SOSW Leszno , our school

LESZNO, our hometown

Where we are situated ?

SOSW Leszno- our school

Our school is located 30 km from Warsaw, near theKampinos National Park

We are the biggest school for children with specialeducational needs in Masovia region.

There are approximately 270 students in our schooland 120 of them stay in the boarding school

Our students are children aged 7 to 23 with mentaland physical disability and various educationalneeds.

School buildings

School canteen

Male dormitory in Kampinos National Park

School stable and horses

School structure

SOSW Leszno

(School for Children with Special Educational Needs in Leszno)

- Primary school

- Secondary school

- Vocational school

For children aged 7 to 23 with mild, moderate, severe and profound mental retardation

Vocational school

During 3-years vocational schoolstudent with mildmental retardation arebeing trained infollowing proffesions:

--hairdresser

-- gardner

--shop assistant

-- chef

-- baker

--confectioner

Activities in the boarding school

Activities in the boarding school

Annual events and festivals

Every year we organise:

Christmas dinner

Vocal and dance festival

Theatre festival

Ski camp

Summer camp

Cross-country running

Bicycle rally

Integration trips

Christmas dinner

Theatre festival

Bicycle rally

FeTa – dance and vocal festival

School trips

Annualy school organised trips to neighbourhoodEuropean countries.

Our students have already visited 7 capitals (Prague, Vilnius, Vienna, Bratislava, Berlin, Bukarest, Tallin) and Bornholm Island in Denmark

Trip to Berlin

Trip to Bratislava and Vienna

Trip to Prague

International projects

Since September 2011 we participate in Leonardo da Vinci project WORKSen(Comparing thetechniques used inSpecial NeedsVocational Educationand supporting theirsocial and vocationalintegration) with 5 other schools and institutions from Turkey and Romania

International projects

“Healthy food –better life” is a title of Polish-Italian Youth ExchangeYouth in Action Programme that took place in Leszno in June 2012.

The aim of the project was promotion of goodeating habits and healthy lifestyle

International projects

In June 2012 3 persons from our school participated in international seminar in Estonia.

The theme of the seminar was work opportunity for persons with disabilities in non-government organisations.

We had chance to share experience with other youth workers from Finland, Spain, Estonia and Austria

Summer camp

During thesummer we organised 2-weeks summer camp by the lake wherechildren practisehorse riding

Ski camp

In the winterholidays studentstake part in the campwhere they are beingtrained in skiing

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