Category Event

On Monday, 25th of March, during the 5th lesson, a workshop about psychological peer-to-peer violence will take place for the students of 4M (PYP 4).

The objectives of the workshop are to:

become familiar with the term psychological peer-to-peer violence,

learn about the triangle of roles a person can take in the process of violence,

discuss and learn about actions a student can take if they are a part of the process or a passive observant and how to help

Dear parents, 

Once again, students from 7th and 8th grade will get a glimpse of student life in the national department (and vice versa).

The student exchange between the two departments of our school will take place between 4 and 6 March 2024. 

The students who apply for this mini-exchange will spend Monday to Wednesday visiting a class in the national department, while their Slovenian counterparts will join lessons in the international department. 

For more information, please contact Ms Tea Jelnikar (jelnikart@os-danilekumar.si)

Dear school community, during the holidays, on 21 February, we will be celebrating International Mother Language Day. It was proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in November 1999 to preserve and protect the languages spoken in the world. The theme for 2024 is Multilingual education – a pillar of learning and intergenerational learning. Therefore, our MYP students will participate in activities during their English lessons after the holidays to commemorate the day. Furthermore, we also encourage the whole school community to celebrate their mother tongues. Read, write, listen and speak in your language to preserve your cultural heritage.

Tina Frelih

Dear Parents of MYP 3 students,

We warmly welcome you to our Open Day, which will take place on Friday, 16th February 2024, at 10:00. During the Open Day, we will introduce you to how MYP 4 and 5 are taught in our school and you will have an opportunity to see the premises and talk to our current MYP students. We look forward to seeing you here at Gimnazija BeŽžgrad!

Sincerely, Dr Mirko Mrčela

Principal of International School

The school is pleased to announce that we are hosting 13 students from Wotton House International School, an IB School situated in the beautiful county of Gloucestershire in England. Between 26th February and 1st March we will enjoy a week packed with the exploration of our beautiful host country Slovenia, experience intercultural team building, and a day of DKIS lessons. Each of our guests has a host student from 8I or 8M with whom they have already forged a friendship through online meetings and messages. Our pupils will return the visit at the end of May. 

We are looking forward to welcoming them to our school, our capital city, and our country. 

Mateja Kores,

Exchange coordinator

The 8th of February marks the Slovenian national holiday Prešernov dan (Prešeren Day). We celebrate Slovenia’s most notable poet, who is also the author of the Slovenian National Anthem.

France Prešeren is now renowned as the greatest Slovenian poet of all time, but this was not always  the case. During his lifetime he wasn’t well known at all, although after his death he became famous and a real national hero, which is not an isolated case. We have seen this many times in the history of humankind.

His thinking was way ahead of its time, so he often struggled with narrow-minded society. France Prešeren was a lawyer and poet who preferred to work independently, in the spirit of freedom. He worked in the 19th century, the time of Romanticism,  an era for expressing emotion, the glorification of beauty, imagination and abstract thinking, a movement wholly opposed to Realism.

On Friday, 9th February, we will come back to school and enjoy a short celebratory performance in honour of Prešeren Day. The students will be invited to watch one of the three presentations in the School Auditorium during lessons 1 to 3. 

Let it be a day for the celebration of culture, language and poetry!

The Prešernov dan committee.

The kindergarten students are going to present what they have learnt during the second UOI (about time) on Thursday, February 15th, at 16:00. The activity will last for half an hour. On that day individual interviews are also scheduled, so if you need to talk to us, you can sign up from 16:30 on.

Kindergarten teachers

On 23 January, countries around the world, including Slovenia, celebrate National Handwriting Day. It falls on the birthday of John Hancock, the first person who signed the Declaration of Independence, the document which ratified the USA’s independence from the UK. It has been celebrated since 1977, and came into being because many educators felt that  students were losing their penmanship skills. We encourage writing by hand at our school; therefore, the students will join some activities to celebrate the day. Everyone is welcome to celebrate by practising their signature, taking organised notes, learning a new writing system, researching the origin of writing, writing a handwritten letter or postcard, amongst many other things.

Tina Frelih

Thursday, 18 January 2024 in homeroom classrooms 

16:00 – 17:30

Dear parents,

You are warmly invited to our first portfolio conference of the year, for which the students have selected pieces of work to share with you. You can expect your children to share their strengths, best work, the work they are most proud of, and their plans for the future.

We ask you to provide encouragement and positive feedback as your child presents their work. As other students will be conducting conferences in the classroom at the same time, we are kindly asking you to refrain from bringing other children along and to switch mobile phones off during the conferences.  

As the Portfolio Conferences replace the parent-teacher conferences this month, we strongly suggest you take the opportunity and contact the teachers during their weekly individual interviews or send them an email if you have any specific questions regarding the work in their portfolios. 

We are looking forward to seeing you at the event!