SHARING the WORLD TOGETHER ERASMUS PROJECT SHARING the

SHARING the WORLD TOGETHER ERASMUS +

PROJECT SHARING the WORLD TOGETHER

PROJECT as never ending story

R D L SH O W e t h her t G e N g I o R t A

WHO WE ARE? ? SLOVAKIA HOT EL AC ADE MY

Our school Hotel Academy Žilina

This type of school, in providing of services which are asked and popular these days, is known all over the Europe. The idea of its establishment was to supply qualified graduates for the region’s developing tourism, gastronomy, and travel industry. The students are prepared for management and operation activities in the hotel and catering establishments, as well as separate business.

1. Building and school management

HISTORY Our Hotel Academy belongs to the youngest secondary schools in our city Žilina but its history goes back to 1856, as it is mentioned in “HISTORIA CIVITATIS SOLNA” a historical paper witten in Latin. This paper was translated into Slovak by Alexander Lombardini under the title BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FREE CITY, ŽILINA This script mentions that there was an industrialvocational school, one of the oldest in Slovakia. The language of instruction in this school was Slovak and it was managed by Móric KROPÁČI.

Vocational schooling had been developing proportionally with the development of crafts in the city and its surroundings. A Craftsmen’s House was constructed in 1910 in order to facilitate better mutual contacts. After the World War II, the Craftsmen’s House became the seat of a vocational school. It had 40 classes in 1960, so it had to be split. It was devided into two parts and one of them continued in services, catering, and trade.

2. Building and school Canteen

PRESENT • Our school is proud of the long term history in educating in gastronomy and hotel management. • School graduates are ready to move successfully in the market environment in the catering, tourism, economy, and business or pursue higher education. • The school has got specialized classrooms for teaching foreign languages, catering, technology of food preparation, practise, typing, accounting and information technologies. • It has the Internet access and special classrooms for information and communication technologies. Students are able to speak 2 – 3 foreign languages during their study (German, English, French, Spanish and Russian) on the level to communicate with foreigners fluently.

• The school has been keeping cooperation with professional associations, organizations, and universities, the links with several similar partner schools and other qualified places for work experience abroad, participating in many European projects. • A typical feature of the school is its high level of professionalism. It is proven every year by top awards and appreciates for our students from various national and international competitions our students regularly participate at. Since 1992 our students have successfuly been presenting their knowledge and skills in Austria (Salzburg), Germany (Bremes), Italy (Calabria), France (Tolouse), and Greece.

THE SCHOOL INFORMATION BOARD

STUDY DEPARTMENTS: • Hotel Academy specialization, study lasting 5 • • • years (students get both a school leaving examination certificate and apprenticeship one) Management, Waiter, Waitress, study lasting 4 years (students get both a school leaving examination certificate and apprenticeship one) Cook, Waiter, Waitress, study lasting 3 years (students get apprenticeship certificate) Catering, study lasting 2 years (students get a school leaving examination certificate, full-time extension study)

The school management School headmaster: Ing. Helena Milčevová Deputy headmaster for theoretical education: Ing. Renáta Aberlová Mgr. Miroslava Blasbalgová Deputy headmaster for practical education: Ing. Anna Mikolášová

OUR LOVELY DIRECTOR MRS. ING. HELENA MILČEVOVÁ

STATISTICS of our school School Hotel Academy Žilina Total number of pupils Girls 586 399 Boys Disabled children 187 11(5 girls) from the sum School Refugees abdoment NO NO Observations NO

School Secretary

LET US INTRODUCE OUR HOTEL ACADEMY SCHOOL RECEPTION SCHOOL CHANGING ROOM

School Corridors

THIS IS TEACHER´S ROOM. ALSO ALMOST EMPTY BECAUSE TEACHERS ARE TEACHING.

OUR CLASSROOMS

OUR CLASSROOMS interactive teaching

OUR CLASSROOMS languages

OUR ICT CLASSROOMS

ROOMS FOR PRACTICES

ROOMS FOR PRACTICES

OUR GYM

SCHOOL STUDENT´S CANTEEN

TEACHER´S CANTEEN

Cooking.

OUR RESULTS

OUR RESULTS

YOU ARE WELCOME in our great SLOVAKIA

MY DEAR PARTNERS For this I am happy of being a member of this project and share the world together with you to know more and learn much more my students

A presentation of our country's school system

SLOVAKIA, a small, big but great country BECAUSE: Area: Population: 49 035 km² 5 447 502 JOHN AMOS COMENIUS, Teacher of Nations teacher, educator, philosopher and writer Born : 1592 in Moravia (Slovakia´ s roots) Died : 1670 in Amsterdam Comenius University in Bratislava presented and supported the idea of equal opportunity for impoverished children J. A. C. : What can we do better as to look for peace, truth and life.

School system There are school possibilities: 1. state, 2. religious, 3. private. There are school types: 1. Nurseries (age 3 - 6 ) 2. Primary schools (age 6 -15) compulsory 3. Secondary schools (age 15 -19) Grammar s. , Vocational s. , Special s. , Combined s. 4. Universities, High schools (age 19 -. . ) Compulsory education is 10 years There also free : basic art schools, school clubs, language schools, centrums of free activities.

ORGANIZATION of study Forms of studying: daily, external. School year: September – June (holidays – autumn, winter, spring, some Bank h. , – summer July – August) Lessons: 45 minutes, cca 6 -8 daily (40 weekly), theory (and practice), ½ years results, different sport, cultural and knowledge activities, competitions.

Energy, fun and friendship