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6.01.2008

Spring Day 2008 in our school



Spring Day 2008 in our school

Our school takes part in the programme Spring Day every year and during the time from March to June, there are a lot of activities based on this programme. www.springday2008.net

The first event happened on 14th April when our school was visited by the students from the German partner school in Ettal. Czech students had a chance to talk to their German friends and especially for the younger students it was a good experience to practise their foreign language knowledge in real life. The students asked a lot of questions and they compared the life in our country and Germany.

The youngest children, who study English, worked on line and had to find some information about life of the children { of the same age} from various parts of the world. They used directed reading on the website http://www.cambridge.org/elt/messages/

Sekunda B worked on the project with the Slovak school in Puchov and they collected a lot of old photos from the life of their relatives. They compared the way of life now with the one forty years ago. The Slovak children did the same. The Czech children informed their parents about this activity on the teachers-parents meeting and they organized a small exhibition in the corridor of the school building. They also used the photos for a short film which has been uploaded into the competition of Spring Day 2008. http://sekunda-neighbours.blogspot.com/ This is the blog of our project.

The students from tercie A went on a trip to Greece from 5th-10th May to see their friends from the eTwinning project Music helps us live. This project won the first place in the Czech Republic and so visiting Greece was a very nice reward. The students met in the gym of Kavassila High School and they had a programme together with the Greek children. They danced together at the end of the programme and exchanged small presents. http://musichelpsuslive.blogspot.com

We had a quiz which was created by the students from Slovakia, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. The quiz had 32 questions and 52 students from our school answered them correctly. There was a draw on 19th May and some students from the quiz got small prizes.

I am glad to say that also students from the Senior Grammar School took part in the competition of Spring Day 2008. They were inspired by the Art teacher Ms Abermannova and they took really beautiful pictures of spring nature, life of other nations in our town and our town. Some of their pieces of art were uploaded into the Spring Day competiton.{ my film}

I can also say that the student from kvarta A Helena P., who is only fifteen, won the second place in the National Competition of English conversation in Prague. It is for the second time when our small school in a small town have beaten the students from big regional schools. We are very happy for that.

The one of the last events in May was an International visit in our school. The students from the French partner school arrived and they spent free May days with our students.

It is not possible in our school which contains two grammar schools, Junior and Senior, to organize the whole day celebrations of Spring Day, but we are glad that we can take part in the activites which are ready for us on the very useful website www.springday2008.net. We are looking forward to being one of the Spring Day schools also next year.

Mgr. Nadezda Kadlecova