FATİH HIGH SCHOOL

Fatih High School was built with 16 classrooms in 1987 in Afyonkarahisar. Under the constant encouragement and creative guidance of the teachers school aims to provide a progressive approach and commitment to excellence in education. It grows its students into multi-faceted personalities able to face the challenges of the world with confidence and ease.and continues education and training as foreign language intensive high school and general high school. Our school has been involved in 2 projects so far.Here are their names; -2015 Erasmus+ Ka1: Team building,Cultural and Intercultural Awereness -2015 Erasmus+ Ka2: Connect,Share and Get Enlighted People involved in this project have been working since many years with youth, organizing projects at local, regional, European and international level. They have got important skills in team building methods, evaluation of activities and dissemination of results. They known different ways to increase awareness of group processes and tools that facilitates group development during Youth Exchanges. The teaching staff is constantly interested in improving themselves, being involved both in obtaining teaching degrees and in attending training courses.The teachers involved are expertised in information, communication and foreign languages Participation in Erasmus +Youth project will stimulate students’ awareness and reflection on the differences in values and the respect for cultural diversity. Our priority is to bring together young people who want to be active . We hope that the project will make both youth and the staff more creative and innovative, they will be able to use their talents and potentials .We want to enable our students to experience something new, to broaden their horizons, to improve communication skills and to promote reasearch even on topics no tought in school. Our school has had lots of achievements and successes since its foundation in Afyonkarahisar and also nation-wide.Many students graduated from our school have entered various universities so far. Every year at least 2 or 3 students from our school are among the most succesful 1000 students in the university enterance exam in Turkey. It has got many successes in the cultural and social fields. Two consecutive years, our handball team,winner in Afyonkarahisar, joined the knockout stage in Mersin and Isparta. Both male and female folk dance team represented our school successfully in the knockout stage of the region. In the quiz show about the holy week the Prophet Muhammed born, our school -winner in Afyon- represented itself in Ankara in 1997. In 1997, our school won a first place in the maths quiz show organised by Middle East Technical University. We believe that Fatih Anatolian High school will get many successes in the near future. Both male and female volleyball team got many successes. In female volleyball team got the 4th place in groups, they won the 1st place in in Afyon, they also got the 2nd place in . In male volleyball team won the first place, they also won the first place in a marathon organised by Kadir Has University in 2011 and they got the 2nd place in . Our school was converted into Anatolian High School in 2010. Today there are 537 students ,43 teachers,1 principal and two assistantprincipal in our school. 65 percent of our students live in the city centre and the rest of them live in towns and villages or they stay at dormitories and stay with their relatives due to the difficulties in transportation and financial problems. As we take a look at the jobs of the students’ parents, 20 percent of them is civil servant, 30 percent of them is worker and 35 percent of them is freelancer. Our students’ parents working consists of 10 percent of women and 75 percent of men. 5 percent of them is university graduate, 30 percent of them high school graduate, 25 percent of them is secondary school graduate and 35 percent of them is primary school graduate. The rest 5 percent is the parents who quit school due to various reasons. This data shows us that the number of the parents who have low and middle income are more than the parents having high income. There are 14 social clubs in our school. Civil Defence Club performs earthquake and fire drill every year. Literary Culture Club takes a part in some social activities such as theatre, poetry, oratorio and musical both in our school and in Afyonkarahisar. Social Solidarity Club organizes visits to Children Protection Instution and Nursing Home regularly every year. Moreover, the students having financial problems are supported periodically by our school. All the students in school are visited within the project “Bir Fincan Kahve Projesi”. Our vision is to be one of the most well-known and high quality schools in Turkey with its social ,cultural activities and its educational achievements . Our mission is to prepare the youth for society and help them be successful in upper organisations by bringing up the youth who are devoted themselves to Atatürk’s principles and reforms, innovative, tracking improvements, keeping the mother tongue Turkish, good at other foreign languages.