1. This national day (23 institutions of the new state. Over the next eight years, performances,took photos and applaud their children. offices. The President, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet
April National Ataturk and his followers adopted sweeping reforms to Ministers, provincial governors all turn over their
Some of students took presents from the school because
Sovereignty and create a modern Turkey, divorced from her Ottoman past. positions to children's representatives.
They had a degree in the competitions of writing
Children's Day) in In unprecedented moves, he dedicated the sovereignty
poems,drawing pictures,writing compositions about
Turkey is a unique event. day to the children and entrusted in the hands of the Every year, Lots of children come to Turkey from
meaning and importance of the 23th of April.
The founder of the youth the protection of this sovereignty and different nationalities for this festival, so we also intive
Turkish Republic, independence. Also as a different activity for this 23th of April ,we our partner pupils from other countries to Turkey and
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, prepared a sale of work,and all teachers made some cakes join our Big Festival.And we hope the next year,In Czech
In our school,We
dedicated April 23 to the and etc...And We prepared stands for it.Students became Republic,we can
celebrated “The
children of the country to emphasize that they are the the sellers and they earnt money for our school by selling meet to celebrate
Children’s Day” as a
future of the new nation. It was on April 23, 1920, the cakes on the festival day. our “European
festival like the other
during the War of Independence, that the Grand National
schools all around the Every year, the children in Turkey celebrate this Young Festival”
Assembly met in Ankara and laid down the foundations "Sovereignty and Children's Day" as a national See You:)
country. Parents of
of a new, independent, secular, and modern republic holiday. Schools participate in week-long ceremonies
pupils come to school
from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. Following the marked by performances in all fields in large stadiums
from the other
defeat of the Allied invasion forces on September 9, 1922 watched by the entire nation. Among the activities on this
villages for the
and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne on July 24, day, the children send their representatives to replace
festival.Our students danced,acted sketches,played games
1923, Ataturk started his task of establishing the state officials and high ranking bureaucrats in their
and sing songs.And their parents watched their
It was a very beautiful place with many nature spaces to our beds. gymkhana, traditional games, football, volleyball, eco-
carry out the activities. It was divided in two areas, one logical routes or reading.
We carried out many activities including climbing, recy-
of them was the forest and the other one was the animal’s
Beatriz Gil, a 5th grade student from our school (CEIP area. Some of the animals were pigs, cows, goats, os- cling works, environmental activities, water polo (the We hope to fulfill our prospects to get enough money for
Los Olivos), was the region winner of the contest “¿Qué triches, horses… water was really cold), games, English classes, visits in the trip. However, the most important thing for us is to
es un rey para ti?” (What’s a king for you?). the farm… The most interesting thing was that in all of learn and to value how much effort we have to do to get
We participated in many activities such as clay’s works, these activities the teachers communicated with us in money.
For this contest, 1,298 students from 83 schools present- making flutes, English classes, environment and astrono- English!!
ed their works, which may consist on tales, poetry, com- my works, riding horses, visits to the farm and the green-
ics, pictures, crafts or any other form of expression, ei- house, games, disco and dancing. It was really a great experience!! We made new friends
ther in paper or in a digital format. from Huesca and especially new teachers who spoke
The last day the different groups prepared choreography English very well.
Our students Beatriz presented a beautiful sculpture of and danced in the stage with all the students as public.
King Juan Carlos I, dressed as a Spanish footballer and
accompanied by a poem. This work was the winner due We really enjoyed, we learnt so much about everything
to its originality and physical resemblance to the King of and especially the teachers congratulated us for our great
Spain. English!!
Every year, the students in the 6th grade celebrate the
Thanks to this work, Beatriz could visit and give the ending of the school year going on a school trip. This
monarch her work in person, accompanied by her family, year we are thinking about travelling to “Valle del Jerte”
her teacher, and the winners from other regions. in Cáceres in the South-West of Spain. We have orga-
nized a small market to make some money with the help
of our families.
During the week we organize some groups to be respon- Valle del Jerte (Cáceres)
sible of the market at the break time. The rest of the stu-
Last 10th October 2011, the 6th grade students participat- dents in the school visit us and some of them collaborate The sixth grade students go every year to an End of Year
ed in a school trip. We went to “Valencia”, a city situated with us buying some of our products. The families come trip. This year we are going to “Valle del Jerte” and we
in the East of Spain. We spent the week on a bilingual there during the break and do the same as well. In this have organized a bazaar in order to get some money for
Last 10th October 2011, the 6th grade students from our the trip. Our parents have helped for this purpose.
school farm with “King’s College”. We shared this expe- market we are selling hand-made objects by the 6th grade
school went on a school trip to “Mohernando”. Moher-
rience with another school from “Huesca” in the Nord- students. Some of the products we are selling are toys, Some of the things we are selling are: homemade imita-
nando is a small village that belongs to our province
West of our country. brooches, bracelets, food, biscuits or cakes. tion of jewellery and art, toys, homemade food and any
Guadalajara. Only thirty minutes far away from our city.
We spent one week on an English bilingual school farm We travelled by bus. We left our city at three o’clock in Up to now we have collected one thousand euros approx- other object donated by students and their families.
with other students from a school in Madrid, the capital the afternoon and we arrived there at half past eight in the imately. However, we have planned to collect more mon- We have collected about €1000 but there is still more
of our country. evening. ey. money left to collect.
We left our city at half past nine in the morning and we When we arrived, we met the new teachers we were go- We are all really excited with the trip because we will All of us are very excited about the trip because we are
arrived there at ten o’clock in the morning as well. The ing to have during the week. After that, they showed us carry out many sporty activities in nature such as riding going to do lots of environmental activities and we are
journey was really short. our rooms and we had some discussions when choosing horses, swimming in the river, archery, night activities, going to have a fantastic time.
Students in year 3
was wonderful, but very cold! In our middle school, students in year 3 usually go on a ranto to which the city gives its name. There we visited a
church with the bones of 800 martirs who were killed by
Then we visited Raffaello’s birthplace or also called long school trip.
Turkish in 1480
Casa Santi (Giovanni Santi was Raffaello’s father) that This year, in April, we went to Basilicata and Puglia, in
now is an important museum where you can admire the South of Italy. We visited some famous towns for The last day we visited Alberobello which had some par-
important paintings. three days. ticular houses called Trulli. We could visit them inside.
The Trulli of Alberobello are part of the UNESCO World
Later we had lunch and we went to Recanati. There we We left from school at 5:00 am of the 2nd April. Heritage sites list since 1996.
visited Leopardi’s house, but just the library because
the house is inhabitated by Leopardi’e descendants. We arrived to Matera at about midday. We had lunch and
This library is very famous and it contains 12,000 old then we visited the oldest part of the town that is called We had lunch with some sandwiches and then we visited
books! the “Sassi di Matera (meaning "Stones of Matera").The Castel del Monte, a medieval castle. It was built by the
Sassi are houses dug into the calcareous rock itself, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II during the 1240s;
In the evening, very tired, we went back home. which is characteristic of Basilicata. We left at 5:00 pm and got home at about 11.30.
Our school trip was really great. We enjoyd it very We left during the afternoon and we arrived to our hotel
much!!!! Come and visit these wonderful places!
near Lecce in the evening.
Students in year 2 Our trip was great!!!
The hotel was confortable and our bedrooms were over-
looking the sea as the restaurant where one day, while we
were having breakfast, we saw some dolphins from the
windows. What an impressive sight!!! We had dinner at
On the 7th April we went on a school trip to Marche. We the hotel restaurant; the food was very good. We tried
visited Urbino and Recanati. some typical dishes as “orecchiette alle cime di rapa” ( a
typical kind of pasta with broccoli).
Urbino is a small town famous for its reinassance culture.
The following day we visited Lecce one of the most im-
The main attraction of Urbino is the Palazzo Ducale, be- portant city of Puglia. We admired its particular baroque
gun in the second half of the 15th century by Federico II style; we visited lots of cherches. Because of the rich Ba-
da Montefeltro. It houses the Galleria Nazionale delle roque architectural monuments found in the city, Lecce is
Marche, one of the most important collections of Renais- commonly nicknamed "The Florence of the South".
sance paintings in the world.
We had lunch at the hotel and during the afternoon we
We visited “Palazzo Ducale and some of its 260 rooms. visited Otranto. It’s a sea town, near by the Strait of Ot-
The State Dinimg Room was the biggest in the palace; it

2. Project Day with Amos Night with Andersen
Project “Day with Amos” took
part at our school on 28th
We would like to let you know about a night of fairy tales
March 2012. We reminded
which the children in our school experienced for the
420th jubilee of birth of
twelfth time this year. On Friday, March 30th 2012 many
“Teacher of nations” Jan Amos Comenius in unconven-
libraries and schools in the Czech Republic, and also in
tional way. All teachers prepared funny lesson. Children
Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia prepared an interesting pro-
could form their own timetable from eleven unconven-
gramme with a night reading of fairy tales.
tional workshops. It was interesting because we tried
something new than usually. I registered playing the This year was dedicated to two important personalities of
drums, P.E. with Mrs.director, I learned Morse code. My our culture Božena Němcová and Jiří Trnka. In the even-
favorite lesson was preparing fruit salads with ing we started to create the puppet from socks, because
Mrs.teacher Jurčíková. I even tried one at home. Jiří Trnka was well-known puppet master. After dinner The*king of skipping rope
Kateřina*rabalová pupils informed other children about a life and work of On Wednesday 25th of April children competed in skipping.
these personalities. They had They were divided into three categories. The youngest children
prepared presentation, their – 1stclasses,
books and other curiosities. 2ndcategory were pupils from 2nd and 3rd classes and 3rd catego-
Then teachers prepared a ry were children from 4th and 5th classes. Girls from my class
quiz for children. We read took 1st and 3rd place. We were
some fairy tales at night. very happy.
Next year you can add to Klára Pelcová
us.
Silvie Vyoralová
knife and a file. For sawing the amber we need a string devices were gathered in the front of our building. Electro
Talents Discovering saw. Other tools are chisel, powered drill, lathe, drill. The garbage thrown away to the city bins or in the bosom of
Greeks called amber „Electron”, the Romans: „Succinum, nature are dangerous to our health and our environment.
School and the Balts and Slavs called it „Jantar”. It is said that in
Pasłęk (small town near Elbląg, Poland) there is a famous
Used electic devices contain harmful substances which in
case of the ones stored improperly, reach the ground
Amber Room hidden by the Gremans. If you set a fire on water and therefore pollute
We have joined to the group of the „Talents
the piece of amber, it will smoke for a while, then it stops
Discovering School”. This title was given us by the
smoking, becomes black and smells badly. But the smell
Minister of National Education and it means that our
is very healthy and good for your throat and lungs.
school discovers, promotes and develops the students who
are the laureates and finalists of the city, province and
national competitions. Our school can be found on Polish
Talents Discovering School map on the internet website
Searching for the Amber
www.ore.edu.pl/odkrywamytalenty. It is worth to
mention that in Elblag, only 6 schools were given such an
Room with the mayor
award.
One of the tasks we set ourselves in running „The School
Visit in the on the Amber Track” project was a trip to Pasłęk and visit
in the Teutonic castle where the mysterious Amber
Room (a masterpiece of German artists) was looked for in
Museum 1980 . We were welcomed in the Knight Room by the
town mayor, Wiesław Śniecikowski. He is the author of
On the 12th of April our the book titled “The mysteries of the Castle in Pasłęk,”
students went to the museum Turkish ABC which describes
to see the lesson about the mainly the searching
amber. The museum worker What connects Turkey and the Trojan Horse? Where do
told us about the roots of Collection of the Electro the tulips come from? How the Turkish coffee should be
for the Amber
Room.
amber, and what it can be prepared? You could find all the answers and many other
used for (game counters, Garbage interesting information on the exhibition about Turkey in
jewlery). Different tools are our school Library. 9
used for grinding the amber. Primary School no 4 collected electro garbage between
The most basic ones are a March 21 and 28. All used, broken and useless electronic
a classroom of an other school. Our bus driver was a very
CHILDREN´S FESTIVAL helpful man who helped us with the blowing up of the APRIL 11 – HUNGARIAN EARTH
mattresses. Every evening we were writing a special
diary about our whole day, what we were doing, seeing POETRY DAY DAY AT
and we had to put down our feelings as well.
On Friday, the third day we visited the zoo in Veszprém
The Hungarians are the
only nation who
OUR
where we could see a lot of interesting animals –
monkeys were the best ones. In the afternoon we got two
commemorate their
national poetry on April
SCHOOL
hours for shopping in a nice shopping center. We all 11 every year. In 1905 On Earth Day April 22 various events are held all over
bought some presents for our relatives. Attila József one of the the world to increase the appreciation of the Earth's natu-
most famous poets of the ral environment. This day is celebrated in more than 175
On Saturday the festival was open – anyone from the
20th century was born on countries.
town could come and take part in it, in all the activities.
this day.
There were various performances on the stage. Our two Our school also celebrated this day on April 23. All the
The 2012 Children´s Festival in Pápa organized by students took part in it. We have been studying till 1 pm
girls were singing so beautifully that both of them got Our school invites a
“Zabhegyező Gyerekanimátorok Egyesülete“ promised to and we went to the school ground in the afternoon. We
a standing ovation. They were very happy. contemporary poet or
be the best one. The 21st Festival was organized from poets for a talk with the took out our plants from the classrooms and corridors and
4th April to 8th April in Pápa, Hungary. On Sunday we were very sad. We had to say goodbye to
students every year. This year Zoltán Szászi from replanted them outside. After we had watered them, we
the festival, our friends and organizers.
Some of our students took part in this festival for the Rimaszombat and Boglárka Rácz from Fülek took all the pot plants back to school to their original
fourth time this year. We arrived home to Rimaszombat at about four in the commemorated the literature. They were reading from places. Both teachers and students were very satisfied.
afternoon. The good company, meeting new people, Sándor Márai´s works.
On the first day we were very excited because of the interesting programs, a lot of fun, laughing and delicious
travelling. The bus left at 8 o´clock in the morning. We food are the reasons why it is worth taking part in this
have been laughing a lot all the way because we knew we festival.
would have perfect four days. We stopped in Párkány
and picked up one of our ex-students.
After we had arrived at Pápa, we started with an “Atlantis
Game“ in one of the primary schools. There were many
interesting programs prepared for us every day:
interactive games, funny meetings with other students,
visiting the zoo in the nearby town Veszprém, sports,
face painting, dance, magic ... well, it was fantastic.
At nights we were sleeping in sleeping bags in