On the occasion of the basic school graduation ceremony for ninth grade students on Friday, Peter Pedak, director of the Tallinn French Lyceum, revisits the history of the school.
To date, it is still unclear how many refugee children from Ukraine will continue studying in Tallinn schools this fall, however the goal of Tallinn Education Department is to place a maximum of one to two children from Ukraine into each class.
Municipal schools in Tallinn will send students in grades 4-8 to remote learning this week after a city government decision last week, but Tallinn French Lyceum and the Tallinn Secondary School of Science have decided to stick with contact learning.
The coronavirus pandemic has not brought forth a negative effect when it comes to preparations for first grade, say teachers who have graded the knowledge of preschoolers going to entry tests.
In Tallinn s 21st School, four separate first grades will begin their school journey on September 1. One of those, an English-language class, has to go through entry tests first. 280 children were in the running for the 28 classroom places, ETV s daily affairs show Aktuaalne kaamera reported on Sunday. This corona did not bring anything special to studying. We continued reading and did some calculations at home. That is how preparations go, said Ingrid, a parent.