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21/11/2022
Remembrance Week 2022
Jitka Režná-Fajtlová, daughter of WWII hero František Fajtl, visited the ECP during Remembrance Week to talk about her father and her memories of him.
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11/11/2022
Founders’ Day 2022
ECP paid tribute to its UK Founder Patron, Charles, Prince of Wales and to the visionaries who opened the English College in 1994.
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01/11/2022
New issue of the ECP Newsletter (Issue 31)
Read a new issue of the ECP newsletter. It brings information about new staff, start-of-year and DofE trips, sports events, Cheltenham Literary Festival and so much more.
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03/10/2022
Come to our Open Day on 23rd November
You are very welcome to visit our Open Day on Wednesday, 23rd November, 2022. Read more about the programme in this article.
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13/09/2022
ECP Remembers HM Queen Elizabeth II
The English College in Prague remembers HM Queen Elizabeth II, with gratitude for 70 years of unwavering service to the people of the UK and Commonwealth.
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09/09/2022
It was with great sadness that we heard that Her Majesty The Queen had died at Balmoral. We extend our deepest condolences to her son, our Patron, His Majesty King Charles III.
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08/07/2022
New issue of the ECP Newsletter (Issue Thirty)
Read a new issue of the ECP newsletter. It brings information about student achievements, the Graduation Ceremony, June trips and DofE expeditions and so much more.
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24/06/2022
Shaping the future of education
The English College welcomed six UK teacher trainees into our community, the first to join us since we established Teaching Together in Europe (TTE), a consortium of two UK pedagogical training centres and three top European Council of British International Schools (COBIS).
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06/06/2022
The ECP Graduation Ceremony 2022
It was fantastic to be back in Betlémská kaple for the Class of 2022's graduation ceremony. The school band was a great addition to proceedings!
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10/05/2022
Entrance Exam Results for Year 1 – 2nd round
Entrance exam results Year 1 Round 2, 2022 . Find out more here.
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Term Dates
Term Dates 2022/2023
| Term | Date |
|---|---|
| Start of Term 1 | 01/09/2022 |
| Half Term Holidays | 24/10/2022- 28/10/2022 |
| End of Term 1 | 16/12/2022 |
| Christmas Holidays | 19/12/2022- 04/01/2023 |
| Start of Term 2 | 05/01/2023 |
| Half Term Holidays | 13/2/2023- 17/2/2023 |
| End of Term 2 | 31/3/2023 |
| Easter Holidays | 3/04/2023- 14/04/2023 |
| Start of Term 3 | 17/04/2023 |
| End of Term 3 | 30/06/2023 |
Holidays 2022/2023
| Holiday | Date |
|---|---|
| St. Wenceslas Day | 28/09/2022 |
| Independence Day | 28/10/2022 |
| Freedom & Democracy Day | 17/11/2022 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 18/11/2022 |
| Christmas Eve | 24/12/2022 |
| Christmas Day | 25/12/2022 |
| 2nd Day of Christmas | 26/12/2022 |
| New Year's Day | 01/01/2023 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 03/02/2023 |
| Good Friday | 7/04/2023 |
| Easter Monday | 10/04/2023 |
| Labour Day | 01/05/2023 |
| Victory in Europe Day | 08/05/2023 |
| Student Holiday / Staff Training | 02/06/2023 |
Overview of Lectures 2007 - 2022
| Subject | Name of the lecturer | Name of the lecture | School year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature | PhDr. Hana Ulmanová, PhD, MA | Cultural roots of American Literature | 2021/2022 |
| Charity/Politics | Tom Damms (Dignity Restoring Hope) | Lost Roots | 2021/2022 |
| Politics/Sport | JUDr. Gerhard Bubník, LL.M. | Life in the 20th century - Where to put down roots? | 2021/2022 |
| Politics/History | Sieglinde Vendolsky | Where are my roots? | 2021/2022 |
| ART | Mr. Kriss (Kristián Mensa) | Found roots | 2021/2022 |
| Politics/ Media | František Vrábel | Hostile propaganda and the Abuse of the Internet | 2019/2020 |
| Politics/ Media | Jan Bubeník | Velvet Revolution | 2019/2020 |
| Science/Technology | Mgr. Petr Brož, Ph.D. | What do we have to overcome to get to Mars? | 2019/2020 |
| Science/Medicine | MUDr. Martin Jan Stránský, M.D | Impact of technology on the brain | 2019/2020 |
| Literature | Dr Jitka Štollová | Shakespeare’s Villains: Rebels against Nature and God | 2018/2019 |
| Environment | Stanislav Lhota, M.Sc., Ph.D. | Palm Oil: Future of Rainforests in Our Hands | 2018/2019 |
| Economy | Milan Bednář | Circular Economy | 2018/2019 |
| Biology/Enviroment/TOK | Luděk Brož | Boar Wars: Necropolitics of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Time of African Swine Fever | 2018/2019 |
| Politics/ Media | Bob Kartous | Media's Influence on Politics and Society: starting with the youth | 2017/2018 |
| Politics | Dr. Pepper D. Culpepper | Quiet Politics, Noisy Politics, and Populism | 2017/2018 |
| Economy | Tomáš Sedláček | The world today | 2017/2018 |
| Charity/TOK | Mudr Tomáš Šebek | Doctors without borders missions and leadership | 2017/2018 |
| Politics/History | Michael Žantovský | Czech and British Connections | 2016/2017 |
| History/Art | Dr Irena Edwards, Mr Petr Krpata | Conservation, protection and maintenance of cultural heritage in the Czech Republic | 2016/2017 |
| Literature | Mr Justin Quinn | What the Foreigners Really Think of Czechs, from Sherlock Holmes to the Daily Mail | 2016/2017 |
| ART | Ms Nika Kupyrova (ex student) | Occupation: artist | 2015/2016 |
| Politics | Mr. Erik Best | Europe's new challenges | 2015/2016 |
| Environment/Economics | Ing. Soňa Jonášová | Circular Economy - Current environmental problematics and possible solutions | 2015/2016 |
| Politics | Mr Karel Randák | Secret Services and Terrorism | 2015/2016 |
| History | Ing. Jan Kovařovic, an ECP governor, and his guests | The Prague English Grammar School – Our Older Schoolmates | 2014/2015 |
| Charity/ Medicine/Politics | MUDr. Tomáš Šebek | Médecins Sans Frontières - From Haiti to Northern Afghanistan | 2014/2015 |
| Politics/History | Mgr. Michal Vodrážka | Leaving North Korea – The “Defectors” | 2014/2015 |
| Politics/History | Ing. Petr Nosálek | Why is it Important to Know Our Own History? | 2014/2015 |
| 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 |
| Psychology | Alan Law | Dreams - a Psychological Perspective: Recent Answers to Old Questions | 2013/2014 |
| Literature | Dr. Gyorgy "George" Toth | The "American" Dream: Success and Failure | 2013/2014 |
| Charity/Biology | Arthur F. Sniegon | Kedjom – Keku: Building a School in Africa Is Not Enough! | 2012/2013 |
| Literature | Henry Eliot | Geoffrey Chaucer and pilgrimage | 2012/2013 |
| Politics/History | Toman Brod | Raoul Wallenberg | 2012/2013 |
| Charity/Geography | Mudr Šebek | Médecins Sans Frontière | 2012/2013 |
| Politics | American Embassy | USA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS | 2011/2012 |
| Literature | Stephen Siddall | John Donne | 2011/2012 |
| Astronomy | Doc. RNDr. Vladimír Karas, DrSc. | BLACK HOLES IN THE UNIVERSE | 2011/2012 |
| Sport | Dominik Hašek, Jiří Ježek | OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES | 2011/2012 |
| Biology | Doc. Jana Albrechtová | Trees: the best air-conditioning ever invented! | 2010/2011 |
| Politics/ Army | Captain Magdaléna Dvořáková | Czech Army missions | 2010/2011 |
| Charity | Mgr. Jiří Královec | Hospice for Children - Joy and Pain | 2010/2011 |
| Literature | Thommy Cookson | Boswells' “Life of Johnson“ | 2010/2011 |
| Politics and Law | David Ondráček, director of NGO, Transparency International | Transparency in Politics | 2009/2010 |
| Economy | Doc. Tomáš Sedláček | Economy of Evil and Good | 2009/2010 |
| Charity/Medicine | Mrs. Pavla Francová | How I see the world, while I cannot see - Anniversary of Braille | 2009/2010 |
| Literature | Prof. Hilský | W. Shakespeare´s Sonnets and translation | 2009/2010 |
| Politics/ Media | Mrs. Procházková, journalist | Role of media today | 2008/2009 |
| 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 |
| HUMANTIES Politics/Civics | Mgr. Martin Mejstřík (MP, student leader) | Senate in the Czech Republic | 2007/2008 |
| History/Politics | PhDr.Alena Hromádková | Helsinky accord and the growing movement of opposition in Central Europe | 2007/2008 |
| Charity/Geograpy | Mudr.Martin Jarolímek– doctor, Head of Sanatorium in Prague | Charity Work in Africa | 2007/2008 |
| Sport | Mudr.Lukáš Pollert . Olympics winner, doctor | Ethics in sport | 2007/2008 |