Turkey

__ANAMUR PRIVATE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL __


** Anamur Private Primary and Secondary School are located in a peaceful town-Anamur- of the southernmost corner of the Mediterranean Region, 230 km away from the city centre-Mersin and 40 nautical miles from Cyprus. The town is worth living or visiting with its history, nature, wide beaches, clean sea and unique cultural fabric. The district consists of agricultural lands. Thanks to these agricultural lands -despite the limited numbers- the town is famous for bananas and strawberries. Most of these products are grown in the greenhouses sited in these agricultural lands. Thus, most of the families in the school maintain their lives with these lands and greenhouses in terms of economic conditions. **


 *  The school has been known as ‘’Boutique School’’. The school has 150 pupils whose ages range from 4 to 14; 22 teachers and 6 staff working. The Primary part of the school is composed of three Pre-school classes (year 4, year 5 and year 6) and the four main grades consisting of the pupils whose ages are between 7 and 11. The secondary part is composed of four grades consisting of the pupils whose ages range from 11 to 14. The secondary part of the school works with the various branched teachers. The pupils study English starting from the age of 4 and German starting from the age of 10 as foreign languages and Turkish as their native language. They also practise a lot of extracurricular activities such as; Sports, Art, Modern Folk Dance and Traditional Folk Dance. The pupils are living in a district lacking of social and cultural facilities because its farthest location from the city centre; therefore every year on 23rd of April, the school organizes a traditional local festival as a social facility, apart from the official celebrations. The school adopts Bloom’s Mastery Learning Approach as a rule. In Language Learning, the school supports a syllabus mixed of CLT Method (Communicative Language Teaching) and TBL Method (Task-Based Learning) advocating student-centred teaching. **



 Anamur Private Primary and Secondary School are located in a peaceful town-Anamur- of the southernmost corner of the Mediterranean Region, 230 km away from the city centre-Mersin and 40 nautical miles from Cyprus. The town is worth living or visiting with its history, nature, wide beaches, clean sea and unique cultural fabric. The district consists of agricultural lands. Thanks to these agricultural lands -despite the limited numbers- the town is famous for bananas and strawberries. Most of these products are grown in the greenhouses sited in these agricultural lands. Thus, most of the families in the school maintain their lives with these lands and greenhouses in terms of economic conditions. The school has 150 pupils whose ages range from 4 to 14; 22 teachers and 6 staff working. The Primary part of the school is composed of three Pre-school classes (year 4, year 5 and year 6) and the four main grades consisting of the pupils whose ages are between 7 and 11. The secondary part is composed of four grades consisting of the pupils whose ages range from 11 to 14. The secondary part of the school works with the various branched teachers. The pupils study English starting from the age of 4 and German starting from the age of 10 as foreign languages and Turkish as their native language. They also practise a lot of extracurricular activities such as; Sports, Art, Modern Folk Dance and Traditional Folk Dance. The pupils are living in a district lacking of social and cultural facilities because its farthest location from the city centre; therefore every year on 23rd of April, the school organizes a traditional local festival as a social facility, apart from the official celebrations. The school adopts Bloom’s Mastery Learning Approach as a rule. In Language Learning, the school supports a syllabus mixed of CLT Method (Communicative Language Teaching) and TBL Method (Task-Based Learning) advocating student-centred teaching.