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Despite the challenges of the last school year, our pupils have achieved an outstanding set of results with 50% of all completed A Levels graded A*, and 85% of all entries marked A-A*.
Four of our students met the plank challenge and held a plank for 2 minutes – Kalina, Natalia, Nathalie and Aleksy. What a great achievement! What’s more two of our teachers also took up the challenge – Mark Kelly and Ryan Bromley – with Mark achieving a record of 4 minutes! All of the participants will receive Akademeia’s t-shirts.
Just before Easter, we announced a film competition to create a short film about an object you find at home. The winner of the contest is Mirka, Year 12 student, with her film "Outside the box". The second prize goes to Franek, Year 10 student, who recorded a film called "Cap". Congratulations!
Akademeia recommendations for Easter break activities
We would like to share with you a variety of recommendations for the Easter break, which were inspired by both our teachers and students. They include reading lists, online opportunities and off-screen activities.
Message from the Akademeia Management Team to Parents and Guardians
Thank you all very much indeed for your support and your patience in these uncertain times. There is so much that we cannot yet know about the social and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic that it is difficult for everyone, from governments to individuals, to plan ahead. However our strategy has been and remains to keep the school running as close to normal as possible via online teaching and learning.
Some tips for students on how to live and work in confined space p. 1
Learning from home can be challenging – how to keep calm, how to motivate yourself, how not to go crazy without going out. You’ll find some tips on how to deal with these issues.
St. Patrick’s Day – Akademeia students’ presentation
This presentation on St. Patrick's Day was supposed to be delivered by our Pre-A students during today's usual Assembly. Instead, our students have moved online and prepared a short video presentation, which they have agreed to share with everyone!
Following the Polish government’s decision to close schools to limit the spread of the coronavirus, Akademeia High School is moving to online learning for our students from Thursday, 12th March 2020.
Mirka Olko, our Year 12 students, was shortlisted for SPoKE 2020 Art Documentary Competition organised by St. Mary's School Ascot. Her documentary is called “The black square: Layers”.
Our students organised the Children’s Rights Conference with the honorary patronage of UNICEF Poland to honour the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the UN General Assembly in November 1989.
Theoretical & Statistical Modelling of North Atlantic Sea Surface
We kindly invite you to our Open Faculty Lecture "Theoretical & Statistical Modelling of North Atlantic Sea Surface" by Dr Peter Kowalski, Mathematics teacher at Akademeia High School. The lecture will be given on Thursday, 30th January, at 6:30 pm, in our Auditorium.
Today we hosted representatives from Admissions Teams from University College London (UCL), London School of Economics (LSE), King’s College London, Imperial College London, and Lancaster University.
Akademeia has been named Best Public Service Architecture in Poland
Akademeia High School’s building designed by Medusa Group has been awarded Best Public Service Architecture in Poland within the framework of the European Property Award 2019-2020.
Join us for the meeting with the representatives from University College London (UCL), London School of Economics (LSE) and King’s College London. This year, we will also host the representatives of Imperial College London.
Pearson training in Mathematics – 21st & 22nd November
On 21st and 22nd of November Akademeia High School hosts a two-day face to face training especially designed for teachers currently delivering/looking to deliver the Pearson Edexcel International A Level Mathematics specifications.
You have to DREAM BIG – that’s the motto of Weronika Woińska, our Year 12 student, who has just been accepted to The Junior Academy of The New York Academy of Sciences!
Last Thursday, we hosted a special event – a comedy game show dedicated to science – “You Should Know This! Tissue Engineering! Lab-Grown Cells, Organs, and More!”
Weronika Woińska at the European Research and Innovation Days
Weronika Woińska, our Year 12 Students, has been invited to participate in the European Research and Innovation Days organised by the European Commission in Brussels.
Immerse Cambridge Summer School and internship at Medusa Group – Basia Nohr’s summer holidays
In July, Basia Nohr, our Year 13 student, took part in Architecture Summer School at the University of Cambridge. Whereas, in August, she completed an internship at Medusa Group Architectural Studio.
This summer our first cohort of pupils took their full (two year) A levels. The results were excellent, with 74% of all completed A levels graded A*/A.
This summer, our students organised a two-week summer camp for refugee children living in Warsaw. Camp volunteers Julia Piłka, our Year 12 student , and Alicia Siddons, an Akademeia Tutorial College alumna, shared with us their reflections on this amazing experience.
This summer, Rohan Tryc-Bromley, our Year 12th student to be, is taking part in the international 30.past.89 project. He sent us word about this initiative and a few photos.
The ceremony of the end of the second completed school year took place on Friday 28th June at Akademeia High School. We said goodbye to our first cohort of pupils who took their full A Levels.
Akademeia students participating in the E(x)plory conference
Magda Kiernozek and Tomek Płudowski, Akademeia 13 Year students, participated in the E(x)plory science conference. They have been working on an interdisciplinary project which covered the areas from chemistry, biology and engineering.
The 7th lecture in the Akademeia Faculty Lecture Series will be all about politics. Are mass political protests a sign of health, or decay in democratic regimes?
Akademeia students serving as tour guides at POLIN Museum
A group of Akademeia students, together with students from other schools, developed new themed tours of "1000 lat historii Żydów polskich" exhibition at POLIN Museum.
Sonia Blank, Religious Studies and Humanities Teacher at Akademeia High School, joined a panel at a conference organised by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation and the Religious Studies department at the Jagielloński University in Kraków.
Dr Karolina Watras, Deputy Head at Akademeia High School, had the pleasure to write an entry included in the very first edition of The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism (published in Feb 2019).
Weronika Woińska, our Y11 student, has been accepted into the prestigious The New York Academy of Sciences Global STEM Alliance (GSA) 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures mentoring programme!
Here are the results of the 1st stage of the Academic Scholarship Competition and the 2nd phase of the 2nd stage of the Art & Design Scholarship Competition. Congratulations!
“Texture and structure. My own fabric manipulation.”
Textile Design Workshop with Magdalena Komar, being a part of our Artlabs Series, was dedicated to understanding and learning the basics of fabric design.
The sixth lecture in the Akademeia Faculty Lecture Series will be about the different facets of opera which make it a truly ultimate art form, one that brings all types of human expression into one.
Y12 and Y13 students enjoyed privileged access to advanced facilities and top institutions and got to meet with many expert practitioners in their field. A fun and exciting time all round.
The process of applying to Universities can be daunting; firstly, which one to choose and secondly, how to get there. Our "Insiders' stories" event was designed to help students planning further studies.
Last Friday we have been celebrating all things Scottish at our very own Burns Supper, featuring a live ceilidh band & traditional Scottish dancing! See more photos.
The LEED plaque on a building is a mark of quality and achievement in green building. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the most widely used green building rating system in the world.
The open lecture "My Journey to the East" given by Michał Cyrański, Y13 student at Akademeia High School, took place on Tuesday, 4th December at our high school.
Akademeia High School is delighted to introduce the very first edition of its football tournament. We expect some fierce competition amongst some of the best school-teams!
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, a.k.a. Indian story of success and failure
The third lecture in the series of open lectures given by our faculty will be all about the economy of India, and will concentrate mainly on the final results of the transformation.
Our students attended In.Europa Breakfast with special guest: Mr Paweł Świeboda, Deputy Head of European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), European Commission to find out.
Another Open Day event took place. It was held on Saturday, 20th October, in a formula of open meetings and lectures for parents and students. There is still one more to come - Sunday, 20th January 2019.
Pure Nonsense in the collages of Wisława Szymborska
During yesterday's lecture, Michał Rusinek, former secretary to Wisława Szymborska and president of the Wisława Szymborska Foundation, introduced us to her multifaceted mind, generous heart and charming sense of humor. The lecture was accompanied by the vernissage of Szymborska's collages.
The second lecture in the Akademeia Faculty Lecture Series will be given by dr Karolina Watras, Deputy Head at Akademeia High School, a graduate of Cambridge University and Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Dr Karolina Watras and Marcin Szala, Deputy Heads at Akademeia High School, attended the conference "Creating the conditions for success" organized by Cambridge International.
Join us for a special meeting with Michał Rusinek, former secretary to Wisława Szymborska. The lecture will be accompanied by the vernissage of Szymborska's collages and a charity auction.
The very first lecture in the Akademeia Faculty Lecture Series will be given by Mark Moore, Headmaster at Akademeia High School, a graduate of Cambridge University where he studied English Literature.
Nomination for the Architectural Award of the President of Warsaw
We are thrilled to announce that our school building, designed by Medusa Group, has been nominated for the Architectural Award of the President of Warsaw.
Join us for the theatre play and hip-hop battle on 14th or 15th September and find out what connects East German rebels, the homeless of Saint Petersburg, and Poland "czarny protest" movement.
May we wish you all a very warm welcome to the new academic year, 2018-19! We are very pleased to welcome so many new pupils, parents and members of staff who join us this year.
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