Elementary school Most, Okružní, Czech Republic

The school was founded on September 1, 1992. Currently, approximately 600 students attend the school, of which 72 are students with a different mother tongue, and work with this target group is entrusted by superior authorities. It has 23 classroom teachers, 128 pupils aged 10-11.

They focus on pupils with a different mother tongue and on their support in a different cultural environment. The school also implements measures from the School Failure Strategy. The strategy focuses on students at risk of failure in education and their mental health. The school also cooperates with professional organizations from the non-profit and public sector, while using the expertise of professional employees. The school also has a social pedagogue (school social worker) who, in cooperation with teachers, monitors the connection between the social situation and the success of the pupils’ education and mental health. Based on the findings, it provides appropriate interventions, visits families and recommends the use of social, community and professional services.

The main goal of the school is to minimize the risks resulting from school failure for children in lower grades, which may manifest in later grades. The school tries to support students’ motivation to continue their education and build their resilience and self-confidence when obstacles to learning appear.

At the school, they identified the need to strengthen the competences of employees in supporting the well-being and mental health of children, in identifying and expanding new ways of working that focus on self-confidence and resilience. It is also necessary to know new approaches that are used in other institutions.

The school operates in a region that suffers from social exclusion. This fact is reflected in the high degree of social exclusion of families and also pupils. He has experience with interventions not only of an educational nature, but also with interventions in the social field (school social work).