There must be 180 working days in an educational year. The First Term starts on Monday at the second week of September and finishes especially in January. Then there is a holiday for 2 weeks till the second term starts. Second term also finishes in June. Summer holidays is approximately two and a half month. On religious and official festivals schools are closed.

Ramadan Festival - 3 days holiday

the Feast of the Sacrifice - 4 days holiday

1, January - New- year's day - 1 day holiday

29, October - Republican Day - 1 day holiday

23, April - National Sovereignty and Children’s Festival - 1 day holiday

19, May - Youth and Sports Festival - 1 day holiday

30, August - Victory-day - 1 day holiday

To be able to pass a lesson, the average grade of the student’s oral and written exam marks for a lesson must be at least 45. There are extra exams at the end of the year to make the final marks of the lessons high. Each student who wants to make his/her marks of the lessons high can select up to 3 lessons and have these exams. If a student has more than 2 lessons whose grades are below 45 at the end of the term, that student must take those exam at the end of the year. After those exams, if he/she stil has more than 2 lessons whose grades are below 45 they fail and have to repeat the class. And a student can’t repeat a class twice till he/she graduates. If this happens he/she has to leave school. Also if a student doesnt come to school for 20 days without any reason in an educational year, he/she also fails the class.

The mark System at our School

Each year lots of competitions like writing a composition, reading a poem etc. and sports matches like basketball, volleyball, table tenis and football are held among schools in our town. Our school is mighty in those competitions as it is in most of the fields and generally becomes the first and gets the chance to represent our town in competitions in the province.

- Primary Education Week ( the third week of September )

- War Veterans Day ( September 19  )

- World Animal Day ( October 4 )

- Akhism Culture Week ( October  8-12 )

- United Nations Day ( October 24 )

- Republic Day ( October 29 )

- Red Crescent Week ( October 29-November 4 )

- Week of Children Having Leukaemia ( November 2-8 )

- Week of The Great Leader, Atatürk ( November 10-16 )

- World Disaster Reduction Day ( November 12 )

- World Philosophy Day ( November 20 )

- Teachers Day ( November 24 )

- World AIDS Day ( December 1 )

- Human Rights and Democracy Week ( December 10-16 )

- Economy, Investment and Home Products Week ( December 12-18 )

- National Energy Conservation Day ( the second week of January )

- Civil Defence Day ( February 28 )

- The Green Crescent Week ( the first week of March )

- Science and Technology Week ( March 8-14 )

- Acceptance of The National Anthem and Day of Commemoration of Mehmet Akif Ersoy ( March 12 )

- National Consumer Day ( March 17 )

- Anniversary of Çanakkale Victory ( March 18 )

- Turkish Communities Week ( March 21 )

- Forest Week ( March 21-26 )

- World Stage Artists Day ( March 27 )

- Martyrs Week ( April 14 )

- World Tourism Day ( April 17 )

- National Sovereignty and Children’s Day ( April 23 )

- National Book and Library Week ( April 24 )

- Informatics Week ( the first week of May )

- Traffic and First Aid Week ( the first week of May )

- Foundations Week ( the second week of May )

- International Day of Disabled People ( May 10-16 )

- Day of Commemoration of Aerial Martyrs ( May 15 )

- Museums Week ( May 18-24 )

- Day of Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports’ Day ( May 19 )

Our town, Tavşanlı, which has a population of approximately 50.000 inhabitants, is a district of Kutahya province in the Aegean Region to the western part of Turkey. It is nearly the same distance (about 350kms) from Tavşanlı to Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and İzmir. The distance to Kutahya is 50 kms.

Prepared by: Salih Sırrı DEMİREL -English Teacher and Deputy of Ataturk Anatolian High School