Petach Tikva, (where Ein Ganim School is located), is in the center of Israel and is Israel 's fifth largest city. Ein Ganim Elementary School is a Jewish
non-religious school situated in the Ein Ganim neighborhood of Petach
Tikva. The school's principal Mrs. Hedi Rosental and the teacher's
staff, which contains 33 educators, work with 530
pupils from 19 different classes that come to school from the neighboring
streets that are closeby. In addition, there are three
gifted classes. The children come from all over the city and the
municipality organizes transportation for them. The program is unique and
Ein Ganim is one of five schools in Israel that participates in this
unique program of nurturing gifted children as one unit from the 4th grade
until they graduate high school at the end of the 12th grade. Ein Ganim was founded in 1965. There are
three different buildings. Two buildings are used for the classroom
teaching and a third building used for the school management, secretaries
and janitors. The third building contains a teacher's room and a small
kitchen with utilities. There is also a small gym. There is also a schoolyard with an asphalt
court and very small garden space. The children play soccer, basketball
and volleyball at recesses and the school offers extra curricular
activities after school hours.
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