2018/2019
Start of the 2018/2019 school year, or: It’s going to be a matter of the heart
Welcome to the 2018/2019 school year! For the next ten months together, we will try to think with our hearts. If you’re happy and merry, there’s a good chance you’ll be healthy, too. Our task this year is to be aware of the things that make us happy, to try to be warm and hearty to one another, to know how to thank others or to praise them for something specific they have done… It is all a matter of the heart. A lot of the things we are planning to do together this year will truly come from the heart. Dear children, dear adults – rejoice! And why does the cake say “Thank you”? Because we are fortunate to meet people who support our school and integration center, both materially and financially. Thank you everyone from the bottom of our hearts!
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Kite Day – 3 October 2018
BOYS AND GIRLS, HELLO AND HI,
COME FLY YOUR KITES THROUGH THE SKY...
We just had to take up this challenge, and so we set out for Parukářka Park with our homemade kites for the 2018 Kite Day. Before leaving, we had baked apples and potatoes to get ready for the big event. The weather played along, the sun came out, and the wind sent our kites soaring high into the sky. Everybody, kids and adults alike, truly enjoyed the autumn day in the fresh outdoors.
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Potatolicious! – November 2018
Today was dedicated to potatoes and farming equipment. Believe it or not, but we had a real tractor parked in the garden all morning, and old-timers will appreciate that it was a Zetor – a childhood favorite for many of us. It was a truly unusual event, and the tractor driver was mobbed by our curious students, who all wanted to get a close look of his machine. The more daring of them even sat in the driver’s seat and discovered how to honk its horn… Athletically inclined students could, with the help of their teachers, run a potato slalom or play potato basketball. And the whole event concluded with – what else? – potatoes for lunch. Thank you all!
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Project Coat Hanger in the yurt – November 2018
Big and small, a little bit of everything... everybody found something nice on a hanger and took it home with them.
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Breakfast with St. Nicholas 2018
As in years past, we were once again visited by St. Nicholas, who brought all the kids a sweet treat. But before they could get it from the angel, they had to manage an encounter with the devil, the keeper of the flames of Hell. As is tradition, he was more than accommodating – quite friendly, in fact – and so he returned to Hell all on his own. :-)
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Pre-Christmas gathering 2018
Just a few days after our encounter with St. Nicholas, the angel, and the devil, it was time for a pre-Christmas get-together at the Church of the Holy Trinity in downtown Prague. The church setting and the sermon by pastor Janík combined to create a perfect Christmas atmosphere. Joined by our pupils’ parents and siblings, by our interns and other friends, we considered the true essence of Christmas and even got a guaranteed recipe for happiness. Thank you all who came, and we wish you and your loved ones a peaceful Christmas season and a Happy New Year 2019.
Semester report cards 31. 1. 2019… a matter of the heart…
At the start of the school year, we promised ourselves that we would spend the next ten months thinking with our hearts. And we are successfully keeping that promised!
In fact, our semester report card ceremony was attended by a famous team of cardiologists (i.e., the school’s teachers in disguise J) who presented the students with their grades and gave everyone a big heart. The event was organized by Dagmar Rosecká. The “doctors” were amazing, and if you have the time and are interested, check out their MEDICAL PRESENTATION…
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A successful carneval – February 2019
JÉMINE, DOMINE, MASOPUST POMINE, JÉMINE, DOMINE, MASOPUST PRYČ!
… with these traditional words – which mean something along the lines of “the carneval season is over” – our school celebrated the Czech masopust festival with a fun parade through the hallways. We had traditional and fun carneval masks, some of them even homemade. We sang songs, played all instruments possible and impossible, danced with a (polar) bear, tasted carneval specialties, and above all had a great time. Thank you organizers and participants!
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How we celebrated winning the APLAUS Award (8 April 2019)
We’re planning an article about how we got together to celebrate...
Easter art workshop (April 2019)
We all love gathering to create something together, such as... original color flowerpots with decorative sticks, soil, seeds... (And the Easter Bunny can hop along, too.) It was great fun.
In the afternoon, Mrs. Šimková taught us something new: flower brooches from sheep wool and colorful headbands from old t-shirts… What a great idea!
Thank you everyone for participating, for organizing the event, and for all the new ideas.
PICTURESWitches’ Night bonfire, 30 April 2019
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Garden party – Zipping down the zip line in 2019
On a hot summer afternoon, we engaged in friendly conversation at the Full Moon Café, watched an exciting theater performance titled The Animals and the Robbers, and rode a zip line across a lake of whales from the pine tree to the apple tree and back. Just look at our photo gallery to see how much fun we had. Our greatest thanks go to Filip and Martin for the fun ride...
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How we celebrated the APLAUS Award (8 April 2019)
All for one and one for all!… With this slogan from the Three Musketeers, we and all our students and teachers celebrated winning the 2019 Aplaus Award. We wouldn’t have earned this honor without the support from our colleagues, pupils, and management. For this event, we symbolically presented every class with a replica of the award statuette.
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End of the 2018/2019 school year
Off we go! Time for a well-deserved summer of relaxing and new and unusual experiences! We have another ten months of going to school and to the integration center behind us. We all passed through the gate to summer and enjoyed some icy refreshments. To all those who are bidding farewell with us today, we wave them on their journey and wish them all the best.
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