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School, kindergarten and creche closure prolonged to May 24 in Poland

The education minister said that primary and high school students "will continue their remote learning" during the coronavirus shutdown. Mateusz Marek/PAP

Education Minister Dariusz Piontkowski announced on Friday that the Polish government had decided that schools, kindergartens and creches will remain closed in Poland until May 24 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

First Jewish grammar school since 1968 to open in Warsaw

On September 1 the Lauder-Morasha School Complex in Warsaw, the first group of Jewish schools founded in post-communist Poland, will open a grammar school. Its patron will be Zuzanna Ginczanka, a Polish-Jewish poet killed by the Nazis in 1944.

Wroclove indeed as kind-hearted tech firms help out the city’s orphanages in virus lockdown

The Wrocław firms are providing local orphanages with computers so that children there can participate in online lessons while schools in Poland remain closed due to the coronavirus.

Poland acts quickly to contain coronavirus - PM's Office stats

Since the first coronavirus case was confirmed in Poland, the government has been making fast decisions to limit the spread of the epidemic, statistics published the PM’s Office website show.

Kids take first place at COVID-19 Hackathon with innovative app for home learning

The team from Gdynia impressed judges in the Education category with their 3class application which connects primary school children and parents with free teachers to organise lessons.

Poland shuts down all schools, cultural institutions over coronavirus

The Polish government has decided to close down all creches, kindergartens, schools and universities as well as cultural institutions in the country in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Poland shuts down all schools over coronavirus

Poland will close down all schools and universities for two weeks due to the coronavirus threat, PM Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Wednesday morning. Classes will not be held starting from Thursday.

School to introduce classes in Disco Polo – but is it too ‘un’cool for school?

The classes are part of a proposal formulated by Marek Nazarko, the mayor of Michałowo, a small town to the east of Białystok, who believes a course in disco-polo could help attract artistic children to the school and unleash the creative energy of its students.

Poland top of the class when it comes to pupil-teacher ratios

The data collected by the European Union shows that Poland had the 4th lowest pupil to teacher ratio in the EU in 2017 with 10.7 pupils to each teacher.

Too cool for school! Polish edutech apps proving a global hit

With school back TFN’s Nick Westerby looks at some of the Polish educational apps making waves around the world.

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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