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Summary:
Congratulations to the Talent Award winners of 2020! This year we had double the number of applicants for the talent awards. In the end, we have awarded double the usual number of the awards this year – 10 worthy winners. You can look at their work here.
Sofia Kalinina – Drawing
Varvara Kharchenko – Art/Design
David Šťovíček – Drawing
Tim Žiaran – Photography
Sofie Sláčíková – Sewing
Bibiana Nesvadbová – Theatre Arts
Script is provided here.
Estella Marlowe – Performing Arts
Monika Talacková
Ela and Elsa Sršňová
Skateboard
Tobiáš Jírovec
Dr Vassogne grew up in Alsace and was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, the Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle and H.E.C. Paris. After receiving the agrégation (the competitive examination for the civil service in public education)** in the German language and a Master’s degree in Business, she realised that her true passion was teaching and research and went on to complete a PhD in German Studies.
Dr Vassogne specialises in German and Central European History. She was an assistant professor of German Studies at the Université Grenoble Alpes and has taught at the Universität Heidelberg, the Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Since moving to Prague in 2009, she has taught History at NYU Prague, Charles University and the Anglo-American University.
She has published a monograph on Max Brod as well as several co-edited volumes, book chapters and articles.
Dr Vassogne specialises in German and Central European History. She was an assistant professor of German Studies at the Université Grenoble Alpes and has taught at the Universität Heidelberg, the Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Since moving to Prague in 2009, she has taught History at NYU Prague, Charles University and the Anglo-American University.
She has published a monograph on Max Brod as well as several co-edited volumes, book chapters and articles.
The Virtual Open Day at the English College in Prague is a unique opportunity to learn more about the school. Prospective students and their parents can participate in live sessions with the school’s staff and students and ask questions in group or one-to-one discussions. Participants will meet the Headmaster, Dr Nigel Brown, the Leadership Team, Heads of Faculties and also the Admissions Registrar, Ms Barbora Němečková, who coordinates the admissions procedure and can offer detailed information about the curriculum, application process and entrance exams.
You can register to our Virtual Open Day by filling out this form. You will be contacted then and gain access to more detailed information, links to live sessions and a possibility to set up individual meetings.
| 13.00 | Start of Open Day |
| 13.00 – 13.15 | Headmaster’s welcome |
| 13.15 – 13.30 | Pre-recorded videos (promotional short and long video) |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | ECP Leadership Team presenting the school’s Top Ten, followed by a talk from student representatives and then Q&A session |
| 14.30 – 14.45 | Virtual student tour of the school – videos |
| 14.45 – 15.05 15.05 – 15.25 | Session with the Registrar – in Czech Session with the Registrar – in English |
| Free time between live meetings | Watching videos – promotional videos, individual faculty videos, virtual tour of the school |
| 15.30 – 17.30 | Individual pre-booked one-on-one meetings |
Do you need more information? Please contact:
Barbora Němečková, Admissions Registrar
+ 420 283 101 206
www.englishcollege.cz
You can add this Calendar Event ( ics ) to your calendar.
Both parents and students are welcome to join in!
The English College in Prague has been recognised by the UK-based training organisation The Safeguarding Alliance. They have presented the College with their Safeguarding Alliance Initiative Award to acknowledge the work we have done to adapt our safeguarding policies and procedures during the Covid-19 pandemic. This recognition comes along with an award certificate and an award logo.
The ECP had to provide three examples to demonstrate how it meets the criteria, including evidence of the initiative and impact:
The Safeguarding Alliance is a premier centre of safeguarding excellence. It ensures that organisations maintain best practice to keep children and young people safe.
2020 has been an exceptional year for everybody, for many of the wrong reasons. So it is easy to overlook the outstanding successes of the ECP graduating class of 2020.
Despite all the challenges associated with lockdown and IB exams being cancelled, many of our students still achieved the excellent set of grades they worked exceptionally hard to achieve. This was reflected in their final university destinations with a massive 84% of students reaching their first choice destination and 93% reaching either their first choice or second choice university.
This is especially impressive given how aspirational our students are, with many of them applying to the very best and most competitive universities in the world.
The destinations of our students were particularly diverse this year with 10% opting for new options in Europe in countries such as Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and Germany. Others chose destinations a little further afield with 5% of students applying to institutions in the US, Singapore and Australia. This was alongside the usual popular destinations of the UK (43%), Holland (10%) and the Czech Republic (21%).
As well as the successes that ECP students usually enjoy, with many of our students this year achieving places at highly ranked universities such as Oxford, LSE, UCL, Kings College and Edinburgh, we have also had a lot of personal successes with students choosing for the right university for them. This includes specialist institutions such as the BIMM music institute in Berlin or the Future Games Institute in Sweden.
Jan Barta graduated from the ECP in 2004 and he is now a successful entrepreneur. A firm believer in the principle of ‘putting something back’, he generously funds several scholarships for current students. Two Barta Scholars were exceptionally successful this year.
Karolína is off to Oxford to study Biomedical Science and David will be studying International Relations and Politics at the London School of Economics. Neither would have been able to study at the ECP without Jan Barta’s financial support.
We caught up with them to find out how they were feeling at the start of the academic year:
Karolína said:
“I recall that merely a couple of years ago, securing a place at such a renowned institution comprised of highly esteemed alumni such as Stephen Hawking, Bill Clinton and Malala Yousafzai would have seemed entirely inconceivable and yet here we are. At the moment, I am incredibly excited to become a member of the Oxford community and to meet like-minded individuals with overlapping interests and aspirations. I am likewise thrilled by the immense variety of societies that Oxford offers and I am really looking forward to this new chapter in my life.”
She was particularly happy to offer some advice to current students.
“Whether you are writing your Personal Statement or being interviewed, always emphasise what you are genuinely interested in. Try to showcase your enthusiasm for your chosen subject and to enjoy your interview in the process. Also, bear in mind that the interview is, in essence, another exam or a competition if you prefer – your performance will literally be graded by the interviewers, averaged and you will ultimately be ranked. Therefore, my greatest word of advice would be to revise all your subject relevant knowledge and to reach as further as you can beyond the scope of the syllabus for it is this that will most likely determine the status of your application.”
The cover photo shows Karolína with ECP Governor, Jan Kovařovic, receiving the Chairman of Governor’s Prize for Academic Achievement at this summer’s Graduation ceremony.
David was equally excited at the prospect of moving to London, saying:
“Soon, I am going to start my studies at the LSE. I am excited to start this new chapter of my life at such an excellent institution. I am grateful for all the support that I received from the staff at the ECP because they helped me to get there. And should I be asked to give current ECP students some advice, I would say:
1) Make the best of your time at the ECP. Because one day, however distant or close it may be, you will walk through the blue doors for the last time as a student.
2) In the meantime, you can strive to be the best version of yourself. One of many great advantages of studying at the ECP for me was how supportive everyone was when I asked for help. And this helped me to grow as a person immensely.
3) This leads me to the last piece of advice: Ask yourself how you want to grow. I assume that you probably set yourself some SMART goals at the beginning of the school year. And some of you could probably recall that the ‘M’ in SMART stands for measurable. I would like to challenge you to keep in mind another adjective that begins with ‘M’ as you set your targets and that would be meaningful. Ask yourselves: is this meaningful for me, for the way I want to lead my life?
Enjoy your ECP days and good luck meeting your SMMART targets!”
You can read a recent article on the website about David here.
Good advice from them both, as always. Regardless of the students’ success, we are equally proud of them all.