telepy school

Károly TELEPY Primary and Secondary Sports School

It is situated in the heart of Budapest

Károly TELEPY (1828-1906)was a painter

 Károly Telepy was a famous painter in the 18th century. He was successful as a romantic landscape painter.

The most important themes of his landscape art were the romantic mountain ranges of the Tatras and Mátra, as well as the picturesque parts of the Balaton region.

History of our school

The institution was opened in 1898. It was transformed into a

field hospital in 1914

The building is 120 years old; we try to preserve the atmosphere of that time.

There are sixty teachers, and more than six hundred students from six to eighteen years old. We arrive at about 8 and we finish the lessons at about 2. Our lessons take 45minutes. We have subjects like Maths, Hungarian literature, grammar, IT, History, Music, Art, Geography, Physics, Chemistry. We can learn German,English or even French as a foreign language.

National HolidaysOctober 23rd we remember the declaration of the Hungarian Republic

March 15th when we commemorate the events of the

Hungarian Revolution and War of Independance of 1848-49

October 6th

Our Traditions in pictures Advent, Santa Claus, Christmas are celebrated within classes, we usually have Christmas party in the school, when we get our presents from our friends and classmates. After that we usually have a winter holiday.

To advertise our school we have Open doors and Family day, when primary school students or children from kindergarden with their parents come to our school; they visit lessons and play games as well.

On Luca-day the school- corridors become a market place. The classes prepare cookies and drinks for sale.

Burning of ‘kiszebáb’ which is a puppet with magic

power. It chases winter away. We prepare a straw puppet and set a fire on the school yard. We use tools and instruments like rattles, whistles, drums, and other noise making objects.

Telepy day and the traditional Sports day mean sport or other intellectual competitions for classes and we spend the whole day completing different tasks.

SPORTS day

Ribbon Ceremony

Grammar School

Summer Camp – Balaton

During the summer holiday we have go camping at lake

Balaton. It is a good opportunity to get to know each other.

Being healthy or being and acting as environmentally conscious

students are also important for us. In our classes we have containers for paper, plastic or can, so we can collect waste separately. We also have paper-collecting competition twice a year.

Be environmentally conscious

If you are not a sporty person, you can also find your interest in

dancing, drawing or music

Why don’t you come and see us? We are looking

forward to seeing you.

the Hungarian students