The Presentation of Constantin Noica High School Sibiu, Romania.ppt

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1. “Constantin Noica” High School
Sibiu

2. “Constantin Noica” High School is a public pre-university educational institution,
subordinated to the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research by the
Sibiu County School Inspectorate. It develops its activity in buildings of the local
public domain Sibiu City and it’s managed and financed by the Municipality of Sibiu.

3. “Constantin Noica” High School is a public pre-university educational institution,
subordinated to the Ministry of National Education and Scientific Research by the
Sibiu County School Inspectorate. It develops its activity in buildings of the local
public domain Sibiu City and it’s managed and financed by the Municipality of Sibiu.
The educational levels in our high school are: primary (from the
preparatory class to the 4th class), gymnasium classes (V-VIII),
high school classes (IX-XII) and post high school (I-III).

4. The education in our institution is a general and vocational one, with three
profiles (real, humanist, theological) and five specializations (Mathematics-
Computer Science, Natural Sciences, English Intensively with 3-4 hours per
week for the fourth and sixth gymnasium classes, Philology, Baptist Theology).

5. The educational offer included: sporting and academic activities/subjects in the
school curriculum; extracurricular activities for the formation of advanced
language and IT skills and supporting the high performance; extracurricular
activities - cultural, artistic, sport and leisure contests and competitions, etc.

6. Under the name “Constantin Noica”
Theoretical High School, were unified
since 2011 the following educational
institutions from Sibiu City. "Constantin
Noica" High School, located then on
Hill Street No. 6 (which debuted as
instructional institution of the Catholic
confessional education and whose
fame is well known worldwide and
which functioned later as a sisters
school of care, under the tutorship of
Red Cross and subordinated to the
Ministry of Health), "Mihai Eminescu"
General School No. 9 (which received
with honor the name of our national
poet Mihai Eminescu, in the spirit of
the Romanian tradition for cultivating
in the pupils’ mind and soul their love
for language, literature and culture),
located on Army Street No. 5 and
"Bethany" Baptist High School.

7. The enrolment of pupils has from this year a new educational offer, starting from our certitude
that a good cooperation between school and family is possible only when the family
understands well the mission of the school, and the school considers the family as an ally,
honest, permanent collaborator, directly interested in the educational process.

8. We have in our new offer: a program for preparing of
homework in school (the program “School after school”) with
the opportunity to provide pupils a hot meal, at the request
of parents (dining room); additional preparation for pupils in
terminal classes, ensuring the school success; program of
support for pupils with special educational needs (SEN);
studying of foreign languages: English, German, French;
foreign language through songs, games and poetry (English,
German, French), Computer Science, Health Education,
Environmental Education as optional school subjects;
Ecotourism, Introduction to Journalism collaborating with the
Children’s Palace from Sibiu City as extracurricular activities;
assistance given to pupils and parents through the counseling
of family with the participation of the school psychologist; the
monitoring of the grades and absences using the electronic
class-book.

9. The material basis of our school consists of: classrooms which are specifically arranged
for the preparatory classes, equipped with furniture and material means; sanitary toilets
with equipments appropriate to pupils’ age; a Computer Science classroom with
Pentium computers, connected in network and with internet; a Computer Science
classroom AEL with educational software programs; classrooms on school subjects
(Biology, Modern Languages, History, Geography, Romanian Language, Physics and
Chemistry); a school library with over 22,000 volumes, with a reading room and a
projection room; a modern gym hall with an area of 800 square meters; another gym
hall with fitness equipment; 2 medical offices (pediatrics and dentistry); an office for
psychological counseling; an own thermal central and rehabilitated heating.

10. In our well equipped Computer Science classrooms, the pupils of the last high school class (XII)
sustain both the digital competences testing (D) and that of linguistic competences (C)
within their baccalaureate exam, according to the calendar established yearly by the Ministry
of National Education and Scientific Research, in days of the July month.

11. The school leadership sustains all projects developed by us, proud to promote our school in
country and abroad. In an Erasmus+ project we will show to our European partners what nice
activities are able to accomplish our gifted and wonderful pupils, guided by their teachers.

12. In the context of continuing the reform in
the pre-university education from
Romania, our school, through the activity
of our school leadership and teachers,
members in our former Comenius project
or future members in this Erasmus+
project will consider to prove that they
are the best partners the next priority
objectives: the pupil-centered learning;
the assurance of quality; the information
system; the modernization of the
material base in our school; the
educational management; equal
opportunities for all our pupils; the use of
ICT in teaching, as well as in developing
projects; the pupils with special needs;
the European integration; the
development of the material base for the
differentiated training.

13. Among the representative achievements of “Constantin Noica” High School we can
mention: the organizing of the annual study camp in Paltinis and Sadu for the pupils with
outstanding results; the first prize for the national project “From the Music of Nature to
the Music of Psyche”, included in the Calendar of the National Educative Activities for the
year 2010; the second prize in the county contest for school publications with “Amalgam”
school magazine, in which we published a lot of articles about the protection of the
environment; the organizing of German and Romanian folk dances and even the receiving
of the first prize for the German dances played by the pupils of our high school at the
County Folklore Festival which held in Avrig Town, and the third prize for the Romanian
folk dances; the first prize in the County Contest (2011) and in the National Competition
(2012) for the project "Our City Is in Our Hands", achieved with the involvement of our
pupils' parents, another reason to prove that we have expertise and will be able to show
to our Erasmus+ project partners how we contribute in creating a clean atmosphere in our
city; the first prize at the International Symposium “The Fairy Tales of the Peoples - A
Travel around Europe” for the sketch acted by our gifted pupils, ready to show to this
project partners they are open for learning more knowledge about the world culture; the
participation of our pupils in contests on different subjects, especially of Computer
Science, and sport competitions with good results, a fact which determines us to state that
our pupils will include successfully the digital citizenship with all its rights, norms,
responsibilities and freedoms in our project activities and learning events.

14. The key persons involved in this project know how to work in this activities and to imply pupils
of all cycles and material possibilities. They proved this in what we call “School after school”, a
program for young pupils consisting in a service brought to the community, without substituting
the family, but helping parents involved in the implementation of the program.

15. There are a lot of teachers in our school with
experience in projects, among them
mentioning the headmaster, who has
experience in POSDRU projects, the
experience of the coordinator in many
eTwinning projects for whom received along
the years National and European Quality
Labels and other teachers in our Erasmus+
project team, who attended the E-mentor
course for the developing of ICT
competences and skills and educational
mentoring of the persons with disabilities
within a project of “Lucian Blaga” University
of Sibiu, trainings in environmental
sustainability at Teacher Training House
Sibiu, workshops or symposiums .

16. The scientific session of our pupils working in partnership with other Romanian
partner schools on the theme "Environmental protection - our responsibility." was a
first step to our desire to implement the Eurasmus+ project "Ecological Literacy".

17. By organizing a few visits to the Faculties of Geography, Chemistry and Biology from
different Romanian cities, like that from Timisoara, as well as by achieving some
opened, interactive and interdisciplinary lessons, we reached the goals of many
activities developed by us within regional projects and national workshops.

18. We are proud of our eTwinning certificates for which we created blogs and project
websites, as well as for the articles we published on various didactic platforms.

19. You can see here:
 a lot of teachers ready to cooperate in order to achieve good projects;
 gifted pupils who will delight you by their wonderful performances;
 a modern high school and a leadership always preocupied in order to
realize the most efficient management;
 an interesting place to share the educational methods and systems;
 a material base which can be an example for every partner school in
Europe and everywhere;
 polite and friendly staff, always ready to be helpful any time;
 an impressive aproach of all teachers and pupils on the protection of
the environment and the renewable energy.