Elementary school reston va: Uh oh. We’re very sorry.

The area of ​​the underground part of the school is 3 km². In addition to classrooms, there is a freight elevator, a shower from radioactive particles, and even a mortuary. The school also always kept a supply of food for two weeks for 2,000 people.

“Abo” functioned as a public elementary school. It also served as a tourist attraction: signs were installed throughout the city in the direction of an unusual school. The school was closed in 1995 due to high maintenance costs and severe overheating of the concrete structure. A new elementary school, Yeso, was opened nearby, while Abo remained a historic site.

Railway Schools, Odisha State, India

Source: Ruchik Foundation website

Hundreds of thousands of children from Indian slums continue to engage in criminal activities and take illegal substances due to their complete lack of education and desire for it. Inderjit Khurana, a teacher and founder of the Ruchika Social Service Organization (RSSO), was able to change this situation for the better.

In 1985, she opened the first free “Platform School” at the Bhubaneswar railway station for homeless children from poor families. Today, railway schools educate more than 4,000 children. The most talented are transferred to ordinary Indian educational organizations – a few dozen people a year receive a ticket to a brighter future.

In addition to four hours of instruction a day, meals and medical care are provided to students and their families. The main task of the school is to increase literacy among the poor and give children at least minimal knowledge. There are no usual desks in railway schools, but there are songs, games and, most importantly, caring adults.

In addition to railroad schools, the RSSO supports 63 elementary schools in the slum through private donations. The organization believes that every child has the right to education.

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10 most unusual schools in the world

What should a school be like? Most of us are accustomed to the traditional model – a building with several floors, classrooms, sports and assembly halls, a dining room, sometimes a pool. What if the school is a floating island? Sounds fantastic? This is not the case in today’s world!

Children spend most of their time in the school building. It would be superfluous to say that the organization of space, the interior and equipment of the educational institution are very important. Undoubtedly, the environment influences the development of the child and in one way or another participates in the formation of his personality. Today we will talk about the most unusual and interesting schools. With you Mr. Great, and I present ten amazing schools that will change your idea of ​​what a school should be!

So, in our list:

• School on the water. Kompong Luong (Kombodia)
• Busan International Foreign School (South Korea)
• Nomadic school (Russia)
• Watershed School of Adventure (USA)
• Mountain Mahogany Community School (USA)
• Open space school Orestad Gymnasium (Denmark)
• Terraset Underground School, Reston, VA, USA
• Nanyang Primary School. Nanchang, Singapore
• Carpe Diem School (Aiken, South Carolina, USA)
• School Under the Bridge, Delhi
• Summary

School on the water. Kompong Luong (Kombodia)

Swimming is a real possibility for the residents of the village of Kompong Luong, located on a floating island that plows the waters of the large lake Tonle Sap on the Indochinese peninsula in Kombodia. The island is a small and completely autonomous settlement – there is a school, several shops and residential buildings. Kompong Luong attracts many foreign tourists, allowing you to replenish the budget of the islanders. A number of orphans live in the floating village, whose parents died while fishing, and the income from the reception of excursion groups makes it possible to support the children left without a family.

Busan International Foreign School (South Korea)

Busan International Foreign School (South Korea) Busan International Foreign School is designed as a school for expatriates. Children whose parents moved to Korea permanently or work here on a long-term contract need to adapt quickly, so the program at Busan International Foreign School is very intensive. In ordinary Korean schools, it would be difficult for beginners – ignorance of local traditions often becomes a reason for bullying. The Common Language Search School allows children to integrate into Korean society and receive an international education. The school operates according to the IB International Baccalaureate system, most children study three foreign languages ​​​​at once – Korean, English and Spanish. Teachers provide additional support to children – most subject teachers also have a psychological education.

Nomadic school (Russia)

In the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a significant part of the local population is engaged in reindeer herding and leads a nomadic lifestyle. If until recently the children of nomads had to live in boarding schools in order to get an education, now the situation has changed! There are more than 10 nomadic schools and mobile tents in the region, equipped with everything necessary for studying in the field. Children of reindeer herders can lead a normal life and stay with their parents. The schedule of the nomadic school is different from the usual one, and the children receive assignments via the Internet via satellite!

Watershed School of Adventures (USA)

The American Watershed School believes that the world around us is the classroom. Most lessons are not held in classrooms, but in nature. Biology classes are held at a nearby farm, and new geography topics are best learned during a canoe trip! Pupils carry out numerous projects, much attention is paid to the development of social responsibility and volunteering. The school has a Farm to Table program, participation in which allows you to master the skills of farming and cattle breeding. The teachers at Watershed School are also unusual, they are not only teachers and mentors, but, above all, assistants with whom you can prepare for a school concert or annual performance.

Mountain Mahogany Community School (USA)

Another unusual American school. Studying here is an incredible fortune! In any case, the school management thinks so, because getting into Mountain Mahogany Community School is possible only through luck. In order to get a place at the school, you must fill out an application form on the website. A lottery is held among the applicants, the lucky ones who will be given the opportunity to study at Mountain Mahogany Community School are determined at random. The main postulates of the school are pleasure, safety and emotional development. Children here learn, first of all, practical skills – gardening, cooking, needlework. General education subjects such as mathematics or English are, of course, also included in the program. The school maintains a positive atmosphere and involvement.

Open space school Orestad Gymnasium (Denmark)

Orestad Gymnasium in Copenhagen is a unique school of its kind, there are no classes, no division into classrooms. The school is built on the principle of open space, open space. The project and implementation belong to the well-known architectural bureau 3XN ROLE. In 2007, the building of the gymnasium was recognized as the best building in Denmark, because the school is incredibly beautiful! A steep spiral staircase in the center, cozy round islands where children and teachers gather, comfortable recreation areas made in bright colors – you don’t want to go home after school! Orestad Gymnasium teaches high school students who have chosen media as their specialty, and the design of the school certainly helps to develop creative skills in children!

Terraset Underground School, Reston, Virginia, USA

Do you think underground schools exist only in fairy tale worlds? Wrong! Magic happens in modern life too! Vivid proof is the Terracet School in Virginia. During the energy crisis, when the issue of heating schools was acute, a unique project was implemented in the town of Reston – an underground school. In order to start construction, it was necessary to level the hill, on the site of which the building was erected. Subsequently, it was covered with earth, thanks to which it was possible to keep warm for a long time. The school is heated by solar panels. Terraset is rightfully considered the most energy-efficient school in the United States and is of interest as a tourist attraction.

Nanyang Primary School. Nanchang, Singapore

Singapore’s Nanyang Primary School students in Nanchang never get bored! The joyful multi-colored design is pleasing to the eye and does not allow you to feel sad – the school is like a giant lollipop! Schoolchildren move along the curved passages of the building, in the center of which there is a central staircase that provides access to the classrooms. Properly designed use of the landscape determined the location of sports fields – they were built on the site of a ravine, thanks to canopies they provide protection from cold and rain. It is interesting that, according to the idea of ​​the author of the project, in the classrooms, instead of bright colors, calm shades prevail in the interior, which allows children to better concentrate on their studies and improves discipline.

Carpe Diem School (Aiken, South Carolina, USA)

American Carpe Diem School in South Carolina is one of the amazing schools in the world. Here they believe that each child needs to find an individual approach, so each has a separate office in the open space hall. In fact, the school is more like a huge office with 300 single study places, each of which is equipped with a personal computer. Such a non-standard approach to education is bearing fruit – Carpe Diem School has been demonstrating the best academic performance in the region for several years in a row. In addition, school students read three times more than their peers on average in the country.

School Under the Bridge, Delhi

In India, most of the population can only dream of high schools and gymnasiums. Children’s education is often limited to begging skills. Volunteers tried to improve the sad situation in education by organizing a free school under the bridge. Children from poor families who are striving for enlightenment study here. You can get only the most basic knowledge, you won’t be able to go to the middle classes. There are no famous graduates in the “school under the bridge” yet, but who knows, maybe someday they will appear and, of course, will contribute to the school reform in India, making education accessible to everyone.

Resume

Absolutely amazing list of schools, in my opinion! What strange forms modern education does not take! But the main thing is the desire to learn! Here’s my advice to you: think big (think big) and strive for knowledge, no matter where you are and what opportunities you have!

Always yours,
Mr. Great

The Most Unusual Schools in the World – Tutors Association Blog

Yes, you remember how it was in our schools: a standard set of subjects, breaks, a canteen. Even the form until a certain time was the same for everyone. What’s there – school supplies and those like a carbon copy. I remember that in the fifth grade they brought me felt-tip pens from abroad, Polish, I think. O sweet burden of glory! It fell upon my fragile childish psyche, and for a week I was the epicenter of the colorful events of the whole class. Then a classmate was given a cooler thing – a calculator – and, of course, the role of a superhero passed to him. Then for the first time I realized how short-lived the love of fans is, but, sorry, I got carried away, the report is not about that.

My last call is long gone. And I can’t say that I was somehow very nostalgic for naval combat tasks in a notebook until I found out about the existence of other schools. Completely different. So different that while I was reading and looking at the photographs, a mean man’s tear welled up in my eyes. Well, why, why didn’t I study in these crazy schools?! Time machine, please invent immediately! I want to go back to my childhood and not eleven, but twenty years to go to one of the schools, the story of which you can read below. Each of them is unique either in form or in content.

Terraset Underground School. City of Reston, Virginia, USA.

Dungeon. Raw dark word. Exhausted children with a calcareous complexion from a chronic lack of sun appear. Nothing like this. Quite rosy-cheeked, healthy and cheerful students. Not only they are proud of their school, but all the inhabitants of Reston. Periodically they even arrange excursions for compatriots and foreigners.

The educational institution appeared in the mid-1970s, and was driven underground by the energy crisis that was then raging in North America. The regime of the most severe energy savings was introduced in the country: the lighting was modest, the heat was weak. The town of Reston, however, needed a new school. Do not wait for the crisis to end, the local authorities thought. Brilliant designers were invited and they came up with a miracle school. They leveled the hill, erected a building, and then covered it with earth. Again, this is brilliant! Natural earth cover warms up the walls. And in order, on the contrary, to cool the room, solar collectors were installed above the hill.

Today, Terracet is the most energy efficient and “biological” school in the US and the main attraction of Reston. Probably, the best wish for a schoolboy sounds there – “so that you fall into the ground!”.

Transport school ” De Kleine kapitein ” from industrial containers. City of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The school was built in 2009 as a temporary and forced by circumstances. A new microdistrict was built up, and a room for students was urgently needed. So they built a barrack-type institution. Like, it’s better that way than nothing. And when time and money were found for the construction of a fundamental building, the residents unanimously spoke in favor of leaving the school. And what is fun, pleasing to the eye. Yes, and economically profitable: suddenly they decide to build another house, so the containers can be easily and quickly transported. And you don’t need to spend money on a global repair, I refreshed the colors and order.

If I, an adult, are delighted by these colorful cubes, what can I say about children. Amsterdam schoolchildren, I confess, I envy you in many colors. I would go to such a container school not only for lessons, but also for all electives, circles, and even, instead of parents, to meetings.

Kenelaken nomadic school. Oleneksky Evenki national region, Yakutia, Russia.

Also a mobile school. Only, unlike Amsterdam, soft and fluffy – felt. Children of nomadic reindeer herders study there. Previously, they had to settle somewhere in one city, and live for many months in a boarding school, away from their families. There is little joy, of course, to be in the state walls all the time. And not every parent will let go of a minor child, no one knows where, no one knows how much. So the child wandered from place to place, not at all burdening himself with school knowledge.

The problem was solved when the global network appeared. Now, in addition to residential yurts, they also set up student yurts at the nomad camp. It must have satellite internet access. According to it, children receive assignments in all disciplines and are sent for testing to a “sustainable” district or regional school.

In Yakutia, a special (fully remote) educational program has been developed for nomadic students, and there are more than a dozen mobile schools themselves.

That’s what I understand – a constructive solution to the issue. It seems that Cola Beldy knew forty years ago that they would invent something universal, all-pervading. Remember, in the song – “you will know that in vain they call the North extreme …”.

Online College of Magic. State of California, USA.

The wizard in the photo in the worldly life is named Oberon Zell-Ravenheart. He is 71, about the same time he has been studying the occult sciences. Oberon is the founder, director and teacher of the Gray School of Wizardry.

Incredibly, the School of Wizardry has been officially recognized as an academic institution. She is the first and so far the only one in the world. Standing applause for the State of California. I may not be a big fan of Harry Potter, but always up for a healthy dose of insanity.

Zella-Ravenheart has many similarities to the fabulous Hogwarts. Students are distributed, according to their character, into four faculties: Wind, Mermaids, Salamanders and Gnomes. The school course is designed for seven years of study. Compulsory disciplines – sixteen. Among them: alchemy, talking with animals, spells and working with a magic wand. There is also a special course for advanced magicians – “protection from dark forces.” Today, 735 students study at the school. Getting there is as easy as shelling pears: 1) you need to know for sure that you are a sorcerer, 2) pay an entrance fee of 25 US dollars.

So far, all teaching is done remotely, over the network, but Professor Dam…, that is, the director of Zell-Ravenheart, plans to buy an empty castle in Montana and open a real School of Wizardry.

May the force of the Jedi be with him!

Cave school. Guizhou Province, People’s Republic of China.

Looking ahead, I will say that now this school is closed, but from 1984 to 2011 it functioned in the image and likeness of ordinary secondary schools. Such an unusual educational institution did not appear from a good life. Guizhou Province is one of the poorest in China. It is not very appropriate to talk about some high spiritual needs, when people there are often malnourished and cannot afford an extra pair of shoes. But even in conditions of total poverty, residents managed to organize school leisure for children. It was impossible to build a normal building for the minimum amount allocated by the state. So I had to be content with the mercy of nature. Simple barracks were built in the cave for teacher and school needs, desks were set up and, in fact, the class was ready.

Eight teachers worked in the cave school, they taught several hundred children in 27 years. But in 2011, party bosses considered that the primitive appearance of the school was causing irreparable damage to the image of the country. The educational institution was closed. Now it is visited only by tourists. And a school that would correspond to a high moral character was never built. In general, no one was built, even a low-moral one.

Kompong Luong floating school. Tonle Sap Lake, Kompong Luong Village, Cambodia.

Kompong Luong is not only the name of the school, but of the whole small village. The uniqueness of this settlement is that houses, shops, cafes and a school are located on the surface of the lake.

There are only two teachers at the school, they are also educators for some orphans. Teachers and children left without parents live permanently in this floating school. After classes, the desks are moved to the wall, and the vacated space becomes a living room, kitchen and bedroom at the same time.

The institution exists only on donations from local residents and compassionate tourists. According to the descriptions of travelers, sometimes, at the height of the tourist season, so many school supplies, clothes and sweets accumulate that students arrange a fair where they sell surplus donated items. The money raised is used to support the home-school hearth.

One would like to believe that one day Kompong Luong and schools like it will be closed forever. Not because of the lawlessness of the nomenklatura, but because of the need that has really disappeared. For a very good reason for the transformation of Cambodia into an economically, socially and culturally developed country.

Waldorf School. Founded in 1919. City of Stuttgart, Germany.

This is no longer just a separate school, but a world-famous educational doctrine. The main principle is to provide the child with maximum opportunities for development at a pace that is comfortable for him personally. There is no strict system and grades, there are almost no textbooks. There are few standard disciplines that we know from general education schools. Practically useful differences are taught. For example, pupils can knit, bake bread, draw, design architectural structures, and dance. And there is no division into boys and girls classes. Everyone knows everything. They also travel the world a lot.

The history of the birth of Waldorf pedagogy is curious. The doctrine was founded by Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, esotericist, founder of the spiritual movement of anthroposophy. But Emil Molt, the owner of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory, ordered the construction of a revolutionary educational institution. The very first school (pictured) was located at a factory where tobacco products were stamped. And the new technique got its name not in honor of Steiner or Molt, but in honor of the cigarette factory.

Waldorf is now a patented trademark. In 60 countries, including Russia, there are 1,025 Waldorf schools and more than 2,000 kindergartens.

Imagine if exams in subjects such as crocheting, growing rye, making pottery, table etiquette become the norm. It’s sad to admit, but I would have failed in all subjects. That’s it, I’m writing an ad “I’m looking for a tutor, a skilled Waldorf high school student. Do not offer pupils of general education schools.

Orestad Gymnasium in the style of open space . City of Copenhagen, Denmark.

A specialized gymnasium trains future media professionals. Only high school students are accepted here, and so far only Danes. In the future, they promise to expand the geography. The establishment has been operating since 2007. In the same year, the gymnasium was recognized as the best architectural building in Scandinavia.

There are no separate classrooms in the building. All students study in one huge room. Four floors are connected by a wide spiral staircase, and each floor has a seating area with soft sofas and pouffes. You can lie down, chat, and be especially disciplined and do your homework right there.