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.