POLISH EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMIn 1999 a major reform was carried out in Poland's educational system. It involved profound changes in the school structure, curricula, the grading system, and requirements made of students. Teacher training has also changed. Teachers are promoted through successive grades of professional qualifications: from trainee teacher, contractual teacher, to appointed teacher, and diploma-holding teacher. The highest level is professor of education, awarded only to the very best tutors. The Polish educational system consists of elementary (primary) schools, middle schools, secondary schools (general grammar schools, technical grammar schools, and vocational schools), and universities and other institutions of higher education. Tuition in the state schools is free and mandatory until the age of 18. Following the reform, pupils begin their education at the age of 6 in "Form 0", where they acquire preliminary skills for reading and writing, and learn simple mathematical concepts and operations. They continue their education at
primary school (szkoła podstawowa). This 6-year period of school ends with a test, the purpose of which is to provide information on how much pupils have learned. Next pupils move on to middle school (gimnazjum: as a rule they attend the school nearest their place of residence). The 3-year period at middle school concludes with an examination divided into a humanities paper, and a mathematics and natural science paper. They select their secondary school on the basis of the results of this examination. Students choose from 3-year general education grammar schools (liceum), 4-year technical grammar schools (technikum), or 2-3 year vocational schools (szkoła zasadnicza). Education at a vocational school concludes with a professional examination, which will be of an external type until 2004 (i.e. it will be graded by an independent, external examiners' board). General and technical grammar school concludes with the matura, a school-leaving examination, which is currently predominantly internal in character, i.e. it is held at the student's school and is marked by a board of examiners consisting of members of the teaching staff from the same school. Some grammar schools have already introduced examinations which meet the external examination criteria - matura papers are coded and marked by external examining boards. The new matura examinations are marked according to a national set of criteria, which allows for university admissions without the need for additional entrance examinations. Due to the small numbers of students currently opting for the new matura examination, not all universities exempt holders from entrance examinations as yet. After 2005, the new matura system will be the mandatory scheme. The new matura school-leaving examination will consist of an oral examination at the candidate's school, and an external written paper, marked by an external board of qualified examiners. The school documents are the Charter of the school and “WSO” – internal students’ estimation document. The “WSO” describes the rules of organization of estimating the students at school. The school decides how to mark students and what to mark. School also decides about the way and frequency of informing students and close family about achievements and the way of correcting grades. Since 1999 schools have a duty to use this graduation to yearly classification. Actual graduation: excellent-6, very good-5, good-4, sufficient-3, admitting to receive-2, insufficient-1. At school teachers also use “pluses” and “minuses”, but only in partial grade (for instance you can receive a 4+). In Poland school teachers decide about students’ grades and promotion to next class. The 
students, who not accomplish required minimum, don’t get promotion to next class. In Polish schools all students have subjects like: Polish, Math, History, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Music and Art, PE, Biology and some students in school have subjects: English, French, German etc. In our school we study all of these subjects. Our class (3B) is in so called DELF(Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Français) program which means we study not only English but also French and we took the DELF exam some time ago. Generally we like our school but we have too much homework ;o(
primary school (szkoła podstawowa). This 6-year period of school ends with a test, the purpose of which is to provide information on how much pupils have learned. Next pupils move on to middle school (gimnazjum: as a rule they attend the school nearest their place of residence). The 3-year period at middle school concludes with an examination divided into a humanities paper, and a mathematics and natural science paper. They select their secondary school on the basis of the results of this examination. Students choose from 3-year general education grammar schools (liceum), 4-year technical grammar schools (technikum), or 2-3 year vocational schools (szkoła zasadnicza). Education at a vocational school concludes with a professional examination, which will be of an external type until 2004 (i.e. it will be graded by an independent, external examiners' board). General and technical grammar school concludes with the matura, a school-leaving examination, which is currently predominantly internal in character, i.e. it is held at the student's school and is marked by a board of examiners consisting of members of the teaching staff from the same school. Some grammar schools have already introduced examinations which meet the external examination criteria - matura papers are coded and marked by external examining boards. The new matura examinations are marked according to a national set of criteria, which allows for university admissions without the need for additional entrance examinations. Due to the small numbers of students currently opting for the new matura examination, not all universities exempt holders from entrance examinations as yet. After 2005, the new matura system will be the mandatory scheme. The new matura school-leaving examination will consist of an oral examination at the candidate's school, and an external written paper, marked by an external board of qualified examiners. The school documents are the Charter of the school and “WSO” – internal students’ estimation document. The “WSO” describes the rules of organization of estimating the students at school. The school decides how to mark students and what to mark. School also decides about the way and frequency of informing students and close family about achievements and the way of correcting grades. Since 1999 schools have a duty to use this graduation to yearly classification. Actual graduation: excellent-6, very good-5, good-4, sufficient-3, admitting to receive-2, insufficient-1. At school teachers also use “pluses” and “minuses”, but only in partial grade (for instance you can receive a 4+). In Poland school teachers decide about students’ grades and promotion to next class. The 
students, who not accomplish required minimum, don’t get promotion to next class. In Polish schools all students have subjects like: Polish, Math, History, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Music and Art, PE, Biology and some students in school have subjects: English, French, German etc. In our school we study all of these subjects. Our class (3B) is in so called DELF(Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Français) program which means we study not only English but also French and we took the DELF exam some time ago. Generally we like our school but we have too much homework ;o( "Polish Educational System" by Marcin Razniewski, Magda Koryto and Dorota Korzeniewska; A part of point 2 of the project- "Getting to know each other"
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some photos are great! but can you give photos of everyone?
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