Pavel Dan High School is a well known and respected school in our region, performing in the field of education for 70 years. It has a staff of 64 teachers and 952 students aged between 6 and 19 years old who are both local residents or coming from neighbouring rural areas. Approximately 300 students belong to a socially disadvantaged environment.
We have 3 levels of study (primary school- 292; lower secondary- 240, upper secondary- 420). High-school students are provided with 3 specializations: Maths- ICT, Natural Science and Philology. Our school has three different locations situated in three different areas of the city: the main location- 22 classes (6 lower-secondary and 16 upper secondary highschool); Gh. Lazar location- 9 classes (5 primary, 4-lower secondary) situated in an area of the city where a lot of families with fewer opportunities live, lots of students learning in this location belonging to financially disadvantaged families, rroma families and not only); T. Vladimirescu location (7 primary level classes). Our English, PE and RE teachers have classes in all three locations.
We provide educational high quality services but we also organize a lot of extracurricular, non formal activities, some of them outdoor, especially during the Different School Week Programme when one of the students’ favourite topics is the Day of Traditions as we also have students who come from rural areas where old traditions and customs are still alive due to the old people in the countryside who are trying to pass them over to the young generations together with popular wisdom and values.
The managerial team, as well as the teachers’ staff, understand the need of a coherent reformation of the teaching-learning process and show true willingness and open mindedness towards a modern, intercultural education, making efforts in order to make their teaching-learning-evaluation activities digital and to find a proper and efficient combination of traditional and digital activities. Though our students’ results at exams and contests are good. In recent years, our school has initiated several service learning activities to help our students to integrate into the community they belong to and develop their social skills.
