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Private primary education with state-approved programmes
The objectives of primary education are:
- providing quality general education to the entire population;
- encouraging the harmonious physical, cognitive, emotional, moral, spiritual and social development of an individual while taking into account developmental laws;
- enabling the personal development of students in accordance with their capabilities and interests, including the development of a positive self-image;
- acquiring opportunities for further educational and a professional career with an emphasis on the capacity for lifelong learning;
- education for sustainable development and active involvement in a democratic society, which includes a deeper knowledge of, and a responsible attitude among students to themselves, their health, to others, to their culture and other peoples' culture, the natural and social environment, and future generations; developing consciousness of nationality and national identity, knowledge about the history of Slovenians, their cultural and natural heritage and encouraging civic responsibility;
- education related to general cultural and civilised values which originate from the European tradition;
- education related to respect and cooperation, for the acceptance of differences and mutual tolerance, for respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms;
- developing literacy and abilities to understand and communicate in the Slovenian language, and in areas defined as nationally mixed, also in the Italian and Hungarian language;
- developing abilities to communicate in foreign languages;
- developing an awareness of the complexity and interdependence of phenomena and developing critical faculties;
- achieving internationally comparable standards of knowledge;
- developing talents and training for understanding and experiencing of works of art and for self-expression in different fields of art;
- developing entrepreneurship as a personal orientation towards effective action, innovativeness and creativity of students.
Nine years of primary education is compulsory. A student concludes primary education when he or she passes the ninth grade.
Parents, guardians and other persons having custody of the child must ensure that the child fulfils the obligation to pass primary school.
Applies for SKD:
- Primary education P85.200
Conditions
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Applicants who wish to pursue this activity must register the business activity, and have the appropriate legal status.
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The providers of publicly valid education and training programmes are entered in the register. The register is administered by the ministry competent for education.
For performing education and training, kindergartens and schools must have professional staff with prescribed education, premises and equipment determined by the minister or the chamber that is authorised by the law.
Schools and kindergartens can perform the activity of education after being entered in the register managed by the ministry competent for preschool education or education. A kindergarten or school is entered in the register if the conditions determined for premises and equipment are ensured, if they have valid programme and if they attach the statement that the condition referring to ensuring professional staff with required education will be fulfilled until the start of the activity.
The application for the entry in the register at the ministry competent for preschool education or education is submitted by the management of the kindergarten or school. The application for entry must contain:
- name and company name, head office and identification number of the founder or name and surname, birth date, residence and identification number, if the founder is a natural entity;
- name and head office of the kindergarten or school;
- number and date of the act of incorporation;
- the name of the programme implemented by the kindergarten or school;
- public validity of the programme;
- statement of the managerial authority on ensuring the fulfilment of spatial, staff and equipment conditions of the statement by the management that the condition referring to ensuring professional staff with required education will be fulfilled until the start of the activity.
The management of the kindergarten or school is responsible for the truthfulness of data and statements under criminal and damage liability. If there is doubt on ensuring the conditions, the ministry can request the submission of additional evidence on ensuring the conditions for the implementation of activities in the first year after the registration prior to making the entry in the register.
If special knowledge is required for establishing or assessing a fact and the official person doesn’t have such knowledge, the minister appoints an expert or commission that establishes whether the provider fulfils the prescribed conditions for performing the education activities.
If the provider fulfils the conditions for entry in the register, the minister issues a decision on the entry into the register.
Data changes must also be entered in the register. The provider must send any modification of data entered in the register within 30 days upon their occurrence.
The kindergarten or school is deleted from the register:
- if the publicly valid programme is terminated;
- if a final judgement was issued to prohibit the implementation of the publicly valid programme;
- upon the inspections' proposal, if the school or kindergarten does not act in accordance with the final inspection decision that refers to the provision of conditions necessary for entry in the register;
- if it ceases to exist.
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The name of kindergartens and schools, except kindergartens and schools whose founder is a self-governing ethnic community, must be Slovenian.
Foreign personal names that are part of the name of a kindergarten or school are written in accordance with Slovenian spelling, or with Italian or Hungarian spelling if it involves the name of a kindergarten and school whose founder is a self-governing ethnic community.
In addition to the aforementioned information, the name of a private kindergarten or school must also include a mark that the kindergarten or school is private.
Legal basis
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Education in kindergartens and schools is carried out in Slovenian.
In areas where Slovenians and members of the Italian ethnic community live, and which are defined as ethnically mixed areas, also kindergartens and schools are established where education is carried out in Italian (kindergartens and schools in the language of the ethnic community) pursuant to this Act and a special act.
In areas where Slovenians and members of the Hungarian ethnic community live, and which are defined as ethnically mixed areas, bilingual kindergartens and schools are established where education is carried out in Slovenian and Hungarian (bilingual kindergartens and schools) pursuant to this Act and a special act.
Legal basis
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Schools and kindergartens must have a seal.
The content and shape of seals of private kindergartens and schools are determined in their Articles of Association.
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Schools determine the catchment area of the school and areas that are part of the school premises, business hours and opening hours, the use of school premises and organisation of supervision, measures to ensure safety, maintain order and cleanliness, and others in their house rules.
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Schools include libraries. Libraries collect library material, but also carry out professional processing, representation and lending, and IT and documentary work as elements of educational work in schools.
Textbook funds may be established within libraries. Funds for pupils, apprentices and students who cannot pay the contribution for lending textbooks from textbook funds due to their social position are provided by the State.
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Private schools use textbooks approved by the competent expert council for compulsory subjects determined by law.
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Private schools which carry out state-approved programmes of elementary education, elementary music education, secondary vocational and professional education, and grammar schools are entitled to funds from the national budget or a local community budget if they meet the following conditions:
- that music schools with music educational programme carry out lessons in at least three instruments played in the orchestra and has at least 35 students;
- that they have employees or teachers provided in another manner required for the implementation of state-approved programmes in accordance with the law and other regulations.
For the implementation of their programme, private schools are granted 85 per cent of funds allocated for the implementation of the programme in public schools by the State or a local community. Private schools are not entitled to funds for investments, investment maintenance and equipment.
Private schools may participate in competitions for teaching equipment and aids intended for public schools.
Legal basis
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On their websites, elementary schools present information about the school, the characteristics of the school programme, the organisation of the work in the school in accordance with the annual work plan, rights and obligations of pupils the content of he education plan, house rules and other information.
Parents may see the presentation in written form in school.
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Annual work plans determine the content, volume and organisation of education and other work in accordance with the curriculum and syllabuses, and the volume, content and organisation of interest and other activities carried out by schools. They determined:
- the work of school counselling and other services,
- the work of the school library,
- activities through which the school integrates into the environment,
- the volume of activities which provide pupils' healthy development, forms of cooperation with parents,
- expert training for teachers and other workers,
- cooperation with higher education institutes that train teachers,
- research institutions,
- consulting and advisory centres,
- cooperation with outsourcers, and
- other tasks required to realise the programme of the elementary school.
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School years commence on 1 September and conclude on 31 August. School years are divided in assessment periods. Lessons in a school year last a maximum of 38 weeks for five days in a week. Exceptionally, lessons may be carried out six day a week if so determined by the annual work plan.
Weekly obligation of pupils according to the compulsory programme, excluding class meetings, may be a maximum of 24 lessons in the first period, 26 lessons in the second period and 30 lessons in the third period.
Weekly obligation of pupils in schools in ethnically mixed areas and schools with adapted educational programmes according to the compulsory programme, excluding class meetings, may be a maximum of 26 lessons in the first period, 28 lessons in the second period and 32 lessons in the third period.
Due to the organisation of lessons, the obligation of pupils according to the compulsory programme, excluding class meetings, in an individual week may be increased by a maximum of two lessons. Average weekly obligation in a school year must not exceed the aforementioned obligations. Optional subjects that require long concise implementation due to their contents and activities from the syllabus may take up to eight lessons per day. The duration of a lesson is usually 45 minutes.
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Elementary schools must cooperate with health-care institutions in providing pupils health care, especially in the implementation of mandatory medical examinations for first grade pupils, regular systematic medical examinations during schooling and vaccinations.
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Elementary schools collect, process, store, forward and use information from databases they keep in accordance with the regulations on personal data protection.
Personal information of pupils from databases is collected, processed, stored and used for the needs of compulsory education, and forwarded to the ministry responsible for education to carry out tasks determined by law, and to the National Examinations Centre to carry out national examinations.
Personal information may be used and published for the needs of scientific and research work, and the implementation of statistical analyses in a manner that does not disclose the identity of pupils.
Databases of pupils, their progress, issued certificates and other documents are kept permanently, while other databases managed by elementary schools are kept for one year following the conclusion of schooling of pupils.
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Elementary schools keep the following records:
- database of pupils enrolled in the elementary school and their parents;
- database of the pupils' progress, issued certificates, reprimands and other documents;
- database of motor skills and morphological characteristics of pupils;
- database of pupils who need assistance or counselling.
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