We're beaming with pride and joy!
The entire Akademeia community would like to express our immense admiration for our brilliant students who participated in the prestigious UK Chemistry Olympiad. 13 dedicated students took part, displaying tremendous effort and preparation for this challenging competition.
Our students received eleven medals in the 2023 British Biology Olympiad!
The British Biology Olympiad is an international competition covering A Level specification as well as going way past the regular requirements and into the realm of advanced problem solving. Over 13,000 students from 800 schools worldwide participated in the competition this year.
Heartfelt congratulations to all of the winners!
On 4 May, our school's media studies group embarked on a trip to a TV station, TVN, where they got a first-hand look at the captivating world of television production.
Our school has been invited to participate in the prestigious Villars Institute programme!
Exciting news! Our school has been invited to participate in the prestigious Villars Institute programme!
The Villars Institute is a non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting biodiversity and sustainable development. Located in the Swiss Alps, it is a fantastic platform and a place for intergenerational collaboration through a variety of international projects.
United in memory of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Our students joined to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with a special assembly dedicated to these significant events from 1943. They were also making paper daffodils and distributing them to our community. This afternoon, some of our students will be giving out the paper daffodils to passers-by on the streets of Warsaw, as volunteers for the Daffodils campaign organised by POLIN Museum. They will be explaining why it’s significant to carry on the memory of the Holocaust and pass it to younger generations.
Year 9 at AHS is a foundation programme, preparing our students with a mind of creativity and curiosity and the interdisciplinary skills to be successful in future academic pathway as iGCSE and A Level students in Year 10 and beyond. A great example of#learningoutsidetheclassroom was a recent visit to the theatre!Our Y9 students had the opportunity to watch their schoolwork come to life enjoying the theatre performance "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time."
Congratulations to the extraordinary graduates of Akademeia's Class of 2023!
Here's to the Class of 2023 – a cohort of 54 incredible graduates who have left an unforgettable mark on Akademeia.
Join us on Friday, 2 June, for the Akademeia Fundraiser 2023, as we celebrate our graduating scholars and raise funds to support their promising futures!
Take part in a silent and live auction, and a concert!
You can find a catalogue of the art on display at thelink. Free Admission. We ask all guests to register via the link.
If you are unable to attend the event but would like to support our cause, we have set up an online fundraising campaign via zrzutka.pl.
Our student has been awarded a scholarship to study at Dartmouth, a prestigious Ivy League university!
Congratulations to Zosia, our Year 13 student, who has been awarded a scholarship to study at Dartmouth, a prestigious Ivy League university in US. (Dartmouth is need-blind, and the university doesn’t consider financial aid when reviewing applications.) It is an outstanding achievement and a testimony to her hard work and dedication.
LEGO League Club team won third place in the national phase of the FIRST LEGO League challenge tournament!
Our LEGO League Club team@lemomates_ won third place in the national phase of the FIRST LEGO League challenge tournament last weekend! Congratulations to Kasia, Kaja and Janek on this fantastic achievement!
Did you know that modern Poland’s democracy and Robert Lewandowski share the same age of 34?
We learned this and many other fun facts during the amazing TEDx Akademeia event organised by four of AHS students: Ola, Zosia, Basia and Pola.
5th Form Personal Development Scheme Showcase Event
Recently we held our annual Personal Development Scheme (PDS) Showcase Event for 5th Form students.
We were in for a real treat this year since there were as many as 18 interdisciplinary projects on offer, centred around developing 21st century skills as well as charity, entrepreneurial and creative activities.
Please check out the latest issue of COGITO magazine to read an article with our Y13 student, Julek!
In this article, you will find out how applying for the Akademeia Scholarship Programme has impacted his high school years. Julek is also sharing about his passions and interests, from Mathemagic Club to space engineering!
We enjoy celebrating our cultural diversity at Akademeia and recently our Student Council has produced a fresh idea how to approach this– through baking and enjoying new types of food together!
The school kitchen was busy with students who participated in the baking workshops coordinated by our teachers (also representing different countries and bringing their own traditional recipes with them!).
To celebrate the World Theatre Day (27 March) and our love for performative arts, Akademeia Drama Department has prepared our very first Theatre Week.
With the week's watchword “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” from a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare - “As you like it”, we have reminded ourselves, that people have roles to play in life just as actors do in the theatre and we should fulfil ours the best way we can.
It was great to see so many visitors in AHS yesterday, during our March Open Day!
If you couldn’t be with us yesterday, but are interested in the September 2023 entry – please check out Admissions pageand stay tuned for more information about the A Level Open Day coming up in April.
We are thrilled to announce that our LEGO League Club team, consisting of: Kasia, Kaja and Janek, won the first prize in the Masovian Voivodeship phase of the FIRST LEGO League Challenge tournament last Saturday!
Akademeia Science Talk: Quantum Physics: From “spooky action” to teleportation
Last week, we had a pleasure to host Dr Lewis Clark with a presentation titled: ‘Quantum Physics: From "spooky action" to teleportation’ as a part of our AKADEMEIA SCIENCE TALK series.
The gym was packed with our basketball fans, as we recently hosted a basketball re-match - AHS vs ASW.
Both teams did an incredible job working together. While great effort was given by all, it was the AHS Team that took home the win with a final score of 58 to 46!
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world" Louis Pasteur
You could find this and many other inspiring quotes scattered all around the school during our Second Annual Science Fair!
Outstanding Pearson Learner Awards for the Highest Marks in Poland in International GCSE for our Students
Six Akademeia students received their Outstanding Pearson Learner Awards for the Highest Marks in Poland in International GCSE presented by Ms Nicola Fox, Regional Development Manager for Pearson & Edexcel Qualifications, based in Munich.
Congratulations to our Year 13 student Karolina on being accepted into one of the most selective programmes in the world - UC Berkeley M.E.T. (Management, Engineering, and Technology) with an acceptance rate of less than 2%!
Our alumna and academic scholar has become an ambassador of Mojestypendium.pl
Recently our alumna and academic scholar, Zosia Halbersztat, has become an ambassador of Mojestypendium.pl where she inspires younger students to dream big!
While the majority of our students, following the Polish tradition of Fat Thursday, were enjoying lots of sweet doughnuts today, lucky 5th and 6th formers on the ski trips were burning calories, while skiing and snowboarding, enjoying the breathtaking Italian and Austrian landscapes!
One of our Investment teams has reached the semi-finals of the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition! Over 1,400 teams from around the world entered the competition, and we are one of 55 semi-finalists.
This academic year was the first time in Akademeia High School's history that students were entered into both competitions, with 30 of our top mathematicians taking part in BMO1 last November.
For the first time in the history of Akademeia High School, two Y13 physics students took part in the British Physics Olympiad – Round 1, the highest level among physics competitions for international students.
On behalf of our AHS student-ledWOŚP Fundraiser Committee, we are excited to officially invite you to two upcoming community events in support of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity!
On a cold and snowy Saturday morning, our campus was surprisingly busy and buzzing, as we welcomed over 80 families interested to learn more about Akademeia High School. It was the first Open Day on site in nearly two years.
Taking advantage of the glorious October weather, our Year 9, 10, 11 and 12 students went on 3-day trips with their teachers to explore various sites of Poland.
We would like to congratulate three of our Year 13 students, whose essays were recently recognised internationally. Paulina, Iana and Ola showed us how to approach academic essay writing especially in the context of essay competitions, as well as the benefits of taking part in such initiatives.
This annual event is a great opportunity for our students to meet with recent Akademeia graduates and young professionals from various fields. Students will have a chance to ask them about their university experience, seek advice or find out more about careers in their chosen field.
Outstanding A Level results & university destinations
We are extremely proud of our 2022 A Level results! The exceptional A Level results and outstanding university destinations worldwide are a testament to the relentless pursuit of excellence, hard work and resilience of our students and their teachers.
Another school year has passed!
On June 30th, we celebrated all the great progress, growth and achievements that happened this academic year with Best Performance, Best Improvement and Community Impact Awards.
On Wednesday, 29th June, the Akademeia community gathered to honour and recognise our Class of 2022 graduates, the fourth and largest Year 13 cohort to date.
Just a few days before the end of school year, Y10 students participated in a school trip to Podlasie where number of topics from the Polish curriculum were addressed. The goal of the trip was to visit a peripheral, yet extremely interesting and inspiring region of Poland
A group of 16 A-Level and pre-A students went on an unusual two-day Engineering trip to Krosno, where they had a unique opportunity to visit a chair factory (Nowy Styl) and a gas-springs factory (FA Krosno).
During our first ever, seven-day long, Arts Festival we celebrated the creative and performing arts at Akademeia. Let's look back at this inspiring time.
Akademeia Outreach: Science Experiments in Kindergarden
During the school year, AHS Natural Sciences team is spreading knowledge to our students - that's obvious. But sometimes teachers and students want something more... And this is where the origins of the Physics Outreach Activity came from!
Akademeia Outreach: Concert at the Alzheimer Centre, 2nd June
A group of our student musicians visited the Alzheimer Centre in Warsaw with a concert, which was a result of a student's initiative. Bruno N (Y12) after researching the positive effects of listening to music on patients with dementia, decided to share Akademeia musical talents with some of them.
Sport is an essential part of working with students in AHS. During school year they attend regular sport classes, but once a year Sport Department organizes a very special event for them - a Sports Day! It is a time when students participate in internal tournaments and are encouraged to try new sport disciplines.
What a day! On Friday 24th June Akademeia students celebrated science on a Science Fair. Our auditorium, laboratories and courtyard got filled with presentations, experiments and a debate - all these related to chemistry, biology and physics.
The Akademeia Summer School is approaching! The registration is still open, so if you are ready for adventure - sign in. This is going to be our 4th edition of Summer School.
This academic year is quickly coming to its end, but Akademeia High School is still full of events. On the 9th of June we opened the Akademia Arts Festival 2022. During the Arts Festival we celebrate the creative and performing arts at Akademeia featuring a fine art exhibition, film screening, fashion photo booth, mask creation workshop, poetry readings, open mic performances, and theatre shows.
Top Documentary Film from Top Film Festival in AHS
We’d like to invite you to an extraordinary evening with the Founder and Director of the Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Artur Liebhart. Mr Liebhart will show us one of his favourite films from this year’s festival selection.
We are delighted to invite everybody to the ‘Room 21’ exhibition at the contemporary art gallery - Galeria Tlen, which in the spirit of good neighborhood in miasteczko Wilanów welcomed the young creatives from our school. A total group of 15 students had been working on projects in mixed mediums for the past two years, ranging from ceramics, paintings, photographs, textiles, and they are all very enthusiastic to display their outcomes.
AHS student awarded in the Minds Underground Essay Competition 2022!
We are proud to share that Paulina G, our Y12 student, was announced the winner of the Minds Underground Essay Competition 2022!
The Minds Underground Essay Competition is an annual contest organised by a British educational platform Minds Underground open to 6th-Form-level students from all around the world.
Finalists of the 2022 Akademeia Scholarship Competition Announced
Akademeia High School is pleased to announce that 20 candidates were shortlisted to the Stage Two of the Akademeia Scholarship Competition earlier this week.
As the admission process is in full swing at colleges worldwide, our Year 13 students continue to receive their offers from the top world universities.
Full Scholarships from Cambridge Trust and Trinity College Cambridge for two incredible Akademeia students.
We are extremely proud to share the news that two of our Year 13 students, Zofia and Mateusz have received offers to Trinity College Cambridge on full scholarships.
We are happy to share with you another issue of the Akademeia Post magazine. Our young journalists provided us with yet another set of various articles.
In this early spring, our students have been keeping active, practising different sports, participating in Sports extracurriculars and taking part in sports competitions.
On Wednesday 17th Akademeia 6th Form students met on the Careers Day - an event organised each year by AHS, to help students make conscious and well-informed decisions about their educational and professional pathways.
Awards in the British Biology Olympiad 2022 for AHS students
Seven of our students achieved the medal categories in the British Biology Olympiad 2022. It's the best result ever achieved by Akademeia students in this competition.
Another fantastic initiative from our students as part of the Personal Development Project Scheme. A group of seven students created a bilingual e-book: a collection of stories written in Polish and English with their very own illustrations.
Year 13 Students at Akademeia celebrated outstanding academic success last week with their Extend Project Qualification (EPQ) Results. Of the 17 students who entered a project 100% were awarded A* to A grades (10 A* and 7 A).
Are you familiar with the concept of a Blind Date With A Book? AHS students from the Human Rights Group have prepared a lovely treat for all the bookish people in our community.
Akademeia Faculty Lecture: Molecularly imprinted polymers – materials of the future
Dr Nataliya Marchyk, a chemistry teacher in AHS, has delivered a very insightful presentation, bringing closer to our audience a somehow complex topic of polymer chemistry that crosses over the traditional lines of all branches of chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, pharmacy, and even medicine.
Class of 2022 University Offers – more highlights from UK
We are incredibly proud of our Class of 2022 and their diverse range of university destinations. We continue to share more highlights as new offers are pouring in for our Year 13 students.
“21st Century Minds” – student-led science conference
The conference, open to a broader community - at school and online, covered topics such as: cancer research, genetical engineering, RNA, molecular biology and many more.
Akademeia Science Talk: Friends or enemies: remarkable world of ant-fungal interactions
Many people already have heard about so-called 'zombie ants', but not everyone knows that what causes this "zombiness" is actually a parasitic fungus living inside the ant's body.
Academeia Seminar: How teenagers are making a difference in today’s world
We invited a 17 year old high school student from Toruń to be a part of the Akademeia Seminars series and talk to our students about her experience as a young activist involved in the climate movement.
Akademeia Finalists in the “Solve for Tomorrow” Contest
Our team’s project went through competitive semifinals to nationwide finals, as one of 9 successful projects out of 138 entries from high schools and universities across Poland.
Inspired by one of Akademeia lectures, our students organised a Science Communication Club, and have now launched an Instagram account that is meant to build the bridge between scientific and ordinary words, explaining complex concepts in a simple and accessible way.
Let’s meet online at the Open Day – Thursday, 17th February at 10:00 am
We would like to invite you to our Open Day in order to give you an opportunity to become acquainted with our ethos, philosophy of education and curriculum.
University Offers Keep Pouring in for our Year 13 Students!
As the admission process is in full swing at colleges worldwide, our Year 13 students have started receiving their first offers from the top world universities in the UK, US and EU. We are proud of diverse range of courses and destinations of our Class of 2022 and will be sharing highlights throughout next months, as new offers are pouring in.
Our 5th Formers keep working on another crative, interdisciplinary PDS project - this time to create their own board game. Students started their research by playing a few unique card and board games. They also participated in a workshop organised by the #warsawmodernartmuseum (MSN), to learn more about modern art.
On Tuesday, 25th January, AHS community had a chance to listen to a fascinating lecture on how to detect a virus with a smartphone. Our guest, Dr Magdalena Richter, presented the link between the Nobel Prize winning researches and Covid-19.
Have you ever tried painting on water?
Our students have been lately, under the expert guidance, discovering the traditional Ebru art as their PDS project.
Our newly-introduced Personal Development Scheme project called 'Akademeia Farm' has became an extremely popular choice among our students this academic year.
Autumn and spring are fantastic seasons for hands-on activities on our roof-top garden, while the cold winter is the time for indoor planting and... the fun and discovery continues.
Akademeia Seminars are back with the new theme! After the series of expert talks on human rights in Term 1, we are inviting our students, staff and parents to broaden their knowledge on issues linked to climate change in Term 2.
On Friday 10th December, AHS community celebrated festive season with a concert, organised by students and teachers. The programme included performances of Student Band, Staff Band and some unexpected Theatrical Vignette, appearing suddenly from the audience.
What a sugary joy did they have, preparing cakes and cookies for AHS Christmas Bake Sale! Banana bread, muffins, brownie, Belgian waffles, iced cookies… And all this to support the charges of Salvation Army and Fundacja Ocalenie.
Animal Welfare PDS to help dogs from Józefów’s shelter
An enthusiastic group of the 5th Form students completed their first stage of the Animal Welfare PDS project - just in time for the cold winter. The students wished to improve the conditions of dogs living in the Animal Shelter in Józefów.
The Year 13 3D Design A Level course commenced with the ceramics project inspired by nature. Students tried a wheel throwing as well as worked with slabs and coils.
Final of the Akademeia Seminar’s Human Rights series
On Thursday 2nd December we had a pleasure to host Dr Omer Fisher, who delivered an important lecture on Human rights, civil society and becoming human rights defender. Dr Fisher, who performs as Senior Human Rights Adviser at United Nations, shared with us his broad international experience in the field. Having had worked with a variety of organisations and communities, he provided our students with a very practical know-how.
We are extremely proud of recent accomplishments of the Akademeia Debate Team in the Polish Schools Debating Championships 2021.
This year there were 78 students and 22 schools competing at the tournament.
AHS has been represented by two teams, composed of participants from the Competitive Debating elective:
Akademeia Red - Karolina Z, Klara Ż, Nathalie C, Cristian M, Karol L, Matsvei D
Akademeia Blue - Pola J, Zofia J, Barbara M, Alexi v D
Discussing EU asylum procedures and current issues
On Thursday, November 18, our students had a very unique opportunity to look at the institutional perspective behind the EU asylum procedures and practical reality of refugees who go through the procedures, with two excellent experts in the field, during the Akademeia Seminar titled: ‘The Common European Asylum System: Theory and Practice'.
Year 13 Students Presenting their Extended Projects
Year 13 students brought a year's worth of work to an end on Wednesday 17th of November, presenting their Extended Projects to groups of staff and students. The audience were treated to talks on Economics, Medicine, Physics, Art, Biology, Law, History, Politics and many others.
Year 13 Students Presenting their Extended Projects
Year 13 students brought a year's worth of work to an end on Wednesday 17th of November, presenting their Extended Projects to groups of staff and students. The audience were treated to talks on Economics, Medicine, Physics, Art, Biology, Law, History, Politics and many others.
Aleksy, Air Thief Team Leader, said, ‘Working on the satellite and going through the whole process was so much fun for us, that we really wanted more students to share this unforgettable experience.’