Best wishes in Polish

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Czech Christmas

St Nicholas Day

St. Nicholas' Day is on 6th December but we celebrate it

during the night of 5th December. In this evening

St. Nicholas together with Angels and Devils come to our houses.

St. Nicholas has got a beautiful yellow coat, yellow boots

and a white hat with a yellow cross. Angels have beautiful wings and dresses.

They usually have beautiful hair too. Devils have horns

and a very long red tongue. They are black and sometimes

they have a tail and a chain. They have a sack.

If children were bad, the devil puts them inside the sack.

But only for a small moment. Then the children can come back.

The children are afraid of the Devils but they like

St. Nicholas and Angels who usually carry a basket

with sweets for good children and coal for bad children.

Let's go to one of the flats now...

Today is 5th December. Now it is the evening.

We are in a flat with three children. We are waiting for

St. Nicholas' parade. Somebody is ringing. I am looking who it is.

I hope, it is St. Nicholas. Yes, it is. I am opening the door.

There is St. Nicholas, two angels and five devils.

Children are begging not to let them in. But I am letting them in.

The Angels are carrying a basket with some sweets.

Children are looking at the basket. Now one of the devils

is going to the children. He is asking them if they were good.

They say yes. The Angels are giving them some goodies.

The Devils give them some coal too. They are frightening the kids.

Now they are finally leaving while St. Nicholas is smiling.

They are waving their hands. The next St. Nicholas' visit will be next year.

The children are happy and they will remember this evening for a long time.

17th November in the Czech school

17th November is the National Holiday in the Czech Republic. People stay at home and children do not go to school. That is why we celebrate it earlier at school. The programme is prepared by the students and the teachers themselves. It begins in the gym, where we can watch some dances and gymnastics. After this performance students can choose, some sports or music and drama. They can also draw pictures in the Art room or take part in the chemistry and physics laboratiories. This year there was also a new drama group.

We celebrate 17th November to remember the year 1939 when Czech students took part in the funeral of one of them and they protested against German troops in Czechoslovakia. As the result of this demonstration, Czech Universities were closed for 6 years. A lot of Czech students were sent to concentration camps.


On 17th November 1989- Czech students protested against the Communist government and the polical situation in the country. They were stopped by the State police, but the whole nation wasn´t stopped and the Velvet revolution started. We have become free. Since that time we have been trying to live in democracy and we would never like to have the communist government back.

3rd December - Day of Disabled Persons

The 3rd of November was proclaimed the International Day of Disabled Persons by the United Nations General Assembly in 1992. It's aimed to promote understanding about disability issues and to increase awarness of gains form integrating disabled persons in every aspect of life.

This idea is present in our school life as we have an "integrative class". This year to celebrate 3rd December the students from class II A invited a class from another school with integrative classes. We prepared a talk show and then our guests demonstrated a beatboxing show. They told us about their school and we presented them ours.

19th November in our school

19th November was a special day for our school - there was a ceremony of giving Gimnazjum nr 14 the name of prof. Jan Karski. Many guests were invited to attend this ceremony. Among them there were: the president of Ruda Śląska – Mr Andrzej Stania, the representatives of educational authorities, city councillors, directors of organizations our school cooperates with. The guest of honour during our celebration was Ms Kaya Mirecka-Ploss – the executive director of The Jan Karski Institute for Tolerance and Dialogue in Washington (with the branch in Ruda Śląska since 17 November 2008).

The motto of the ceremony were Karski’s words: “We live as long as the memory about us remains alive”. To present the life of our patron and values he found important in his life the students prepared a performance based on Karski’s book “The story of secret state”. The show presented Karski’s fight for truth and courage during the World War II and trust he put in young people. As youth was so important for him the students and teachers are going to take steps to make moral values present in their everyday lives.

To see more you can enter our local TV website:

http://www.sferatv.pl/a/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=63&nr=1

Poland National Independence Day

On 11th November Poland celebrates National Independence Day. It is a public holiday to commemorate the anniversary of regaining independence after 123 years of partitions between Prussia, Russia and Austria. Polish Independence Day is connected with general Józef Piłsudski. 11th November is the day the Regency Council appointed him Commander-in-Chief of Polish forces. The Indepence Day was constituted in1937 adn was a national holiday in the inter-war Poland. After the World War II the holiday repudiate. In 1989 the 11th November was re-establish as the National Independence Day.

1st November in our city.

On 1st Novemberthe young people from our school for the fourth time collected money at the cemetery in Bielszowice. Students and teachers gathered donations to the John Paul II Hospice in Ruda Śląska. It's worth mentioning that year by year the generosity of people from Bielszowice is growing, because this time we collected 3459.72 zł. Once again, thanks to this charity action we could realize that "whoever believes in the goodness of man, this creates the goodness in man" (Jean Paul Sartre)

The Third Theatrical Meetings for Disabled Persons

On 29thOctober some of us went to the Community Culture Centre to attend The Third Theatrical Meetings for Disabled Persons. During this meeting we could see a performance by handicapped actors from centres for disabled people. There were also workshops by students from Theatre School from Katowice. The motto of the meeting were the words of Pope John Paul II:
"Man is great not by what he possesses but what he is, not by what he has but by what he shares with the others. Man is not only the creator of his actions but by these actions he is also in some way, "the creator of himself" ".

Our school Gymnázium Česká Lípa

We are sorry that it is not clear. We had only a camera Kodak.When we changed the format it lost the quality.

International School Libraries Month

October was established an Intenational School Libraries month.

To celebrate it following competitions were organized in our school:

- A competition for a poster promoting libraries and reading

- A competition for a book mark

- A competition about our national epic “Pan Tadeusz” by Adam Mickiewicz

Competition titled: “Guess who is this?” – students are supposed recognize the caricatures of famous Polish Writers and poets.

A week with the eTwinning

On 20th October a week with the eTwinning started in the Czech Republic. There were a lot of schools involved in this event. Their task was to write a story about two little men, one is blue and one is red. They visit our towns and schools and have a lot of fun. The schools are writing the story non-stop during the day and at night. My students were at school at night from 20th to 21st October. We had a great time together.

TEACHERS TOO ARE GOD'S CREATURES

On the 14th of October Polish teachers and students celebrated National Education Day (commonly known as Teacher’s Day). On the day before this holiday students invited their teachers for the performance. The members of school Drama Club presented the play titled "TEACHERS TOO ARE GOD’S CREATURES". The main character is the teacher who is looking for a job. It all starts in paradise where God - after Adam and Ewa - creates the teacher to help them teach their children. But violence used by the teacher isn't a suitable method in paradise, so he loses his job. Then he finds the job in hell, but he loses it again because this time his methods are too kind and humane and little devils become angels, so it is shameful for them. Finally, the teacher comes on Earth, to Gimnazjum nr 14 in Ruda Śląska. He talks with the students about their plans for future and sharply criticizes them. Ten years later God comes to him and shows him the newspaper, in which numerous successes of his former students are described. The teacher explains that he complained in order to motivate students to work, because this is his role:-)

National Education Day in Poland

14 October is celebrated in Poland as National Education Day (commonly known as Teacher's Day). It is celebrated on the anniversary of establishing the Commission of National Education by king Stanisław August Poniatowski in 1773.

HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY FOR ALL TEACHERS!

Lots of enthusiasm, cooperative students and satisfaction:-)

October chat

On 9th October our first chat took place! It was an occasion to exchange opinions about favourite subjects, teachers and generally about things we like and don't like in our schools. We also wrote about school roles and special events so both schools learned something more about their patners. Looking forward to next meeting!

Working on the project

Nada- the Czech teacher

Girls 2

Hello from the girls

Hello from the boys

26th September

International chat in the last minute

On 26th September, our school took part in the International chat on line on the www.etwinning.net.

The coordinator of the chat was our school and we invited several countries into our twinspace Living Traditions.

And so at 10.00 am of the Czech time there were students from the Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Romania, Greece, Portugal and Spain.
The chat was in the twinspace of our project with Romania and all the students were very serious about it. Some of them exchanged their email addresses during the chat. We can´t give any statistics now because immediatelly after the chat the portal etwinning was closed for several days.

On 29th September www.etwinning.net will be open again in a new coat. Thank you all who took part in our chat.

European Day of Languages

26th September is celebrated as European Day of Languages. This year Enlglish teachers organized a quiz which mainly checked the knowledge about the UK and general knowledge (intuition:-)) about various European languages.

Good luck with the following task!

Match the below “thank you” phrases with the proper language.

Finnish Croatian Russian Greek Albanian
French Slovak Hungarian Norwegian Spanish

1) hvala - ………..……………………
2) ευχαριστώ - …...………………..
3) takk - ………………………………
4) cпасибо - …….……………………
5) köszönöm - ……………………….
6) faleminderit - …................……

7) merci - ………………..................
8) dakujem - ……..……….............

Greetings from Poland!

Photos from The Polish group

Hello everybody

Hello all the etwinners who will work in this project. I am glad that we have already started and I wish you a lot of interesting moments with our project Let´s /b/log in.

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