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"Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year..."( ABBA song) HAPPY NEW YEAR to our dear Comenius Friends and all visitors who are always kindly welcome to our blog.Today 1st January 2011 we had 1,091 visitors altogether and they came from:
USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Norway, Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Finland, Ireland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Taiwan, Czech Rep, India, Ukraine, Singapore, France, New Zealand, Brazil, Philippines, Turkey, Slovakia, Estonia, Mexico, Romania, Chile, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Thailand, Malaysia, Switzerland, Aruba, Greece, Cambodia, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Qatar, Macedonia, Bangladesh, Japan and Pakistan. Lovely to see you all !
Our pupils have great Geography lesson by looking at the flag counter and map :-)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Last day before Christmas holiday is always very special at school. We haven`t got any lessons but we meet in the classroom to have traditional "wigilia". We share "opłatek" and wish each other all the best.
After that there is a nativity play. This year it was prepared by youngest pupils.
We had the best class decoration contest and the best crib competition.
Smok okrutny był to, wierzcie,
ryczał groźnie i donośnie,
więc mieszkaniec każdy w mieście,
pragnął uciec, gdzie pieprz rośnie!That`s how the legend of Wawel`s Castle Dragon starts. The author Urszula Kozłowska visited our school last week and met pupils from younger classes. The meeting was part of big action - "All of Poland reads to kids", which aim is to promote reading and listening to stories. Please visit the link below to learn more:http://www.allofpolandreadstokids.org/home
We will tell you more about Dragon of Wawel Castle soon....
Yesterday it was a great day because we received a big envelope of beautiful Christmas cards from Dr FERRER school in Artes. Thank you very much for lovely surprise! Moltes gràcies per sorpresa encantadora!
Today we had so called "open" school day and we presented some cards on Comenius Board and the website to our parents and guests so we hope the number of visitors will grow rapidly.
We had an annual Christmas Fair where we sold Christmas decos made by parents.
The first sign of coming holiday is St Nicholas Day on December 6th. On this day St. Nicholas ”Świety Mikołaj” comes to our houses, schools and brings sweets and toys. Children who were bad this year receive twigs called “rózga” as a punishment. It`s not so serious just kind of warning J
 In Poland we decorate Christmas tree a few days before Christmas, we send Christmas cards to our family and friends and prepare special Christmas food.We have Christmas supper on Christmas Eve. It is called “Wigilia” We start the supper when the first star appears in the sky. Before supper we break and share a thin wafer called ”opłatek” with whole family. We wish each other fulfilment of their wishes. Then we sit at a table, which is covered with white table cloth. There is some hay underneath to remind that Baby Jesus was born in stable.
 Then we eat red beet soup “barszcz” with little mushroom filled dumplings “uszka”, “pierogi” with different kinds of filling, carp, "kutia" (wheat,poppy seeds,raisins and nuts pudding)dried- fruit compote and cakes. The menu is a bit different depending where you live. sharing opłatek
Christmas Eve menu
Under the Christmas tree there are presents for whole family, it is always fun to open them. We sing “kolędy” carols. We believe that our animals can speak on Christmas Eve and we listen carefully to our dogs and cats.
Carolers are visiting houses singing and playing instruments or even giving small nativity performance. Please have a look at the example of Polish traditional carol and see some carolers.
Young boys wearing costumes of King Herod, an Angel, Devil, Death, Wild Ox etc. walk from house to house They sing carols and get some money. They are called "kolędnicy"At midnight, people go to “pasterka” Midnight Mass. In the church there is “szopka” which displays St Mary, St Joseph, baby Jesus, shepherds and animals.
On Christmas Day and St Stephans we visit our family and have a big dinner.
Wesołych Świat Bożego Narodzenia!
Some cards made by pupils in Poland for their friends in Europe.
 by Wojtek  by Magda  by Julia  by Ania
To print the page just click on the image to enlarge it and print it.
Święty Mikołaj means Saint Nicholas. He arrived to our town yesterday evening. You can see some great photos here: http://www.przemysl.pl/nasze_miasto/15211.htmlToday he visited our school and met all the pupils. He arrived in accompany of two little angels and handed us presents. It is one of the most beautiful day at school and Święty Mikołaj is always very welcome.
Asia is an eight-year girl. Once upon a time she decides to go for a walk ,she goes to the library and finds an amazing book called “Visiting the Witches”. When she starts reading, it turns out that the book is magic. Asia moves to the land where seven witches live. She must visit all of them….this is the beginning of a fairy tale written by Polish writer Lidia Miś.
Last week in Przemyśl Public Library witches, wizards and fairies could meet the author and take part in reading competition. Our school was represented by three contestants : Julia, Kasia and Emilka.
In the newest edition of Życie Podkarpackie, which is a local newspaper of Przemyśl there is an article about our meeting. It shortly tells about the aims of our project and about the meeting in November. Kristens, Ilze and Alise are telling about the differences they noticed in Polish school. The title " They want to create a little community" Can`t read it? Well, another reason to learn Polish :-)
In our project as much as we want to use modern ICT technologies we also want to increase key competencies like reading and writing both in mother tongue and foreign language.That`s why we asked pupils who met in Przemyśl, to write and send simple postcard to their friends in partners` countries and to their own school.
Our meeting started on November 2nd with a special dinner in La Costa restaurant.There arrive 19 participants from 5 countries Latvia, Slovenia, Holland,Catalonia and Portugal. The next day we visited Primary School No 11. Pupils were very excited to meet foreign teachers and pupils from Latvia. Classes prepared something interesting to show. We could see not only Polish lessons, Maths, Religion Education, Sport and Science but aslo dancing class and after school club called here "świetlica". At the Town Hall we met Mrs H.Kaszycka- Paniw who represented the President of the town. After that we had a walk to the castle and took some pictures for the project website. At school things were getting ready for a little concert. There were Polish national dances - polonez (Polonaise) but we aslo could see Ukrainian Folk dance presented by special guests from nearby school with Ukrainian language.There were some songs and a poem.At the end we all danced polonez. In the afternoon there were meetings: teachers - pupils, Polish pupils - Latvian pupils and Comenius meeting where we discussed the project.Pupils wrote postcards to partners`schools and work on project dictionary. The evening teachers spent at Carmelitan Closter :-) and pupils at one of the host families. On Thursday we went for a trip as well as Class 4b whom we met at Bircza Forests Educational Complex.The trip finished in Arłamów tourist resort http://www.arlamow.pl/At the dinner we could meet local Member of Parliament Mr Marek Rząsa , it was also the last evening with Latvian guests. Those who stayed till Saturday could see Przemysl Fortress http://www.wrota.podkarpackie.pl/en/tourism/attractions/military/przemysl_fortressKrasiczyn Castle, http://www.krasiczyn.com.pl/en/index.phpŁańcut Castle http://www.zamek-lancut.pl/en/and Przemyśl Skiing Station. To see more photos please have a look at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46809609@N08/sets/72157625229537115/It was great to meet school coordinators, teachers and pupils from partners countries. We made new friends and it looks like the project going to be enjoyable and we are all looking forward to make the progress in our work.
At sport hall after the concert.
At the Town Hall
Evening Party at the friendly Carmelitan Closter
Science lesson in Bircza
What do we know about our partners` countries? Please have a look at some art works by Polish pupils. More pictures at photos section.
Ania age 8
Pola age 10
Patrycja age 11
Joanna age 11
Klaudia age 12
 
It's history as a school has been varied by the two world wars. 1900 - 1913 saw the first school which was named after Emperor Joseph Francis. Exclusively a girls school it consisted of only 4 classes. Between 1939 - 1941 during the Russian occupation the school became known as Czekałowa School Number 6. 1944 - 1949 the school was renamed after Juliusz Słowackiego a Polish poet. In 1982 the school began a process of renovation and became School Number 11 which was co-educational and opened in 1987.
Our school today has about 300 pupils, and employees 25 teachers and 9 administrative staff and support workers. The school building now caters for 13 mixed classes in 12 classrooms with additional space comprising of, a dining-room, two sports halls, an extensive library, reading-room, IT suite, first aid room and a school counseling room. The school grounds have a hard surface play area, with a basketball court.
Out of hours, school clubs provide: foreign language tuition (English and German), additional Maths and Polish language lessons. Support is also provided for pupils with difficulties in confidence, posture, composure or diction. Outings and trips are organized and there are a number of nature, music, art and sports clubs.
The school actively participates in competitive forums and tournaments and has an equal opportunities policy which applies throughout our school and reminds us all as well as our children to be mindful and respectful to both ourselves and to others.
In 2006 -2009 our school took part in Comenius - Socrates project together with partners in Northern Ireland, Germany, France and Holland. The project was called WWWEUROKIDSWEB.COM. It was a great success. www.eurokidsweb.eu website was created as a joint product.
"Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year..."( ABBA song) HAPPY NEW YEAR to our dear Comenius Friends and all visitors who are always kindly welcome to our blog.Today 1st January 2011 we had 1,091 visitors altogether and they came from:
USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Norway, Australia, Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia, Finland, Ireland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Taiwan, Czech Rep, India, Ukraine, Singapore, France, New Zealand, Brazil, Philippines, Turkey, Slovakia, Estonia, Mexico, Romania, Chile, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Thailand, Malaysia, Switzerland, Aruba, Greece, Cambodia, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Qatar, Macedonia, Bangladesh, Japan and Pakistan. Lovely to see you all !
Our pupils have great Geography lesson by looking at the flag counter and map :-)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Last day before Christmas holiday is always very special at school. We haven`t got any lessons but we meet in the classroom to have traditional "wigilia". We share "opłatek" and wish each other all the best.
After that there is a nativity play. This year it was prepared by youngest pupils.
We had the best class decoration contest and the best crib competition.
Smok okrutny był to, wierzcie,
ryczał groźnie i donośnie,
więc mieszkaniec każdy w mieście,
pragnął uciec, gdzie pieprz rośnie!That`s how the legend of Wawel`s Castle Dragon starts. The author Urszula Kozłowska visited our school last week and met pupils from younger classes. The meeting was part of big action - "All of Poland reads to kids", which aim is to promote reading and listening to stories. Please visit the link below to learn more:http://www.allofpolandreadstokids.org/home
We will tell you more about Dragon of Wawel Castle soon....
Yesterday it was a great day because we received a big envelope of beautiful Christmas cards from Dr FERRER school in Artes. Thank you very much for lovely surprise! Moltes gràcies per sorpresa encantadora!
Today we had so called "open" school day and we presented some cards on Comenius Board and the website to our parents and guests so we hope the number of visitors will grow rapidly.
We had an annual Christmas Fair where we sold Christmas decos made by parents.
The first sign of coming holiday is St Nicholas Day on December 6th. On this day St. Nicholas ”Świety Mikołaj” comes to our houses, schools and brings sweets and toys. Children who were bad this year receive twigs called “rózga” as a punishment. It`s not so serious just kind of warning J
In Poland we decorate Christmas tree a few days before Christmas, we send Christmas cards to our family and friends and prepare special Christmas food.
We have Christmas supper on Christmas Eve. It is called “Wigilia” We start the supper when the first star appears in the sky. Before supper we break and share a thin wafer called ”opłatek” with whole family. We wish each other fulfilment of their wishes. Then we sit at a table, which is covered with white table cloth. There is some hay underneath to remind that Baby Jesus was born in stable.
Then we eat red beet soup “barszcz” with little mushroom filled dumplings “uszka”, “pierogi” with different kinds of filling, carp, "kutia" (wheat,poppy seeds,raisins and nuts pudding)dried- fruit compote and cakes. The menu is a bit different depending where you live.
sharing opłatek
Christmas Eve menu
Under the Christmas tree there are presents for whole family, it is always fun to open them. We sing “kolędy” carols. We believe that our animals can speak on Christmas Eve and we listen carefully to our dogs and cats.
Carolers are visiting houses singing and playing instruments or even giving small nativity performance. Please have a look at the example of Polish traditional carol and see some carolers.
Young boys wearing costumes of King Herod, an Angel, Devil, Death, Wild Ox etc. walk from house to house They sing carols and get some money. They are called "kolędnicy"At midnight, people go to “pasterka” Midnight Mass. In the church there is “szopka” which displays St Mary, St Joseph, baby Jesus, shepherds and animals.
On Christmas Day and St Stephans we visit our family and have a big dinner.
Wesołych Świat Bożego Narodzenia!
Some cards made by pupils in Poland for their friends in Europe.
by Wojtek by Magda by Julia by Ania
To print the page just click on the image to enlarge it and print it.
Święty Mikołaj means Saint Nicholas. He arrived to our town yesterday evening. You can see some great photos here: http://www.przemysl.pl/nasze_miasto/15211.htmlToday he visited our school and met all the pupils. He arrived in accompany of two little angels and handed us presents. It is one of the most beautiful day at school and Święty Mikołaj is always very welcome.
Asia is an eight-year girl. Once upon a time she decides to go for a walk ,she goes to the library and finds an amazing book called “Visiting the Witches”. When she starts reading, it turns out that the book is magic. Asia moves to the land where seven witches live. She must visit all of them….this is the beginning of a fairy tale written by Polish writer Lidia Miś.
Last week in Przemyśl Public Library witches, wizards and fairies could meet the author and take part in reading competition. Our school was represented by three contestants : Julia, Kasia and Emilka.
In the newest edition of Życie Podkarpackie, which is a local newspaper of Przemyśl there is an article about our meeting. It shortly tells about the aims of our project and about the meeting in November. Kristens, Ilze and Alise are telling about the differences they noticed in Polish school. The title " They want to create a little community" Can`t read it? Well, another reason to learn Polish :-)
In our project as much as we want to use modern ICT technologies we also want to increase key competencies like reading and writing both in mother tongue and foreign language.That`s why we asked pupils who met in Przemyśl, to write and send simple postcard to their friends in partners` countries and to their own school.
Our meeting started on November 2nd with a special dinner in La Costa restaurant.There arrive 19 participants from 5 countries Latvia, Slovenia, Holland,Catalonia and Portugal. The next day we visited Primary School No 11. Pupils were very excited to meet foreign teachers and pupils from Latvia. Classes prepared something interesting to show. We could see not only Polish lessons, Maths, Religion Education, Sport and Science but aslo dancing class and after school club called here "świetlica". At the Town Hall we met Mrs H.Kaszycka- Paniw who represented the President of the town. After that we had a walk to the castle and took some pictures for the project website. At school things were getting ready for a little concert. There were Polish national dances - polonez (Polonaise) but we aslo could see Ukrainian Folk dance presented by special guests from nearby school with Ukrainian language.There were some songs and a poem.At the end we all danced polonez. In the afternoon there were meetings: teachers - pupils, Polish pupils - Latvian pupils and Comenius meeting where we discussed the project.Pupils wrote postcards to partners`schools and work on project dictionary. The evening teachers spent at Carmelitan Closter :-) and pupils at one of the host families. On Thursday we went for a trip as well as Class 4b whom we met at Bircza Forests Educational Complex.The trip finished in Arłamów tourist resort http://www.arlamow.pl/At the dinner we could meet local Member of Parliament Mr Marek Rząsa , it was also the last evening with Latvian guests. Those who stayed till Saturday could see Przemysl Fortress http://www.wrota.podkarpackie.pl/en/tourism/attractions/military/przemysl_fortressKrasiczyn Castle, http://www.krasiczyn.com.pl/en/index.phpŁańcut Castle http://www.zamek-lancut.pl/en/and Przemyśl Skiing Station. To see more photos please have a look at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46809609@N08/sets/72157625229537115/It was great to meet school coordinators, teachers and pupils from partners countries. We made new friends and it looks like the project going to be enjoyable and we are all looking forward to make the progress in our work.
At sport hall after the concert.
At the Town Hall
Evening Party at the friendly Carmelitan Closter
Science lesson in Bircza
What do we know about our partners` countries? Please have a look at some art works by Polish pupils. More pictures at photos section.
Ania age 8
Pola age 10
Patrycja age 11
Joanna age 11
Klaudia age 12
It's history as a school has been varied by the two world wars. 1900 - 1913 saw the first school which was named after Emperor Joseph Francis. Exclusively a girls school it consisted of only 4 classes. Between 1939 - 1941 during the Russian occupation the school became known as Czekałowa School Number 6. 1944 - 1949 the school was renamed after Juliusz Słowackiego a Polish poet. In 1982 the school began a process of renovation and became School Number 11 which was co-educational and opened in 1987.
Our school today has about 300 pupils, and employees 25 teachers and 9 administrative staff and support workers. The school building now caters for 13 mixed classes in 12 classrooms with additional space comprising of, a dining-room, two sports halls, an extensive library, reading-room, IT suite, first aid room and a school counseling room. The school grounds have a hard surface play area, with a basketball court.
Out of hours, school clubs provide: foreign language tuition (English and German), additional Maths and Polish language lessons. Support is also provided for pupils with difficulties in confidence, posture, composure or diction. Outings and trips are organized and there are a number of nature, music, art and sports clubs.
The school actively participates in competitive forums and tournaments and has an equal opportunities policy which applies throughout our school and reminds us all as well as our children to be mindful and respectful to both ourselves and to others.
In 2006 -2009 our school took part in Comenius - Socrates project together with partners in Northern Ireland, Germany, France and Holland. The project was called WWWEUROKIDSWEB.COM. It was a great success. www.eurokidsweb.eu website was created as a joint product.
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After a long trip and a few funny situations Metka and I finally arrived to the town, which name we couldn't pronounce. There we were warmly welcomed by our Polish hosts and spent five days to remember! We have met incredible people from Poland, Latvija, Netherlands, Catalonia and Portugal. It was interesting how a mixture of people of different ages, languages and nationalities found so many things in common. Our hosts presented us how their school system works, pupils prepared some very nice acts and even taught us how to dance Polonaise, their national dance. We strolled through the streets of a beautiful old part of the Przemysl ( we 've learnt how to pronounce it after a couple of days!), visited some interesting places connected to local legends and spent every evening comparing impressions with our new friends.
We can not thank you enough for a very pleasant company and all the effort Gosia and her Polish team put in to our visit!
Tina
P.S. Photos comming soon
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