My dream school
I spend a lot of hours at school, about seven school hours a day and that´s a lot of time for me as a student. Maybe it doesn´t seem a lot of time, but I have to listen to the teacher all the time and our break lasts only ten minutes. I also spend a lot of time by doing my homework, and obviously also by studying. Sometimes I think, that every teacher thinks that his/her subject is the most important and they forget that we have other things to do, too. It´s quite hard for us, in fact, when we get back home we are tired, but we have to do our homework, so after an hour I have to start studying again. I spend ¾ of my time studying and doing homework, sometimes all my time and I can´t find a free minute for me. So, I often wish my school wouldn´t be so hard, but I chose it and I like the school. After all I´m happy here.
It´s nice to know many things and it is important, because that is the way how you can show that you are someone, that you know, and that you are intelligent. It shows that you have learned, it shows that you are interested in the world and that you enjoy new things.
The subjects that I have on my syllabus are: English, Latin, maths, French, history, German, law, Italian, Russian, sport, religion and science. I think that the subjects we already have are good and I think that they´re enough, because we have a bit of everything we could need in our life. In a few years, we will change some subjects and will have new ones. So, I think that our syllabus is good for now.
There wouldn´t be radical changes in my dream school. Maybe, it would be nice to organise it in a different way, for example to have a more varied syllabus. It would be nice to change a bit, because every day is a routine. It becomes boring after a while, but I know perfectly well that it isn´t simple to organise a big school with so many students. The students could choose the syllabus every week, every week they could do what they want. It would be nice also to learn in a different way or to try some different kinds of learning.
Lockers would be perfect, too, because students wouldn´t have to carry a heavy schoolbag. It would be nice to do many more projects and to spend less time in our classrooms. Students would be more interested and they would follow the classes. We could go outside and work there. Students have to work in a different way!
I really love animals, I adore every kind of animals and I´m not the only one. Pets are wonderful and it would be beautiful to have some of them in our school. Pets are a different kind of living beings, they aren´t like human beings. They´re much more different and it would be interesting, especially for those people who don´t have a pet at home. Having bigger animals at school would mean that people would spend much more time outside. It would be positive and we would learn something more too, for example how animals live, what they like, what they do. I learned so much just by observing my pets at home and if someone loves animals like me, it would be a beautiful experience. Bigger animals are perfect, because we don´t know much about this topic, and horses, cows and sheep are unusual here.
I don´t really like technology. Technology is important for us, we need it and we will need it much more in the future, so it would be important to learn at school how to use these high-tech gadgets. After all I don´t know if technology is so good for us, especially for our health, but also because it makes us depend on the gadgets! One day people won´t learn how to write anymore and some people don´t have the money to buy these gadgets. There are positive and negative sides. It is important, but it does not have to become our only way of life.
The whole class could also chat in the classroom with students from England or Russia. It would be great to see them and to talk to them. If this isn’t possible a student could also be followed by another family, but without moving abroad! The family could help this student with the homework by chatting on the Internet, sometimes. This would be an interesting way to know new people and to learn something from them.
After all moving abroad is the best way to learn and it is the nicest one. It is better to meet people personally and physically, and to visit the country directly. It is much funnier, but the ideas above could be a solution for those who don´t have enough money to travel abroad!
I don´t think that this is necessary.
Security cameras aren’t necessary, or at least not in my school. Our school isn´t so big and there aren´t so many students, but obviously our school has to be protected and students have to be controlled. Maybe some cameras outside would be good, especially in my big dream school, but I think that they are already there. One day I lost a key and I found it two days later at the reception. Everyone finds everything in this school, nothing gets lost here, so cameras wouldn´t be necessary. The Marcelline School is organized, ordered, and governed, and our director is very responsible and reliable.
On the other hand spacious classrooms would be very important! Students need enough space, because if they don´t have it they can´t concentrate. Everyone needs their own space, but not only in our classrooms, but everywhere we go, it is a human need. Students must be able to move and they must feel comfortable.
Team activities are also very important and I enjoy them. They are an opportunity to work with others and to learn not only from the teacher, but also from people like ourselves. I did a lot of team activities at the middle school. At the moment we aren´t doing them so often, probably because every teacher has his/her own method.
Our garden is quite little and there isn´t much space. Our school has a kindergarden, an elementary, a middle and a high school. The kindergarden and the elementary children don´t have the space that they have to have. There is just a little garden and children can´t play so much and I know it well because I have attended this school for many years.
It would be nice to have a couple of acres around the school. People would go out more willingly and nature is a place where we can relax and have a few quiet moments. People would have the opportunity to think, to breathe, and to evade for a moment from school.Laboratories are also good and interesting for students. I have always loved science and some bigger laboratories would be appropriate. I went to a laboratory at the middle school and we were 24 students. Some of them had to sit on the floor, there weren´t enough chairs and there wasn´t enough space for all of us. They have to be bigger and I think that we should go more often. Learning by abstraction is important, because we don´t have always the opportunity to learn by practicing. We must be able to imagine and to understand also by just reading a text without seeing what we are learning. Learning by practicing is very important, too, because students must be able to put into practice what they have learned. They must be able to do everything they have learned and to show that they have understood.
My dream school should direct me to a future employment, but not just mine, every school has to direct students to an employment. In addition to this a school has also the task to teach us a bit of everything, because people change. We all change when we grow up, our dreams our ideas and our character change. We attend a school in one way and leave it in another, we enter as a student and come out as an adult. This is life, it would be better to learn the subjects we prefer properly, but we don´t have to forget the other things that could be important in our life.
(c) Celine Lantschner
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