Good morning, I would like to welcome You to Mensa gymnázium!
The Mensa gymnázium is the only school in the Czech Republic, which focuses on exceptionally talented students only.
Those are students who score at least 130 points in their IQ test. The testing is provided for us by our founder – MENSA Czech Republic.
The project of secondary school founded by MENSA is world-wide unique as this is the only school founded by national MENSA organization.
For this, MENSA Czech Republic was awarded by MENSA International.
We students are very active and the school provides us with great support.
We can, for example, found our own hobby groups. I myself founded School Debating Club last year and I have been its leader since.
There is plenty of similar activities led by students.
We are smallish, family-like school, with only a few students per class or study group.
Thanks to this, we are able to realize our main idea of individual approach to every single student.
Since the first year, students can choose from a wide range of voluntary subjects.
In the last two years of their study, they create their very own schedule.
I have a lot of out-of-school activities, I also wish to study and the Mensa gymnázium is very supportive in my efforts.
For the past two years, I have been studying on individual study plan.
The individual approach to a student and preparation for academic life, which, by my opinion, are the most important goals for every secondary (high) school, are the greatest advantage of this school.
One great plus of our school are the teachers.
They are all professionals in their field of study as well as great personalities.
The other pluses are, that we have mostly male crew with average of 34 years of age.
Modern school can't focus only on teaching students facts. It rather should teach them skills.
Therefore we founded committee for improvement of learning skills.
Should the school be workshop of humanity, figuratively speaking, then there's the question of who should do most of the work.
We think, unlike many other schools, that it should be the students, who will do most of the work.
It's important for us, that children will like it here at Mensa gymnázium. Therefore we focus on outdoor education and experiential learning.
We would like to raise children to outdoor, motion and adventure activities and games.
We also use various team-building activities to strengthen the bonds in the class and for improvement of students communication skills.
I'm mother of three sons, who all study at the Mensa gymnázium. The oldest one have recently passed finals and finished school.
I guess that this form of teaching is the best thing that have happened to them so far.
Not only they have 1:30 blocks when they concentrate on certain subject, but more importantly they are not afraid to go to school and actually they like it there. They also have lots of friends there.
We try to prepare students for ordinary life. The English language courses are of high quality here and students tend to take international certificates even while still on junior-high.
We also provide students with modern technology. We were able to equip new chemistry and biology lab as well as physics classroom thanks to EU grant funding.
Thanks to the studies at Mensa gymnázium, I was able to achieve broad perspective in various fields of study.
Earning bachelors degree at University College in London in the field of modern language studies was made possible for me thanks to learning flawless English at Mensa gymnázium.
After finishing our school, our students may do whatever they want to do.
Some take university studies in various fields of study like humanities, natural science or technology. Some even pass exams to 3–4 different universities at the same time.
Some start to work early during their studies and after finishing school, they do business.
I work in advertising for 10 years. At first I tried at different agencies, later I decided to found my own.
The most important for us is the great team. We are also ferocious and we have the courage to visit the potential clients asking them to try something new, to try different approach.
It's all about listening, it's about not being afraid to oppose, it's about foresight, it's about calculating whether it's profitable to take the job.
It is the same at the Mensa gymnázium, so perhaps that's why I'm here today.
I study masters programme in genetics, molecular biology and virology at the natural sciences faculty of Charles University in Prague where I participate in the research of Polyomaviruses.
I'm very gratefull to Mensa gymnázium for where I'm today.
I appreciate the most that the students individuality is encouraged here instead of being pushed back.
We would like to invite you to our Open Days, where you can judge by yourself.