In addition to regular school activities, Primary School Savremena has designed meaningful leisure activities where children socialise with each other through creative play. This time, the students’ task was to write messages about how they feel at school, which they symbolically hung on the Emotion Tree installed in the relaxation and leisure area where they spend their free time.

Some of the messages showed the students’ love for their teachers, whereas others said things like: “School is like my second home”, “All my classmates are awesome”, “Youth equals joy”, “Female teachers are like my second mums, male teachers are like my second dads”. Some of the messages revealed genuine children’s emotions regarding the coronavirus and the necessity of wearing masks, i.e. what truly makes them happy.

The workshop is related to the School Development Plan based on the interpretation of everyday life

Primary School Savremena has introduced an interdisciplinary approach to teaching so as to make our school a place of learning, but also a place where children can perform their daily activities and interactions. Specifically, we realise tasks and assignments associated with everyday life and the networking of knowledge, skills and habits, thus creating a bond between students, teachers and parents.

Some of the tasks help students to bond with each other, with their school and the environment. Tasks are realised based on the content already covered in class. Each activity is guided professionally, and is always a good indicator and instrument of the target achievement.

Social-emotional learning at Primary School Savremena is harmonised with the Cambridge approach, as well as the Finnish and Singaporean model

The LINK education strategy 2020, amongst other things, involves a workshop-based approach and treatment of various topics, such as: social values, ethics, solidarity, mutual support, acceptance of differences, etc. We insist on the concept of social-emotional learning in line with the Cambridge approach. Through free and relaxed activities, students learn how to relieve stress, to re-examine their decisions, and control their emotions, thus growing up into stable and well-adjusted adults.

Instruction combined with child personality development has shown the best effects in the systems such as Finnish or Singaporean. In that sense, the LINK strategy takes into account a combination of pedagogical-psychological educational practices that have proved extremely successful in finding solutions for online forms of teaching. Research claims that focusing on comprehensive child development is stimulating for future academic success, but also for the formation of a healthy personality. This process complements the ETHOS of Primary School Savremena – to nurture and design different extracurricular approaches aimed at improving, refining and evaluating the teaching process.

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