Gymnazium+Zlin

Gymnazium Zlin is a Grammar school situated in the city Zlin, South-east Moravia, Czech Republic (Google maps: Gymnazium Zlin). The School is home to around 960 students ranging from the age of 12 to 19, with grades beginning at 8 and range all the way up to grade 13. The school has around 70 teachers and 55 classrooms. Fifteen of these classrooms are dedicated to the Languages department, nineteen are specialized classrooms, four are laboratories and three are computer labs. Gymnazium Zlin has a well resourced arts department, along with three pupil gyms, an outdoor sports ground and a near by forest used for some teaching activities.



Gymnazium Zlin was the first school to partner with the Anderson High School in 1988 to form the Global Classroom Partnership. It has been from here that connections across the globe have developed allowing for the creation of programs such as Global Classroom, Global Ambition and Learning School. The Gymnazium has been host to the Global Classroom Conference in the years 2002 and 2008.



Learning School 2010-2011, spent two weeks visiting Gymnazium Zlin during the end of April 2011. This was the first school during the travels which did not have English as the first language and so was a new challenge for the team to tackle. During this visit, two rich tasks were carried out in the Department of Art, looking at "what is a house? what is a home?" and the English Department, focusing on George Orwell's "Animal Farm". The English Department also enabled Learning School to observe a lesson which was focusing on George Orwell's famous work "Down and Out" and invited us to join grade 12 lessons, giving students the opportunity to converse with native speakers of the language.

Despite the time at Gymnazium Zlin being obviously shorter than any of the previous visits, Learning School carried out a lot of interesting work during their time and felt welcomed by both staff and students.

To find out more about Learning Schools' work at Gymnazium Zlin, please refer to the links below :)

Case Study - Art Rich Task Case Study: Animal Farm Rich Task The Comenius Programme