What We Learn

beyond the subjects

What We Learn

During the first year, our goal is to create a farm school, where children can have vegetable and spice gardens, chickens, goats, bees, and even a drying cabinet. Of course, all of these are planned out and created with the help of our students. Using the methods of permaculture, we will create a farm economy, learning a lot about natural sciences in the process.

During the first year, our goal is to create a farm school, where children can have vegetable and spice gardens, chickens, goats, bees, and even a drying cabinet. Of course, all of these are planned out and created with the help of our students. Using the methods of permaculture, we will create a farm economy, learning a lot about natural sciences in the process.

Harvests of this farm will be processed and prepared with the help of the students. They will take part in looking after the animals while they get to know them from the outside – and sometimes, even from the inside. We will definitely have a project in connection with gardening activities, where we try to find a new solution to a problem we have faced before. Every student will have their own responsibility and task in the garden that they must attend to during our Garden Maintenance class.

The children’s interest and commitment matter at every stage of learning – from planning to execution – as even the gardening activities are based on the BPS model. Creating a farm school is the perfect opportunity for children to learn marketing, entrepreneurship, project management, programming, or even product development.

WE LEARN HOW TO LEARN

BPS Green School operates based on the BPS model, the pillars of which are the following:

  1. The school provides a flexible and integrative learning environment personalized for the development of its students.
  2. Learning is an active and self-controlled process.
  3. Learning starts in school and continues in the world.
  4. The standard for learning is helping each other, as much as achieving individual results.
  5. Learning is project-based.
  6. We pay attention to each other and learn together as a community.
  7. Teachers help and organize learning as partners to students.

All of this means that during the learning process, students create, research, explore, practice, and take responsibility for their own learning. They set goals that are important to them and pose appropriate challenges. Our mentors and teachers help students to be able to develop in new learning situations even after graduation, whether in individual jobs or cooperative teams.