Earth Day 2024

 We've accepted this year's Empatico Community's challenge and organised various activities to raise awareness of environmental issues and the importance of taking care of our environment.

Class 3 and Class 4 pupils have designed posters and a 22-day Climate Action calendar, while Class 6 and Class 8 pupils have discussed the seriousness of the global issues and ways of solving them.

Think Green!

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Butterflies

 The lesson about the life cycle of a butterfly, followed by matching, colouring and cut-outs activities, has proved to be a success with this year's Class 3 pupils as well.

Celebrating Easter

 This spring, I've challenged my Class 4 pupils to write a short chant about Easter and illustrate it. Then, I read the chants to their peers from other classes, without revealing the authors' names, and asked them to vote for the best ones in their opinion. I've sent the best 4 to the international contest organised by Marijampolė Petro Armina Progymnasium, Lithuania, and the authors (Hristina, Kalina, Sara and Teja) received their certificates.

Republic Foreign Languages Competition 2024

 Nearly 1,500 Class 8 pupils from different regions of Serbia took part in the Republic English language competition on 7 April in Belgrade. 

Vanja tried his best to do reading (8/8) and listening (6/7) comprehension and grammar (19/30) tests, and qualify for the speaking test, but the grammar part was a bit challenging (missed 6 points), so he was not invited to the last round. 

Nevertheless, it was a fantastic opportunity for him to meet new friends and hang out with them, walk along the famous pedestrian streets and round Kalemegdan Park, and visit the Uroš Predić – the Noble Essence of Everyday Life exhibition at the SASA Gallery showcasing artwork from various collections.

HIPPO 2024 Preliminary

 Here are the results of the 12th International Hippo English Language Olympiad which took place on 16 March in Đura Jakšić Primary School:

HIPPO 1:
Nina Stijelja, IV2 (Reading: 30/30, Use of English: 30/30 = 60/60 points), national finalist,
Vukašin Mrkelja, IV3 (Reading: 30, Use of English: 27 = 57/60 points),
Mila Petrović, IV1 (Reading: 29, Use of English: 27 = 56/60 points),
Anastasija Đomparin, IV3 (Reading: 30, Use of English: 25.5 = 55.5/60 points),
Nađa Mandić, IV1 (Reading: 30, Use of English: 24 = 54/60 points),
Teja Babić, IV3 (Reading: 29, Use of English: 21 = 50/60 points),
Nadežda Kosarenko, IV3 (Reading: 27, Use of English: 22.5 = 49.5/60 points),
Anđela Mijandžić, IV1 (Reading: 23, Use of English: 16.5 = 39.5/60 points),

HIPPO 2:
Nikola Tomić, VI2 (Reading: 34/34, Use of English: 28.5/30 =  62.5/64 points), national finalist,
Luka Baba, VI2 (Reading: 34, Use of English: 27 = 61/64 points),
Ivana Popov, VI1 (Reading: 31, Use of English: 27 = 58/64 points),
Nataša Đurin, VI2 (Reading: 32, Use of English: 24 = 56/64 points), 

HIPPO 3:
Stefan Vujin, VIII3 (Reading: 31/34, Use of English: 25.5/30 = 56.5/64 points),
Ana Popov, VIII1 (Reading: 29, Use of English: 24 = 53/64 points),
Anđela Badrljički, VIII3 (Reading: 29, Use of English: 16.5 = 45.5/64 points).

Although only two of my pupils qualified for the national finals, the total points of most who participated last year have improved and that is great.