Danila Kumar Day and Plečnik’s Lectaria
The week of cultural heritage, which will take place at our school from 10th to 15th October, is an annual celebration of culture at Danila Kumar Elementary School. This year we are merging the week with Plečnik’s cultural heritage. We are kindly inviting you to view the exhibition at the Slovenian Ethnographical Museum – Plečnik’s Lectaria. A guided viewing is organised especially for our school.
The exhibition showcases crafts from the honey and beeswax industry and furniture from two families who bear a connection with the architect Jože Plečnik.
You can find more about the exhibition at: https://www.etno-muzej.si/en/razstave/plecniks-lectarija.
You can view the exhibition at a reduced ticket price of 4€ for all visitors from our school, just tell them at the museum entrance
Guided tours are available on the following dates: 13th, 14th, 15th October at 5 pm for a maximum of 25 visitors per tour: https://1ka.arnes.si/a/01d2197f .
Address: SEM, Metelkova 2, 1000 Ljubljana.
Teja Dvorjak
Week of the Child
Friday, 7 October 2022, concluded the ‘Week of the Child’, which is celebrated all across Slovenia every first week in October. On this particular day, our students spent a part of their lessons playing and participating in various fun activities, because learning can take on different forms, and playing is one of them.
Anja Dežman
4M Science Day – The Tropical House
The students first got to know the tenrec, centipede, and stickleback in the Tropical House. They found out who their prey and predators are, their typical visual characteristics, as well as the connections between animals and plants. The students could stroke and even hold the animals in their hands. Later we saw chinchillas, porpoises, spiders, frogs, monkeys, snakes, and other exotic animals. We also entered the room with lemurs and saw the environment in which they lived.
We spent a pleasant day in the company of tropical animals and the environment where they live.
Anja Plut
Slovenian for Parents – Beginners
The first lesson of the parents’ beginners class for Slovenian will take place in classroom 170 at 13:15 on Monday, 10th of October.
Kind regards,
Melita Plešnik
7M Science Day – Robotics
On September 15 Grade 7 students visited The Jožef Stefan Institute, the Centre for Technology Transfer and Innovation, whose primary task is enabling and facilitating the transfer of technologies and innovations developed at the Jožef Stefan Institute into business. Students visited several different presentations talking about matter, robotics, biology, chemistry, physics, intelligence, systems, materials and the environment. In school, students created their own basic robot hand using Lego bricks, a motor and a touch or coloured sensor. The hand created can serve multiple purposes: massager, grabber, comber, cleaner, etc. Some students even recorded their own commercial for their innovative product.
Ms Lojzka Lušin
COLLECTING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES!
As the quantity of e-waste is growing rapidly, it is important to recycle it or reuse it properly. From 1st to 21st October we will be collecting Small Electrical Appliances in the lobby of the school. We will try to collect as many appliances as possible to win a prize and host a concert with Challe Salle in our school! To win a prize, there are two conditions:
- Collect as many electrical appliances (in kg) as possible (functional and non-functional)
- Create a strong (media) campaign in school and in your community (evidence!)
We are collecting kitchen appliances, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, microwaves, radios, electric tools, mobile phones, calculators, laptops, TV monitors, videorecorders, LCD screens …
Bring it to reception (if needed in a cardboard box or bag) and mark with a note if it still functions.
The functioning appliances will be checked by designated companies and organisations and donated to those in need.
For more information visit:
Ozaveščevalno – zbiralna nagradna akcija na območju Mestne občine Ljubljana »Prinesi male aparate« | ZEOS
We will need your help (parents and students) with the collecting and the campaign!
7th and 8th grade students are invited to participate in the project and acquire Short-Term Service as Action recognition.
The PYP and MYP classes that bring the highest number of appliances will be awarded! (2 awards)
Ms Katarina Čepič
MYP Cultural Days – Idrija Lace
6 & 7M Cultural Day – Service as Action
On Tuesday, 20 September, 6 and 7M students had a collapsed day during which they started working on their long term Service as Action. They worked well on proposals, researched their ideas, and prepared basic plans of how they would carry out their activities. The 6M students focused on collaborating with the Bežigrad Old People’s Home, while 7M students’ focus was on improving the school environment and helping out the school community.
Tina Frelih
Reading Badge for Parents
We are inviting all the parents or other family members to participate in our Reading Badge project for parents and employees at Danila Kumar School. The reading badge will run throughout the school year and conclude on 2 April 2023. Everyone can participate by reading 5 books, writing your opinion about them in the attached form, and sending it to the school library e-mail (knjiznica@os-danilekumar.si). The books can be anything you like, adult fiction, youth fiction, as well as professional fiction, in any language. With your permission, we will publish book reviews in a special collection published on the school’s website, where you can see recommendations for your next reading. By joining this project, you will be a wonderful example to your children. Through youth literature, you will be able to peek into their world, talk about what you have read, and share your opinions with them.
Tina Frelih
Literary Competition
The teachers’ Association Naša Zemlja organizes a literary, art and photography competition entitled “Our Homeland – My Security”. The competition is extremely important, as it encourages young people to know and think about the importance of safety in our lives. The students should consider various forms of security for all living beings – personal safety, safety of our homelands, online safety, safety of animals, plants. Let your imagination run wild and consider the metaphorical meaning as well as security today, in the future, in different periods of an individual’s life, in different social circumstances, in different regions of our homelands. You can express yourself through free writing, poems, essays, lines, anecdotes, comics, plays etc. Please contact me if you are interested in participating.
I will be collecting your work until 17 April, 2023.
Ms Tina Frelih
PYP Library Under the Treetops
As part of the National Month of Shared Reading campaign, students of the PYP spent a lesson outside reading under the treetops. Reading in the fresh air has a positive effect on the development and formation of a healthy lifestyle and skills, quality leisure time, the formation of a creative personality and a positive attitude towards reading and the students enjoyed it a lot. Afterwards, they reflected on their learner profiles and discovered they were balanced, inquirers, thinkers, caring, communicators, principled, knowledgeable and risk-takers. We encourage both the parents and the students to spend the remaining sunny days enjoying a good book in nature.
Tina Frelih
European Day of Languages
As part of the Council of Europe’s initiative, the European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001, on 26 September – together with the European Commission. On Tuesday, 27 September, during their Slovenian lesson, all MYP students enjoyed a joint lesson in honour of the European Day of Languages. The students competed in a quiz in which they had to identify a language. They also translated some school language into the various languages our MYP community speaks. Lastly, they were trying to pronounce some international tongue twisting sentences.
Language acquisition team
PYP Hiking Sports Day
The PYP had 2 hiking trips: 1 and 2 ascended Rožnik, while 3,4 and 5 visited Rašnica. It was a perfect early autumn day for a hike with cool temperatures, a light breeze, warm sun, and tranquil blue skies.
MYP 3 Hiking Sports Day
8M/I climbed Velika Planina, the weather was wonderful. All in all, despite some small challenges, it was a very good day.
Katarina Čepič
MYP 3 Community Project Collapsed Day
National Month of Shared Reading
We would like to invite the school community to join the National Month of Shared Reading campaign, which will take place from September 8, 2022, on. Activities that take place under the motto ‘Let’s read together’ are the link between reading and movement. The organizers want to connect reading and exercise as much as possible, as both have a stimulating effect on the development and formation of a healthy lifestyle and skills, quality leisure time, the formation of a creative personality and a positive attitude towards reading and exercise. Their website also includes suggestions for various activities for schools, children, young people, families… Our students have already participated in one of their activities – Library under the treetops.
For those of you who speak Slovenian, we recommend the following website, where you can find activities to encourage reading: https://druzina.pismen.si/
Tina Frelih
PYP Day of Internationalism
Small Electrical Appliance Collection
MYP Reading under the Treetops
During the month of September the MYP students were treated to a lesson dedicated to reading literature and prose, to be enjoyed amongst the tranquil surroundings of the green school playground, under the treetops. The cool temperature helped facilitate a relaxing, beneficial and cultural experience, in which the students later reflected upon by, through the context of learner profiles, writing their thoughts on paper leaves and flowers. Students (and parents), are encouraged to continue reading in an array of autumnal environments, as well as through all the seasons.
JOIN US AT DANILA KUMAR SPORTS ACADEMY
The Sports Academy is intended for students from 1st to 5th grade of the International and national departments of Danila Kumar Elementary School and is not intended for professional training or replacing a professional coach, but rather in a playful way, adapted to the age of the children, learning about the purpose of individual ball games and connecting only – with personal growth. Find out more here.