Our gymnasium is a big educational institution in Vilnius, Lithuania. It participates in national policy making
high quality implementation in the field of general education and informal children education. Centre for the arts in the basic curriculum (1 – 12 grades). Integrated Art Curriculum including
carefully chosen developmentally appropriate art activities increases the impact on scholars‘achievements.
Our gymnasium offers the students the opportunities to learn how to overcome a variety of obstacles and to
communicate ideas and be proactive about finding real solutions. It promotes the best educational opportunities for physical and intellectual development of students according to educational
system and local community, using new methods and activities, being open to new, modern ideal which focuses on valuing the learning process as much as the results.
We actively aim:
• to create a knowledge base that is applicable to real life;
• to provide a living and adaptable learning structure for ever-changing personal and global
development;
• to initiate, create and implement innovations in education.
Over the years we have accumulated experience in these fields of expertise:
• education content: preparation and implementation of regulatory documents for general education content;
preparation of methodological materials for curriculum implementation;
• education content implementation and organization: preparation and implementation of in-service teacher and
school head training programmes; organization of educational innovation implementation;
• informal education: initiation, implementation and dissemination of informal education
innovations.
Participation in the international projects and festivals:
• ‘‘Perfection of primary education. Leadership seminars“. Teacher internships abroad.
• ‘‘Developing foreign language competences of primary teachers”. 2011-2013. Teacher internships
abroad.
• ‘‘STEAM education. Implementation of best practises in the Scientix and March project“ (grades
10-12).
• The Euroscola project 2015 set up by European Parliament. The school team (grades 10-12) won the second
place.
• International Children Theatre Festival in Turgi, Switzerland . 2013.
The Gymnasium staff consists of 85 professionals in education: primary (16 teachers), lower and upper
secondary education and informal education experts (69 teachers).
There are 990 students between 7 and 19 years old.
74 teachers have been teaching for many years in our school; there are also 11 young teachers that
recently started teaching in our school.
All teachers are enthusiastic and willing to develop their own skills and competences and also get
involve in local community activities and projects.