Our School

“The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.” - Jean Piaget, educational pioneer (1896-1980)

The English International School is a small and thriving multinational learning community set in purpose-built modern buildings on the southern edge of the beautiful city of Prague. Our aim is quite straightforward. We seek to ensure that all of our students, regardless of gender, nationality or ability, emerge from EISP as successful and confident young people who can make an outstanding contribution.

How do we do achieve such ambitious aims for our young people? We do all we can to ensure that the level of resource and provision in the school is outstanding. Engaged young people, working in a lively, stimulating, supportive, safe, modern environment are producing great things – not only in terms of academic achievement (success) but also in terms of personal growth and development (confidence).

This comes from the fact that they’re encouraged to take responsibility for their own progress within the supportive framework of the English National Curriculum – which is used in thousands of schools worldwide, but here in Prague only at EISP.

The curriculum is personalised for our young people (who are of 41 different nationalities) through the passionate commitment and skill of our teachers (supported by outstanding assistants in many classes) who are all fully qualified and most of whom have recent and in-depth experience of the curriculum they are working with. In addition, an intelligent programme of continuous professional development ensures that they continue to learn and develop their skills for the rich but challenging variety of young people they work with on a daily basis.

Furthermore, our ambition for our young people as valuable citizens (contribution) in an increasingly complex future is served by the fact that we are an IBO World School.This means that throughout our work in school, from Early Years to the IB Diploma itself in Year 13, in lessons and in a varied and enriching extracurricular programme, students are encouraged to foster crucial skills, ideals and values: teamwork, enquiry, balance, openness, reflection, risk taking, critical thinking, respect and compassion.

We hope that they will leave fully equipped not only to deal with the increasing complexities and challenges of the modern world, but also with the desire to try and verify rather than merely accept, and to change the world for the better through service to others.

This sounds like serious stuff – and it is. In addition, however, we work tremendously hard as a team to ensure that young people can move seamlessly to their next learning (here or elsewhere) and have cherished memories of their time as a young person in EISP – be that from lessons, clubs, music, plays, sport or the countless other activities that make life at this school so rich and vibrant.

For more information about schools and education in Prague please visit the site of the English International School, Prague.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Principal David Rowsell was born in Leeds, northern England and is proud of his Yorkshire roots. His family home is currently in York. Having studied at schools in the Midlands and in Cheshire, he studied English and History at Jesus College Cambridge, graduating in 1981. Since then David has taught in a variety of challenging state comprehensive schools across England – in Milton Keynes, in Devon and in Yorkshire. He has 17 years of Deputy and Headship experience and joins the school from Rossington All Saints Church of England School in Doncaster, where he had been Head since 1998. David is a sports fanatic who runs long distances (marathons and beyond) and will watch football at any ground or level you care to mention. He also has a ridiculously large collection of soul and jazz music and enough books to start a shop.