Week of Reading Aloud

It has become a nice tradition that every year in April, there is an event called Week of Reading Aloud. The idea of this event is to bring the world of adults closer to the world of children through stories and fairy tales. That is why we implemented activities in our school to support an increase of interest in books and reading.

This year, a colourful meadow full of medicinal herbs or a land of miracles and magic awaited us. With the help of the teachers, who read to us for seven days, we solved tasks, worked with the text, got to know medicinal herbs and magic objects, answered questions, and thus gained clues that led us to the searched word.

#TurnOffPCTakeABook

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." - Jacqueline Kennedy

During March, the month of books, there was an interesting reading challenge on the Internet. The instructions were to find your favourite book, immerse yourself in the story, and use your imagination. After reading the book, all you had to do was take a picture, share it on social media and add #TurnOffPCTakeABook.

And so the Year 5 pupils got to work immediately and joined the challenge. They introduced their favourites to the classmates and inspired each other to read many interesting titles full of adventure, suspense and fantasy.

However, since the aim of this challenge was to inspire children in Slovakia to read, we offer you a choice of the best for you as well. If, as a result, even one child leaves the computer screen and reaches for a book, it makes sense!

Fairy tales

Fairy tales - who wouldn't like them? Year 5 pupils were discovering the charm of folk, original, animal and modern fairy tales during literature lessons, and although the dramatization of fairy tales is intended primarily for the classroom, we don‘t even give up online. On the contrary, through Roald Dahl and his fairy tale The Witch, we moved directly to the centre of events using experiential methods.

The online lesson was once full of evil witches (i.e. girls in amazing costumes with wigs on their heads, sharp claws and especially with mouse drops that poison all the children of the world) and mice (boys, who eventually outfoxed witches together). During the lesson, we tried a number of experiential methods: brainstorming in the introduction to the witches, a hot chair, on which we "drilled" the main witch with questions, a game of teacher, and last but not least, Cinquain, through which children created 5 verses about the main characters.

Did they like the lesson? Our photos tell it all. :)

Safe Internet Day

A safe environment on the internet for all, and especially for our children is a very important topic for us, in particular at this time when our communication (and our lives) has moved to the online environment.

On the occasion of this day, we have prepared interactive webinars for Year 3 – Year 9 pupils in cooperation with experts from DigiQ companies. We talked about, for example, who are hackers and how to protect yourself from them, but also what are social networks and how to use them as safely as possible.

You can see more photos from today in our GALLERY.

WE LEAD CHILDREN TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR HEALTH AND TO MAINTAIN HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

On Thursday, February 4th, 2021 we reminded our pupils that oncological diseases do not have to be a scarecrow. Prevention and a healthy lifestyle since childhood are important. We discussed with pupils how we can reduce the risk of cancer. Our children made posters to support people with cancer. We believe we can help.

Online learning :)

Even though the current situation does not allow us to study and meet in person at school, our first-graders are not giving up and they continue in distance learning with (almost) the same results while studying at home. Everyone including our Y1 students is doing a great job!

You can see more photos of online learning in our GALLERY.

CLASS CHRISTMAS

Today we celebrated class Christmas.

We enjoyed the atmosphere of the upcoming holidays, unwrapped class gifts under our Christmas tree, created beautiful artworks with a Christmas theme, played board games and watched fairy tales.

You can see more photos from today in our GALLERY.

St. NicHolas day

Who lit up the faces of our children today? Of course, it was Saint Nicholas with his entourage!

Even this year, which is so different, he did not forget about the children and came to give them presents. In return, children prepared beautiful poems for him. He did not even miss the Year 5- Year 9 pupils, whom he greeted online.

You can see more photos from today in our GALLERY.

The firstgraders´ inauguration ceremony

We had an exceptional day at our school today!

The firstgraders´ inauguration ceremony took place in their classes. Our Y1 pupils presented an amazing program for our principal, they took a freshman vow and after the ceremony they became proud students of our BESST school. We wish them all the best, lots of beautiful moments, experiences and new valuable skills. :)

For more photos check out our GALLERY.

Falloween

The autumn season in our school has been traditionally celebrated by Falloween. Our students decorated their classes and hallways in spirit of autumn colors and Halloween theme, they made creations from typical autumn fruits and they came to school dressed up in beautiful hallowen constumes. Our school was full of princesses, superheroes, cute animals and other creative creatures.

There‘s a small taste of our Falloween celebration in the gallery.

Waste paper collection results

Once again, our students would not have missed the opportunity to contribute to the protection of the environment and they participated in the waste paper collection organized by our school from 5.10. to 16.10.2020. This year, thanks to all of you, we have managed to collect an amazing amount of 13,190 kg of waste paper. Thank you! :)

You can find our winners for this year and the final placement of the individual classes in the gallery below.

Adaptation day

On last Friday we had our Adaptation day. We got to know each other better, we learned how to unite the team and much more. Our day was full of fun activities - check out our photos.

Presents for Y1 pupils

Thanks to STEFE Trnava, s.r.o. the beginning of school year 2020/2021 was even more joyful. Like every year, they brought a goodie bag full of school supplies for every Year 1 pupil at our school. This nice gesture made our day even better and put a big smile on our faces.
Thank you for visiting us and bringing the presents. We look forward to seeing you next year.

New school year 2020/2021

We started the 2020/2021 school year a little differently than we are used to.
Despite the masks and new school rules, we did not hide the joy of meeting each other.

Dear students, in school year 2020/2021 we wish you a lot of success and good health.
Together we will handle all the opstacles.

Farm life

Our last week of BESST summer camps was filled with adventures of life in nature. We found that it is not only hard work but also fun. We started our adventure in the Corn Maze in Vlčkovce. Janka from Baterkáreň told us about herbs and together we made lavender bags, herbal soaps and bath bombs. At Kamenný mlýn ponds we caught a few small fish, which we then let back into the water. We tried out several crafts on Dolné Orešany farm - we tried ourselves as bakers, pottery and wireworks... The Maradriam kennel gave us a quick course in agility, breeding and care for Sheltie dogs and long-haired Collies. We ended our great week in Medolandia in Dolná Krupa. Here we learned something new about bees, we saw a pack of honey, expored the area and enjoyed a great lunch. We look forward to next year.

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Oscars week

Our older kids had the opportunity to attend Oscars week, where they recorded their own movie. Not only did they record, edit, write the script etc., but they also experienced basic acting training. They worked on their voice, movement, cooperation, fantasy and creativity.
The results are amazing, their movies are a proof of their hard work and dedication. At the end, all campers attended a glamorous Oscars party.

To see more photos, click on our gallery.

Land of adventures

During the first week of August, we drew our land of adventures and experienced them. We visited the gallery of optical illusions of Tripland, where we hid in a bubble under the sea, floated in space or fed monkeys. We had fun jumping in Jump arena in Bratislava and Trnava. We also wandered in a corn maze and successfully found clues, solved tasks and found our way out.

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Young artist

During the summer camp called Young artist we created many art pieces not only in our studios, but also outside in the school yard.

We started the week with a film morning, where we got acquainted with animated images of music. We used this experience in intuitive painting. The following days we tried Think Art and The Big Picture techniques. We enjoyed a trip to the manor house in Dolná Krupa, where, in addition to interesting paintings, we had the opportunity to see a forty-five-meter redwood tree in a historical park. On the last day of our camp, each of us tried out what it’s like to be Picasso.
Throughout the week, we worked on our memorial book, in which we recorded all the wonderful experiences that the Young Artist camp brought us.

More photos can be found in our gallery

On the way

During the week we visited mini tropical forest at Haluzicka gorge and ruins of an old church nearby. We walked through Hlbočianksa valley - the largest and most beautiful valley of Smolenice karst. At Včelárska paseka museum in Kráľová pri Senci we learned a lot of interesting and useful facts about bees. We also visited Malkia park and finished our great week watching a film at cinema.

Magical forrest

During the week we visited the nest at Plavecký castle, we conquered the highest peak of Little Carpathians - Ostrý kameň. We also took a pleasant walk to Branč castle, Korlátka castle and Rozbehy lookout. We finished the week by visiting Molpír fort and learning how to kindle a fire using tinderbox.

Ice cream at Smolenice was a sweet reward for all of us.

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