Teacher's Welcome letter

Dear friends from Taiwan!

I welcome you as our e-mail friends.              
I have to say that you have done a nice work on that blog and hope you will enjoy in reading  the articles that my students have preapared for you. 

My name is Irena Krajnc. I've been teaching English and German for 22 years and still enjoy in it. I have to say that a lot of things have been changed, specially in using computer and internet at school.
My students like doing projects and I enjoy with them.
We've already done some iEARN projects: Holiday Card Exchange, Teddy Bear, One Day, Learning Circles, Computer Chronicles, Global Learning Circles, Machinto. Look at  Teddy's Journal.
We have started a Comenius Partnership Project with the title Traditions around Europe without Borders. 16 schools are involved in the project.
I'm looking forward hearing from you.

Best Regards from Slovenia,
Irena  ( in German and English Irene)

Slovenia - Introduction Group 1

HELLO! 

We are students from Spodnja Polskava, a small village near Maribor (Austrian border), in Slovenia.

The name of the school, Anton Ingolic, is after our well known writer Anton Ingolic, who was born in our village.

We are in the 9th grade. There are three 9th grades at our school. We have classes A, B and C. But we are divided into 4 groups when we have English, Maths and Slovene. When we are united into groups we are together pupils from class A, B and C according to our abilities.

Our English class which is taking part in this project includes 7 girls and 8 boys-15 students. Our class teacher is Irena Krajnc, who is also our English teacher. We are happy that she presented this project to us. We are really excited to work with new friends from other countries. We'd like to improve our English too. Last year we participated in different English projects (Teddy bear, Holiday Card Exchange, Learning Circles).

We really like it.

In Slovenia we have to make 9 grades in the Primary school, then we go to the Middle school (3 or 4 years), and after that to the High school (University). Our grades are from 1 to 5. 1 is the worst rating and 5 is the best rating. We don't have letters but numbers for grading. We have 11 school subjects. And we have to select 2 optional subjects.

Best Regards from Slovenia!                                          

Sports at our school

                                            

Sports at our school:

- hockey

- football (soccer)

- volleyball

- basketball

- aerobics

- athetics

- handball

- table tennis

- badminton

- swimming

- cycling

At school we play a lot of football and hockey these are our favourite sports. We also like to play basketball and handball. Sports that we don't like that much are athletics , voleyball and aerobics.

Our gym isn't very big. We always play sports on one half of the gym because girls play on the other half at the same time.

SPORTS IN SLOVENIA

The most popular sports in Slovenia are:

FOOTBALL

                            HANDBALL                                                                                    BASKETBALL

VOLLEYBALL

SOCCER - FOOTBALL

Soccer is the most popular sport in Slovenia. In Slovenia we call it football. A soccer/football match is 90 minutes long. It's divided in two halfs, each is 45 minutes long. There are 11 players in the game. 10 players + 1 goalkeeper. The goal of the game is to score as many goals as possible. You score a goal if you kick the ball into the oponents nett.

Slovenia has a very good football team. Our players was at the World Championship in South Africa.

                                                                                   Made by Aljaz, Matic, Jan and Tim.

Traditions in Slovenia

                                

Our traditional food is: 

·        Kranjska sausages

·        Kras ham

·        Black pudding with sour cabbage

·        Kisla župa – Styrian sour soup

·        Prekmurska  gibanica (juicy dessert, stuffed with apples, walnuts,…

·        Bograč (Meat dish with onions, three kinds of meat with spices and herbs)

·        Štruklji (flour "rolls" with variable stuffing, which usually includes meat, vegetables and cheese and has about seventy different ways of being made.)

·        Dumplings (Traditional Slovenian dish of dough with various fillings. Dumplings may be baked or cooked, sweet or salty.)

·        Potica – The walnut cake (Potica is the cake dough stuffed with various fillings. This is the most typical Slovenian desserts. We known more than 80 different types of fillings.)

·        Bled cream slice

·        Krofi - Donuts

·        Pogača (cake)

·        Polenta (Traditional Slovenian food from pulp and meal.)

Some typical Slovenian drinks: 

·        Teran (Specialty Slovene wine)

·        Malvasia (wine)

·        Cviček (wine)

·        Kislo mleko – Sour milk

Our traditional clothes are national costumes which are different for different parts (provinces) of Slovenia.  

Kurent is the most traditional mask at the Carneval. Kurent is a mythical pagan creature who, according to the people's belief, chases winter away and welcomes spring. Kurents go through the streets running and jumping for the bells that hang from their belts to ring out loud and scare the cold winter away.

Typical Slovenian activity, mostly in the Idrija region is lace, the Idria lace.

Made by Julija, Spela, Katja and Tina.

Holidays and celebrations in Slovenia

Our national holidays are:

·        1^st and 2^nd January – New Year

·        8^th February – Preseren’s day (Slovenenian cultural day)

·        14^th February – St. Valentine’s  

·        February or March –  Shrove Tuesday / Carnival

·        8^th March – Women’s day

·        25^th March – Mothers’ day

·        March or April – Easter Sunday and Monday

·        27^th April – Day of Uprising against Occupation

·        1^st and 2^nd May – Labour day

·        25^th June – Statehood day

·        15^th August – Assumption day

·        31^th October – Reformation day and Halloween

·        1^st November – Remembrance day or All Saints

·        11^th November – St. Martin’s

·        25^th December – Christmas

·        26^th December – Independence and Unity day

School holidays

·       Autumn holidays: one week (25^thOctober- ^1st November)

·       New Year holidays: 27^th December – 2^nd January

·       Winter holidays: one week (21^stFebruary- 27^th February)

·       Spring holidays: one week (28^thApril – 2^nd May)

·       Summer holidays: 25^th June – 31^st August

     

8^th February is the date when France Presern died. He was the greatest Slovenian poet. When Slovenia became independent Prešern's poem “Zdravljica” – “A Toast” was chosen for our national anthem.  

On the Wednesday after Shrove Tuesday, the 40-day period before Easter, called Lent, starts. 

On Palm Sunday the Slovenes take olive branches to church in order to have them blessed by the priest. 

 On Easter Saturday the family puts some goods in a wooden basket (eggs, cake, meat, horseradish) and takes it to the church to be blessed. On Easter Sunday, after

the morning mass, the blessed food is eaten. A very particular custom in Slovenia is painting eggs or
decorating them in order to offer them to family and friends.

An important holiday for the Slovenes, and the Christmas traditions in Slovenia are familiar to most Catholic countries: the Christmas tree, the Crib, postcards, family gathering together, the Midnight Mass. 

                  Made by Julija, Nika, Tjasa, Spela and Katja.

School history

http://www.os-antona-ingolica.si/default.aspx

We are a healthy school and that's our sign.                We are an ECO school . 

  

Where are we?

  School history

   1782 – the first beginnings of the school

   1904 – the first school was built

   1910 – the first branch school was built in Pragersko

   1920 – the school got 4 grades

   1962 – the school changed into a school with 8 grades

   1978 – the second branch school was built in Zgornja Polskava

   1979 – a new school was built in Pragersko

   1984 – the old school was destroyed

   1985 – the new school was built

   1999 – a new gym was added to the school

   2004 – a new school in Zg. Polskava

   2008 – a new wing was added to the old school in Spodnja Polskava

  

  1^st December 1995 -  our school got its name after our well known writer who was born in Spodnja Polskava : ANTON INGOLIČ.

My city Maribor

Maribor is the second biggest city in Slovenia. Maribor has got 106’308 inhabitants.

                

                                           

In Maribor We’ve got a lot of statues and churches.

Frančiskanska cerkev (cathedral)

Kojack (NOB statue from the second war)

Statue of Rudolf Majster

There are a lot of schools in Maribor. Primary schools, high schools and universities.

University of Maribor

And in Maribor we’ve got a lot of other things:

 

A very popular football team: NK Maribor

                                             A football stadium (Ljudski vrt)

             There is The golden fox skiing for women on Maribor Pohorje every year.

                                                      Blocks of flats

                                                             Shops

                                                                 Cinema

                                                                Theatre

                                           The statue of  contagious (kužno znamenje)

                                            Shopping Centre Europark

                                             Beautiful parks with ponds