On Thursday, 25th October the Halloween party took place. The scary reading delivered by MYP students to the PYP kicked off proceedings followed by the main party in the dining room. There were many activities including face painting, jack o lantern making, dancing and numerous games with sweet prizes. Many thanks to the PTA for organising the event.

This year’s cultural week between the 11^th and the 16^th of October was dedicated to one of the greatest Slovenian writers, Ivan Cankar. During Slovenian lessons, MYP students participated in many activities, through which they have learnt about his life and work. Students read his story ‘Skodelica kave’ and wrote a thank you note to Cankar’s mother. They created the author’s Facebook page. Students also summarised, recreated and changed the ending in his stories: ‘Pehar suhih hrušk’, ‘Mater je zatajil’ in ‘Enajsta šola’. They thought about the relationship he had with the people in his life and, based on his works, tried to determine the values that were important to him. They also compared Cankar’s childhood to theirs. At the MYP plenary they listened to his story ‘Pehar suhih hrušk’ in English and wrote or drew down their thoughts.

Tina Frelih

On Thursday, 18th October, the PYP and MYP gave presentations to parents about different features and aspects of the IB Philosophy, while the kindergarten had their own presentations in their classrooms. Each grade guided us through the whole variety of the curriculum. Including formative and summative assessment as well as key concepts, which help learners develop their inquiring minds through global interactions, relationships and identity, to name but a few. ATL skills, incorporating social skills and communication skills, were also played out, while the importance of learner profile attributes, for example, being principled and knowledgeable were highlighted too. Parents appeared to be very impressed by what they saw.

Grade 5 students had a science day on Thursday, October 11. The students had workshops organised in school as part of their work in the current Unit of Inquiry. They had to find out what a scale is and how to use it in real life. They had to convert the radius of all planets from kilometres into centimetres, according to different scales. Later on they had to decide which scale was the best to make their own planets, cut them out (using their scale), put them in order from the Sun and choose the right scale for the distance. The highlight of the day was the exhibition in the hallway, where they put planets in order. The students were really proud of their work!
Zala Klopčič

In the third and fourth week of September, each class dedicated a lesson to the Library Under the Treetops Project. The students wrote some interesting reflections about their experience.
Poli Hočevar Eve

On Monday, 8th October, grade 1 students visited the School Museum in Ljubljana. They got the opportunity to experience a lesson in a century old classroom with a teacher from the past. After the visit they decided that it was nice to take a trip into the past but grade 1 students still prefer life nowadays.
Klavdija Čuk

Our PYP and MYP students participated in a British Sign language workshop led by Ms Mojca Williams. The workshop was part of commemorating the European day of Languages, which was on the 26th of September. Students practised signing the alphabet and some words. They were learning how to sign a song without singing and how to introduce themselves in sign language. It was an interesting and challenging experience for most of the students.
Lidija Janeš

On Thursday, 27 September, 3M students were read to under the trees by Ms Poli.
Mateja Pompe

On Friday, 28th September 2018 ten students from the International and National department of our School participated in the Festival “Play with me”, which was organised by The Special Education Centre Janez Levec Ljubljana and the Association
of Inclusive Culture.
All the activities in the Festival gathered a great number of participating schools, institutions, non-governmental organisations and individuals. The event was mainly dedicated to children and youngsters, especially those with special needs. Due to ignorance, our society is still full of prejudices which believe that people with special needs are incompetent and different, as opposed to having great qualities and similarities with everyone. The event offered a unique opportunity of bringing one another closer together, regardless of age, education and other specifics. Our students showed a very respectful attitude towards children with special needs, and played and cooperated together in different games and activities. We all had a really wonderful day together. Great job!
Maja Majnik