Approximate Number of Students Participating: 70
Ages and Grades of students competing: ages: : 6-10 Grades: 1 to 4
Description of your school:
9-year and 8-year public school with sport programme
µ attending classes: from 8 am to 2 pm, from 20 to 32 lessons per week
µ number of classes: 24
µ sizes of classes: 18-25 students
µ subjects taught: Art, Biology, Chemistry, Computer science, Geography, History, Math, Music, PE, Physics, Science, Slovene&English&Italian&German, Technical science&technology,
µ size of school: 600 students (from the city of Postojna and neighbouring villages)
µ conditions of competition: track
µ www.miroslav-vilhar.si
The school main programs are: the program of nine-year primary school and the program of eight-year primary school. We start school at the age of 6. Every day around 600 pupils from the city of Postojna and nearby villages come to school. School also has a library and a big gym. For younger pupils there is morning and afternoon care when their parents are at work.
Through the year, pupils are involved in different projects.
- We take
part in an international project ¶ TeleOlympic ¶ for the second year now.
- State level projects we join every year are: Eco School, Golden Sun and several reading projects: Reading Badge, Book Pupae, Book Moth and English Reading Badge.
- We also do many school projects: Sports Program, Development of Computer Knowledge, How to Learn and Triple Mirror of Seven Arts. Among other school subjects we learn English, German and Italian.
Every year we do our best at various sports, language and science competitions.
In the complex of primary school, pupils take active part in different camps in nature. Many like activities such as Happy School, Logic and Computer Knowledge. Also many circles and clubs are popular: basketball, football, archery, art, fairy-tale, language, drama, journalism, technical, literary, chess and caving ¥ There are two choirs and an Orff orchestra at our school as well. Once a month we prepare a radio programme for the entire school and our newspa
per is published periodically.
Grega Drole, class 8
Description of your community:
Postojna, German Adelsberg , Italian Postumia, city (5000 inhabitants), western Slovenia, on the Pivka River northeast of Trieste (Italy). Its prime importance is as a tourist centre for its Postojna Cave, an internationally famous cave system considered to be Europe's best example of karst phenomena. References to the town date from the 13th century, and it became a borough in 1432. It became a city in 1909. Postojna is a regional educational and cultural centre and has light industry.
µ Postojna maps.google.com
µ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postojna
µ http:/ /www.postojna.si/podrocje.aspx?id=0
µ http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9061042/Postojna
Postojna is a small but very beautiful city in the Littoral region. It is much smaller than our capital town Ljubljana. In the city there live about 5000 people.
It became very famous because of a major tourist attraction, the 20 kilometre long cave system called Postojna Cave. That is one
of the biggest and most beautiful caves in the whole world. It was first described in 17th century by Janez Vajkard Valvasor. He was a Slovenian nobleman, scholar, and polymath, member of the Royal Society. The new area of the cave was discovered by a local man Luka C(ec( in 1818.
There is a river flowing past the city, too. It²s called Pivka.
9 kilometers form Postojna there is Predjama Castle set within a mouth of a cave.
There are two primary schools (Anton Globoc(nik and Miroslav Vilhar) and two secondary schools in our town.
There are football club, basketball club, karate club and even more of them as well. The most successful was the basketball club that plays in the first Slovenian basketball league. Last few years a rally race has been organised here.
There are two quite successful orchestra in the town and a choir, too.
Recently, a lot of shops were built in Postojna and at the moment they are about to build a new hotel. There is also a pretty important fact
ory, Liv, here.
Postojna is not a violent city.
We really like Postojna, because it²s small, but it²s very famous, too.
Kristjan ªpilak, Sabina J. Ro¾manec, class 9
SLOVENIA
Slovenia is a small country with only 2 million inhabitants. Its map has a shape of a hen.
It lies in the heart of Europe, between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea.
It has a very beautiful countryside. We still have many forests. They cover more than half of the country. I believe that Slovenia is the greeniest piece of Europe.
It has seven geographical regions: Gorenjska (Upper Carniola), Dolenjska (Lower Carniola), Notranjska (Inner Carniola), Primorska (Littoral Region), ªtajerska (Styria), Koroºka (Carinthia) and Prekmurje (Over-Mura Region).
The landscape is amazingly beautiful. We have high mountains in the North of Slovenia. The highest mountain is Triglav ¶ which means "three-heads" - and it is 2864m high.
The region where we live, Notranjska (Inner Carniola), is famous for
underground rivers and caves. The most famous is the Postojna cave.
In Slovenia we have also many beautiful rivers and lakes, the warm Adriatic Sea , the Panonian plain in the North-East and green hills in the South of Sovenia, along the Sava and Krka rivers. Sava is the longest river in Slovenia.
Slovenia has a continental climate with cold winters and hot summers. Slovenia is also known for its good wines and delicious food. People are very nice.
Our neighbouring countries are: Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Italy.
Slovenia is a democratic parliamentary republic since 25 June 1991 when it declared its independence from Yugoslavia.
It became the member of the European Union in 2004.
Dr. Danilo Turk is the president and Janez Janºa is the prime minister.
Ljubljana is the capital and the largest city.
Our national flag has horizontal white, blue and red stripes.
Our national anthem is Zdravljica, a poem written by our greatest poet France Preºeren.
I like my cou
ntry very much.
Lana Batagelj, class 8
Description of sports done in your school:
athletics, gymnastics, basketball, football, volleyball, skiing, dancing, trekking, swimming, archery, cycling
Our school is one of rare and distinguished school in Slovenia with sport programme from the first to the ninth grade, carried out from September to June. The programme includes extra P. E. lessons (1st¶7th class: 3 lessons per week, 8th and 9th class 1 lesson a week).
One field school is organised annually. It takes 7 days. The schedule includes: skiing, swimming, Alpine-climbing, sailing or camping with survival in nature.
The sport classes also practice the following sport activities: dancing, skating, archery, shooting match, skittles, bowling, gymnastics.
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