Publication date: 
2024/09/02
University Primary School Lvíčata (Lion Cubs) focuses on the education of children who are interested in science and technology. It has a capacity of 78 pupils from Grade 1 to Grade 5, with 49 pre-schoolers applying for this year's first class. Fifteen first graders started school today. All schoolchildren were welcomed by the school's headmistress Ilona Ali Bláhová and, as usual, by the rector of the CTU Vojtěch Petráček.

The primary school is preparing a plethora of activities, partly following on from the activities of the Lion Cubs kindergarten. It tries to connect and present school and kindergarten activities, together the children celebrate Shrovetide (Carnivale) or Children's Day, bake Martin's rolls, work in the garden in front of the kindergarten, the kindergarteners presented experiments with eggs in the morning called Easter Science, the "kindergarteners" have a Pre-school club at school.

After completing 5th grade in elementary school last school year, seven of the 15 Lion cubs' graduates made it to an eight-year high school, some of whom went on to math-focused high schools, while others mostly continued on to math or special education classes in elementary school.

The schoolchildren from Lvíčata are very successful in various competitions, both at ZS Lvíčata and in their further education. "We are very happy about this, especially when they come back here to Lion cubs and present us with their experiments or inventions. Last year, we were visited by Vítek Kopczyk, who won twice in a row with his self-made Van de Graaff generator and Tesla transformer in a competition about energy announced by ČEZ," says director Ilona Ali Bláhová. Vítek was even invited to present his experiments at a festive lecture on Nikola Tesla, organised by Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

As in previous years, the pupils from Lion Cubs participated in a number of mathematical and other competitions - art and science. The Lion Cubs regularly placed at the top of the competition. Last year, Tomáš Janča became the winner of the district round of the mathematical Olympics and came second in the national round of the Pangea mathematical competition; other children were also very successful; Milada Klášterecká and Vilém Šícha won full points in the Beaver of Informatics competition, Matyáš Němec, Martin Havlík and Tomáš Pikula were successful solvers of the Mathematical Olympics, other children were successful in the Pangea competition, in the Science Cup competition, in the Logic Olympics, in the Mathematical Kangaroo and in the Šikulka competition, which is announced by the Červený vrch mathematical elementary school .

The Logic Olympiad, organized by Mensa, has already been announced for this school year and is open to school children, preschoolers and even adults. Parents register their children for this competition, and registration forms opened on the Logic Olympics website on 1 September.

The primary school established by CTU also cooperates very well and happily with departments across the whole university. The children regularly visit Faculty of Civil Engineering to the laboratories led by Professor Pavlíková for the Steel Week, they visit the designers of formulas at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, they go to Kladno to Dr. Vymětalová's laboratories, last year they saw Faraday's cage, they participated in the technology days organized by the CIIRC; they had the opportunity to see an incredible number of robots and they listened to lectures on the future direction of technological development. The schoolchildren also visited Faculty of Architecture and other workplaces.

The Lion Cubs Primary School cooperates with institutes of the Academy of Sciences or the European Space Agency's education office, pupils follow the Science Festival with great enthusiasm every year, they visit the laboratories of the IMF UK, schoolchildren's IT skills are developed in cooperation with the AI for Children institution, last year ten children from the school had the honour of meeting the astronaut Robert Vittori and asking him all sorts of questions, of course in English.

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