News & Events
News
25/01/2020
A Career in Medicine
ECP alumni have been back into school to offer help and advice to current students thinking of pursuing a career in medicine.
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23/01/2020
A lecture on Mars
“What do we have to overcome to get to Mars?” That was the main question of the recent lecture delivered to ECP students by Mgr. Petr Brož, Ph.D., a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
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21/01/2020
ECP ISSAP Slalom Race 2020
This year's ECP ISSAP Slalom Race has its winners in skiing and snowboarding categories. Congratulations.
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17/01/2020
ECP student featured on PrahaTV for scientific work
ECP student Kryštof Sršeň talks about his experience with the project on metropolitan television PrahaTV where he is featured in a spot presenting the Open Science project.
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19/12/2019
New issue of the ECP Newsletter (Issue Seventeen)
Read the Christmas issue of The ECP Newsletter in which we report about our Founders' Day, Christmas Concert, trips and other events and activities.
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17/12/2019
ECP Christmas Concert
The Christmas Concert was a lovely event on which we ended the festivities of 2019. Our talented performers created a warm, festive atmosphere with traditional Christmas favourites and sing-a-long carols. This year the Student Council opted for the charity collection to go to Centrum Locika.
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10/12/2019
Open Day on 15 January 2020 from 1pm to 5pm
Come to the ECP Open Day on 15 January 2020 from 1pm to 5pm. You can meet with our students and teachers and get a tour of the school.
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09/12/2019
ECP Christmas Market
The "Winter Wonderland" Christmas Market marked the beginning of the season to be jolly at the English College. Thanks to sale of Christmas sweets and organisation of various activities, more than 10,000 Kč have been raised for charity purposes.
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04/12/2019
Lecture of Jan Bubeník at The English College
Jan Bubeník gave an interesting lecture to ECP students as one of the most important student activists of the Velvet Revolution.
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Term Dates
Term Dates 2019/2020
| Term | Date |
|---|---|
| Start of Term 1 | 02/09/2019 |
| Half Term Holidays | 29/10/2019 - 01/11/2019 |
| End of Term 1 | 13/12/2019 |
| Christmas Holidays | 16/12/2019 - 03/01/2020 |
| Start of Term 2 | 06/01/2020 |
| Half Term Holidays | 17/2/2020 - 21/2/2020 |
| End of Term 2 | 05/4/2020 |
| Easter Holidays | 06-04-2020 - 17/04/2020 |
| Start of Term 3 | 20/04/2020 |
| End of Term 3 | 30/06/2020 |
Holidays 2019/2020
| Holiday | Date |
|---|---|
| St. Wenceslas Day | 28/09/2019 |
| Independence Day | 28/10/2019 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 18/11/2019 |
| Freedom & Democracy Day | 17/11/2019 |
| Christmas Eve | 24/12/2019 |
| Christmas Day | 25/12/2019 |
| 2nd Day of Christmas | 26/12/2019 |
| New Year's Day | 01/01/2020 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 31/01/2020 |
| Good Friday | 10/04/2020 |
| Easter Monday | 13/04/2020 |
| Labour Day | 01/05/2020 |
| Liberation Day | 08/05/2020 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 01/06/2020 |
Term Dates 2020/2021
| Term | Date |
|---|---|
| Start of Term 1 | 31/08/2020 |
| Half Term Holidays | 26/10/2020- 30/10/2020 |
| End of Term 1 | 15/12/2020 |
| Christmas Holidays | 16/12/2020- 05/01/2021 |
| Start of Term 2 | 06/01/2021 |
| Half Term Holidays | 15/2/2021- 19/2/2021 |
| End of Term 2 | 26/3/2021 |
| Easter Holidays | 27/03/2021- 11/04/2021 |
| Start of Term 3 | 12/04/2021 |
| End of Term 3 | 30/06/2021 |
Holidays 2020/2021
| Holiday | Date |
|---|---|
| St. Wenceslas Day | 28/09/2020 |
| Independence Day | 28/10/2020 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 16/11/2020 |
| Freedom & Democracy Day | 17/11/2020 |
| Christmas Eve | 24/12/2020 |
| Christmas Day | 25/12/2020 |
| 2nd Day of Christmas | 26/12/2020 |
| New Year's Day | 01/01/2021 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 15/01/2021 |
| Good Friday | 2/04/2021 |
| Easter Monday | 5/04/2021 |
| Labour Day | 01/05/2021 |
| Victory in Europe Day | 08/05/2021 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 03/06/2021 |
| Headmaster’s Holiday | 04/06/2021 |
Overview of Lectures 2007 - 2019
| Subject | Name of the lecturer | Name of the lecture | School year | Vocation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literature | Dr Jitka Štollová | Shakespeare’s Villains: Rebels against Nature and God | 2018/2019 | Junior Research Fellow in English/Jesus College, Oxford. |
| Environment | Stanislav Lhota, M.Sc., Ph.D. | Palm Oil: Future of Rainforests in Our Hands | 2018/2019 | Teacher and a research scientist/ Czech University of Life Sciences Prague |
| Economy | Milan Bednář | Circular Economy | 2018/2019 | ECP alumni and Business Analyst/Saltrex |
| Biology/Enviroment/TOK | Luděk Brož | Boar Wars: Necropolitics of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Time of African Swine Fever | 2018/2019 | Social anthropologist/the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences |
| Politics/ Media | Bob Kartous | Media's Influence on Politics and Society: starting with the youth | 2017/2018 | Head of Communications/the EDUin think tank |
| Politics | Dr. Pepper D. Culpepper | Quiet Politics, Noisy Politics, and Populism | 2017/2018 | Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy/the Blavatnik School of Government and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College/the University of Oxford |
| Economy | Tomáš Sedláček | The world today | 2017/2018 | Chief macroeconomic strategist/CSOB, author of bestselling book "Economics of Good and Evil |
| Charity/TOK | Mudr Tomáš Šebek | Doctors without borders missions and leadership | 2017/2018 | Surgeon/Hospital na Františku and Médecins Sans Frontières |
| Politics/History | Michael Žantovský | Czech and British Connections | 2016/2017 | Czech diplomat, politician, author, journalist, lyricist and psychologist |
| History/Art | Dr Irena Edwards, Mr Petr Krpata | Conservation, protection and maintenance of cultural heritage in the Czech Republic | 2016/2017 | Irena Edwards - Chairman/Czech National Trust Petr Krpata - member of the executive committee/Czech National Trust |
| Literature | Mr Justin Quinn | What the Foreigners Really Think of Czechs, from Sherlock Holmes to the Daily Mail | 2016/2017 | Associate Professor of American and English Literature/Charles University | Faculty of Arts |
| ART | Ms Nika Kupyrova (ex student) | Occupation: artist | 2015/2016 | ECP alumni/Contemporary artist |
| Politics | Mr. Erik Best | Europe's new challenges | 2015/2016 | Czech-American Journalist, publisher of the Fleet Sheet |
| Environment/Economics | Ing. Soňa Jonášová | Circular Economy - Current environmental problematics and possible solutions | 2015/2016 | Founder and Director/Institute of Circular Economy (INCIEN) |
| Politics | Mr Karel Randák | Secret Services and Terrorism | 2015/2016 | Former army intelligence officer, Member of the board/Anticorruption Endowment |
| History | Ing. Jan Kovařovic, an ECP governor, and his guests | The Prague English Grammar School – Our Older Schoolmates | 2014/2015 | ECP Governor and founder, alumni of the Prague English Grammar school (PEGS) |
| Charity/ Medicine/Politics | MUDr. Tomáš Šebek | Médecins Sans Frontières - From Haiti to Northern Afghanistan | 2014/2015 | Surgeon/Hospital na Františku and Médecins Sans |
| Politics/History | Mgr. Michal Vodrážka | Leaving North Korea – The “Defectors” | 2014/2015 | Research fellow/Association for International Affairs |
| Politics/History | Ing. Petr Nosálek | Why is it Important to Know Our Own History? | 2014/2015 | Journalist, Editor of the Memory of the Nation (Paměť národa) |
| Charity/Medicine/ | Anna Rausová, Hana Robinson, Jan Bárta | What It's Like to Live with Multiple Sclerosis or Multiple Sclerosis Is Not about Forgetting | 2013/2014 | Jan Bárta - the founder of Nadační fond Impuls |
| Psychology | Alan Law | Dreams - a Psychological Perspective: Recent Answers to Old Questions | 2013/2014 | Former psychology teacher/ECP and writer |
| Literature | Dr. Gyorgy "George" Toth | The "American" Dream: Success and Failure | 2013/2014 | Lecturer of post-1945 U.S. History and Transatlantic Relations at the division of History, Politics/Heritage of the University of Stirling |
| Charity/Biology | Arthur F. Sniegon | Kedjom – Keku: Building a School in Africa Is Not Enough! | 2012/2013 | Founder/Save-Elephants |
| Literature | Henry Eliot | Geoffrey Chaucer and pilgrimage | 2012/2013 | Author and editor/CuriocityMag |
| Politics/History | Toman Brod | Raoul Wallenberg | 2012/2013 | Czech/Jewish historian and writer, Charter 77 signatory |
| Charity/Geography | Mudr Tomáš Šebek | Médecins Sans Frontière | 2012/2013 | Surgeon/Hospital na Františku and Médecins Sans Frontières |
| Politics | American Embassy | USA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS | 2011/2012 | |
| Literature | Stephen Siddall | John Donne | 2011/2012 | Teacher, writer (on Shakespeare), theatre director |
| Astronomy | Doc. RNDr. Vladimír Karas, DrSc. | BLACK HOLES IN THE UNIVERSE | 2011/2012 | Research Scientist and Professor of Astrophysics/Czech Academy of Sciences |
| Sport | Dominik Hašek, Jiří Ježek | OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES | 2011/2012 | Dominik Hašek - Czech ice hockey goalkeeper Jiří Ježek - Czech road and track racing cyclist |
| Biology | Doc. Jana Albrechtová | Trees: the best air-conditioning ever invented! | 2010/2011 | Scientist and Professor/Faculty of Science of the Charles University |
| Politics/ Army | Captain Magdaléna Dvořáková | Czech army missions | 2010/2011 | Chief of Communication with public department |
| Charity | Mgr. Jiří Královec | Hospice for Children - Joy and Pain | 2010/2011 | Project coordinator and Social worker/Klíček -Hospice for Children |
| Literature | Thommy Cookson | Boswells' “Life of Johnson“ | 2010/2011 | Former Governor of the ECP and Headmaster of Winchester College/Kent |
| Politics and Law | David Ondráčka, director of NGO, Transparency International | Transparency in Politics | 2009/2010 | Director of Czech branch/Transparency International |
| Economy | Doc. Tomáš Sedláček | Economy of Evil and Good | 2009/2010 | Chief macroeconomic strategist/CSOB, author of bestselling book "Economics of Good and Evil |
| Charity/Medicine | Mrs. Pavla Francová | How I see the world, while I cannot see - Anniversary of Braille | 2009/2010 | Blind illustrator and Paralympic runner |
| Literature | Prof. Hilský | W. Shakespeare´s Sonnets and translation | 2009/2010 | Shakespeare translator, Professor of English Literature/Charles University |
| Politics/ Media | Mrs. Procházková | Role of media today | 2008/2009 | Journalist |
| Charity/Medicine | Anne de Voil | Who is disabled? | 2008/2009 | |
| Politics | Milan Horvát | Roma community | 2008/2009 | |
| Literature | prof. doc. PhDr.Jan Čermák | Pleasure of translating - Boewulf in Czech | 2008/2009 | History of English language Professor/Charles University |
| HUMANTIES Politics/Civics | Mgr. Martin Mejstřík (MP, student leader) | Senate in the Czech Republic | 2007/2008 | Former politician and leader of the student protests during the Velvet revolution |
| History/Politics | PhDr.Alena Hromádková | Helsinky accord and the growing movement of opposition in Central Europe | 2007/2008 | Charles University Professor/Charter 77 signatory |
| Charity/Geograpy | Mudr. Martin Jarolímek | Charity Work in Africa | 2007/2008 | Head of therapeutic Sanatorium in Prague/Ondřejov |
| Sport | Mudr.Lukáš Pollert . | Ethics in sport | 2007/2008 | Olympics winner, doctor |
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