Visit to the Favrfritten

On 5th of February Lilla and me visited to Favrfritten, which is an afterschool for children the age of 6-10. Even it's an afterschool and not a "normal" one, I could see the differences immediately:

• the physical condition of the school: the place is really commodious and diveded to 4 bigger places by the arrangements of furniture -there are lots of little corners for different activities
• there are 8-10 teachers/pedagogs for 83 children and this fact make the atmosphere more personal
• teachers let the pupils to do all kind of activites:

1. cooking/baking
2. making handcrafts
3. playing with: games, dolls, playstation (but limitation in the last one: only 30 minutes/day : )...etc.
   
4. making drawings
5. dance...etc.

• pupils concentrated, focused on the activity and all of them participated in one activity - at least.
• pupils followed the teacher's instruction, I haven't seen any conflicts between them
  
• freedom of pupils: they could decide in choosing an activity and they also could go outside without any supervision
• emphasising the importance of teaching/learning cooking
• at 3pm the majority of children left already; just a few of them stayed until 4pm, when the afterschool usually closes (in Hungary the afterschools close around 6pm)

We played snooker with children and we used our body language to understand each other.
We realised those children who are immigrants could understand English and they already known a couple of words, expressions.
Even pupils have their own lunch boxes, they also eat what they cook/bake.

We also have afterschool in our country, but each classes stays their own rooms, they're not contracted. In Hungary afterschool is about:

• have a break after 'normal' school, which is about 1,5 hours (pupils most of the time go outside)
• in rest of the time do the homework, which checked by the teacher
• there are not too many choices in activities

Even this was only an afterschool, what we visited, the differences between the two educational systems are conspicuous...

(The picture above from Lilla.)