Selma Ergin
Founder and head
Uludağ University, Primary Education; MA in Educational Leadership
I am at the door in the mornings too. That is the easiest way to ask me anything.
Names on the door
Two teachers' names are written on every classroom door. At any hour of the day your child sees one of these faces.
I taught in crowded classrooms for twenty-two years. We founded Ada so that it would be a school where I can call every child by name at least once a day.
Read the founder's letter
Two names on every door
1Year 1Age 6–7 · 16 pupils
Deniz Karaca
Year 1 class teacher
Marmara University, Primary Education
Anyone can cry in the first week, me included. By week six the class has written its own song.
Burak Şen
Year 1 co-teacher
Uludağ University, Early Years and Primary Education
With children who find it hard to hold a pencil, we start with clay and play dough.
2Year 2Age 7–8 · 16 pupils
Elif Yazıcı
Year 2 class teacher
Hacettepe University, Primary Education
Our class library has 400 books; every child reads at least 40 of them a year.
Mert Aksoy
Year 2 co-teacher
Ege University, Mathematics Education
I like teaching maths in the garden, with a tape measure.
3Year 3Age 8–9 · 16 pupils
Gülşen Oral
Year 3 class teacher
Anadolu University, Primary Education
The most asked question in the bread project: "So does yeast breathe?"
Kaan Tekin
Year 3 co-teacher, garden
Uludağ University, Science Education
I run the garden, but the real gardeners are the children.
4Year 4Age 9–10 · 16 pupils
Zeynep Uçar
Year 4 class teacher
Boğaziçi University, Primary Education
In Year 4 they own the question; I point to the sources.
Hakan Durmuş
Year 4 co-teacher
Uludağ University, Social Studies Education
I drew maps for thirty years; now the children draw their own neighbourhood.
Workshop teachers
Recep Kılınç
Woodshop
Forty years as a cabinet maker; training in working with children
In forty years of work I never saw the look on the face of a child holding a saw for the first time.
Aynur Bal
School cook, kitchen workshop
Food hygiene and catering certificate
Children eat the salad they chopped themselves. That is the whole secret.
Ozan Erdem
Music teacher
Uludağ University State Conservatory
We find the rhythm in the body first, then on the drum.
Would you like to work with us? You can email your CV for class teacher and co-teacher positions.
merhaba@adailkokulu.com.trCome and sit in one of our classes one morning.
A school visit takes 45 minutes; you see the classes, workshops and garden while lessons are on.