Mikołaj KopernikMikołaj Kopernik

Primary School Primary School number 9 number 9

in Dzierżoniówin Dzierżoniów

Welcome to theMikołaj Kopernik Primary School

number 9 in Dzierżoniów• About school• Purpose• Dzierżoniów• Patron• Clubs• Achievements• eTwinning projects• Events• Contact

ABOUT OUR SCHOOL• Primary School number 9 in Dzierżoniów was opened on 20th

October 1962.• There are 19 light and spacious well equipped classrooms in the

school. We have two computer classrooms with internet. • There also are two gyms, a canteen, a school shop, a very good library

with many English books for students.• There are swimming lessons from the first class. Some classes (Years

1-3) have got 4 swimming lessons a week (we call them swimming classses).

• From Year 4 we have sports classes and students are thought football (boys only), handball, basketball, volleyball, swimming and athletics.

• From the first year all students are thought English or German and ICT.

PURPOSE• Our aim is to take each pupil to the limits of their intelectual and

phisycal abilities and to support children with difficulties.• We set and expect high standards in behaviour, respect, politness and

consideration. This expectation we stress, applies aqually to relationship between pupils as it does to the relationships between children and adults.

• We aim for all chidren to be valued. We encourage children to be curious, to think and apply knowledge. We apply children to be confident and competent in communication with others.

POSITION OF OUR TOWNPoland lies in the central part of the

European continent, the geometrical centre of which is near Warsaw. The boundary between the East and West European continental masses also runs through Poland. Poland's total surface area is 322,500 sq km (312,600 sq km of land, 1,200 sq km of inland waters, and 8,700 sq km of territorial waters).

The main part of the District of Dzierżoniów is situated in Przedgórze Sudeckie. North- eastern mountains- sides of the Sowie Mountains, a part of Ślęża Massif, and Mount Radunia are also included in the District’s area.

Dzierżoniów was founded in 12th century.• It is one of the oldest Silesian towns.

There are many monuments of architecture in the town.

• There are about 36 000 citizenns in the town.

• 1. The centre of Dzierżoniów 2. Świdnicka Street

• 3. Town Hall by night 4. Inside St. Geoge’s Church

Nicholas Copernicus - born Feb. 19, 1473, Torun, Poland, died May 24, 1543, Frauenburg, East Prussia [now Frombork, Poland] His name in Polish was Mikołaj Kopernik.

He was a Polish astronomer who proposed that the planets have the Sun as the fixed point to which their motions are to be referred; that the Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis; and that very slow, long-term changes in the direction of this axis account for the precession of the equinoxes.

This representation of the heavens is usually called the heliocentric, or "Sun-centred," system--derived from the Greek helios, meaning "Sun." Copernicus's theory had important consequences for later thinkers of the scientific revolution, including such major figures as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and Newton.

The book that contains the final version of his theory, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi ("Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs"), did not appear in print until 1543, the year of his death.

After school CLUBS• At our school students have the

opportunity to develope their interests taking part in after school clubs:

• - Drama• - Ecology club• - Health promotion club• - Travel club• - Science club• - Maths club• - European club• - English club• - Sports club

Achievementsin sport

• We take part in a lot of sports competitions and we have plenty of achievements in sport.

• We play handball, basketball, volleyball, table tennis and we do athletics and swim very well.

• As a result last school year our school won the second place in SPORT RIVALRY IN LOW SILESIA REGION (województwo dolnosląskie):

• 1st place - SP 1 Polkowice 1390 pkt.2nd place - SP 9 Dzierżoniów 1345 pkt. 3rd place - SP 46 Wrocław 1325 pkt.

ACHIEVEMENTS IN MUSIC• Kasia Miednik from class

4a is very talented in music, especially in singing.

She has won many song contests in Poland and even abroad.

• Twice she has won the English Song Contest in Wrocław:

Last year she sang It’s Raining Men

This year she sang One Moment in Time

eTwinning projects• In November 2005 our

school joined eTwinning - School Partnerships in Europe.

• We are taking part in four projects with six twin schools from four countries: Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Great Britain.

Discovering Europe – our first eTwinning project registered on 2nd December 2005.

There are four schools in this project:

• ESCOLA D. PEDRO IV – QUELUZ, PORTUGAL;

• SMS ‘LEONARDO DA VINCI’ , MASCALUCIA, SICILY, ITALY;

• OLNAFIRTH SCHOOL – VOE, SHETLAND, GREAT BRITAIN.

• We have a blog about the project:

• http://discoveringeurope.bloog.pl

We wrote about festivals in our countries and send greetings cards.

We did Powerpoint presentations about our school, town and country.

Page from presentation about Poland

LIVING AND LEARNING IN the 21st CENTURY• This project involves the

youngest group of students in our school (2nd and 3rd Years). The twin school is from Great Britain, situated in the south west of Bishop's Stortford - the Richard Whittington Primary School .

• Children write letters, make pictures on the computer and Powerpoint presentations about their schools.

• On the right you can see an Easter card made by a Polish pupil from class 2b and a picture made by 7-year-old boy from England.

Pages from Powerpoint presentations about school made by 10-year-old students from our school.

eTwinning – a Key to Europe - project with a Portuguese school:

ESCOLA B’ASICA 2,3 da LOUSA • We started this project in

December 2006. The whole class 5b takes part in the project. Students write letters, make presentations and greetings cards. We also learn a bit Portuguese.

• In the picture you can see some places in Lousa, which is situated in a mountainous region.

DREAM YOUR DREAMS – BUILT A SAILING BOAT

eTwinning project with Slovenian school from Maribor - OŠ Angela Besednjaka

• The main aim of our project is to build a school sailing-boat, to gain skills for reading stencils, and to become acquainted with working with various materials. Besides that pupils are providing information about sailing, the history of sailing, the rules for that type of sport as well as getting an insight into everything else that is in any way connected with the above mentioned themes.

• Here’s the web site of the project:• http://193.2.213.30/~jadrnica/

jadrnica/

Results of our work on this project on Spring Day 2006

EVENTS• There are many events at our school.• We celebrate the national festivals – Independence

Day, Constitution Day • Church and school festivals – Christmas, Patron’s

Day, Easter• Besides we also have some new events connected

with European Union. – European Day of Languages, Spring Day, Green Week

We will show only some of them.

European Day of Languages

• On 3rd November we celebrated the European Day of Languages.

• We watched a play about foreign languages in our life.

• After that there was a song contest – we sang in English and German. At the end took place English Poetry Contest.

• We had a really good day.

On 22nd December traditionally we finished the Old Year with On 22nd December traditionally we finished the Old Year with Nativity Play and Christmas Eve dinner.Nativity Play and Christmas Eve dinner.

The school was full of Christmas decorations and everybody felt that The school was full of Christmas decorations and everybody felt that Christmas was coming. Christmas was coming.

In the morning we went to the gym to see the Nativity Play performed In the morning we went to the gym to see the Nativity Play performed by students from classes 2a, 3b and 5b. Children sang Christmas by students from classes 2a, 3b and 5b. Children sang Christmas carols not only in Polish but also in English and German.carols not only in Polish but also in English and German.

Then we went to our classrooms to have a special Christmas Eve Then we went to our classrooms to have a special Christmas Eve dinner with all the traditional dishes.dinner with all the traditional dishes.

School Patron’s Day• Every year we celebrate our Patron’s

birthday – it’s on 19th February. This year we celebrated it on 24th February.

• We had a lot of competitions then.• We baked Kopernik’s gingerbread – a

cake or cookies. They were really lovely.• One of the contests was to build a

spaceship or a rocket.• In the gym we had the other contests. The

”class song” – from every class at least half of the students had to sing.

• The end of our celebration was a preformance titled „ The Birth of a Star” with J.M.Jarr’s music. Dancing girls made the day more fascinating.

• From 24th till 28th April we have a Green Week at our school. All the classes were involved in the ecological activities.

• We planted flowers in our classromms and around the school.

• Young classes painted pictures about their environment.

• Older students took part in classes about recycling and went to the purification plant.

• A group of students from the 5th class promoted recycling not only at school but also in the streets of our town.

• We learned a lot about our environment and recycling during the Green Week.

The presentation was made by:Alan Lekki & Tomasz Stasiński

from class 5bThey both are interested in computers and

English language.

Supporting teacher: Anna Szczepaniak

Dzierżoniów, 23rd May 2006.

Contact

Web site:Web site: www.sp9dzierzoniow.republika.pl Name of school: Name of school: Szkoła Podstawowa nr 9 im. Mikołaja Kopernika Address:Address: 58-200 Dzierżoniów, ul. Kopernika 7 E-mail:E-mail: sp9dzierzoniow@poczta.onet.pl Telephone:Telephone: 074 831 35 46