School life

The task was not to cook something tasty but to get onto the canteen menu. The children picked two recipes each and sat down to count: product prices on the Makro website, cooking time for the whole school, ratings of dishes in their own recipe books. What passed the selection they cooked and brought to the canteen for a tasting: whoever tried it handed in a token. The younger children's winner was lazy vareniki, the older ones' — a fruit pie with blueberries and mango; they named it "Tutti-frutti" themselves. Both dishes are now on the school menu.

2 dishes now on the school menu.

The children baked the cookies themselves and sold them at the school fair. They raised 4 000 ฿ and spent it on a tree: planted it in December, then took turns watering it until it took root. The tree grows in the yard.

4 000 ฿ raised at the fair — all of it went on the tree.

In December the children swam their own school races — with parents in the stands, as a family celebration. In February the team competed: silver in the 50 m freestyle and two bronzes — freestyle and breaststroke.

Painting work is hung right in the school — there were several exhibitions this year. Sets for the New Year performances and for graduation are made by the children too — they paint and build them themselves.

• In February the children performed "Romeo and Juliet" — for parents, at school.
• In March the school team played football against another school's academy; kits with numbers were made for the match.
• In May the dance group gave parents an open lesson.

A child chooses a workshop and a sport themselves, from what is open this year: cooking, painting, theatre, dance, football, swimming. The choice opens three times a year — at the start of the first, third and fifth study modules. If it does not work out, at the next window the child chooses something else.

When modules start — in the calendar of the year →

Workshops and sport run in the afternoon — after morning lessons, lunch and homework. They are part of the full day; on the Light programme the child goes home earlier and has no afternoon. How the whole day works → Programme. What each programme includes → Fees.