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The Secondary School of Horticulture in Litomysl (SSZa) is the youngest horticultural school in the Czech Republic that has been very quickly developing.
Originally, SSZA Litomysl came to being as a part of the Secondary Horticultural School in Kopidlno from which it separated in 1990. Today it is the only horticultural school in the Region of Pardubice. However, plenty of our students come from another Czech regions (Hradecky Region, Vysocina, Olomoucky Region and Stredocesky Region).
Within last four years the number of classes and students of our school has increased four times (now there are 450 students in 17 classes – including smaller forms for handicapped students).
Type of school: state (no school-fee is paid)
designed for students who passed 9 years of the basic school
Field of study : 41-44-M/001 horticulture
Form of studies: daily
Final exams: leaving examination
Achieved degree: full secondary education
Aplications: till 15th March, sent via the basic school
or directly to our school address
Component parts:
of the school three smaller boarding houses (so called family type)
large horticulture and landscaping areas
environmental education area to reproduce endangered
plants and animal species (has been in progress)
Dear applicants,
The horticultural school in Litomysl is located in one of the most beautiful towns of the Czech Republic, in the students’ centre (there are five more secondary schools and four boarding houses near our school) near the historical centre of the town.
In the very neighbourhood of the school there is a large natural zone with about 3,500-4,000
taxon of plants which has been extended thanks to our school activities. In this park surrounding there is also a new training experience centre and a new boarding house (finished in 2003). These outplantings together with the Castle of Litomysl outplantings make splendid conditions for the active life of our students as well as meaningful studies at our school. It also supports the system of sequencing the special subjects in the structure of the studies – for example Floristics, Landscaping, Landscape Drawing, Arranging, Drawing and Modelling, Biology and Ecology, Law, … On the other hand the technical subjects are a bit limited (e. g. Physics, Machines and Equipment). Our school also puts accent on languages (English, German). Of course, there are special classes equipped with computers for Computer Technologies and special drawing programmes for Landscaping.
Training experience
Training experience is a very important part of studies at our school. It takes place not only within our school area (mostly basic – instructional training) but also in many companies in the Czech Republic (botanic gardens, cultivating centres, state castles and private companies).
A very important part of our education is also preparing and implementation of different grants (both national and international).
Foreign cooperation
The Secondary School of Horticulture has been focusing on grant programmes (especially in cooperation with the European Union). This year we have been preparing two international cooperation programmes together with our international partners.
Our plans
Our school is going to intensify environmental education as well as landscaping in our centre in Litomysl.
Next year we would like to prepare similar project which would take place abroad.
We are going to continue in our outplanting programme in so called Green Study.