Heroes of the January Uprising 1863 Public Elementary School in Nowa Wieś

Public education in Nowa Wieś dates back to around 1919 to the times of the first preschool and kindergarten for the poor, formed by landowner Tadeusz Marian Daszewski. In 1922, local farmers organized to purchase a plot, on which a wooden schoolhouse was built. In the late 1930s, two more rooms had to be rented from farmers in Gołębiów and Nowa Wieś.

After World War II broke out, classes were suspended and the school building was taken over by German soldiers, who destroyed the equipment and almost all the documents. During the occupation, classes were occasionally resumed, to be interrupted repeatedly. Lessons took place in a devastated building, private homes, and at the Fruit Growing Experimental Facility in Nowa Wieś (Sadowniczy Zakład Doświadczalny w Nowej Wsi).

In 1959, a Community School Building Committee (Społeczny Komitet Budowy Szkoły) was formed. One and a half hectares (over 3 acres) of the Facility’s acreage was allocated to building a modern school, which opened in 1973. Further efforts on part of the principal, teachers, and parents concentrated on equipping the school with learning materials, expanding the library, breathing more life into existing clubs and creating new clubs and school organizations. The school started a hostel for hikers and bikers visiting Mazovia. In the 1990s, a landscaped green space was created, and the School was named for Heroes of the January Uprising 1863.

From September 1, 2002, the elementary school is part of the Kindergarten and School Complex in Nowa Wieś (Zespół Szkolno-Przedszkolny w Nowej Wsi). The list of principals starts in 1922 with Marianna Chojnacka and follows with Julia Charzyńska, Wiktoria Gretkiewicz, Stanisław Muranowicz (1950-1991), Stanisława Róg, Anna Przybylska. The current principal Marzena Tomaszewska has been in office since 2012.