Presentation of Riga Purvciems Secondary School (Riga, Latvia) for Pilot Schools Teachers training workshop in Brussels, 28-29 January, 2010

1. Riga Purvciems Secondary School (Riga , Latvia ) 28-29 | 01 | 2010

2. Latvia - officially the Republic of Latvia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Latvia

3. Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia, a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltics, and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava. Riga with 713,016 inhabitants (2009) is the largest city of the Baltic states and third-largest in the Baltic region, behind Saint Petersburg and Stockholm. Riga is inhabited by ethnic Latvians (42.3%), Russians (41.7%), Belarusians (4.3%), Ukrainians (3.9%), Poles (2.0%) and others ethnicities at 5.8%. Riga

4. Our school was founded on the 1 st of September 1988 and has been working successfully for more than 20 years . Our school is Riga ’s national municipal minorities school with the Russian language of teaching. Riga Purvciems Secondary School

5. There are 1224 pupils in the age group of 6 till 19 that study at our school in school year 2009/2010. Our school is one of the largest schools in Latvia. All of the pupils in our school from grades 1 to 9 study specialized educational program which provides profound studying of languages: Latvian, Russian, English, German and French. At our school pupils in senior classes (grades 10 to 12) can study one of the three educational programs for national minorities: general educational; the humanities and social studies program and mathematics, nature studies and technology. Riga Purvciems Secondary School

6. There are 105 teachers that are work ing at our school in school year 2009/2010 . Riga Purvciems Secondary School

7. Our school is not only one of the biggest schools but has also been included into the list of the best schools in Latvia for many years . Results of the centralized examinations of our final-year students are traditionally above the average in Riga and Latvia. Riga Purvciems Secondary School