Gymnázium V. Mýto

Gymnázium Vysoké Mýto is a state school providing general secondary education for talented children who want to go on their studies at universities and colleges. There are 12 classes at school and in each class there are about 30 students. Students can study at gymnázium after passsing entrance exams.

• eight-year gymnázium – from the age of 11 to 19
• four-year gymnázium – from the age of 15 to 19

Both types of studies are finished by passing a graduation exam, which is required by all universities and colleges. The graduation exam is taken from four subjects: Czech language and one foreign language are compulsory and the two other subjects are optional and are usually chosen from other languages, science subjects and other humanities.

Gymnázium in Vysoké Mýto was founded in 1879. In the school building there are classrooms, special labs for computer studies, physics, history, chemistry, biology, music, fine arts, and languages. There are also two gyms. Students can borrow books from the school library. Next to the school there is a sports ground where students can play basketball and volleyball.

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The curriculum is based on general subjects such as Czech language, maths, social science, history, geography, etc. Students can study a lot of foreign languages. All the students study English as their first foreign language. Then at the age of 13, they can choose from German and French and study them as a second language. In upper classes students have an opportunity to enlarge their knowledge in various seminars (history, social science, maths, biology, physics, and chemistry) and in foreign language conversations.

In the video below you can see "the Open House Day".

Students can attend various clubs and they also take part in various competitions like chess tournaments, Sudoku tournaments, competitions in foreign languages or science competitions. Educational school trips to foreign countries are very popular. Students can go to England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France.

In the video below you can see last year´s "School Festival GYM JAM ".

The students of Gymnázium Vysoké Mýto participate in a lot of international projects. Especially eTwinning projects are very popular and successful - 16 of them have been awarded Quality Labels. The students have also participated in a few Comenius projects.

The following video was made by students so as to present our school at the eTwinning Conference in Brussels in 2014.