Natural Sciences and Mathematics High School “Acad. B. Petkanchin” is located in the town of Haskovo, the administrative centre of Haskovo Region in South Bulgaria. The school was founded in 1972 and has already had a history of 40 years. Every year the school welcomes more than 700 students - 12 to 19 years old. The students with special educational needs are few at the school, they are mainly disabled students.
The children are admitted at the NSMHS “Acad. B. Petkanchin” after passing of two National exams in Mathematics and Bulgarian Language and Literature. The NSMHS “Acad. B. Petkanchin” provide profiled classes in Mathematics, Computer Science and Technologies, Biology and Chemistry, all of them ensure intensive language study – English, German and Russian. Our students demonstrate excellent academic results and achieve success at national scientific and sports competitions. Almost 98 % of them continue their education at Bulgarian and foreign colleges and universities. In present NSMHS “Acad. B. Petkanchin” work under two national programs with supported from EU –programs, for developing extra-curricular activities and the school has 37 different clubs and groups of students in the field of mathematics, astronomy, physic, history, ethnology, ecology, music, sport, computer sciences, designing, sport, photography, journalism, communication and relationships, social skills and health. The work under European projects gave us the opportunity to cooperate with variety of partners from all Europe and Turkey and provoke our interest to to continue the partnerships relationships in a different project and new partners Participation of our school in the international cooperation project “PERCEIVING THE WORLD THROUGH DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS!” will: - increase the opportunity for rising and sharing knowledge among students and teachers at international level; - give more motivation for students for self-development and self-fulfillment; - provoke teachers to be more creative and innovative in their work with children; - enable all of the participants to be part of a multi-international and multi-cultural exchange at European level. - develop active cooperation between partners in different European countries, which will lead to increased mutual understanding. - promote awareness in the European dimension of education. - increase the language skills of students - promote ICT-techniques for international communication. |
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