Narva Kesklinna Kool

Narva Kesklinna Gümnaasium is an educational institution that includes a primary school, a secondary school and an upper-secondary level. The school is one of the oldest educational institutions in the city, which was founded in 1926. There are 950 Russian native students studying and 70 teachers working in the school at present. The management and the teachers support students' development by different extra-curricular activities: a theatre-club, a chess club, French classes, mechatronics and robotics. Narva Kesklinna Gümnaasium is working hard to provide their students with appropriate learning environments in order to equip them with knowledge and the 21st Century Skills for future career, personal growth, well being and active participation in the social life through innovative student-centered pedagogical approaches contextualising learning in reference to real life situations and making curriculum content more practical. The participation in various European projects broadens our staff's understanding in practices and systems in education across different European countries in order to improve methods and practices in daily teaching and learning as well as in extracurricular and project work. These years we were working on the following projects: Erasmus+ KA2 strategic cooperation project “Science 4 all”, Erasmus+ KA2 strategic cooperation project "Challenging conflicts in schools", Nordplus Junior project"Development of critical thinking and digital competence through CLIL", Erasmus+ KA1 project "Healthy teachers -successful school". There are also plenty of local projects mostly connected with ecology. In 2019 in cooperation with two other schools in Narva we have joint the ESF project "Film makers", thanks to which we are able to make learning films. We have a eTwinning school label and we are proud to be active in eTwinning projects. All the information concerning our eTwinning activities is located here: http://kesklinna.edu.ee/index.php/projektitegevus/international-etwinning-activities. We feel it necessary to make the learning process more exciting for students, so that they would be happier to come to school every morning. Moreover, the situation with COVID-19 made us realise how vulnerable our students and their families can be if they are not prepared for necessity to take care of their resources. In 2020 in cooperation with the partner schools from Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Turkey we have started a new Erasmus+ project "Cross-disciplinary activities for sustainable life".