iSchool is a private British school operating in Olomouc

The beginning of another school year

by Petr Pospíšil

This summer holiday was a busy time for our school management. There were several major strategic issues to be solved. Firstly, in order to solve the staffing issues from last year, linked to long term sickness and maternity leaves, we set ourselves the goal of building a new team. Our focus was on two things. Firstly, to have an international team of staff and raise the overall experience level. Both objectives I believe were successfully accomplished, although there might still be some changes in the middle management structure since unfortunately Miss Lenka had a unexpected operation on her pelvis this week :-(

Secondly, as we normally do during summer, we have been reviewing all the school documentation against the new legal requirements and standards for British schools overseas. The school now have in place a new whistleblowing policy and a separate staff code of conduct, which used to be part of our child protection policies. Both of these new and important policies will be soon be available on our website.

Thirdly, sadly we did not manage during the summer to build the wooden patio we’d wanted as an extension to the preschool and Y1 classroom areas and the shelter over the preschool entrance. This will have to be done, I hope, in September.

As far as the school programme is concerned we have been looking into some improvement of teaching skills. To this end, all teaching staff participated in training on outstanding teaching strategies last week delivered by a well experienced trainer from the UK (Mr Steven Burnage. You can read more on the training in one of our articles above.

We are now finalizing all the preparations and I personally look forward to the new school year ahead.

Why should your child attend iSchool?

They will gain perfect knowledge of English.

Your child will become a global citizen with wide understanding of local and international topics.

We put a strong emphasis on the development on subject specific skills rather than on acquisition of knowledge.

Emphasis on skills development (not just memorising).

Individual approach; school’s ability to motivate for improvement.

Your child will be excited to come to school.

School philosophy

You are not buying success, you are paying for the school to monitor your child’s progress to their goals and motivate them to fulfil their potential.

We are not a selective school: we believe that everybody can be successful.

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Merry Christmas!

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School's Christmas performance

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18. 12. 2023

Preschool's Christmas concert

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17. 11. 2023

Czech Day

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Autumn Camp

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Afternoon Clubs

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Events Calendar for school year 2023/2024

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Welcoming new team members!

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28. 8. 2023

IGCSE results success

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26. 4. 2023

Financial support from Olomouc city

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13. 4. 2023

Tuition fees 2023-2024

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31. 3. 2023

Maths Day

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31. 1. 2023

Academic dates 2023/2024

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21. 12. 2022

Christmas Show 2022 at Šantovka theatre

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16. 12. 2022

Financial contribution to digitalization

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10. 10. 2022

Autumn Camp 2022

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6. 9. 2022

Events Calendar for school year 2022/2023

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9. 6. 2022

Hledáme: Asistent pedagoga v MŠ

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Hledáme: Učitel/ka v MŠ

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23. 5. 2022

Academic calendars 2022/2023

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5. 5. 2022

Inspection report 'British School Overseas Standards'

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Poetry Day 2022

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