Şcoala Gimnazială Ghindeni

Dolj County Located in the south-western

part of Romania, the Dolj county

extends between 44°00' and 44°30'

North latitude and between 22°00'

and 23°00' East longitude and is

crossed from the North to the

South by the Jiu river, actually

bearing its name: Doljiu means the

"Lower Jiu".

In this area there live about

700.000 inhabitants grouped in

two cities, five towns and 104

communes, 51 percent of the

population living in urban area.

Ghindeni is a village having around 1900 people.

It is situated at 20 km from Craiova city, Dolj county, in the SW of   Romania.

People have different traditional occupations, many of them being involved in agriculture.

Ghindeni village is certified in historical documents before 1821.

Documents attest that, in 1907, villagers participated at the rural revolt, when some of them were killed.

The building in which functioned the first school in Ghindeni has been since 1850.

The “Sfântul Gheorghe

şi Sfântul Dumitru”

church, situated in the

central part of the

village, is also an

historical monument.

There are in Ghindeni two monuments, which honor the memory of the local heroes of the two world wars.

There is also the lordly house of Davidescu landlord, which is over 100 years.

In 2004 was built a new head office for the mayoralty (Town Hall).

In the village there is a House of Culture, where we can find a library and an assembly-room with 100 places .

THE SCHOOL

The students learn in two buildings:

The kindergarten has a space in the building of the mayoralty.

The 0-VIII grades are in another building which is made with the help of the community and finished in 1974.

The kindergarten

Children can start it at about three years old and can stay until they are six years old. Kindergarten is optional and typically lasts for 3 or 4 forms.

Ghindeni kindergarten has around 49 children, divided in two groups.

Primary and secondary levels The school has 8 classrooms, a

sciences laboratory, an IT laboratory with 15 computers and a project room.

The school has about 132 pupils, with ages between 6-15 years and there are four teachers at the primary school and ten teachers at the secondary level.

Primary Level

There are five grades, one for each level.

The first five years are taught by a single teacher for the most subjects.

Additional teachers are assigned only for a few specialized subjects: Foreign Languages, Introduction to Computers, Religion and Sports.

Secondary level

There are four grades having 72 students.

The pupils are taught Mathematics, Romanian Language, History, Geography, Art, Foreign Languages (French, English), Religion (orthodox), Music, Sports, Introduction to computers, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Technology and Latin language.

Extracurricular activities

The teachers and the students of Ghindeni School are involved in many extracurricular activities, like partnerships with other schools and cultural institutions.

At The Colibri Puppet Theater

Let’s do it, Romania!

Art workshop

Sport contests

In 2005, the school won a grant from “Rural Learning Program” led by the Education Ministry and World's Bank.

We had a special support from the Ghindeni mayoralty and the Local Council.

We made a project called “Info Magazin”, the community newspaper.

The European dimension of the school

From the school year 2005-2006, the Ghindeni School has been involved in international cooperation, in the Long Life Learning Program, the Comenius Program.

“Family Folklore and Traditions”

Two teachers participated in October 2008 at this course, in Malta.

In 2009, a teacher participated at a Comenius course, “Curso de reciclaje para profesores de espanol”, Valencia, Spain.

Teachers of our school participated in three preparatory visits, in Germany, Portugal and Romaniua, in order to make Comenius multilateral partnerships with schools from Europe. And they were successful with the projects G.A.M.E.S. and H.E.L.P.

“H.E.L.P. for healthy energetic living people” (2010-2012)

“EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”

COMENIUS COURSE, THE NEDERLANDS, JUNE 2010

The Study Visit

Teacher training as the key to effective education and personal development,

Szczecim, Poland,May 2014

Brain friendly teaching and learning in adult education, Grundtvig

Workshop, Magdeburg, Germany

July 2014

”Go Green at Home”, Mariahalom, Hungary (2013) – Grundtvig Workshop

”

From Division to Diversity : Educational Challenges related to

Past and Present

”- Norway(2011)

” Let’s teach by playing”, UK(2011)

„International cooperation between nursery and primary

schools”, Belgium(2011)

”Drama in primary school”, UK(2012)

”Outdoor environmental education – learning different

subjects in the context of the outdoors”, Cech Republic

(2012)

”Using informal education pedagogy to engage and motivate

hard-to-reach learners”, UK(2013)

„Technology enhanced learning”, Malta(2013)

”Lifelong learning, the multiplier experience”, Greece (2013)

“European Magazine- EUMA”, Keramoti, Greece (2014)

“Education-Participation-Citizenship, Netherlands (2014)

European School- a contest of Romanian Education Ministry, under European

Parliament patronage

Music:

GEORGE ENESCU ROMANIAN RAPSODY NO.1