ENKA Schools
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Istinye, Istanbul Turkey | |
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| Type | Private, Coeducational, Bilingual |
| Established | September 1996 |
| Principal | Dr. Selcen Özkaya Seçil, Dr. Özlem Mecit, Filiz Gönenli, Ayten Yılmaz |
| Director | Richard Bartlett |
| Faculty | 180 |
| Number of students | 1300 (Total in Elementary School and High School) |
| Campus | İstinye, Istanbul |
| School color(s) | Blue and white |
| Nickname | ENKA |
| Website | http://www.enka.k12.tr/istanbul |
Since its establishment in 1996, Enka Schools in Istanbul, Turkey, has grown to accommodate approximately 1250[1] students from pre-kindergarten to grade 12. Athletic facilities have been established at the Sadi Gülçelik Spor Sitesi to serve the students who have daily access to the sports facilities of The ENKA Foundation. Immediately after the earthquake on August 17, 1999, Enka Foundation joined the nation’s collective effort to provide relief to victims by building schools as quickly as possible; the Adapazarı ENKA School is one of them. In November 2005, ENKA Schools was awknowledged by the IBO and became an IB World School. It offers the IB Primary Years Programme, Middle Years Programme, and IB Diploma Programme. Enka Schools is a member of ECIS, NEASC, and Round Square.
General information
Since its beginnings in 1996 in temporary accommodation with just over 200 students, the first Enka School in Istanbul has moved to the main campus within the Sadi Gülçelik Sports Complex and has rapidly expanded. There are currently 1250 students from pre-k to grade 12.
While Enka Foundation makes a substantial contribution necessary to maintain the school’s financial viability, the school exists as an independent non-profit corporation directed by an unsalaried Executive Committee, which is in turn reviewed by a voluntary Board of Advisors.
The program uses both Turkish and English as the teaching languages. A bilingual community is fostered within the school through language instruction for teachers as well as for students. In addition, as students become proficient in English, they move on to learning a third language such as French or German. The curriculum enables graduating students to meet all the requirements for the International Baccalaureate. The Istanbul Enka School provides scholarships to more than 20 students a year.
The school has extracurricular activities such as drama, chess, robotics, dancing, community volunteering, visual arts, performing arts, model-making, and outdoor pursuits such as climbing, archeology, and camping.
Students of the school share the training grounds with Enka Sports Club for use in their physical training classes. In addition, about 600 students participate in the after schools program five days a week. Outstanding students are coached to national and international competition level.
In October, 1999, following the earthquake in the Sea of Marmara region east of Istanbul, ENKA Schools opened a school for the young victims of this disaster. The campus is situated near Adapazarı, a mid-sized industrial city in which most of the buildings were destroyed and the population decimated. The school serves more than four hundred pre-school, primary and high school children in a new community.
History
In 1994, Sinan Tara, Vice-Chairman of ENKA Holding Company, and Ibrahim Betil, banker and community activist, found themselves sitting together on a plane from Ankara. Mr. Betil shared his vision of a different kind of school in Istanbul, a Turkish school that would be a center of excellence. The first high school graduating class was the class of 2008.
Since opening in September 1996, with just over 200 students, ENKA Schools have moved from temporary quarters to its rapidly expanding main campus on the Sadi Gülçelik Sports Site in İstinye. Nearly 1250 students from pre-school through grade twelve commute daily from both the Asian and European sides of Istanbul.
High school
Extracurricular activities
Clubs and Afterschool Activities
Co-curricular activities are divided into club and after school activities carried out by Enka Schools and the Enka Sports Club. The school has club activities[2] that students from different grades participate in 2 hours a week. Below is a list of some of them:
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The School also offers afterschool activities 5 days a week:
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