PORG Gymnázium a Základní škola
Great news for the growth and development of our school!
Following an inspection by the Council Of British International Schools (COBIS), PORG International School is now a Compliance member.
For our parents and children, it means that we have shown that we meet the highest standards of international and British best practice in providing children with the maximum levels of support in their development at primary school.
The concept at the heart of COBIS compliance is continuous improvement in how member schools provide education. The high standards required are maintained by regular inspections and communication with COBIS. Our staff can take advantage of the training and feedback available, which enables us to learn lessons from British International School across the world.
Once again, the report noted the spirit, enthusiasm and team spirit of our students and staff as well as the strong leadership of our Principle and Headteacher. All of us here at PORG International School look forward to continuing our evolution with the help and support of COBIS.
Thursday 21 November 2019
Greet ten people for peace!
For the last 46 years, World Hello Day has been observed on November 21 as a way of promoting world peace and the use of communication to solve conflicts, rather than force. All you have to do to take part is greet ten people on this day.
In the International School, we will be presenting ways of greeting people from around the world, in different languages and from different cultures. By the end of the day, we hope to be able to greet not only ten different people but people from at least ten different countries and cultures.
It's a small step but that's how all movements start and at least it's a step in the right direction. Like Winston Churchill said, 'Jaw-jaw is better than war-war!'
There's a saying in languages all over the world that 'a healthy body makes a healthy mind'. So, as an international school, we have minds and bodies from all over the world to keep healthy.
Athletics Day is our annual celebration of healthy bodies and minds and, as we are in Ostrava, where better than the Ostravar Arena? It has all the facilities of an international athletics venue and is only a ten minute walk from our school - perfect for a quick warm-up!
The children competed in classic athletics events such as running 100, 200 and 400 metre races. There was also the long jump and medicine ball throw for a little extra challenge, especially for the younger kids. The medicine balls weighed 2 kilos, so for a 20 kilo kid to throw one several metres is no small effort!
The event that kept everyone occupied the longest though, was the Spartan Race. This is an obstacle course where competitors swing hand over hand along monkey bars, crawl under ten metres of netting without getting tangled like a fish, overcome a maze of car tyres without tripping up, leap and scramble over a wall of crash matting and sprint madly for the finish line.
Despite the heroic efforts of some very promising young international athletes, it has to be said that we have a long way to go before we sweep the medals board. However, none of our team gave up and all of them supported the winners in a very sportsmanlike fashion, which is just as important as winning.
More importantly still, we all had a great time doing it, so many thanks to our team for taking part, the kids from PORG Elementary School for showing us the standards we need to attain and the sports staff for organising the whole event - see you all next year!
