Gymnázium Jura Hronca (GJH) is a gymnasium (grammar school) in Bratislava, Slovakia.
| Spojená škola Novohradská - ZŠ Košická, Gymnázium Jura Hronca | |
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| Established | 1959 |
| Headmaster | Renáta Karácsonyová |
| Staff | approx. 100 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Enrolment | approx. 1200 |
| Website | http://www.gjh.sk |
The school focuses on the study of natural sciences, mathematics, and computer sciences. However, its affiliation with the International Baccalaureate, an active bi-lingual (English – Slovak) programme and the option to study several foreign languages such as French and German, the school has a strong reputation for the study of foreign languages.
In the school year 2005/2006, GJH launched lower programs of IB Primary Years Programme and IB Middle Years Programme.
The school has been recently known as the "Spojená škola Gymnázium Jura Hronca a ZŠ Košická" (United school of the Gymnázium Jura Hronca and the Košická Primary School) after a merge with the primary school Základná škola a osemročné gymnázium Košická sharing the same building.[1]
History
editThe school was founded on January 9, 1959, as an 11-year secondary school. In the school year 1969/70 the school was granted the status of a Gymnasium, named after the Slovak mathematician Jur Hronec.
In 1997 the school donated the head of a mummified Egyptian man to the Slovak National Museum.[2]
References
edit- ^ Gymnázium Jura Hronca, March 13, 2011, this article
- ^ Šefčáková, Alena; Hudec, Jozef; Strouhal, Eugen; Thurzo, Milan (2005). "A New Egyptian Human Mummified Head in the Slovak National Museum, Bratislava". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 91 (1): 190–197. doi:10.1177/030751330509100115. ISSN 0307-5133.