Great news from Poland!

Our project has just been awarded in a national competition OUR PROJECT 2010! It's a great joy for us! Thank you very much for your cooperation. We hope this fact brings joy to your schools, too. On 11 and 12 June some of us will attend the ceremony in Warsaw. We'll make a presentation so you'll be able to enjoy this special event as well.

A trip to the zoo (2)

Have a look at some photos taken by Dominika during our trip to the zoo in Katowice.

24 May Day of the Bulgarian Education and Culture and of the Slavonic Letters

The day is celebrated as the day of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, who created the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet. All schools are decorated with weaths ans flowers. Students, teachers and citizens march with the portraits of St. St. Cyril and Methodus, who were declared co-patrons of Europe.

We have two days off school on 24 and 25 May and on 25 May the school graduates have their ball. 

International Museum day in Greece

Visit The New Museum of Acropolis:
http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/?pname=Home&la=2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rrTsjpbmEY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veIrKOxh5yw&feature=related

Museums at Night 2010

15 May is the 2010 date for the European Night of Museums. It is a great opportunity to visit museums, galleries and other institutions promoting culture. The first Long Night of Museums took place in Berlin in 1997 with a dozen participating institutions and exhibitions. Poland joined this event 7 years ago. In museum in Ruda Śląska this year celebrations are connected with the Frideric Chopin Year. Visitors will listen to the concert, will see a performance and a film - both related to Chopin. In many Polish cities numerous attractions are waiting for visitors.

Polish team at a regional eTwinning conference

Today some of us participated in a conference in Katowice organized to celebrate the 5th anniversary of eTwinning. We were among 21 schools from the region of Silesia asked to prepare their booths and present achievements and products created during our eTwinnig projects. It was a nice experience fo us:-) Enjoy the event together with Igor and Natalia from the Polish team!

Bulgarian Students visit sights in Sofia

The Sheraton Hotel

St. George's Church 6c.AD

The Presidency - changing of the guards

The eTwinners in front of the Presidency

The Russian Church

Sofia University

St. Alexander Nevski Cathedral

Greek celebration for 5 years e-Twinning

1st Gymnasium Chaidariou, Athens, Greece

eTwinning celebrates 5th birthday

Our school has celebrated the 5th anniversary of etwinning. We have had a lot of projects and we have received 10 Quality Labels.

Animal idioms

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Poland Constitution Day and Feast of Mary, Queen of Poland

3 May is Constitution Day in Poland and marks the signing of the Polish Constitution on this date in 1791. It is generally regarded as Europe's first and the world's second modern codified national constitution. However, the constitution was to last for just a year as Poland was then partitioned by Russia, Prussia and Austria. Banned during the partitions of Poland, it was again made an official Polish holiday in April 1919. After the 1946 anti-communist student demonstrations, May 3 Constitution Day lost support with the authorities, who replaced it with May 1 Labor Day celebrations; in 1951, May 3 was officially removed from the list of national holidays. May 3 was restored as an official Polish holiday in April 1990, after the fall of communism.

For the occasion state representatives and top brass from the Polish armed forces take part in celebrations in Warsaw - they attend a ceremony by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

This year celebrations were limited due to the national mourning which has finished recently.

On 3 May we also celebrate the feast od Mary, the Queen of Poland. Main religious celebrations always takes place in Czestochowa. For Poles, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa is a fount of miracles. The Holy Virign was acclaimed the Queen of Poland in 1656, after Sweden's invasion of the country in 1655. For 40 days, as the Swedes surrounded the monastery, the monks prayed to the Virgin for deliverance. The siege failed, and the Poles subsequently drove the Swedes out of the country. In gratitude, the reigning Polish monarch, Jan Kazimierz, dedicated his throne and the country to "the Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland."
As for the painting itself - its origins are unknown, but it may date as far back as 6th century Greece or Byzantium. The icon arrived in Poland in 1382 with a Polish army fleeing the Tartars, who had struck it with an arrow. Because of the icon of Black Madonna, Częstochowa is regarded as the most popular shrine in Poland, with many people making a pilgrimage there every year.

LJUBLJANA WORLD BOOK CAPITAL 2010

For a year between 23 April 2010 and 23 April 2011, Ljubljana will be the tenth city to hold the prestigious World Book Capital title, awarded by UNESCO.

The festival will thematically focus on the city. The city as a living environment, a mental map, and a place of freedom and limitations will also be the theme of a rich programme of events to accompany the festival.

During the festival, Ljubljana will be visited by the following world renowned authors:

• Herta Müller (2-5 May 2010),
• Richard Flanagan (25-29 May 2010),
• Jonathan Franzen (7-10 May 2010), David Grossman (12-15 May 2010),
• Michal Viewegh (16-19 May 2010),
• Daniel Kehlman (20-23 May 2010).

If you are interested in what else wil be going on, visit:

http://www.asbc.org.uk/index.php?S=1&Article=86&L=2

A trip to the zoo

The topic of TOP ANIMALS inspired us to organize a trip to the zoo. We went to the one in Chorzów. The Silesian Zoological Garden covers over 47.6 ha within the Silesian Central Park. It is a home for about 2 500 animals of 300 species.There is also the dinosaur valley - it contains full-scale reconstruction of 16 large dinosaurs, the remains of which were found by a Polish expedition to the Gobi desert.
Visit the zoo with us!