Võro in Estonia
| pre-primary education | primary education | secondary education |
| Kääpa Põhikool | Kääpa Põhikool |
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Kääpa Põhikool
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| Contact person | Ivi Mölder |
| ivi.molder@eelk.ee | |
| Website | http://www.koopakool.edu.ee/ |
| Total number of teachers | 21 |
| Total number of pupils | 136 |
| Languages taught as subject | Estonian (5h/wk), Võro (1h/wk), English (3-4 h/wk), Russian (2h/wk) |
| Languages of instruction | Estonian |
| Languages used outside formal lessons | Estonian, Võro |
| Skills trained in the minority language | reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation |
| Availability of the teaching material | The availability of learning material is reasonable |
| Quality of the teaching material | The quality of learning material is good |
| Developers of the teaching material | In Estonia there is the Võro Institute which is administered by the Estonian Ministry of Culture. The Võro Institute also provides teaching materials, among many other activities and projects. |
| Remarks | We have friendship schools in Vaala, Finland, in Badenborn, Germany and in Hungary. All schools are related to Globe nature/biology projects. In our school Võro language is tought only in form 3 while it could be a subject throughout the basic school. The main reason is probably the lack of resources, both financial as well as human. We try to solve this problem through writing more projects to find allowance; to unite with bigger international projects for creating contacts with other minority language schools and learn how the problem is solved there; increase the awareness of the topic among South-Estonian society. |