The effort to create a school led my husband and I to found an elementary school and later the Livingston Grammar School. Our vision was to create a safe place where children are not only educated and encouraged to develop their talents and hobbies, but also where they are not afraid to make mistakes and explore their identities. We believe that supporting students and working with errors are crucial in the process of acquiring knowledge and maintaining motivation for learning.

We aimed to create a school that avoids extremes. It would not be a performance-driven institution that prioritises academic results at the expense of student well-being and development, nor would it be a free-type school that neglects the fulfilment of students’ maximum academic potential. In our opinion, such a balanced school was missing in the Czech market. Therefore, we combined what has worked well for us in elementary education for years: a kind and respectful approach to children, providing support both in success, where we help them reach higher, and in failure, where we collaboratively find ways to learn from it and use it for further development.

At the grammar school level, we wanted to implement an education system that is effective worldwide, allowing children to choose their specialisation and achieve results in both the Czech and international education systems, thus opening doors to global university education.
This is how we conceived and dreamed of a gymnasium. Our vision is to nurture self-confident and satisfied individuals who, by the end of their time with us, know where they want to go in life and have all the means to achieve it.