“Avram Iancu” High School in Câmpeni Receives “Bilingual-French” Certificate

18.09.2009

The “Avram Iancu” national high school in Câmpeni is ready for the start of the new school year. This Apuseni Mountains school has been recently declared a bilingual-French school, following a review throughout the previous year done by the Ministry of Education together with the French embassy in Romania. This certificate attests the fact that French is being thoroughly in Câmpeni and at high standards, each of the 28 classrooms having its own Internet connected computer.
“Avram Iancu” National College in Câmpeni

For the 2009/2010 school year, the “Avram Iancu” national high school will enroll more than 800 schoolchildren, spread out in 28 classrooms: 16 for the exact sciences profile: mathematics and IT with intensive English; mathematics and IT with intensive IT; natural sciences with intensive English and natural sciences. The other eight classes will be philology-orientated: a philology English-bilingual profile, and a social sciences French bilingual-profile. To this four classes for the secondary level are added, all of them with an intensive in English. For all this, 43 full-time teachers are hired in the school.
All the classrooms have Internet-connected computers, and there is a video projector and screen for each main subject, so as to create a modern and interactive learning/teaching system.

« The rehabilitation of the main building of the “Avram Iancu” high school ended in 2009 and needed a 2,5 million lei investment. On this occasion a laboratory and a loft were also built, where six classrooms now function. The building has been thermally insulated, and has had its classrooms and bathrooms repaired »
teacher Cornel Resiga, the school’s headmaster

The school’s boarding house was also rehabilitated with the help of a 1,1 million lei investment. The house can how ensure good lodging for all of the 60 schoolchildren who live in villages farther away from Apuseni, and who have chosen to stay here. In the future, the school cafeteria will also be modernized, but that will take another 1,4 million lei, funds which don’t exist right now.

The Câmpeni “Avram Iancu” high school dates 43 years back and is the main school for children who live in the Arieş Valley. Starting with the year 2000, when it was made a “national high school”, the institution started teaching for schoolchildren in secondary school, providing them with an intensive English training. Children from other villages study here as well (villages like Albac, Vadu-Moţilor, Gârda de Sus, Arieşeni, Scărişoara, Sohodol, Bistra and Lupşa), apart from the ones who live in Cîmpeni.

Parents Want Video Surveillance

In order to ensure the full safety of the "Avram Iancu" students, a video surveillance system worth 27,000 lei was installed, paid in full by the parents of children learning here. The 12 video cameras set up in the hallways have movement sensors, and the courtyard has three infrared cameras. Although the school has been free of incidents that could justify this protective measure, seeing as the school only has one guard, it was thought that a prevention system was needed.
The school management has also created a school uniform, mandatory for each student. Thus, the girls have to wear a crimson coat with black pants or a skirt or dress, and the boys a crimson coat with black trousers and vest. The uniform can be bought from the school for almost 160 lei.

Technological Studies at the Forestry School

Câmpeni also has a Forestry School, which is mainly chosen by those who want to work in areas such as the furniture business, silviculture, mechanics or textile manufacturing. The school has almost 900 students, who come from several places in the Apuseni, most of which are enrolled in the technological profile and at the arts and crafts school. The school also offers modern learning conditions, as well as a boarding house for those who can’t commute.


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