Beehive School

Beehive is a bilingual primary school in Královské Vinohrady, Prague 10, that combines the British curriculum with the Czech national curriculum in its own programme. It belongs to the Consilium network of the Dukes Education group. The school teaches only the first stage of primary education and prepares pupils for a smooth move to second-stage schools. Classes are small, with 18 places in Grade 1, and admission is based mainly on school readiness, assessed during an enrolment play day in which teachers, the school psychologist and a special educator take part; children can also join higher grades after entrance tests and interviews. Pupils wear a school uniform from Grade 1, and lessons run from 08:45 until 14:10 or 15:05 depending on the grade. Through the Kania Foundation, talented pupils can receive scholarships covering up to 100% of tuition, depending on their family's finances.

Although the school is in the centre of Prague, children can spend time in a garden where they play games and sport, and a newly created school garden includes an outdoor classroom and a greenhouse in which pupils grow their own vegetables.

After lessons an afternoon club (družina), run mostly in English by native speakers, offers sport, art and crafts, quizzes, reading and discovery activities. Clubs led by teachers include yoga for Grades 4 and 5, a young gardeners' club, chess, recorder lessons in groups of up to five, and an art workshop, while outside partners run a Logiscool club in programming, artificial intelligence and digital skills, and Lil Ballers football and basketball. Every school year begins with a several-day team-building trip, there is a winter school in nature with skiing and a spring school in nature with swimming for Grades 2 and 3, and older pupils can travel abroad with a partner school. Lunches and snacks are delivered daily by a catering company, with a choice of two lunches.