“At the Summer School she changed her habits, it just gave her something to aim for, to push on as a Roma child, to push on with her head held high, and she enrolled in the Secondary School of Medicine. Her mom is proud of the success she has managed to achieve thanks to the Summer School. With the help of her teachers and peers, Andjela also managed to enrol in the first school on her wish list. They realized that it’s easier for children to communicate with their friends and teachers through such group work.Īt the Summer School, children are also preparing for the final exam and enrolling into secondary school. To keep students motivated to learn and attend regularly, teachers organize interesting workshops and students use computers and tablets. We brought out projectors, laptops, tablets, and we brought together nature and computer science,” explains Djordje Pejcic, mathematics teacher.Īt the Summer School, which is organized near the end of the summer break, there are no usual classes. We also had a class in nature, we worked on programming. We also had a couple of workshops outside, at the local park. We worked in the chemistry classroom, mathematics classroom, in the kitchen.

We didn’t have a single workshop in one place. During various workshops we went over almost all the subjects from last year and helped them refresh their knowledge. “The Summer School helped us ease our students into the new school year. And this year the teachers thought that I could also be a peer mentor and help my friends to improve in computer science and maths,” thirteen-year-old Ljubica, a seventh-grade student at the 8 October Primary School, says proudly. Last year, I was a student at the Summer School.

Vlasotince, Serbia, September 2022 - “Thanks to the Summer School I spent more time with my friends and became more confident. The Summer School is organized within the Bridging Digital Divide in Serbia for the Most Vulnerable Children project, which is jointly implemented in 30 schools by the European Union, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, and UNICEF.

The homework club