Leliunai Basic School

 

Leliunai Basic School is a district school. There are 49 pupils and preschool group. The teaching staff is 23 teachers and a special pedagogue. The school has its own flag and anthem. In the school we pay attention to all the students but especially to those with special needs and to the risk students. Lots of the children grow in families with one parent or no parents at all. So, we have at the school a Children Day Care Center. The centre has been working for a long time. Pupils of all ages can stay there. They do their homework, play games, do various activities and even cook. Pupils really enjoy the time spent there.

 

We participated in a various republican projects where pupils cleaned their living surroundings or which help pupils o understand how to live healthy life. The school collaborates with Juvenile Division Utena departament. Together not only we solve various problems, but also participate in events. Every year pupils participate in the international competition “Kangaroo” and other competitions and Olympiads which are organized in the Utena district. The school has its own minibus, which is used to bring pupils to school and bring back. The school has its own traditions festivals. Every year there are commemorated all national celebrations, also Advent Eve, Pancake Day, Child Protection day, various shows, sport competitions. There are lots of various extra curriculum activities for pupils. They can learn how to paint, sew, photograph, dance, cook. One of the extra – curicculum activity Pop choir “Aušra“. Pop choir was formed in 2004. Students perform and sing very successfully for 10 years.

 

The school is also involved in an international Comenius partnership project Music, a vehicle of cultural identity, were our students enjoy the experience of cultural exchange and make lots of new friends!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Utena Dauniskis Gymnasium

 

Our school opened its doors for the first time in 1971. At that time, there were 55 teachers and 1,211 pupils. The following spring, 20 pupils graduated. And during the next 40 years, a total of 3,642 pupils received the school-leaving certificate. The school’s first director, Vytautas Mieželis, led the school for 20 years. In 1991, Vidmantas Pimpė became director, and in 1994, Jonas Tilvytis succeeded him as director. In 2000, the current director, Donatas Juodelė, took the reins. In 2003, after an accreditation procedure, the school became a gymnasium. At present, 732 pupils are enrolled in the gymnasium: 562 in the full-time day section, and 170 in the adult-learners section. For the past several years, 60-80% of our graduates have continued their education in university-level post-secondary institutions of learning. 71 teachers, consisting of 2 expert-teachers, 27 methodologist-teachers, 33 senior teachers, and 9 teachers, work at the gymnasium, as do social pedagogues, a special-needs pedagogue, and a psychologist’s assistant. Of all these staff members, 11 have two specialities, and 12 have earned a master’s degree.

 

Since 2000, the gymnasium’s teachers and pupils have been actively engaged in international project activity. We participate in Comenius and Grundtvig programmes administered by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation (Lithuania), an eTwinning virtual programme, and republic-wide as well as district-level projects. In 2008, the gymnasium earned the status of an Elos school (a network of European schools working to implement a European and international orientation in education). We are quite proud of this accomplishment, because only 10 schools throughout Lithuania have earned this status!

 

The gymnasium cooperates with Mykolas Romeris University, the Department of Quantum Electronics and the Faculty of Physics at Vilnius University, the Kaunas University of Technology, the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Vilnius University, the Utena College, Algirdas Brazauskas gymnasium of Kaišiadorys, the Utena Labour Market Training Centre, and others. During project work, contact is maintained with schools in the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Great Britain, Romania, and Poland.

 

Pupils have the opportunity to participate in various extracurricular activities. Pupils actively work in the Council of Pupils and the Gymnasium Council. There are 20 extracurricular groups, the creative pupils of which have won prizes and recognition in academic competitions. The gymnasium’s name is also well-known thanks to its artistic groups and its athletes.

 

Since 1996, the folk music group Untytė has been active in the gymnasium. The ensemble is composed of two groups: instrumentalists and a traditional choir. Untytė performs at events in the gymnasium and in the city, in republic-wide song festivals, and in international festivals in Hungary, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, and Italy.

 

In 1998, the pop group Vivo was founded. During the past 13 years, it has performed at many concerts in Utena and other cities in Lithuania as well as in Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, and Spain. Vivo has won 26 prizes at republic-wide and international competitions.