Jan Neruda Grammar School


Jan Neruda Grammar School is a Czech public secondary school situated in Prague. It is named after the writer, Jan Neruda.
The school ranks as the second best secondary school, and the best public secondary school in the Czech Republic according to the Czech Ministry of Education, based on the performance of students/graduates at the Maturita.

Description

The grammar school is located on Hellichova Street in Prague. Jan Neruda Grammar School offers two courses of study: bilingual and general. In the first and second years bilingual-course students are taught in Czech, but from the third year most subjects are taught in French. It takes 6 years to complete the Grammar school. The staff of the Grammar school consists of about 65 teachers. Between 1996 and 2012 the school offered also a separate course consisting of general subjects and extensive music lessons for musically talented students in a different building located on Komenského Square.
The Grammar school is a member of the ASPnet UNESCO network. The school building is barrier-free.

Subjects and activities

The structure of the course reflects the Czech national curriculum and consists of following subjects:
Compulsory subjects:
Various elective and optional subjects, e.g.:
The school offeres many activities for students: sports, languages, photography course, drama course, choir, discussion club, EYP and UN delegations, excursions, group psychology sessions, competitions, lectures, cultural events, virtual company trade fair, reduced-price theatre tickets, student-run festivals and events, and many other projects, pop-up events and activities.
The school has an extended network of foreign schools and students are expected to participate in student exchanges that are provided every year.
The school organises a skiing course for students in their second year, a teambuilding course for the first-year students, a skiing-language course in the third year, and a canoeing or cycling/climbing course in the fourth year. These courses are a fixed part of the school year.
The school and its students contribute to several charity organisations.

Administration

The current headmaster is PhDr. Zuzana Wienerová, she has an assistant headmaster, RNDr. Jaromír Kekule, Ph.D and Mgr. Štěpán Mička.

History

Jan Neruda Grammar School is one of the oldest grammar schools in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1865, although not in the contemporary building which has been occupied since 1876. The original name of the school was Malostranské gymnázium.

Graduates of note

Among hundreds of well known graduates of the school there are: