Our schoolPärnu Kuninga Basic School is a cosy one offering its competent and experienced teaching staff a chance to consider each student´s individual needs due to the small classes.
KEEPING THE DOORS OPEN
The school creates a fair chance to anyone - mentally disabled students recieve tutoring according to their abilities and get the necessary vocational training to lead their lives by themselves; students of standard classes complete their basic education. The school has established close contacts with its twin schools in Finland, Sweden and Norway offering co-operation between the teachers of similar schools as well as students exhange programmes.
CURRICULUM
Being an integrated school, it follows different curricula: the one adapted to needs of mentally retarded children and the other one for standard basic shools. Under the latter, Finnish is taught two classes per week as an additional subject; English is taken up in Form 3 and Russian in Form 6. The goals of studying and teaching are based on the syllabus of the integrated school, i.e. the curriculum for basic shools, however, taking into consideration the special demands resulting from the particular disability and possibilities.
CULTURE-MINDED ATMOSPHERE
The general atmosphere of the school is determined by its culture and taboos revealing itself everywhere -in the classrooms, foyer, corridors, workshops and homes of our students. It clearly exposes the strengths of our school: joined classes of arts and handicraft, circles of folk dancing, creativity and wordmanship.
BEING UNCONVENTIONAL
For Pärnu Kuninga Basic School, being unconventional means working towards gaining the goals of educational work by:
* tutoring, training and correctional activities aiming at seeing and understanding the fellows less capable or different in any respect living next to us who should be supported and assisted;
* integral speech therapy, massage, remedial gymnastics and meditation.
HISTORY TO BE PROUD OF
Our schoolhouse was built 120 years ago. From 1875 to 1942, there used to be Pärnu Boys School in the historical building. A number of remarkable men studied there at that time, include the following:
Konstantin Päts - The first President of the Republic of Estonia
Friedrich Akel - State Head
Jüri Vilms - A member of the Committee of Public Safety
Jaan Teemant - State Head
Jüri Uluots - Prime Minister
Jüri Jaakson - State Head
Heinrich Laretei - Minister
Oskar Kask - Meer of Pärnu
Theodor Pool - Minister
Julius Seljamaa - Minister
Tõnis Kalbus - Minister
Nikolai Talts - Minister
Nikolai Viitak - Minister
Villem Reimann - Founder of national ideology
Johann M. Eisen - Collector of folklore
Paul Keres - Grandmaster of chess
Tiit Kuusik - Well-known opera singer
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