Pelgulinna Gymnasium in brief

Topic/Name	Pelgulinna Gymnasium
Country	Estonia
City	Tallinn
Country pop	1,3 million
City population	400 000
Local/Public	Public school
Age or the school	100 year old (in different houses)
Renovation	2008/2009
Teachers	56
Students	860
Grades	1-12 grades
Lessons per class	1 grades 20 hour/week 9th graders 32; gymnasium 35
Ekstra lessons include in secondary level	Art 1-4 lessons per week, Manual training (2), sports (2), ICT (0-2 – depends of the class);
Languages in secondary	Russian, German
In gymnasium level ekstra lessons:	Different ICT(robotics, mobiletechnology, web programming etc), media, different art lessons, accounting, national defence, different history-culture, psychology, folk dance..
Extra curricular activities	All is included in all od student Schedule (some things are just optional) Dancing, acting, robotics, mobile technology, music, singing etc
Languagess in Gymn level	Spanish, finnish (some classes), russian, german, swedish
Computers	126 (inclusing 45 laptops)
Computers used by students	68 (31 of them are laptops)
wifi	Covers all the school, is possible to monitor
BYOD	It is allowd to bring your own device
System used in computers	Windows 7, Linux (estobutu)
Other gadgets	5 smartboard, 4 documant camera, 32 projectors, 12 mobile phones, 15 cameras, 2 scanners, 3 TV stants for shadow learning or information
Services for students/teachers	2 Individuaal e-mail (edu@live and Google); learning systems (Viko, Moodle, Google and Live; shared folders @school
School management systems	Eschool – Grandes, homework, home/school relations; KIS, EHIS – school management
Teachers work	All teachers divide into a „groups“ of internest eg. Math, primary. There are Workgroups also for class teachers, curricula development, policy development, food, health etc.
Mandatory training	160 hours per 5 year is mandatory to stay in the same excellency level
Feedback	We use Microsoft Pilsr.com research tools for grading innovation and we do once a year Ahole school feedback (parents, teachers, students), and 1-9 grade class teachers have the obligation to have development interview with student/parent
School ICT management	Everything technical outsoursed (domain, emails, LAN), at school just for fun only one webserver for training webprogrammers
School web	www.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee but all usints (eg. Math, art, primary etc) have thir own blogs to promote schoolife
Extra projects running this year	Smart Europe@ home http://smarteurope.weebly.com/ Internet Safety http://fame.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee/eng  Mobile learning (est) http://ulugeh4.havike.eenet.ee/wordpress/ Extra curricular activities (Comenius) Safe and active schoolday (est) http://fame.pelgulinna.tln.edu.ee/aktiivne/ A lot of E-twinning projects Learning math thru computers (Est, Finland, Sweden)
Awards/Programs	Microsoft Pathfinder school 2011 Esafety youth to youth program 2010 (European Schoolnet) Local awards (folk dancing festival – most groups from one school, North-Tallinn award, Birgy Lorenz Teacher of the year 2011, Tallinn best educational leader Tõnu Piibur(director of the school) 2012
Funding for ICT	Local Authority, projects (Tiger Leap Foundation or ohter for ICT)
Ideology of using ICT	Training for teachers lasts 15-45 minutes, different tutorials (shorter than better). Teachers are very recomended to participate in projects, lead projects, use ICT in lessons; teaching groups have laptop labs what they can lend for their classes; students can soose between win/linux to boot up the system themselves. Stuff is stored in clouds (teaching), ohter private stuff in educational national databases. We empahsise not using paper or printing out stuff (paper free school). There is always the latest software available. Every class from 7th Grande has student ICT helping staff (ekstra curricular work). Everybody is respponsible on their own gadgets.
Ideology	Every class, every teacher should have some project (class, local, International) Innovation is allowd and welcom. Doing things differently and changing the curricula when needed is allowed.