Beatriz Gil, a 5th grade student from our school (CEIP

Los Olivos), was the region winner of the contest “¿Qué

es un rey para ti?” (What’s a king for you?).

For this contest, 1,298 students from 83 schools present-

ed their works, which may consist on tales, poetry, com-

ics, pictures, crafts or any other form of expression, ei-

ther in paper or in a digital format.

Our students Beatriz presented a beautiful sculpture of

King Juan Carlos I, dressed as a Spanish footballer and

accompanied by a poem. This work was the winner due

to its originality and physical resemblance to the King of

Spain.

Thanks to this work, Beatriz could visit and give the

monarch her work in person, accompanied by her family,

her teacher, and the winners from other regions.

Last 10th October 2011, the 6th grade students from our

school went on a school trip to “Mohernando”. Moher-

nando is a small village that belongs to our province

Guadalajara. Only thirty minutes far away from our city.

We spent one week on an English bilingual school farm

with other students from a school in Madrid, the capital

of our country.

We left our city at half past nine in the morning and we

arrived there at ten o’clock in the morning as well. The

journey was really short.

It was a very beautiful place with many nature spaces to

carry out the activities. It was divided in two areas, one

of them was the forest and the other one was the animal’s

area. Some of the animals were pigs, cows, goats, os-

triches, horses…

We participated in many activities such as clay’s works,

making flutes, English classes, environment and astrono-

my works, riding horses, visits to the farm and the green-

house, games, disco and dancing.

The last day the different groups prepared choreography

and danced in the stage with all the students as public.

We really enjoyed, we learnt so much about everything

and especially the teachers congratulated us for our great

English!!

Last 10th October 2011, the 6th grade students participat-

ed in a school trip. We went to “Valencia”, a city situated

in the East of Spain. We spent the week on a bilingual

school farm with “King’s College”. We shared this expe-

rience with another school from “Huesca” in the Nord-

West of our country.

We travelled by bus. We left our city at three o’clock in

the afternoon and we arrived there at half past eight in the

evening.

When we arrived, we met the new teachers we were go-

ing to have during the week. After that, they showed us

our rooms and we had some discussions when choosing

our beds.

We carried out many activities including climbing, recy-

cling works, environmental activities, water polo (the

water was really cold), games, English classes, visits in

the farm… The most interesting thing was that in all of

these activities the teachers communicated with us in

English!!

It was really a great experience!! We made new friends

from Huesca and especially new teachers who spoke

English very well.

Every year, the students in the 6th grade celebrate the

ending of the school year going on a school trip. This

year we are thinking about travelling to “Valle del Jerte”

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-

sible of the market at the break time. The rest of the stu-

dents in the school visit us and some of them collaborate

with us buying some of our products. The families come

there during the break and do the same as well. In this

market we are selling hand-made objects by the 6th grade

students. Some of the products we are selling are toys,

brooches, bracelets, food, biscuits or cakes.

Up to now we have collected one thousand euros approx-

imately. However, we have planned to collect more mon-

ey.

We are all really excited with the trip because we will

carry out many sporty activities in nature such as riding

horses, swimming in the river, archery, night activities,

gymkhana, traditional games, football, volleyball, eco-

logical routes or reading.

We hope to fulfill our prospects to get enough money for

the trip. However, the most important thing for us is to

learn and to value how much effort we have to do to get

money.

Valle del Jerte (Cáceres)

The sixth grade students go every year to an End of Year

trip. This year we are going to “Valle del Jerte” and we

have organized a bazaar in order to get some money for

the trip. Our parents have helped for this purpose.

Some of the things we are selling are: homemade imita-

tion of jewellery and art, toys, homemade food and any

other object donated by students and their families.

We have collected about €1000 but there is still more

money left to collect.

All of us are very excited about the trip because we are

going to do lots of environmental activities and we are

going to have a fantastic time.

This national day (23

April National

Sovereignty and

Children's Day) in

Turkey is a unique event.

The founder of the

Turkish Republic,

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,

dedicated April 23 to the

children of the country to emphasize that they are the

future of the new nation. It was on April 23, 1920,

during the War of Independence, that the Grand National

Assembly met in Ankara and laid down the foundations

of a new, independent, secular, and modern republic

from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. Following the

defeat of the Allied invasion forces on September 9, 1922

and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne on July 24,

1923, Ataturk started his task of establishing the

institutions of the new state. Over the next eight years,

Ataturk and his followers adopted sweeping reforms to

create a modern Turkey, divorced from her Ottoman past.

In unprecedented moves, he dedicated the sovereignty

day to the children and entrusted in the hands of the

youth the protection of this sovereignty and

independence.

In our school,We

celebrated “The

Children’s Day” as a

festival like the other

schools all around the

country. Parents of

pupils come to school

from the other

villages for the

festival.Our students danced,acted sketches,played games

and sing songs.And their parents watched their

performances,took photos and applaud their children.

Some of students took presents from the school because

They had a degree in the competitions of writing

poems,drawing pictures,writing compositions about

meaning and importance of the 23th of April.

Also as a different activity for this 23th of April ,we

prepared a sale of work,and all teachers made some cakes

and etc...And We prepared stands for it.Students became

the sellers and they earnt money for our school by selling

the cakes on the festival day.

Every year, the children in Turkey celebrate this

"Sovereignty and Children's Day" as a national

holiday. Schools participate in week-long ceremonies

marked by performances in all fields in large stadiums

watched by the entire nation. Among the activities on this

day, the children send their representatives to replace

state officials and high ranking bureaucrats in their

offices. The President, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet

Ministers, provincial governors all turn over their

positions to children's representatives.

Every year, Lots of children come to Turkey from

different nationalities for this festival, so we also intive

our partner pupils from other countries to Turkey and

join our Big Festival.And we hope the next year,In Czech

Republic,we can

meet to celebrate

our “European

Young Festival”

See You:)

On the 7th April we went on a school trip to Marche. We

visited Urbino and Recanati.

Urbino is a small town famous for its reinassance culture.

The main attraction of Urbino is the Palazzo Ducale, be-

gun in the second half of the 15th century by Federico II

da Montefeltro. It houses the Galleria Nazionale delle

Marche, one of the most important collections of Renais-

sance paintings in the world.

We visited “Palazzo Ducale and some of its 260 rooms.

The State Dinimg Room was the biggest in the palace; it

was wonderful, but very cold!

Then we visited Raffaello’s birthplace or also called

Casa Santi (Giovanni Santi was Raffaello’s father) that

now is an important museum where you can admire

important paintings.

Later we had lunch and we went to Recanati. There we

visited Leopardi’s house, but just the library because

the house is inhabitated by Leopardi’e descendants.

This library is very famous and it contains 12,000 old

books!

In the evening, very tired, we went back home.

Our school trip was really great. We enjoyd it very

much!!!!

Students in year 2

Students in year 3

In our middle school, students in year 3 usually go on a

long school trip.

This year, in April, we went to Basilicata and Puglia, in

the South of Italy. We visited some famous towns for

three days.

We left from school at 5:00 am of the 2nd April.

We arrived to Matera at about midday. We had lunch and

then we visited the oldest part of the town that is called

the “Sassi di Matera (meaning "Stones of Matera").The

Sassi are houses dug into the calcareous rock itself,

which is characteristic of Basilicata.

We left during the afternoon and we arrived to our hotel

near Lecce in the evening.

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

the hotel restaurant; the food was very good. We tried

some typical dishes as “orecchiette alle cime di rapa” ( a

typical kind of pasta with broccoli).

The following day we visited Lecce one of the most im-

portant city of Puglia. We admired its particular baroque

style; we visited lots of cherches. Because of the rich Ba-

roque architectural monuments found in the city, Lecce is

commonly nicknamed "The Florence of the South".

We had lunch at the hotel and during the afternoon we

visited Otranto. It’s a sea town, near by the Strait of Ot-

ranto to which the city gives its name. There we visited a

church with the bones of 800 martirs who were killed by

Turkish in 1480

The last day we visited Alberobello which had some par-

ticular houses called Trulli. We could visit them inside.

The Trulli of Alberobello are part of the UNESCO World

Heritage sites list since 1996.

We had lunch with some sandwiches and then we visited

Castel del Monte, a medieval castle. It was built by the

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II during the 1240s;

We left at 5:00 pm and got home at about 11.30.

Come and visit these wonderful places!

Our trip was great!!!

Project Day with Amos

Project “Day with Amos” took

part at our school on 28th

March 2012. We reminded

420th jubilee of birth of

“Teacher of nations” Jan Amos Comenius in unconven-

tional way. All teachers prepared funny lesson. Children

could form their own timetable from eleven unconven-

tional workshops. It was interesting because we tried

something new than usually. I registered playing the

drums, P.E. with Mrs.director, I learned Morse code. My

favorite lesson was preparing fruit salads with

Mrs.teacher Jurčíková. I even tried one at home.

Kateřina*rabalová

Night with Andersen

We would like to let you know about a night of fairy tales

which the children in our school experienced for the

twelfth time this year. On Friday, March 30th 2012 many

libraries and schools in the Czech Republic, and also in

Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia prepared an interesting pro-

gramme with a night reading of fairy tales.

This year was dedicated to two important personalities of

our culture Božena Němcová and Jiří Trnka. In the even-

ing we started to create the puppet from socks, because

Jiří Trnka was well-known puppet master. After dinner

pupils informed other children about a life and work of

these personalities. They had

prepared presentation, their

books and other curiosities.

Then teachers prepared a

quiz for children. We read

some fairy tales at night.

Next year you can add to

us.

Silvie Vyoralová

The*king of skipping rope

On Wednesday 25th of April children competed in skipping.

They were divided into three categories. The youngest children

– 1stclasses,

2ndcategory were pupils from 2nd and 3rd classes and 3rd catego-

ry were children from 4th and 5th classes. Girls from my class

took 1st and 3rd place. We were

very happy.

Klára Pelcová

Talents Discovering

School We have joined to the group of the „Talents

Discovering School”. This title was given us by the

Minister of National Education and it means that our

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

www.ore.edu.pl/odkrywamytalenty. It is worth to

mention that in Elblag, only 6 schools were given such an

award.

Visit in the

Museum On the 12th of April our

students went to the museum

to see the lesson about the

amber. The museum worker

told us about the roots of

amber, and what it can be

used for (game counters,

jewlery). Different tools are

used for grinding the amber.

The most basic ones are a

knife and a file. For sawing the amber we need a string

saw. Other tools are chisel, powered drill, lathe, drill. The

Greeks called amber „Electron”, the Romans: „Succinum,

and the Balts and Slavs called it „Jantar”. It is said that in

Pasłęk (small town near Elbląg, Poland) there is a famous

Amber Room hidden by the Gremans. If you set a fire on

the piece of amber, it will smoke for a while, then it stops

smoking, becomes black and smells badly. But the smell

is very healthy and good for your throat and lungs.

Collection of the Electro

Garbage

Primary School no 4 collected electro garbage between

March 21 and 28. All used, broken and useless electronic

devices were gathered in the front of our building. Electro

garbage thrown away to the city bins or in the bosom of

nature are dangerous to our health and our environment.

Used electic devices contain harmful substances which in

case of the ones stored improperly, reach the ground

water and therefore pollute

Turkish ABC

What connects Turkey and the Trojan Horse? Where do

the tulips come from? How the Turkish coffee should be

prepared? You could find all the answers and many other

interesting information on the exhibition about Turkey in

our school Library. 9

Searching for the Amber

Room with the mayor

One of the tasks we set ourselves in running „The School

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

1980 . We were welcomed in the Knight Room by the

town mayor, Wiesław Śniecikowski. He is the author of

the book titled “The mysteries of the Castle in Pasłęk,”

which describes

mainly the searching

for the Amber

Room.

CHILDREN´S FESTIVAL

The 2012 Children´s Festival in Pápa organized by

“Zabhegyező Gyerekanimátorok Egyesülete“ promised to

be the best one. The 21st Festival was organized from

4th April to 8th April in Pápa, Hungary.

Some of our students took part in this festival for the

fourth time this year.

On the first day we were very excited because of the

travelling. The bus left at 8 o´clock in the morning. We

have been laughing a lot all the way because we knew we

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

a classroom of an other school. Our bus driver was a very

helpful man who helped us with the blowing up of the

mattresses. Every evening we were writing a special

diary about our whole day, what we were doing, seeing

and we had to put down our feelings as well.

On Friday, the third day we visited the zoo in Veszprém

where we could see a lot of interesting animals –

monkeys were the best ones. In the afternoon we got two

hours for shopping in a nice shopping center. We all

bought some presents for our relatives.

On Saturday the festival was open – anyone from the

town could come and take part in it, in all the activities.

There were various performances on the stage. Our two

girls were singing so beautifully that both of them got

a standing ovation. They were very happy.

On Sunday we were very sad. We had to say goodbye to

the festival, our friends and organizers.

We arrived home to Rimaszombat at about four in the

afternoon. The good company, meeting new people,

interesting programs, a lot of fun, laughing and delicious

food are the reasons why it is worth taking part in this

festival.

APRIL 11 – HUNGARIAN

POETRY DAY

The Hungarians are the

only nation who

commemorate their

national poetry on April

11 every year. In 1905

Attila József one of the

most famous poets of the

20th century was born on

this day.

Our school invites a

contemporary poet or

poets for a talk with the

students every year. This year Zoltán Szászi from

Rimaszombat and Boglárka Rácz from Fülek

commemorated the literature. They were reading from

Sándor Márai´s works.

EARTH

DAY AT

OUR

SCHOOL

On Earth Day April 22 various events are held all over

the world to increase the appreciation of the Earth's natu-

ral environment. This day is celebrated in more than 175

countries.

Our school also celebrated this day on April 23. All the

students took part in it. We have been studying till 1 pm

and we went to the school ground in the afternoon. We

took out our plants from the classrooms and corridors and

replanted them outside. After we had watered them, we

took all the pot plants back to school to their original

places. Both teachers and students were very satisfied.