For nearly 40 years, the academic Olympiad movement has existed and developed at our school. In addition to traditional Olympiads and subject competitions, such as history, physics, chemistry, and knowledge of Poland and the contemporary world, new ones are emerging, including the Religious Knowledge Olympiad, the Human Rights Knowledge Olympiad, and the “Polish Parliamentary System” competition.
At Władysław Broniewski I General Secondary School in Bolesławiec, approximately 30% of students participate annually in school-level competitions and Olympiads. Approximately 10% of the school’s students qualify for the district and voivodeship levels.
Teachers serving as mentors provide young Olympiad and competition participants with substantive and practical assistance, focusing on guiding talented students and creating incentives for effective work. The culmination of this work is the satisfaction of success.
Every year, at the turn of April and May, a ceremonial assembly is held at which Olympiad and competition winners, finalists, and participants, along with their mentors, are the main protagonists.
In the 1995/96 school year, the school was represented at the national level of academic Olympiads and competitions by 13 finalists and winners:
*Artistic Olympiad – Visual Arts Section
-Adamina Lisiecka – winner
Mentor: Katarzyna Żak, MA
*Olympiad of Knowledge about Poland and the Contemporary World
Grzegorz Markiewicz – winner
Leszek Bosek – finalist
*Human Rights Knowledge Olympiad
-Bogusław Budziński – winner
*History Olympiad
-Aneta Kobylak – finalist
*History Olympiad – Competition
-Leszek Bosek – fourth-place winner
The students were prepared by a team of social studies teachers led by Stanisław Małkowski, MA.
*Biology Olympiad
-Monika Gil – finalist
Mentor: Stefania Marcinów-Szwabowicz, MA -Agnieszka Misiura – finalist Mentor: Jolanta Sikora, MA
*Religious Knowledge Olympiad
Andrzej Milewski – finalist
Alicja Łuczak – finalist
Marta Kuśmider – finalist
Ilona Kaput – finalist Mentor: Father Andrzej Ziombra
*“Physics and Ecology” Competition
-Agata Pawłowicz -1 distinction
Mentor: Joanna Misiura, MA.
The school team led by Krzysztof Sokoliński, with Marcin Sobczyszyn as captain, took first place in boys’ volleyball in the Jelenia Góra Voivodeship.
The ideas and practice of the academic Olympiad movement are supported programmatically by the Association of Creative Schools, which, alongside I LO in Bolesławiec, includes 30 schools from across Poland.
Władysław Broniewski I General Secondary School in Bolesławiec has participated in the academic Olympiad movement since 1957. In the year marking the school’s 50th anniversary, we can boast a total of 152 national-level finalists in subject Olympiads and competitions. Of these, 48 became winners.