Gilău is a commune in Cluj County, Romania located 20km from Cluj-Napoca. The commune has over 7,000 inhabitants and dates back approximately 3,000 years. "Gelu Voievod" High School is located here and has over 1,000 students from kindergarten through high school levels. The school has strong academic performance winning numerous regional and national contests, and benefits from qualified teachers and good material resources like modern classrooms and laboratories. It also has partnerships with local organizations and universities to enhance students' learning experience.

1. “GELU VOIEVOD” HIGH
SCHOOL,
GILĂU, CLUJ COUNTY,
ROMANIA

2. OUR COMMUNE
 Gilău is a very beautiful commune situated in the north-western
part of Romania, in the heart of Transylvania, on the basin of
Someşul Mic river, at 20 km away from the county residence,
Cluj- Napoca city. It consists of three more villages: Somesu-
Rece, Somesu-Cald and Somesu-Rece-Uzina.
 Dating back in time approximately 3000 years ago, its name is
thought to have come from the name of an ancient ruler of
these lands, Gelu, Romanian voivode of the 10th
century.
 The locality is characterized by hill and mountain relief, with
vegetation made by leafy and resinous forests and has a high
potential in tourism and amusement, sports practicing,
especially the winter ones but also the opportunity of business
founding and developing in agriculture, zootechny, apiculture,
pisciculture, forestry domain and other, existing various
available terrain surfaces.
 The inhabitants (over 7000) are some welcoming and
hardworking people, who have developed in time a great
respect for their traditions and values.

3. GILAU

4. TOURISTIC ATTRACTIONS
Among the main touristic objectives are:
the Tarniţa lake- anthropical lake with
power purpose- and the Wass Castle
(15th- 16th centuries), built in Renaissance
style and temporarily used by the family of
Michael the Brave. Within the castle area
there still can be seen the ruins of an
ancient Roman fort.

5. THE TARNITA LAKE

6. THE WASS CASTLE

7. THE RUINS OF THE ANCIENT ROMAN FORT
WITHIN THE CASTLE AREA

8. OUR SCHOOL
 The first school in Gilău is said to have
been established around the year 1642,
but data about a Romanian school first
appear in 1784; there existed then a
Primary School, in the first half of the
20th century, and later an Elementary
7th form school.
 Since 1998, our school received the
status of high school, having 71
teachers and 1074 pupils (kindergarten,
primary, secondary, high school).

9. OUR HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING

10. NO. 1 KINDERGARTEN

11. NO. 2 KIDERGARTEN

12. OUR PRIMARY SCHOOL
BUILDING

13. RESOURCES
 “Gelu Voievod” High School has both a solid material base and
qualified didactic personnel
Material Resources
 45 modern furnished classrooms
 4 laboratories (Biology, Chemistry, Informatics, Physics)
 a sports room
 2 synthetic sports grounds
 a Documenting and Information Center

14. MATERIAL BASE
SPORTS ROOM

15. MATERIAL BASE
SYNTHETIC GROUND

16. MATERIAL BASE
KINDERGARTEN

17. MATERIAL BASE
INFORMATICS LABORATORY

18. MATERIAL BASE
HISTORY LABORATORY

19. OTHER MATERIAL
RESOURCES
 Our school library, consisting of 13.327 volumes (Romanian and
universal literature, psychology and pedagogy, mathematics,
physics, chemistry, history, geography, informatics,
encyclopedias and dictionaries).
 Audio-video materials, electronic devices used during lessons.

20. HUMAN RESOURCES
2009- 2010 SCHOOL YEAR
 Number of students and preschool students: 1074
 Number of teachers: 71
 Distribution on didactic degrees of teachers:
1st
degree teachers 27
2nd
degree teachers 15
Definitive degree teachers 18
Entry level 11

21. OUR TEACHERS

22. OUR SCHOOL PERFORMANCES
CONTESTS
“Gelu Voievod” High
School traditionally
organizes and/or takes
part in County Contests in
different fields

23. WINNERS OF THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND
LITERATURE COUNTY CONTEST

24. Crina Brudasca, 7th
form, Paul Pop, 8th
form,
Technology County and National Contests (Ms.
Silvia Salanta, teacher coordinator)

25. Ariana Muresan, 8th
form,
Orthodox Religion County Contest
(Ms. Maria Marza, teacher
coordinator)

26. Hora iu Mureț şan, 5th
form B, 2nd
place
County Chess Contest (Mr. Petru Brad,
teacher coordinator)

27. 3rd
Prize “Let’s Be Together” County Contest
Technology Section

28. Special Prize “Let’s Be Together” County Contest
General Knowledge Section

29. Lidia Lazar, 11th
form, 3rd
Prize “Open the Gates to
Nonviolence” County Contest (Ms. Camelia Popa,
teacher coordinator)

30.  Dana Purcel, 8th
form, 1st
Prize, National Folk
Contest “Flowers of the Month of May” (Mrs.
Ramona Toadere, teacher coordinator)
 Ramona Neamt, 7th
form, 3rd
Prize, Inter-counties
Folk Festival “Muguri de dor” (Mrs. Ramona
Toadere, teacher coordinator)
 Crina Bodea, 7th
form, Special Prize
International Contest “A Winter’s Dream” (Ms.
Livia Pop, teacher coordinator)

31. Calin Prigoana, 6th
form, Paul Pop, 8th
form, 1st
Prize, Chemistry
and Physics National Contest, „Perpetuum Mobile”, County stage
(Mrs. Kopenetz Melinda, Mrs. Tamas Ecaterina, Mr. Brad Petru,
teacher- coordinators)

32. High School Football Team, 1st
Prize, “Cupa
Primăverii” Floreşti (Mr. Mihai Vele, teacher
coordinator)

33. PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
THE VILLAGE HALL AND THE LOCAL
COUNCIL

34. PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
CENTER OF DOCUMENTING AND
INFORMATION

35. PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
“MEDICINE AND PHARMACY” UNIVERSITY

36. PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
CULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER

37. PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
“CUNUNA APUSENILOR” FOLK DANCE
ENSEMBLE

38. PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
„DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY OF
CHANCES IN OUR SCHOOL”
 Our Minister of Education organized, during
the 2009- 2010 school year, an informative
campaign within the PHARE project “Acces to
Education of Disadvantaged Groups”.
 Between September 20th
- October 2nd
, there took
place a National Contest “My Friendly
School”.
 Our team, consisting of Borbely Agnes,
Alina and Raluca Sfirlea, 5th
form B (Mrs.
Cristina Hnadru, teacher coordinator) won
a Special Prize in the Photo Section.

39. OUR SCHOOL MAGAZINE
 Beginning with the second semester of the 2008-
2009 school year, there appears a magazine of our
school, entitled “The Journal of our School Years”.
 The editorial team consists of our headteachers,
Ruxandra Hulpe and Carmen Prigoană, our
Romanian teacher, Livia Pop- coordinator, our
Religion teacher, Dan Benţa- editor, students from
the 9th
, 10th
and 11th
forms ;
 All students and teachers in our school contribute, in
fact, to the making of our magazine.

40. OUR EDITORIAL TEAM

41. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
STUDENT FESTIVITY

42. TEACHER’S DAY

43. “Education is what remains
after all that has been learnt is
forgotten”
(B. F. Skinner)