Pasvalys Lėvens Pasvalys Lėvens Basic SchoolBasic School

Pasvalys Lėvens Pasvalys Lėvens Basic SchoolBasic School

Nojus VaicekonisNojus VaicekonisDaniele VaicekonyteDaniele Vaicekonyte

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The Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the largest of the

three Baltic States. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Its

capital is Vilnius•

Some facts about Lithuania

• It borders Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and a Russian exclave (Kaliningrad Oblast) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 3.1 million as of 2011

• The Gediminas Castle

Ethnic groups (2012)

– Lithuanians– 83,9 % (2 721,5 mln.)

– Poles – 6,6 % (212,8 tūkst.) – Russians – 5,4 % (174,9

tūkst.) – Belarusians– 1,3 % (41,1

tūkst.) – Ukrainians– 0,6 % (21,1

tūkst.) – Jewish 0,1 % (3,4 tūkst.) – The Tatars – 0,1 % (3,1

tūkst.) – German– 0,1 % (3,0 tūkst.) – Gipsy – 0,1 % (2,9 tūkst.) – Latvians – 0,1 % (2,4 tūkst.) – Others and unspecified-

3.1%

• Official language- Lithuanian

The population (According to Lithuanian population census)

• 2008 - 3 366 357• 2009 - 3 349 900• 2010 - 3 249 084• 2011 - 3 053 800• 2012 – 2 988 381

• Most people emigrate to Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Spain, Germany

Pasvalys district - is in northern Lithuania, on the border with Latvia

• In 2011 in the area lived 28,205 residents

• In Pasvalys city - 8709

Pasvalys – land of plains and sinkholes

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Lithuania-the country of basketball

• Pasvalys is the city of basketball too

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• Pasvalys basketball arena

Pasvalys Lėvens Basic School was opened on 1 September, 1987.

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The school building is situated by the river Lėvuo in Kalno street in the northern part of Pasvalys. It consists

of 6 blocks and 3 stage levels because of the hilly relief and active

sinkhole region.•

In 1987 there were 861 schoolchildren and 55 teachers working full time.

This year the school is celebrating its 25 years anniversary

• The first school director was Arvydas Kontenis (1987-1993)

• From 1993 till 2011 the school was headed by Danis Vaišnoras

• In 2011-2012 the temporary director was a deputy for education Aida Abukevičienė.

• In September 2012, after national educational reform, Ustukiai, Valakėliai and Lėvens basic schools were reorganized into one unit. The director of Ustukiai and Valakėliai schools Lina Rauckienė became the director of the united Pasvalys Lėvens basic school.

 

The school‘s staff are creative and hardworking people. All teachers have high pedagogical

education and necessary qualifications to work with children. Some of the teachers have been working

in the school since it was opened.

In 2010 Ministry of Education awarded our school with the school bus specially

equipped and designed for safe transport of children

The school has its emblem, anthem, uniform

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The school is proud of its pupils and is eager to satisfy children’s and parents’

needs.

Mobile lessons are taught in museums, swimming pool, in the nature.

Creative works of children are exhibited in the school’s museum, reading room,

assembly hall.

11 March- Independence Restoration Day commemoration

. 4 March – Kaziukas’ Fair

All things and food are hand and home-made.

‘Crazy’ Autumn is the Alternative Fashion Show which is probably the most creative, colourful and popular

among pupils and teachers.

Moments of the New Year Carnival

„Ecological action „Let‘s Do It!“„Let‘s do it!“ is a yearly general action when all

Lithuanian people clean the environment. This action originated in Estonia in 2008 and was very successful.

Inspired by Estonian experience, Lithuania, among many other countries, joined this honorable action and now it

takes place in Latvia, Slovenia, Brazil, India, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, etc .

Our school was one of the first ones who joined the action in 2008.

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Sports Festival

Tourist Day

A queue for the tourist porridge

Every year in June our school organises a 10-day camp for socially supported children.

The name for the camp is ‘Let’s Be Together’

Our AchievementsOur AchievementsOur AchievementsOur Achievements

We We actively participate in various projects, actively participate in various projects, competitions, olimpiads and become winners competitions, olimpiads and become winners

and prizemen. Pupils of our school are and prizemen. Pupils of our school are especially keen on sports. Young athletes, especially keen on sports. Young athletes, handball and basketball players make our handball and basketball players make our

school‘s name famous not only in Lithuania, school‘s name famous not only in Lithuania, but in other countries too. We have been but in other countries too. We have been

among 10 best sporting schools in Lithuania among 10 best sporting schools in Lithuania since 2003.since 2003.

In 2012 our girls became the gold medal winners in the Young football

players (age 14-16) national championship among girls.

Pasvalys Lėvens basic school handball team were awarded bronze medals in the

National Olympic Festival for schools.

In 2011 our girls were awarded bronze medals in the track and field national

competition.

‘The Traffic Light’ is a Road Safety Competition in which we have been among

winners for 10 years

• It seems we are successful in our

work. We are creative, full of life, energy and new ideas. We want to achieve our best. But what do these numbers say?

Here you can see the figures showing the increasing

number of children in our school during last 5 years

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604

515

421

371

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700

2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013

Mokinių skaičiaus kaita 2007-2013 m.m.

We truly hope these numbers will change one day and our people will

stop migrating.Lithuania will be there waiting for

them!

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME!