News

22.10.2021

Breathtaking views during the Karkonosze hiking trip

A group of our  Year 12 and Year 13 students and three teachers spent a fantastic October weekend enjoying a challenging hiking trip. Accompanied by the professional mountain guide, our students hiked the main Karkonosze Ridge (Grzbiet Karkonoski), covering 36 km of a distance with a total ascent of 1,500 m.

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11.10.2021

A day with Art and Nature

Students taking A levels in Fine Art, 3D Design, Photography and History of Art recently had the opportunity to see and discuss the current temporary exhibition of Ursula von Rydingsvard’s monumental organic sculptures at the Orońsko Sculpture Centre.

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04.10.2021

100% of early round applications to Bocconi University accepted!

The Early Bird catches the worm, or in this case, wins places at one of Europe's top Universities.  100% of our  Year 13 students  who submitted early round applications to Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, were offered places on their chosen courses last week.

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04.10.2021

Faculty Lecture: Why Artistic License Matters in Historical Fiction and Film

On September 28, Dr Adam Anders delivered a lecture on a thought-provoking topic: ‘The First Lie Wins: Why Artistic License Matters in Historical Fiction and Film.’ Dr Anders, with his interdisciplinary approach, investigated what made an interesting story, exploring examples from historical fiction and film.

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04.10.2021

Bake sale for School Without Borders

Our students raised 3,055 PLN towards the School Without Borders PDS Project through the first bake sale of the year. All delicious cakes were made by AHS students and staff

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30.09.2021

Year 11 Trip to Łódź

On September 28^th, our Year 11 students, together with their  teachers from the Polish department, went on a trip to Łódź to learn more about the realm of "Promissed Land" by Władysław Reymont and its film adaptation by Andrzej Wajda.

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29.09.2021

Congratulations to our two finalists in the 2021 Global Essay Competition

Congratulations to two of our students: Jakub R (Year 9) and Tomasz K (Year 13) on being shortlisted as the 2021 Global Essay Competition Finalists. The John Locke Institute’s annual competition is internationally recognized as a way to build students’ knowledge and refine their argumentation and research skills.

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27.09.2021

Akademeia Seminars: Anna Alboth visiting AHS

All interested AHS students, parents, and faculty members are invited to join us for the Akademeia Seminar with Ms Anna Alboth, a Polish activist, journalist, blogger and media officer at Minority Rights Group on September 30 at 5:30pm.

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12.09.2021

Over 50 clubs and co-curricular activities on offer this term!

The list of our after school clubs is growing year on year, reflecting the diverse interests of our students and the expertise of our faculty. More and more clubs are being offered as student-initiated and student-run projects. From September 6-11, during the Trial Week, our students had a chance to try out from a variety of over 50 programmes!

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11.09.2021

Akademeia Seminars are back with the new series!

It is our pleasure to launch this September the new series of Akademeia Seminars. The idea behind this initiative is to create a space where the most important social issues can be discussed with experts in the field. The leading topic for the Term 1 seminars is: 'Understanding Human Rights'.

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05.09.2021

The inauguration of the 2021/2022 school year

We wish all of our students, parents, teachers and staff an exciting and fruitful academic year ahead!

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03.09.2021

Outstanding A Level results 2021!

Akademeia High School is celebrating outstanding 2021 A Level results with 91% of A*- A grades and exceptional 63% of A* grades. Our graduates have been successful in obtaining offers from the renowned universities around the world.

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09.06.2021

Limited places for 2021/22 academic year are still available

We are still accepting applications for the 2021/2022 academic year.

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09.06.2021

Do-It-Yourself workshops

Why buy, if you can make it yourself?

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07.06.2021

Science Talks Seminar: The Forgotten Stories of Radiation Protection

Another great lecture from one of the Science Talks guests! This time in her talk “The Forgotten Stories of Radiation Protection” Dr Reszczyńska inspired our students to think in an interdisciplinary way!

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02.06.2021

Visit to Zachęta National Gallery of Art

We have been waiting for this moment for such a long time!

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01.06.2021

International Children’s Day

We celebrated International Children's Day with something special.

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28.05.2021

Sports Day 2021

For many of our students this week’s Sports Day was about trying something new and fun – archery and wall climbing!

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25.05.2021

Spring chillout – highlights

Our courtyard and roof terrace are in the school for a reason – to make the most of every moment of the Spring!

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22.05.2021

Science Talk Seminar: Biodegradation of explosives

We hosted another exciting Science Talk last Wednesday. This time our faculty member Dr Jolanta Niedźwiecka spoke about biodegradation of explosives.

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18.05.2021

Visit to Warsaw Citadel

To welcome Spring we launched our field trip season with a visit to the Warsaw Citadel.

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17.05.2021

PDS Project: Voluntary work in dog shelter in Józefów

Have a look at another great Personal Development Scheme project! This time our students cooperated with the dog shelter in Józefów, where they walk the dogs and help out with voluntary work!

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14.05.2021

2021 UK universities offers!

Despite all the challenges of this school year, Akademeia High School students keep reaching higher and higher!

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10.05.2021

PDS Project: Acts of Kindness

The aim of the PDS project was to introduce our students to the world of professional translation.

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04.05.2021

PDS Project: Herbal Heaven

This winter our Year 9 students were exploring the healing properties of European herbs as part of Herbal Heaven PDS project.

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29.04.2021

Online educational seminar with the Embassy of Estonia

Our headmaster Dr Karolina Watras, alongside with other wonderful guest speakers, participated in the online educational seminar organised by the Embassy of Estonia.

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27.04.2021

Ways of Seeing: Student’s Art Guide

Do you see art as something that can only be understood by specialists? Have you ever thought about the museum as boring? If so, you have to take a closer look at one of our PDS projects!

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26.04.2021

Charlatans in 18th-centrury Europe

Our History teacher Dr Marysia Jonsson conducted a fascinating lecture about charlatans in the 18th century.

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23.04.2021

Science Talks Seminar: Brain – your powerful tool

Our school hosted Dr María Banqueri Lopez who delivered an interactive presentation about the human brain and its powerful capabilities.

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22.04.2021

2021 US university offers for our students!

Huge congratulations!

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21.04.2021

Michael/Ström Dom Maklerski and Upper Finance Group – student’s internship experience

There is no better way to learn about finances than by practice!

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18.04.2021

RECAP: Online Recruitment Weekend – 17-18 April

It was another very exciting recruitment weekend!

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16.04.2021

ArtLab with Greg Jonkajtys

On Friday 16th April ARTLAB hosted a lecture with Greg Jonkajtys - director, animator and visual effects artist who graduated from Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts, and has worked in the TV and feature film industry for the last 20 years.

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14.04.2021

Gazeta Wyborcza joins our Internship scheme

New internship possibilities for future Pulitzer winners!

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13.04.2021

AHS Team in the national finals of European Space Agency’s CanSat competition!

Have you ever wondered just how difficult it would be to design, build and launch your own satellite? Our intrepid team of five Akademeia High School students decided to give it a go (with a little support from the European Space Agency)!

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12.04.2021

Our student approved to Yale Young Global Scholars

Congratulations to Liubou, our year 12 student!

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09.04.2021

British Biology Olympiad results

This year, our students have truly outdone themselves scooping 1 gold (!), 3 silver and 2 bronze medals!

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22.03.2021

Recap: Online Recruitment Weekend – 20-21 March

Another online recruitment was conducted successfully during the weekend of 20-21 March!

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19.03.2021

Science Talks Seminar: How methane affects the climate change

On March 10^th, Dr Semra Bakkaloglu from Sustainable Gas Institute at Imperial College London, UK presented about methane’s impact on climate change.

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01.03.2021

Science Talks Seminar: Cancer – a disease of our cells

On Feb 24^th, Dr Katarzyna Leszczyńska was our guest speaker in the “Science Talks” seminar series. She presented about cancer and how it affects our cells.

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23.02.2021

Science Talks Seminar: Develop a superpower – physics of scuba diving

On Feb 10th, our guest at the Science Talks seminar was Mr Sebastian Dobrowolski, who presented about the physics of scuba diving. Mr Dobrowolski is a co-founder of the International Diving Federation and an instructor for recreation, technical, and cave diving.

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16.02.2021

Akademeia charity: 24h of cycling for Fundacja Herosi

On the last weekend, 13-14 February, our chemistry and biology teacher Jonathan Blazevic, our student Ada and her mum Ms Ewa were cycling for 24 hours in order to help Fundacja Herosi raise money.

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12.02.2021

Workshop with King’s College professor, Dr Ricarda Vidal

On 3rd February our Year 11 students participated in an online workshop with King's College professor, Dr Ricarda Vidal, who talked about Experiential Translation between mediums.

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10.02.2021

Science Talks Seminar: Our place in the Universe – a journey from the centre to the periphery

On January 27^th, Akademeia High School hosted a webinar with prof. dr hab. Stanisław Mrówczyński about our planet Earth and its place in the universe.

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03.02.2021

Akademeia Prep Courses take off – register now!

Led by our own highly experienced team of teachers, our evening courses are adapted to an online mode of learning and are the perfect preparatory courses for students considering applying to Akademeia full-time.

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26.01.2021

Career Day – current and future situation in the job market

Today, instead of weekly assembly, our students took part in a Career Day - a series of meetings that aimed to help them get to know better the current and future situation in the job market.

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23.01.2021

October AS and select A Level exams – results

Back in October 2020, our year 13 students sat AS and select A Level exams.

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11.01.2021

Academic Scholarship 2021 – application deadline: 28th February

Akademeia’s Academic Scholarship is open to all self-motivated, hardworking young scholars.

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11.01.2021

Art & Design Scholarship 2021 – application deadline: 28th February

We aim to educate young artists!

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15.12.2020

‘2020: The Tempest’ – online premiere of a new Teatr Rozmaitości play

Although we're not able to go to the theatre during the pandemic, we still try to watch live performances online.

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03.12.2020

Online meeting with Jan Komasa

On 3rd of December, our school hosted an online meeting with Polish director Jan Komasa, author of the Oscar-nominated movie "Corpus Christi".

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01.12.2020

Tate Britain online lecture on the new Turner’s exhibition

On Monday 23rd Nov, our Y11 History of Art students attended a Tate Britain online lecture on the new Turner's exhibition called, 'The Making of the Modern World: War'.

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26.11.2020

Colonial forms, decolonial transformations: schooling in contemporary urban Bolivia

In the second Akademeia Faculty Lecture, our Geography teacher Marcin Stanek took the participants to the fascinating journey to far-away Bolivia.

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24.11.2020

“The Akademeia Post” issue no. 1/2020

Despite the pandemic, our great journalists, editors and photographers don't stop working!

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23.11.2020

First online recruitment weekend this school year!

This time we hosted candidates from Years 10 and 12.

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20.11.2020

Online workshop in the Educational Department of the Jewish Historical Institute

Our Year 12 History students had an opportunity to meet Ms Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych from the Educational Department of the Jewish Historical Institute for a workshop devoted to historical sources from the Ringelblum's Archive.

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17.11.2020

Decision-making: are humans rational? Online seminar with Dr Karolina Lempert

How to make everyday decisions using maths?

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12.11.2020

First Akademeia Faculty Lecture this school year!

Many thanks to our chemistry teacher Dr Mark Kelly for a fascinating semi-online lecture about carbon!

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03.11.2020

Meeting UK Universities representatives

UK Universities representatives were answering our students' questions today.

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26.10.2020

Online Recruitment Weekend – 21-22 November

The recruitment process is treated primarily as an opportunity for us to learn as much as possible about candidates for our school.

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26.10.2020

Online Open Evenings starting from 10th November

For the first time, we introduce Online Open Evenings.

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19.10.2020

See the highlights of our first-ever Online Open Day

Our first-ever Online Open Day was held on Saturday 17th October. Many thanks to all participants!

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01.10.2020

AHS Graduate Show 2020 – online art exhibition

"We would like you to celebrate our graduation with us, so we share a glimpse of the creative projects."

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28.09.2020

Online Open Day – register now!

The event launches on Saturday, 17th October at 10 am on AHS Microsoft Teams.

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28.09.2020

Our first-ever Online Insiders Stories are already behind us

Our first-ever Online Insiders Stories are already behind us!

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07.09.2020

Online Insiders Stories 2020

How to plan your academic future? How to choose the right university and the best degree for you? Where do you start your research and what factors should you consider in your decision-making process? What will be the impact of Covid-19 and Brexit on higher education globally?

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07.09.2020

A Level exam results 2020

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*.

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11.05.2020

Final results of the scholarship competitions

Here are the final results of the Academic and Art & Design Scholarship Competitions.

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30.04.2020

International Jazz Day

On the 30th of April, we celebrate International Jazz Day. See our student's presentation.

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22.04.2020

Plank challenge

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.

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21.04.2020

Results of the Film Competition

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!

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07.04.2020

Some tips for students on how to live and work in confined space p. 3

The last part of tips on how to maintain balance during quarantine.

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07.04.2020

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.

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03.04.2020

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.

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30.03.2020

Tips for living in a confined space with teenagers

How to set new rules of common living? How to talk to your children about their fears and emotions? How can you motivate them to learn?

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27.03.2020

Sports for fun and staying fit

Here are some new exercises provided by our great Sports Department for all of you to try!

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27.03.2020

Some tips for students on how to live and work in confined space p. 2

Here is the second part of tips on how to keep calm and motivate yourself in this difficult situation.

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23.03.2020

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.

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18.03.2020

Sports Department’s tips: how to stay fit without leaving home

All you need is self-motivation!

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17.03.2020

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!

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11.03.2020

Akademeia has moved classes online

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, 12^th March 2020.

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07.03.2020

“Chemistry that we take for granted” – open faculty lecture

Chemistry that we take for granted" is an open faculty lecture to be given by our Chemistry Teacher, Dr Mark Kelly.

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05.03.2020

Mirka Olko shortlisted for SPoKE 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”.

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04.03.2020

Our Year 12 students’ projects accepted to the E(x)plory Program

Kuba Wasilewski, Konstanty Radziwiłł and Krzysztof Dziardziel’s projects were selected for the E(x)plory Program!

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14.02.2020

What would happen if you didn’t sleep? – Faculty Lecture

We spend a third of our lives sleeping. That is 26 years on average. What happens with all that time?

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07.02.2020

The Children’s Rights Conference

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.

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07.02.2020

Planetary Congress

"Planetary Congress" is an open interactive lecture to be given by Dr Jakub Bochiński.

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28.01.2020

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.

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07.01.2020

Alumni Stories

Our alumni have visited the school today and talked about their university studies.

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18.12.2019

Christmas Concert & Christmas Cards sale

The Christmas Concert and Christmas Cards sale with Fundacja Herosi took place on Tuesday, 17th December at our high school.

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01.12.2019

Open Day

Join us for the unique opportunity to meet the school management and representatives of all departments – Saturday 11th January at 9:45.

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28.11.2019

Professional eye check-up for refugee children

Our students’ project Akademeia High School for refugees' children in Warsaw continues.

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25.11.2019

Our students at IWG Christmas Holiday Bazaar

Last weekend Akademeia High School students were selling ecological products for Association for Earth at IWG Christmas Holiday Bazaar.

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19.11.2019

Visit from top UK Univeristies

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.

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14.11.2019

Peasants and the Origins of Modernity

The third Akademeia Faculty Lecture this school year was given by Jan Ladziński, Head of History at our school.

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04.11.2019

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.

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24.10.2019

Visit from London Universities

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.

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21.10.2019

Insiders’ Stories – Studying abroad – October 2019

Our "Insiders' stories" event is designed to help students planning further studies.

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21.10.2019

Open Day – 19th October 2019

Another Open Day event took place.

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11.10.2019

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.

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