Turquoise Curiosity Tree is a small private Polish-English primary school (szkoła podstawowa) in Poznań, grades 0-8, with one class in each year. The school follows the Reggio Emilia approach and draws on Jesper Juul's ideas of equal dignity of child and adult. Its basis is the Polish national curriculum (podstawa programowa) with the egzamin ósmoklasisty at the end of grade 8; on top of it the school runs the Cambridge programme: Cambridge Primary for ages 5-11 and Cambridge Lower Secondary for ages 11-14, and it is registered with Cambridge under centre number PL048. English takes 9-10 hours a week, part of the subject content is taught in English through CLIL, and there are interdisciplinary Polish-English projects in the spirit of Cambridge Global Perspectives and bilingual Eviva Reggio Scena stage productions. The language of instruction is Polish and English: the school calls itself bilingual Polish-English and says Cambridge Primary is delivered in English. The school does not name any other foreign language taught as a subject on its pages. It describes itself as intimate: small classes, indoor shoes, a uniform, and visits to museums, galleries and the university as part of learning.
Key facts
Tuition
≈ $4 261 a year
1 650 PLN a month
The year is counted as ten payments: the school does not say how many payments it takes.
Programmes
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · National programme
Admits from
6 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Polish, English
Class size
small classes, one class in each year; the school does not state the exact number of students per class
About the fees Czesne under the price list valid from 01.09.2025: 1650 PLN per month, paid 12 months a year. It covers care and education from 7:00 to 17:00 but not all extra activities. Meals are not named as included in the school fee.
Admissions The school says it does not select children by academic aptitude but looks for families who share its approach. Steps: an online application form, with a reply within 10 working days; then a paid stage - a report on the child from the previous kindergarten or school and a meeting with the child and parents; a decision (accepted, deferred or temporarily declined); the application card (Karta Zgłoszeniowa) with payment of the wpisowe; an individual contract. The school promises to treat all future students equally regardless of gender, language, ability or religion, and not to favour or discriminate against children by race, ethnic origin, culture or nationality. It states no separate Polish language requirement for foreign children.
Stages and year groups Grades 0-8. Szkoła podstawowa, grades 0-8 (zerówka and grades 1-8), one class per year. The Polish national curriculum (podstawa programowa) with the egzamin ósmoklasisty, including English, plus Cambridge Primary (ages 5-11) and Cambridge Lower Secondary (ages 11-14), Cambridge centre PL048; the school stresses that Cambridge complements the Polish curriculum rather than replacing it. Cambridge Global Perspectives (Polish-English research projects) and CLIL are named separately. The school does not mention Cambridge Checkpoint exams. Reggio Emilia pedagogy.
Address ul. Umultowska 116, 61-680 Poznań
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · Primary, Lower Secondary · authorised programmeThe Cambridge register names the school as its centre; it teaches Cambridge Primary, Cambridge Lower Secondary.
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CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: Primary (ages 5-11), Lower Secondary (ages 11-14). Primary is the primary stage, ages 5 to 11: English, mathematics and science to Cambridge syllabuses. At the end of the stage a school may run the optional Checkpoint test, which is marked in Cambridge. Lower Secondary is the middle stage, ages 11 to 14, with the same optional Checkpoint test at the end.
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The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓Laboratories
✓Theatre or assembly hall
✓Library
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: Classrooms of 55-60 m² with interactive whiteboards, a computer room, a science and biology room, a small library, a dining room with a kitchen counter used for cooking workshops, two cloakrooms and a music and drama hall with instruments. PE takes place at the sports facilities of Adam Mickiewicz University. Outdoors there is a covered terrace, a green garden with trees and a certified playground for school-age children. Twice a year students stage performances at the Centrum Kultury in Suchy Las. Indoor shoes all year and a school uniform are compulsory. It is a day school open from 7:00 to 17:00.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
✓Students per teacher or class sizein the key facts above
The school names its leadership: the director of the body that runs the kindergartens and schools, the head of school, two curriculum directors (humanities, also coordinating the Cambridge programme, and sciences), a deputy head for psychological and educational support and a projects coordinator. The school does not publish teacher qualifications or staff numbers.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The school has a deputy head for psychological and educational support. It describes its rules as a Republic of Relationships: equal dignity, responsibility, clear boundaries and conversation instead of punishment, with regular relational circles in each class.
Reviews
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Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data80 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data55 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
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