils) has many activities but we also have clubs in pottery, physics, chemistry, school magazine, and cookery.
As financial support from the State has reduced, we have managed to obtain additional funding via International projects and Ministry of Education schemes. We are the first school in the Czech Republic that has received a grant from the“EU money for school”scheme.
Since 2010, the school has successfully obtained 11 EU grants, totalling 20,5 million CZK towards school equipment.