Why to choose us?

From a parent’s point of view

The choice of a school is always a difficult decision, especially in the difficult moment of finishing a primary school by a child. Chilren start to become teenagers and their brains are transfroming from the stage of accepting everyting parents and teachers were saying, into thinking independently and critically assessing the surrounding world. It’s the time of formulation one’s own opinions and making independent choices. Of course, this doesn’t happen overnight, yet the process has just begun. Individualism is born, and such a situation is a new experience to a child, often difficult for them to understand.

Being parents ourselves, we realize that this is going to be a difficult time to us, too, because children who used to be obedient can show their darker side. This is, at least, what it looks like from our side. We know well that they still have little knowledge of the world and the people, yet they already want to make independent decisions, argue and rebel. They put themselves at numerous risks, which we have been trying to prevent them from throughout their whole childhood.

When it comes to education, in turn, classic model focused on memorisation fails. While younger children tolerate it for the sake of their teachers’ and parents’ good mood, teenagers who are creative, intelligent and curious of the world refuse to take up this type of cooperation. They simply do not want to spend long hours over books, trying to memorise dates, facts and definitions that they will no longer make use of. Difficulties connected with receiving bad marks arise, which results in bad mood, low self-esteem, sticking to the group of peers, which may result in conflicts at home.

It is then the period when we feel pressure to choose good education, relaising that they will soon be choosing high school and university education. How much they learn at middel school will result in what their future will look like. And there is nothing more important to parents than their children’s future.

How to support a child in this truly important stage of development? How to respect their individualism, and at the same time encourage them to learn, discover the world and engage into the issues concerning the society?

Open Future wonders every day what we can do to make our alumni prepared for living in the world in a few years’ time. It is obvious that the world changes rapidly. The discrepancies between the developed and the developing societies become more and more striking. We would like to prepare students to be a part of this modern, better world. We want them to know we expect them to join us in the discussion what its creation and improvement should look like. In order to manage this taks successfully, they need to believe that education at middle school is a part of their preparation for these tasks. This is what we are going to work on.

The school implements project-based learning, which bases on international standards, with an emphasis on technology use and students’ social engagement.

We therefore invite you to contact us so that we can meet and talk about your children’s education on the highest, worldwide level, here in Kraków. We are parents, Zapraszamy zatem do kontaktu z nami, abyśmy mogli się spotkać i porozmawiać na temat edukacji Państwa dzieci na najwyższym światowym poziomie tu – w Krakowie.

Anna i Karol Tomczyk oraz Ula i Darek Warejko  – właściciele Open Future International School