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The gate of a True Life School campus — a parent and child walking in past the timber sign wall, bikes parked to one side, low wooden buildings among pines
Bilingual in-person school with 1-on-1 learning for every student

A school like no other.

A place where students get through the school syllabus in 2 hours a day, and spend the other five on what really matters: people, projects, cooking, making things and coping when something goes wrong.

🇬🇧The whole day in English Teachers in a new role 🎓Polish, British or American system

Concept visualization

A project from the creators of Tutlo — the #1 online language-learning platform in CEE.

Sample visualizations (AI generated)

Do the math

The most expensive thing in school is the one you can't see: wasted time.

Seven hours bell-to-bell. Inside them: roll call, waiting for the class to settle, copying from the board, a pace set for the average. That is why so many families pay twice — once with the school day, and again for evening tutoring.

The mechanism

The 2+5 Model: flip the school day right side up.

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Technology personalizes the morning block

The platform runs the morning block 1-on-1: it sets the level, pace and tasks, catches gaps before the test does, and shows you exactly what your child has mastered. When the platform is not enough, a live teacher joins online the same day.

02

Teachers in a new role

We are not replacing teachers — we are taking the routine off their desks. That frees them for what no technology can do: motivating, building the relationship and being there when the child truly needs them.

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Life Skills Curriculum

Five hours a day for skills that genuinely matter in life — from the kitchen, workshop and first aid to money, business and relationships.

Read the full curriculum →
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Why 1-on-1? In Benjamin Bloom's famous 1984 studies with human tutors, the average student tutored one-on-one performed better than 98% of students taught in a conventional classroom — the "2 sigma" effect. Personal tutoring was always the best way to learn. It was just too expensive to give every child. Until now.

Life Skills Curriculum

A curriculum built around life skills.

Here the programme is more than the official requirements. In the morning — the full national curriculum, the same one your child sits the state exams from. For the rest of the day — the Life Skills Curriculum: our own curriculum of 295 life skills — 13 areas of life, 59 skill tracks and 5 stages from age 6 to 19. Six of them, each from a different area:

🧺 Dom i samoobsługa ok. 9–12 lat

Sortuję i nastawiam pranie

Learns to read care labels, sort by colour and temperature, run the machine and hang things so nothing shrinks or bleeds. After a few weeks it happens without reminding.

🍳 Kuchnia i żywienie ok. 9–12 lat

Gotuję trzy proste dania

Starts with a safe knife and a clean worktop, then cooks three dishes from recipe to washed-up kitchen. Ends up able to make a real dinner — for themselves and for you.

🔨 Narzędzia, drewno i naprawy ok. 9–12 lat

Skręcam gotowy mebel

Gets to know the tools, follows the instructions step by step and assembles furniture that actually stands straight — and learns when a cabinet has to be anchored to the wall.

🌱 Ogród, przyroda i klimat ok. 13–15 lat

Uprawiam pomidory od rozsady

Takes a plant from seedling to harvest: transplanting, staking, feeding and reacting when the leaves start to tell a story. If the crop fails, they work out why and what to change next season.

🖥️ Biznes, sprzedaż i marketing ok. 15–17 lat

Landing page i e-mail

Builds a simple offer page, writes the messages that go with it and tests which version works better. Learns along the way that you collect data with consent — and let people leave easily.

📄 Finanse, umowy i praca ok. 15–17 lat

Rozpoznaję zapis ryzykowny

Reads real contracts and learns to spot the clauses that can bite later. Instead of signing blind, writes an e-mail with the questions worth asking first.

See the whole curriculum Example activities

What we remove

No grades. No tests. Teachers in a new role.

We remove what measures the wrong things — and keep what actually grows a child.

Grades

Progress tracking

Instead of a mark at the end of term, you see day by day what your child has truly mastered and where a gap is forming. Progress, not a label.

Tests and quizzes

Learn until you truly know it

No cramming for a test and forgetting it a week later. A child moves on only once they have genuinely mastered the topic — at their own pace.

One teacher for 25 kids

Learning 1-on-1 + teachers

Instead of one teacher for 25 children: personalized learning with the learning platform and an adult who looks after motivation, relationships and safety.

Two languages, any system

Learning happens in English. Exams happen wherever you choose.

English isn't a subject here — it's the language of the day. Lessons, projects and conversations on campus run in English, and most of our staff are native speakers. Your child doesn't study English. They live in it — and one day simply starts speaking.

English is the language of the campus

Not 45 minutes twice a week. Morning briefing, project work, lunch table, afternoon workshops — the whole day happens in English.

Mostly native-speaker staff

Your child hears real accent, real idiom and real humor every day — from adults for whom English is simply their language.

Polish stays fully at home here

Polish language, literature and history are taught properly — a bilingual child gains a second language without losing the first one.

And the diploma? You choose the system — the campus stays the same.

Polish system

Eighth-grade exam · matura

We cover the Polish national curriculum, and your child sits the state exams like any homeschooled student — with a Polish school certificate at the end.

British track

IGCSE · A-levels

International exams recognized by universities worldwide — the standard route for families who are not sure which country their child will study in.

American track

US high school diploma

A diploma issued through a US partner school, honored in American admissions — for children who are aiming across the ocean.

You pick the track when you enroll, and it can change as your plans change. We confirm which international tracks are available at each campus before it opens — and say so honestly on every city page.

One membership

One enrollment. Every campus we will ever open.

This is the network we are building: one membership that will work at every campus. Want your child to spend three months at a future Tenerife campus, then come home? That is exactly what the network is designed for. The school will travel with the child — not the other way around.

🏝️ Tenerife 🌆 Dubai 🌉 Lisbon 🏙️ Warsaw ➕ and more as we grow

Planned directions. The network will grow campus by campus — starting where enough families sign up.

How it looks

The model, made visible.

The space, the teachers and a real day — visualized.

A True Life School campus among trees
A modern school building with a playground
A bright study and social space
A teacher helping two children with a robotics project
Urban True Life School campus entrance
Children building a project outdoors with a teacher in afternoon light

Concept visualizations.

The day

A day you can actually picture.

08:30
Morning circle
Arrival & intentions
09:00
Focused learning block
Personalized core
11:00
Movement
Break & reflect
11:30
Workshops
Real-world projects
13:00
Lunch
Social time
14:00
Arts & sport
Passions
15:00
English in practice
Conversation
16:00
Projects & clubs
until 17:00 · pick-up

Example schedule. The exact plan varies by campus and age group — the principle stays: focused personalized academics first, then a rich, human day.

The learning platform

Our learning platform shows what a normal report card misses.

You and the teacher can see what your child has mastered, where a gap is forming, what affects focus and which next step matters most.

  • A learning path matched to your child, with practice that reacts to progress
  • Gaps caught early — not only after a test
  • Simple views for parent and teacher
Technology personalizes the academic path. Teachers remain responsible for care, motivation, context and the child's day-to-day experience.
Parent view · Maja, age 9 On track
Reading86%
Mathematics72%
Writing64%
Science91%
Fractions38%

Updated today · Next teacher check-in: Thursday

Focused learning this week

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
9h 40mfocus time
34tasks done
1project in progress

Focus area: Fractions

Mastery38%
  • Halves and quarters with pictures
  • A short explainer on the platform
  • A 5-minute check quiz
Teacher note: Maja learns best visually — we are adding more picture-based tasks.
Student view · Maja, age 9 Session active
Tutor Tutor
Equations — finding unknown x
T

Solve for x. I drew it on the whiteboard — think about what you need to do to both sides.

3x + 5 = 20 Step 1: move +5 to the other side

First I subtract 5 from both sides: 3x = 15. Then I divide by 3, so x = 5!

M
T

Perfect reasoning — you kept the balance. Let's check: 3·5 + 5 = 20 ✓. Ready for one with a fraction?

½x − 3 = 7
Literary analysis — narrator's perspective
T

Read this fragment and tell me: is the narrator inside the story or outside it? How do you know?

"I watched the ship disappear behind the horizon. My hands were shaking, though I couldn't tell if it was from cold or fear."

The narrator is inside — she says "I watched" and "my hands". She's also telling us what she feels, so it's first person.

M
T

Exactly — first-person narrator with limited knowledge. Notice she says "I couldn't tell" — she doesn't know everything. How would this scene change if someone outside told it?

Reading comprehension — inference
T

Read the passage carefully. Then answer — the answer is NOT written directly in the text. You need to figure it out.

"Sarah put on her warmest coat, grabbed an umbrella, and sighed as she looked out the window. The trees were bending sideways."

What can you infer about the weather?

Evidence: "warmest coat" + "umbrella" + "trees bending sideways" = strong wind and rain.
Forces — Newton's third law
Video: what happens when you push off a wall on a skateboard?
Draw a force diagram: action arrow ↔ reaction arrow
Experiment: push two toy cars together — measure which rolls further and why
Tutor discussion: explain why a rocket works in space where there's nothing to push against
T

Your diagram is correct. Now predict: if one car is heavier, will the forces still be equal?

💬Chat
📝Quiz
🔬Experiment
✏️Practice

The first step is free

A campus starts with families, not a building. Sign up now.

We open in cities where enough families raise their hands. The waitlist is that signal — and the families on it get everything first. The first cohorts in each city will be small.

When you join the list, you get: 0 zł
  • Priority access to platformie do naukiyour child can start the morning learning block before any campus opens
  • An Experience Day invitationyour child lives one full day of this school before you decide anything
  • Parent briefings in your citystraight answers about the program, safety and the legal model
  • A real vote on the mapcities with the biggest lists get their campus first
Choose your city and join

Free and non-binding. Not an enrollment, not a payment — a signal. If it's not for you, one click removes you.

Fair questions

Everything a careful parent should ask first.

2 hours of one-on-one, personalized work is not the same currency as 2 hours in a class of 25. There is no waiting, no repeating mastered material, no pace set for someone else. The core academics fit — and the rest of the day is not "time off", it is projects, movement, relationships and life skills.

The learning block takes about two hours and is split into short sessions with breaks — for the youngest children it is shorter still, with part of the practice happening away from the screen. The rest of the day is deliberately screen-free: projects, movement, people. In total, that is less screen time than at a typical school with homework on a laptop.

Yes — and this is exactly the situation the model is built for. Nobody has to pass a language test to start. Teachers are bilingual, so a child is never left without help in Polish, and the platform runs the morning block at the language level your child actually has. A full day of English works precisely because it is a day, not a lesson: within a few months children stop translating in their heads and simply start speaking.

The technology does one thing: it personalizes the academic path — level, pace, practice, catching gaps early. Everything human stays human: a teacher is physically beside your child all day, responsible for motivation, wellbeing and relationships. And when the platform is not enough, a live teacher joins online.

The legal form depends on the city and country: a formal school, a learning studio or homeschool support. We open a location only where the legal and safety requirements are met — and each city page states its current status honestly.

Tuition will depend on the city and format, and we will publish it before anyone commits to anything. Today the only step is the free waitlist — it costs nothing and obliges you to nothing, and any future paid offer will show its full terms before payment.

Then you lose nothing — the list is free. Meanwhile families on the list can still get early access to the learning platform, online briefings and Experience Day invites in nearby cities. And every signup makes your city a stronger candidate.

If the model makes sense for your family, choose your city.