- Top Documentary Film from Top Film Festival in AHS (June 7, 2022)
Akademeia High School is a private academically-selective high school, offering the British curriculum of iGCSE and A Level, and preparing students for the best universities in the world. The educational process begins with an individual academic potential assessment. We support talented students with scholarships. The school has a boarding house. We offer Summer School courses. We believe that a good university experience starts in school, which is why Akademeia looks, feels, and operates like a university.
This is a private high school operating in a modern campus in the Miasteczko Wilanów district of Warsaw. The school fully affirms the British education system and the A-level program, recognizing that it gives young people a much better preparation for future studies than other international programs, and also a greater comfort with learning. Already at the first-level, students, along with compulsory subjects, such as Math, English, Polish, Modern Language, and Visual and Music Culture, choose one of the academic pathways: Biochemistry, Engineering, Social Sciences, Humanities, Architecture, and Creative Arts. In grade III, they select from the entire spectrum of academic and artistic subjects 3-4, which they will study and at the same time pass on their secondary school-leaving examination. This allows them to study in their own chosen direction, while developing their passions and interests.
In choosing the right educational path, students receive school support at the recruitment stage, which lasts several days: during meetings and activities with young people, experienced counsellors examine their predispositions and abilities and help them choose teaching subjects. Moreover, during the course of learning, each student has a mentor, who monitors their progress, suggests solutions, advises in the selection of subjects, and helps with mapping out a developmental path. In the teaching process, the school uses the project method, which is a holistic and multidimensional approach to education. Particular emphasis is put on training the skills of critical thinking, communication, creativity, team work, as well as searching for and gathering information. The school runs two high school programs - a two- and four-year program, which extend general education, and allow students to improve their English. The language of instruction at the school is English, and the school year is divided into three semesters. Another distinguishing feature of the school are the 'student' houses functioning in it and competing with each other - based on the British school model.
Our Kids speaks to Mark J. Moore, principal of Akademeia high school
Akademeia High School is a private international high school with English as a language of instruction. It’s located on a very modern campus in Miasteczko Wilanów in Warsaw. Akademeia uses the British curriculum, preparing its students to IGCSE and A-level exams. It’s full of innovative and interesting ideas and practices. In its teaching, it uses the project method based on a holistic and multidimensional approach to education.
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Promotional video for Akademeia High School.
Central to your child's school experience is the underlying curriculum taught in the classroom. "Curriculum" refers to both what is taught and how it's taught. When considering the different curricula outlined in the next few pages, keep in mind that few schools fall neatly into one category or another. Most schools' curricula comprise a blend of best practices drawn from multiple curriculum types. Having said that, most schools do have a general overall curriculum type. These are identified for each school on OurKids.net.
Primary Curriculum: Liberal ArtsSuch an approach to curriculum shares with traditional programs their emphasis on core knowledge-acquisition, but tends to borrow more best practices from the progressive approach. The goal isn't to prepare students for vocational life, but rather to encourage an appreciation of the benefits of education itself, including academic and personal development. There is an emphasis on knowledge acquisition as well as theoretical and academic learning, but the real focus is on cultivating the intellect.
Secondary Curriculum: English National Curriculum| Focus | Special needs |
|---|---|
| Academic | Gifted |
| Flexible pacing style | offered |
|---|---|
| Subject-streaming (tracking) | |
| Multi-age classrooms as standard | |
| Ability-grouping (in-class) as common | |
| Frequent use of cyber-learning (at-their-own-pace) | |
| Regular guided independent study opportunities | |
| Differentiated assessment |
| Subject type | offered |
|---|---|
| Learning strategy and study counselling; habit formation | |
| Extra support and minor accommodations for children experiencing subclinical difficulties |
| Subject type | offered |
|---|---|
| Accommodations | |
| Modifications | |
| Extra support |
| Special needs | Accomodations
Formal adjustments are made to the delivery of lessons to help mitigate the learning difficulty or exceptionality. The underlying content and expectations remain unchanged with accommodations, however. (Example: allowing a student to write tests in a quieter room). | Modifications The underlying content and expectations are modified and/or simplified for the sake of the student. (Examples: allowing student to use a calculator on a test when other students can’t; allowing students to bring word-banks or “cheat sheets” into certain tests, etc) | Remediation Research-based therapeutic measures that target and ameliorate the underlying weakness. |
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| Learning disabilities | |||
| ADHD (moderate to severe) | |||
| Dyslexia (Language-Based Learning Disability) | |||
| Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) | |||
| Dyscalculia | |||
| Dysgraphia | |||
| Language Processing Disorder | |||
| Nonverbal Learning Disorders (NLD) | |||
| Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Deficit | |||
| Developmental | |||
| Autism | |||
| Asperger's Syndrome | |||
| Down syndrome | |||
| Intellectual disability | |||
| Behavioral and Emotional | |||
| Troubled behaviour / troubled teens | |||
| Clinical Depression | |||
| Suicidal thoughts | |||
| Drug and alcohol abuse | |||
| Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) | |||
| Physical | |||
| Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder) | |||
| Blindness | |||
| Deafness | |||
| Cystic Fibrosis | |||
| Multiple physical |
| Program | offered |
|---|---|
| Full-time gifted program (parallel to rest of school) | |
| Part-time gifted program (pull-out; parallel to rest of class) |
Curriculum delivery: Enrichment (The main focus is on enrichment. This means that while students may work at a marginally quicker pace than public school peers, the primary aim is to study subject in broader and deeper ways.)
| Program | offered |
|---|---|
| Custom subject enrichment (special arrangement) | |
| Custom curriculum compacting (special arrangement) | |
| Guided independent study (custom gifted arrangement) | |
| Cyber-learning opportunities (custom gifted arrangement) | |
| Formalized peer coaching opportunities (specifically for gifted learners to coach others) | |
| Custom subject acceleration (special arrangement) | |
| Career exploration (custom gifted arrangement) | |
| Project-based learning (custom gifted arrangement) | |
| Mentorships (custom gifted arrangement) |
| Sports Offered | Competitive | Recreational |
|---|---|---|
| Basketball | ||
| Football | ||
| Soccer | ||
| Tennis | ||
| Gymnastics | ||
| Running | ||
| Volleyball |
| Clubs Offered |
|---|
| Foreign Language Club |
| Habitat for Humanity |
| Math Club |
| Musical theatre/Opera |
| Online Magazine |
| Outdoor Club |
| Outdoor Education |
| Photography |
| Poetry/Literature club |
| Robotics club |
| School newspaper |
| Science Club |
| Student Council |
| Yearbook |
| Yoga |
| Animation |
| Art Club |
| Audiovisual Club |
| Band |
| Chess Club |
| Community Service |
| Computer Club |
| Dance Club |
| Debate Club |
| Drama Club |
| Grade | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | zł109,000 | zł118,000 | zł129,000 | zł135,000 |
| Academic Scholarship Amount: 100% | Academic Deadline: Rolling |
| Eligibility Details: Students grade 9 to 12— We invite all self-motivated, hardworking young scholars with ambition as well as students, achieving outstanding learning results to apply Scholarships at Akademeia High School include:
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| For more details, visit: https://akademeia.edu.pl/en/scholarship-programme-2020-21/ | |
| Art & Design Scholarship Amount: 100% | Other Deadline: Rolling |
| Eligibility Details: Students grade 9 to 12— The competition is open to all students, aged 14-16 years old, who would like to develop their artistic skills and consider studying artistic majors in the future. Scholarships at Akademeia High School include:
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| For more details, visit: https://akademeia.edu.pl/en/scholarship-programme-2020-21/ | |
| Grades | Gender | Living Arrangement | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gr. 9 to Gr. 12 | Coed | Day School | 260 |
| Gr. 9 to Gr. 12 | Coed | Boarding School | 20 |
| Total enrollment | 280 |
| Average enrollment per grade | 70 |
| Average class size | 12 |
| Gender | Coed |
| Grades | Gr. 9 to Gr. 12 |
| Boarding offered | Gr. 9 to Gr. 12 |
| % in boarding (total enrollment) | 7% |
| % of foreign students | N/A |
| # of nationalities attending school | N/A |
| Services | Offered |
|---|---|
| Career planning | |
| Internships | |
| Mentorship Program | |
| University counseling |
| Key Numbers | |
|---|---|
| Average graduating class size | 25 |
A graduate of the English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He has over 30 years of professional experience. He worked in the best private schools in the United Kingdom: he taught in Marlborough (her daughters include Princess Cambridge and Princess Eugenie and Beatrice); Eton and Radley, where he was Head of English Department and Director of University Entrance. For 11 years he was the Clifton College Director, a school attended by 1,250 students and an annual turnover of £ 30,000,000. So far, he has visited Warsaw every year as a member of the team assessing Polish students applying for scholarships at the best schools in Great Britain. Meetings with many talented and talented students confirmed his conviction that Warsaw needs a school to the best of their abilities - modeled on the best schools and universities in Great Britain.
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