Our school, Gymnasium Praha 5, Na Zatlance 11,  is a four-year Grammar School, with a 150-year-long tradition teaching students between the age of 15 and 19. The main objectives of our school are to prepare students most appropriately for academic studies at universities, and to show them the connection between the theory and their educational needs in real life outside the school. The school's philosophy is to develop an independent and creative potential of students so that they could become active and well-informed European citizens.

 

The school offers various curriculum and extra curriculum educational theme courses including regular summer and winter sports courses, courses with mixed sports and drug-prevention activities, various theme trips abroad focused on understanding the present and history of different cultures, and trips focused on ecological education. The school won the "Secondary School of the Year" award of 2013/14. Its students are very active, having written and published two books concerning history of Prague and participating in many extra curriculum activities.