Earth Day – Bowl of rice
On Friday, 22 April, the MYP students had a cup of rice instead of their regular snack. The difference in price will go to a good cause.
Ms Katarina Čepič
World Book Day
On 23 April, more than 100 countries worldwide celebrate World Book Day. To encourage students to read for pleasure in and out of school, alone or with family and friends, we dedicated some time to celebrating in our school as well. Students from 6m delved into the wonderful world of Roald Dahl. Meanwhile, 7m students researched books that represent their various cultures. And students from 8m and 8i discussed the everlasting importance of Animal Farm by George Orwell. As the World Book Day organisation says: “Our mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own.” Therefore, we encourage you to join our celebration by borrowing or buying a book and dedicate some of your time to reading for pleasure, especially outside in the wonderful days that are upon us.
Tina Frelih, Anja Dežman, Mateja Kores
Kindergarten Easter Activities
The Kindergarten children prepared for Easter by decorating eggs and also enjoyed an egg hunt in our school playground. They all had loads of fun. Take a look at the photos of the activities.
5M – Cultural Day
On Wednesday, 13 April, 5m students visited ArtRebel, an animation studio in Ljubljana. They participated in the presentation of their work, which in this case was the process of making an animated commercial for pate: Junior Argeta. Through this experience, the students learnt about the process of 3D animation.
The students could also try VR 3D animation, which was represented by playing in a basketball team of Poli products.
Ms Anja Podreka
School Garden
A few glimpses of the school garden. Pupils from MYP were working hard to prepare the school garden where seeds will soon be planted.
Ms Katarina Čepič & Ms Maja Kastelic
6M – Science Day – Where do you stand on the environment?
NATURE
Nature doesn’t need humans,
But humans need Nature.
Cause Nature is our Mother,
As there cannot be another.
And how do we thank that she gave us food and water?
By giving plastic and trash to the ocean through a sewer.
We are crafting things by polluting the air,
And buying unnatural things for our hair.
We are hunting the other children of Nature,
And our Mother turns warnings into torture.
Giving us forest fires and tsunamis,
Like we were the enemies.
But it’s too late to make it right,
And the problem is that we can’t fight.
We can just wait until it’s over,
So after that, we can think it over.
Are toys worth it to make Mother Nature angry,
Or that we think about the people who are hungry.
I would choose to think about others,
And, of course, the poisoning sewers.
But not every system can work for humankind,
And this is why the Soviet Union had failed at the time.
They are saying that everyone is the same,
While they did the opposite, that’s a shame.
So, humans should know their limits,
So it could not danger other habits.
Nature is strict but fair!
(by András Pártos, 6M)
Individual Commitment
As part of Individual Commitment, one of our MYP students volunteered to translate some news into Russian to reach a wider community. As a result, we hope that we will be able to share our news in even more languages to support our diverse community in the future. (Click here to view)
We wish you a wonderful weekend!
2M – Sports Day
On Wednesday, 30 March, 2M students had a Sports Day, which was connected to their current Unit on health. They researched how their heart rate changed during various activities through different games and activities.
PYP – Cultural Day – Džumbus
On Monday, 21 March, PYP students went to see a sound theatre play titled Džumbus. The Slovene word meaning loud noises summarised the main question of the play: What happens when you communicate and express yourself only through sounds and music instead of language? The performers showed many musical skills and ingenuity in creating instruments from the most unsuspected items like a carrot, a bicycle tyre, a chair, only to mention a few. Furthermore, the performers interacted with the students during the performance, and the students were highly enthusiastic to respond. Everyone enjoyed it immensely.
Ms Sara Štrancar
Kindergarten visit of the Ljubljana Puppet theatre
Kindergarten students had a cultural day on Monday, 21 March. First, they watched a puppet show Sapramiška. The children really enjoyed themselves, laughing and singing together with the performers. After, they had a pleasant stroll in the sun through the city centre and then returned to school by bus.
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‘Lik-Fest’ Exhibition – Pionirski Dom
Students from Danila Kumar International School and the national department will be exhibiting their artworks at the ‘Lik-Fest’ festival held at Pionirski Dom.
Our students will be competing among students from some other Ljubljana Primary Schools.
You are all kindly invited to view the exhibition, from Friday, 18 March 2022 until Thursday, 31 March 2022. (View Invitation)
Congratulation to the selected students!
Logan Yildirim 2m
Lachezar Georgiev 4m
Raya Mincheva 4m
Alexandra Kurakina 7m
Sofia Chernaia 7m
Polina Abramenkova 8i
Ekaterina Kostelyeva 8m
International Women’s Day
Connected to their new unit, Women in Literature, 8I and 8M students had a lesson on Tuesday International Women’s Day. They discussed different topics connected to gender equality, for example, “Do men and women have equal rights in your country?” or “What stereotypes exist regarding women?”. Furthermore, they learned some new vocabulary, such as the meanings of words like suffrage, feminist, glass ceiling, etc. Finally, they rounded up the lesson by doing various activities, to sum up, the day. The lesson stimulated discussion and was very interesting.
Ms Tina Frelih and Ms Anja Dežman
PYP 1-3 Cultural Day
Students from PYP 1 – 3 visited the Slovenian Bienalle of illustration in Cankarjev Dom. The students enjoyed the guided tour of the exhibition and learned about different types of illustrations and their authors. They also created their own illustration on a postcard from the exhibition and then they sent it to their family and friends!
Ms Anja Podreka
4M – Cultural Day
Today, 4m students visited the Kersnikova institute, a place where science and art meet, where DIY technology, biology, chemistry turn into art projects. For example, the students had a workshop on solar robots; with mentors’ help, they learned how to sync wires, cables, and solar panels into a creative, powerful device.
Ms Anja Podreka
K & PYP – ‘Pust’ Carnival
On Tuesday, 1 March, our Kindergarten and PYP students dressed up in different costumes and celebrated ‘Pust’ Carnival in the Dome. All the classes presented their costumes in a colourful procession. The children enjoyed the dancing activities; consequently, it was not easy to say goodbye to all the fun!
Service Project – Collapsed Days
6M and 7M students had two collapsed days connected to their Service project on Thursday, 17 February and Friday, 18 February. They got acquainted with four programs for creating animated videos during their first day. Then, during the second day, they summed up their whole Service Project process in an animated video using one of the programs they learned to use the previous day. Finally, they reflected on the collapsed day using the programs, and you can view some of the reflections by clicking on the program name – Powtoon, Buncee, Animaker and Wideo. The students have enjoyed using new tools for presenting and were very active during the two collapsed days.
Ms Tina Frelih
Kindergarten – Mala Ulica Playroom
On Thursday, 10 February, the Kindergarten children visited the Mala ulica playroom and enjoyed themselves very much. They explored interesting hands-on stations and gained new experiences. All families are welcome to visit the playroom when it re-opens to the public.
Discrimination – Service Project
This year, Maks from 7m decided to investigate discrimination in our school community for the service project. He had summed up what he had found out in the following website and short video on the topic.
Ms Tina Frelih
MYP – Winter Sports Day
Today, the MYP students had an enjoyable day at Park Jezersko, experiencing different winter sports. They enjoyed ice skating, cross-country skiing and sledding. Despite being reasonably cold at Jezersko, the instructors’ sports activities warmed everybody up.
