SUSTAINABILITY, INNOVATION AND LOVE!
Our message
Our team
We are proud to introduce you to our team who are the driving force of the development and success of Svetlina and consist of more than 100 educators and education experts trusted by more than 1000 families. Our goal has always been to create a highly motivated and cohesive team to meet and exceed our parents’ expectations. We try to build a team of specialists with different skills and interests who work together and to help them acquire new knowledge through the trainings we organise for them. We believe that it is the combination of knowledge of our specialists with the innovation and energy of Svetlina that is a prerequisite for our success today.
History of success
1990
The history of Svetlina started with one educational facility of 12 children and a team of two teachers. We were the first to introduce the circle education style in Bulgaria.
2000
Our second facility opened.
2001
We acquired a school licence from the Ministry of Education and Science.
2005
For the first time, we introduced separate diet as part of the development of habits from early childhood
2006
We joined the program for early career guidance through the experiential education approaches.
2007
We introduced financial education following R. Kiyosaki’ principles.
2011
Svetlina’s largest facility, today’s facility of Svetlina Private Primary School, opened. We laid the foundations of holistic education in Bulgaria.
2012
We became a member of Cambridge Schools Association.
2013
We opened the third facility of Svetlina Private Kindergarten in Boyana which marked the beginning of a new method to work with the so-called Generation Alpha children.
2014
We introduced the use of Tony Buzan’s mind maps which we apply with 5-6-year-old children, too.
2015
We became members of the Worldwide chain of schools for new millennium education “EDUCATION 3000” under the auspices of UNESCO.
2017
As a result of our long-term partnership between parents, teachers and education experts, we created Future with Svetlina Foundation, guided by the idea to introduce changes to the educational environment of modern children. In the same year, the team of Svetlina created the Internet platform pedagogika.bg which contains information about the latest methodologies and useful practices for children’s development in the 21st century.
2018
We opened the fourth facility of Svetlina Private Kindergarten in Lozenets. We introduced the soft skill training as part of the necessary competences to develop in the 21st century and the Project Management as a training standard both in the classroom and the extracurricular activities. We stopped using polyethylene plastic within Svetlina.
2018
The school was licensed as an innovative school – the only private elementary school in Bulgaria. In the same year, in partnership with SoftUni, we created the first private vocational secondary school of digital science in Bulgaria: SoftUni Svetlina with holistic and bilingual education.
2019
The newest shared space for the development of children and adults opened in Sofia – “Fabrika za Mechti Svetlina” (Svetlina Dream Factory).
2019
We introduced the training in emotional intelligence /EQ/ from the age of 4 in our program.
2019
The newest and most modern facility of Svetlina Complex opened. It is situated on Simeonovsko Shose Blvd. where we introduced a space for active meditation and open classrooms for the first time in Bulgaria as part of our educational infrastructure because we think that the environment is key for the formation of personality and children’s better development.
2019
We opened the fourth facility of Svetlina Private Kindergarten in Lozenets. We introduced the soft skill training as part of the necessary competences to develop in the 21st century and the Project Management as a training standard both in the classroom and the extracurricular activities. We stopped using polyethylene plastic within Svetlina.