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I give my permission to elementary school “Rade Dodić“ to perform the composition „Milutovac school humn“ and „Waltzer“ for the realization of the project for Siemens Join Multimedia 2005 competition. Date Author 10.04.2005. Slobodan Kovacevic

The school and surroundings

SCHOOL AND STUDYING: OUR SCHOOL, YOUR SCHOOL

How our school works

Dream team

How we spend our spare time

The vision of the future

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Welcome to the multimedia presentation of our school. Through this presentation we will inform you about the following themes : 1.The school and surroundings. 2.How our school works.3.How we spend our spare time.4.The vision of the future.5.Dream team.You’ll get more information about the theme if you click on it. Each theme has several parts which are integrated into a whole. Clicking on their titles you’ll get more information about them. When you click on the title of a part, you’ll get back to the pervious page. Clicking on MENU you get back to the first page and you’ll get out of the presentation program if you click on EXIT. The inscription CLICK HERE opens a video or a demo sequence.

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The background of the school

THE SCHOOL AND SURROUNDINGS

Occupations in our neighbourhood

Our school is located in the village of Milutovac . The school was named after the first village teacher “RADE DODIC”. The village belongs to the municipality of Trstenik in the central part of Serbia.

It is remote from bigger town centres but it has strong traffic links with them. The nearby towns are : Trstenik, Krusevac, Kraljevo. The well – known tourist centres in this area are: Vrnjacka Banja and mountains Goc and Jastrebac.

A narrow path cutting the wonderful park leads to the entrance of the school building. The confires and flowery gardens give our school a special charm and grace. There are sporstsfields for football, volleyball and handball behind the school building.

The school has its own farm where agricultural products are grown for school needs.

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THE BACKGROUND OF OUR SCHOOL

An extract from a diary of an eight grade pupil written in 1929.

An extract from a diary of an eight grade pupil written in 2005.

The school was founded in 1859. and the first school building was erected in 1892. The school was rebuilt and redecorated in the course of time .On the 1st of June, 1999, Milutovac and the neighborhood was hit by a devastating earthquake which damaged the school building .The reconstruction began in the same year. In 2002 we got a new and modern school building. The reconstruction was helped by the Ministry of Education and Sport, Mercy Corps organization and local community.Through its rich history, the school was the host of numerous manifestations, receipts of ex-students and ex-teachers and competitions in different subjects. The school has a good reputation and long tradition.

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OCCUPATIONS IN OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD

The school is located in in the rich natural environment which gifted this region various possibilities of dealing with agriculture. The climate and geographic position is especially favourable for viticulture, fruit-growing and grafiting.

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Au extract from a diary of on eight grade pupil written in 1929.

The mother wakes me up early. It has just gotten light. My two younger brothers lie beside me in the bed. The mother and father woke up a long ago.It was raining cats and dogs last night. I was reading a book while my sister and mother were knitting by lamplight.I get up slowly while the mother wakes my two brothers and makes the bed. I take my peasant shoes which were being dried by the stove. I hastily put them on because I have to feed the pigs and sheep before I go to school.It`s raining outside .It’s autumn. I suddenly felt cold water in my peasant shoes. I call my friend Bora who is standing at the gate .The road is covered with mud and we have to walk along a narrow path by the stream.At school, the pupils stand under the eaves waiting for the first sounds of the school bell. They yell and stir. There is the bell. The pupils quickly get in the line and then enter the big classroom. The lessons are as usual. While the teacher speaks we take notes. It`s warm inside. Some pupils soaking wet and tired doze off. The teacher scolds them. Others got spanking for they hadn`t done their homework .I am very hungry. I could hardly wait to have a snack.On our way home we talk about the things that have happened today. When I get home I help my parents with the chores. Then I quickly do my homework so that I could listen to long conversations between my father and uncle Sreta.

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Au extract from a diary of on eight grade pupil written in 2005.

I wake up at seven o`clock. Nobody but myself is in the bedroom. My parents are probably at the farm. It`s warm and pleasant in my room.

My grandfather scolds me for I didn`t wake up earlier . He says that he had to get up early to do the chores. I tell him that I was watching an interesting film and then a sports program on DVD last night and went to bed at midnight. I go to the bathroom. I wash my face with cold water because my mother forgot to turn on the hot-water heater last night. I`m furious. I can`t even imagine to complain to my grandfather because he would probably say: “My son, when I was your age I used to wash my face with cold water even in wintertime.”

Then I have breakfast. Hamburger with milk shake again. I truly wonder if my mother could cook anything better. I put on the sneakers which my father bought me last week. There is Misko, my friend standing at the gate. We walk hastily to reach the school bus.

We arrive at school. There is a huge crowd in the school yard. Some children are play football while others chat about a film or about the latest computer game. Only a few of them are talking about their homework. There`s the bell. Everybody is rushing in.

The lessons are as usual. We are more often scolded than praised, but there are no more spanking as it used to be when my grandfather was a school boy.

We have hamburgers and chocolate milk shake for snack again. Many pupils are complaining. Lunch is much better. My friend Misko and I rush into the dining-room to exchange some CDs and football cards. It`s a pity they don`t serve Coca-Cola and cakes after lunch, but we are going to make up for it at the ice-cream parlor after extensive lessons on our way home.

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HOW OUR SCHOOL WORKS

Teaching and studying Grading

The school in Milutovac is a central school including five school departments in the nearby villages: Poljna, Mala Drenova, Mala Sugubina, Bozurevac and Riljac. The school works in two shifts with students from the 1st to the 8th grades. The first shift starts at eight o`clock for the 5th and 8th grade pupils. The second shift begins at halt past one.

Teaching is realized in two halves. The school year begins on the 1st September and finishes on the 17th June. Winter holiday begins on January 31st and goes on until February 15th. Easter holiday begins on April 27th and finishes on May 5th. Sumner holiday is the longest holiday of all. It begins on June 20th and finishes on September 1st.

Each lesson lasts for forty-five minutes. There is a five minute break between the lessons and a twenty-five minute break between the second and the third lesson. During the long break we have a snack and take some rest.

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Valuable hands of our pupils

TEACHING AND STYDING

Extensive lessons Elective and optional

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The process of teaching and studying would not be on such a high level without our teachers. They are highly skilled and open for changes, new ideas and cooperation with pupils and their parents.

Each school subject is taught according to the plan and program issued by the Ministry of education and sport. The teaching is realized through compulsory, elective and optional school subjects. Compulsory subjects from the fifth to the eighth grade are: Serbian, English, art, music, history, geography physics (from the sixth to the eighth grade), mathematics, biology, chemistry (in the seventh and eighth grade), technical education and physical education.

EXTENSIVE LESSONS

Our school has started to organize extensive lessons since 1969. Extensive lessons are realized in three groups. After regular lessons we have lunch and then we have extensive lessons. During the extensive lessons we do our homework, get ready for written tasks and study for another day. The teachers working with us are only instructions and we are creative and active participants in the process of studying. After them we organize quizes and sports competitions.

We also make practical things of different materials and decorate our school space, so that way we acquire considerable amount of knowledge through play and fun.

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ELECTIVE AND OPTIONAL SUBJECTSEach pupil according to their interests and

likes can freely choose one of the elective or optional subjects. These subjects make it possible for us to take an active part in both studying and real life situations. They help us to learn more about the areas of life we`re interested in and to choose our future professions.

Free activities are realized through various sections or clubs in all subjects. The sections work as teams. They collect information, do research work and prepare pupils for different competitions.

Pupils` organizations are: children`s union, pupils` cooperatives, sports clubs and young technicians` club. All these organizations have achieved great results on both local and republic levels.

Elective subjects:-Religious education-Civil education-National tradition -Computers -Nature guards

Optional subjects-English -Project Citizen-Free activities and pupils` organizations

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Tehnicials’ clubs in our school

GRADING

The pupils are graded with numbers from 1 to 5. General success represents an arithmetically derived average grade from the grades in all school subjects.

A pupil who has an average grade from 2 to 2,4 is considered to have positive general success. Pupils with an average grade from 2,5 to 3,4 are found to have good general success. Pupils with an average grade from 3,5 to 4,4 are very good pupils, while those with an average grade from 4,5 to 5 are excellent pupils.

Pupils` behavior is also graded with numbers from 1 to 5. Pupils` behavior graded with one is a negative behavior. Pupils` behavior graded with to 2 is a positive behavior. Pupils` behavior graded with 3 is a good behavior. Grade 4 means a very good behavior while grade five means an exemplary behavior. The files containing grades in school subjects and behavior are kept in record books for each class.

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HOW WE SPEND OUR SPARE TIME

Friendship and fun Folklore,our tradition

We spend our spare time by arranging and decorating the school park, hall and panels. Since there is no cinema in our village the computer room is our small cinema. We go there to listen to music, play games and watch movies. This classroom is our oasis of research and friendship.

In spring and summer we help the workers at the farm because we believe that way turn out to be useful.

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Pupils’ inovolmen in the school farm

FRIENDSHIP AND FUN

Once in a month we organize a party called “colored noon” on such occasions we listen to music, dance, chat and make friends. We get food, drinks and sweets. We have a good time then, so that the party sometimes goes on until late at night. We are all looking forward to that day because we enjoy being together.

Sport activities represent a special part of our social life. We perform competitions in football, basketball, handball and volleyball. We are very glad to entertain pupils from other local schools and compete against them. Excursions and journeys are very important to us. We enjoy them very much, because we explore the beauties of our country. We also visit the historical monuments, cultural centers and factories. At the end of the school year we go on summer holidays to the seaside or to the mountains.

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Friendship and fun

FOLKLORE ,OUR TRADITION

Folklore is one of the most attended free activities in our school. It`s led by people who work in cultural and art club “Zapis” in Trstenik. The aim of their activities is to teach us more about out tradition and ways and how to preserve them. Due to our artistic gift we play folk dances at the performances in our school.

We also take part in children`s festivals and exchange our experiences with other schools. We had an important folk-dance performance in Velingrad, Bulgaria as a part of the program “Days of culture”. We are the hosts of cultural and art clubs from Republic Srpska and Vojvodina.

Since we`ve inherited a rich tradition from our ancestors our performances are imbued with ethnic motives. We wear folk costumes made by our grandmothers. We also perform plaited folk dances composed by our well-known composers: Dobrivoje Putnik, Dragomir Vuckovic and Desanka Djurdjevic. MENU

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THE VISION OF THE FUTURE

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We see our future through the arrangement of the school space,redecoration of the ethno classroom and creation of a mini computer centre. Only this way ,we will join the past and the future. School is a place where we study and grow up, so it is necessary to create such conditions where the pupils will be more active and creative participants in the process of teaching and studying. Everybody will have their own corner for work and fun. With the cooperation of our parents and teachers we will put all our ideas in practice and enjoy seeing them coming true.

SCHOOL SPACE

Our school has a good reputation. Since we`ve gained a valuable experience from the past we are planning to arrange the school space. Our plans are focused on the school interior. Since the school has spacious and bright halls we want to install lockers (one locker for each pupil). In that way pupils will not need to carry their schoolbags loaded with books. We are also planning to make an “ecological corner” in the school hall and to acquire an aquarium and large panels on which the days of ecology will be presented. We believe that the school yard would look great with a classroom in it, so that we could have lessons in natural environment.

The lockers for all pupils

Our ecological corner

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ETHNO CLASSROOM

Our rich tradition and culture makes us reconstruct and rearrange the ethno classroom. There was such a classroom in our school, but it was damaged by the earthquake. We want to decorate the walls and panels of what was once ethno classroom. The things like dishes, old clothes, work tools from the past could take place in the classroom.

Everyone would like to support the reconstruction of this classroom. The children could bring old things and clothes from their grandmother’s chests which are very useful for the reconstruction of this kind of classroom. This is the best way to preserve our tradition and to teach new generations how to respect and cherish the spirit of our past. In that way the past will meet the future leading us to the future.

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COMPUTER CENTREOur school is involved in “school

development planning”. The team for “school development planning” has done the first development plan and the first project “Computers mean knowledge and knowledge means future”. This project is already being realized. We have seven computer and we are planning to acquire another three. The computer room will be equipped with educational software for all school subjects so that the teaching will be realized in this classroom. We are very happy that our school will get a mini computer centre.

The school is connected to Internet, so that we can communicate with our peers from all over the world.

The vision of our team is as follows: ”We want our school to become a place where children will be more active and creative participants in the process of learning and teaching. We also want to see our school as a place where children, teachers and parents will develop relations based on partnership”.

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DREAM TEAM

Name and surname: Milica JugovicDate of birth: 13.06.1990.Place of residence: MilutovacGrade: 8Task:Tree view

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Name and surname:NemanjaMilosavljevicDate of birth: 04.10.1990.Place of residence: MilutovacGrade: 8Task Music/Sound

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Name and surname: Milan LukicDate of birth: 04.01.1990.Place of residence: MilutovacGrade: 8Task: Video/Animation

Name and surname: Mihajlo HadzicDate of birth: 28.9.1990.Place of residence: MilutovacGrade: 8Task: Screen design

Name and surname: Nemanja JovanovicDate of birth:15.6.1990.Place of residence: MilutovacGrade: 8Task: PC conversion

Name and surname: Dusan MilicDate of birth: 13.06.1990.Place of residence: PoljnaGrade: 8Task: Editing

Name and surname: Kristina Stevanovic Date of birth: 27.09.1990.Place of residence: RiljacGrade: 8Task: Photos/Graphics

Name and surname: Nena MileticDate of birth: 16.8.1990.Place of residence: MlutovacGrade: 8Task: Research

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Violeta Jankovic, support teacher