Elementary Education

Elementary education builds on preschool education and education in the family. Elementary education is the only stage of education whose completion is compulsory for the whole population of pupils, namely in two stages, the second of which continues the first in terms of content and organization as well as didactically. With its conception, elementary education at Stage 1 is to facilitate the pupils’ transition from preschool education and family care to compulsory, regular and systematic education. It is based on acquiring new knowledge, respecting and developing each pupil’s individual needs, potential and interests (including pupils with special educational needs). With its activity-based and practical nature as well as its the application of suitable methods, the education motivates pupils to further learning, guides them to active learning and to the realization that a suitable way of solving problems may be sought, discovered, created and found.