17 September, 2010
A trip to Palm Garden took place on the 17th of September. Children had a chance to observe differnt exotic plants and animals. They could also learn a lot about the habitat of the plants and animals kept there.
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31 May, 2010
May and June are very special months for many Polish people. During these months we celebrate Mother’s Day, Children’s Day and a Father's Day. Each year at the end of May we have in our school a Family Day, which is a combination of all those holidays. On this occasion, on the 31st of May our pupils' parents gathered in the auditorium to spend some time together. We started our performance with two plays. One, prepared by the group of the youngest children (stages 0-2) and the other played by those a little older (stages 3-5). All the children put all their hearts in their acting, which everybody loved. After the show children gave their parents own-made presents and then everybody enjoyed the time spent together over coffee and cookies.
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1 May, 2010
In the beginning of May 2010 our IGCSE and CP groups went on a 4-day trip to Kotlina Kłodzka. We visited a Gold Mine in Złoty Stok where we went 8 floors underground, then we all decided to experience the forest from a different perspective; we climbed trees, zipwired and did other stunts in a Rope Park. However hard it was, everybody made it.
Then, our students had a chance to make their own paper in the Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki Zdrój, where they took many photos of interesting exhibits, another breathtaking experience was a Glass Factory in Szczytna Śląska, where we could observe the whole process of crystal glass making, from melting glass to engraving various patterns.
We had a lot of fun in the Museum of Toys in Kudowa and some thrill in the Skull Chapel where over 20 000 skulls and bones are collected. Continuing our underground trip we visited Hitler's underground town in Osówka where all our sneakers got wet... In the meantime, in Duszniki and Kudowa we had an opportunity to drink mineral water, which "tastes like blood", as our Chinese and Korean students said. Then we visited a Japanese garden on our way to the Errant Rocks Reservation, which was the last but one place we were at and where even the slimmest of us had problems to go in the rocky labyrinth... I made it! On our way back we stopped in Kłodzko, where we crossed the oldest bridge in Poland and where Wei bought her sandals. We spent our nights at the hotel where we played table tennis, billiards, basketball, football, listened to music and watched films.
We are all looking forward to other opportunities to visit interesting places.
21 January, 2010
On 21 January at a temperature of -5 ° C, one hundred and eighty pairs of hands were taking turn in working for five hours on the construction of the longest snow wall in the history of Katowice. Our replica of the Great Wall of China (8,851.8 km long) which is on the UNESCO World Heritage list, was around 25 metres long.
While building the wall we had a snow-covered soccer field, ten blades, two wheelbarrows and all the energy accumulated during the week of hard studying. We challenged group work, and although it was not easy, because in a multicultural company we had to show a lot of patience and good will, we managed to finish our work.
Our achievement is symbolic because of the cooperation of people speaking many languages, including Polish, English, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. Although snow was not as sticky as we wished, we were able to build our own wall of China. We also learned a few interesting facts about the construction of the original Wall, and we learned that on 9 July 2005 Danny Way jumped over the Great Wall of China on a skateboard.
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