Publiczne Gimnazjum nr 1 im. Franciszka Becinskiego from Radziejow/Poland is a generaly secondary school with 250 students aged between 6 and 16 years old, The school is located in a small, rural town of 5000 inhabitants, which does not offer economic perspectives to the youngsters.

Many young people after graduating leave the town to study and work in bigger cities. They do not see many perspectives for them here. That situation causes problems among students at school as they cannot see any future for them in our town. They have no big motivation to study foreign languages and they do not have many opportunities to get to know people from other cities, not to mention from other countries. High rate of unemployment is a main factor that causes poverty, which is seen among some of our students, unwillingness to learn and no motivation to search for solutions. On the other hand plenty of students want to get to know about other countries, their cultures and languages. All these factors cause that among our students there are ones with disabilities, special needs students and those who have committed minor crimes, and offences. The teachers, in our school, try to find as motivating ways to teach them as possible, but possibilities are limited. Our school, taking part in this project hopes that it will be a good start to encourage teachers to find out more about new methods of teaching through the Internet, computers and other ways of communicating. The students and teachers of Publiczne Gimnazjum nr 1 im. Frańciszka Becińskiego want to take part in this project because of many reasons. First, the teachers may find new ways of teaching languages or any other subjects. They want to exchange their ideas with others in order to show their students the ways how to work and live in Europe throughout self-education, motivations and new tools in which students and teachers will be equipped. Secondly, the teachers hope to enrich their methodology and the way of running school as well as equip school with tools that will help them to be more prepared to meet the needs and expectation of a modern school. The teachers believe that their students will be more motivated to learn how to learn and live in modern Europe. The school consists of 290 students and 23 teachers. At school students attend to 12 classes and they graduate school after 3 years of studying. School curriculum comprises of multiple subjects such as mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, English, geography, IT, PE, history, music and Polish. Our school offers a wide range of after class activities which develop students’ hobbies or help them to deal with difficulties they come across during their stay here. Our participation in the project is a good chance to improve students’ language and computer skills. All the teachers are willing to join the idea of electronic platform .