Several of our students have been successful in regional rounds of various competitions recently.    Angelika Fedáková achieved the most notable success of the bunch when she won the regional round of ICT School Olympics and will take part in a national round. Jakub Šľachtovský was the second best in School Olympics in German Language in our region. Jana Biganičová and Krisztián Margitics, who were competing in School Olympics in Russian Language, took the second and the third place, respectively. Barbora Plutová finished fourth in School Olympics in Slovak Language and Literature, missing out on the national round by an incredibly small margin. Congratulations to all our successful students!       

Our school took part in Educate Slovakia, a project which brings young people from different parts of the world to Slovak schools to do lectures and interactive workshops with students. These workshops promote intercultural understanding and global thinking while at the same time encouraging students to become more active users of English language. During one week of lessons with interns Audindra from Indonesia and Mayara from Brazil, students were given a wonderful opportunity to get to know the culture, traditions and lifestyle of people living in these countries. Students also organized interesting trips and activities for the interns in the afternoons and at the weekend. These included trying winter sports for the first time, cooking traditional Slovak meals together or going to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Memorial, which both interns had always wanted to visit. Hopefully, this new learning experience has been a motivation for students to learn foreign languages so that they can travel and experience the world for themselves one day.           

Our Open House attracted almost 200 visitors, mostly 8^th and 9^th graders accompanied by their teachers or parents, last week. Everyone could take part in various activities and classes, which were divided into multilingual, science and humanities section. You can relive the atmosphere via multiple photos and videos taken that day. That you very much for coming!  

Laura Vyhnalová and Michaela Prejsová did not disappoint in the regional round of “...a Slovo bolo u Boha”, which is a competition in recitation of poetry or prose. M. Prejsová took the 3^rd place in the poetry category while L. Vyhnalová won the prose category and will recite on national level in Bratislava in March. Congratulations to both girls!

Spanish language students had a fairly non-traditional Spanish lesson before Christmas. Instead of sitting at their desks and working with their books, they learned how to prepare traditional Argentinean dishes in the school kitchen. They were more than happy to taste the culture of Spanish speaking countries this way, under the watchful eye and skilful hand of Ms. Biganičová.