Grammar school № 1 (Kirovo-Chepetsk)

On September 1, 1967, secondary school No. 9 was opened.

On June 26, 1990, by decision of the Executive Committee of the Kirov-Chepetsk City Council of People’s Deputies, school No. 9 received the status of “Gymnasium”. On June 18, 1993, by the decision of the administration of the city of Kirovo-Chepetsk, the School-Gymnasium was renamed the Kirovo-Chepetsk Gymnasium.

October 17, 2001 by order of the mountains. The administration of the Kirov-Chepetsk gymnasium became known as the Municipal Educational Institution "Gymnasium No. 1 of the city of Kirov-Chepetsk of the Kirov Region." Since 2010, the gymnasium has been transferred from municipal subordination to the regional ^[2] .

For many years, the selection to the first grade of gymnasium No. 1 was carried out on the basis of tests and interviews (most of the children went through the preparatory class "School of Development" ^[3] ). After the decision was made to accept, on the basis of the chronological order of applications, it turned out that several hundred children were applying for 75 places in the first classes of the gymnasium, due to the high prestige of the gymnasium in the city ^[2] .

In the gymnasium, a foreign language is studied in depth (English, German, French). The first foreign language is taught from the 2nd grade, and in the 5th grade, all high school students study the Latin language ^[4] . In the 6th grade, all students begin to learn a second foreign language. Students also study rhetoric, the integrative course "World Art Culture and Information and Communication Technologies", are engaged in choreography and rhythm. In grades 10-11 - an individual curriculum. Individualization is ensured by the students' choice of options for studying subjects (basic, advanced, specialized), forms of training (full-time, part-time, external), topics and directions of creative, research and project activities. Each high school student can choose and study subjects at a profile level (in accordance with the license: Russian, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, literature, history, social studies). Rarer profiles are also formed based on the individual preferences of the students; So, in the gymnasium there is a linguomathematical profile with additional time to study mathematics ^[4] . In total, in the educational process of the gymnasium, as of 2011, 146 curricula are being implemented ^[2] .

In the gymnasium, there is a lot of extracurricular work, about a hundred circles and sections of various orientations are active.

The gymnasium participates in international programs: Interculture, FLEX, Goethe Institute programs, and UN programs. Modern pedagogical technologies are widely used in the practice of teaching and upbringing: developmental education (the concept of D. B. Elkonin - V.V. Davydov ), project method, modular technology, different levels of differentiation, problem-based learning, information and communication technologies.

High school students from the first grade keep a “diary of achievements”, where all their successes are recorded ^[4] . Representatives of the gymnasium have repeatedly shown good results at subject Olympiads of the all-Russian level ^[5] , one of the gymnasium students was invited to Poland in 2004 to participate in the international competition “The First Step to the Nobel Prize in Physics” ^[4] . The gymnasium regularly takes first place in the city in the number of medalists; So, in the 2008/9 academic year, among the graduates of the gymnasium, 16 received gold medals and 9 - silver. Since the beginning of the new millennium, more than 90% of gymnasium graduates annually (100% in the 2008/8 academic year) go to higher education institutions ^[3] .

• Federal experimental site on the topic "Information technology as a means of improving the quality of developing education in general educational institutions" (since 2002). As part of the experiment, a new subject “World Art Culture Using New Information Technologies” ^{[6] [4] was} introduced at the gymnasium ^.
• Resource Center of the Regional Center for Distance Education since 2004
• The basic school of the Department of Education on the transition to the federal component of the state educational standard of primary, general, basic general and secondary (complete) general education ^[7]
• Basic school of the Department of Education for testing information technology in the educational process ^[8]
• Basic educational institution KIPK and ABM:
  • on the topic “The Use of Foreign Languages ​​as a Means of Creating a Personally-Oriented School Space Using NIT” ^[9]
  • on the topic “Formation and development of educational activities through the organization of group work and modeling in the lesson in elementary school” ^[10]
  • on the topic “Improving the efficiency and quality of teaching computer science and information technology through integration with other educational disciplines” ^[11]

The gymnasium presents students' research work at all-Russian forums: the All-Russian competition of youth research works named after V. I. Vernadsky , the All-Russian scientific conference of young researchers "Step into the future", the All-Russian open conference of students "Youth, science, culture", the All-Russian open competition of scientific -research and creative work of youth "I will be appreciated in the XXI century" ^[12] .

• The director of the gymnasium is Alexander Petrovich Khodyrev, Honorary Worker of General Education, laureate of the city prize named after J.F. Tereshchenko . He was awarded a diploma of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
• Deputy Director for Scientific and Methodological Work - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences Natalia Vyacheslavovna Sokolova
• Deputy Director for Foreign Languages ​​- Honorary Worker of General Education Natalya Valentinovna Bolshakova. Awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Education, twice a scholarship holder of the Goethe Institute (Munich, Germany).

Teachers of the gymnasium have created more than 20 copyright programs, teaching aids and methodological developments ^[4] . The program of the course "Informatics and ICT" for 3-4 classes of teachers of the gymnasium Natalya Blokhina and Galina Kobeleva won first place in the All-Russian competition of teaching materials on the use of information and communication technologies in the educational process (nomination "We draw on a computer in elementary school") ^[13] . Gymnasium teachers participate in international programs of the Ford Foundation and ASPRYAL ^[14] , teachers from the UK come to them to adopt developmental teaching methods ^[15] . In the gymnasium, methodological laboratories and schools "The system of research work of teachers of the gymnasium", "Information technology in the system of gymnasium education", "Designing the information-developing environment of the gymnasium" worked ^[16] .

• www.gimns.org - official site (Russian)
  • Public report on the results of the gymnasium in the 2008-2009 academic year ( RAR ) (Russian)
• Presentation of the Municipal educational institution "Gymnasium No. 1", Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov region on the site of the festival of educational ideas "Open lesson"