On the 18^th and 19^th of February 2016, Elementary School Loka held the 9th International Sculpture Colony for Youth. The colony was attended by two of our students from grade 9, Matjaž Črnič and Matej Muc.
The theme of the colony was “Loose your mind.” Matjaž and Matej created two abstract images from clay using all their imagination and skill. During the day they got a short visit from the pupils from our school, which could experience the creativity of the artists. On Friday, at the closing ceremony, the most successful artists were declared and all works were exhibited to the public. Matjaž and Matej were very happy with their final work and the colony itself.

School head teacher Mr. Matjaž Baric received an invitation from the Society of Defectologists of Serbia, and attended the international conference, from 11^th till 14^th February, together with four colleagues from Slovenian schools. The conference hosted over 450 head teachers, special educators, speech therapists, surdopedagogics and tiflopedagogics educators, social educators and subject teachers from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia. The event offered a number of new examples of positive practice methodology in the field of education of children and youth with special needs.
The head teacher held two short presentations in the conference. In the first, he presented the project My communicator (www.mojkomunikator.si), which got a lot of positive reviews and interests as well. At the second presentation, he outlined the international cooperation with the Youth Care Centre ¨Centar za odgoj I obrazovanje djece I mladeži Karlovac¨and the Institute for Raising and Education of persons with Disabilities ¨Zavod za odgoj i obrazovanje osoba sa smetnjama u psihičkom i tjelesnom razvoju¨ Tuzla. This presentation was interesting, because we are one of the few schools for pupils with special needs, which is actively involved in international network of institutions in Europe. Several schools in Serbia showed interest to cooperate with our school in the future.
When international cooperation is good and strong, and has the intention to enrichen the achievements in the curriculum, then intercultural dialogue fills those present with a broader sense of adaptive skills.

Shrove Tuesday, on the 9^th of February 2016, at an elementary school Milka Šobar – Nataša was really ‘fat’. Even on a lunch break we were sweetened with donuts. And the joy with dancing, singing and small cranks continued the fifth school hour, when the carnival gathered in the multipurpose room, in which the carnival dance took place. The head teacher awarded the best masks. Among teachers, the first place went to the hen, second to the knight and the third to the baby. Among the pupils won the clown, the second was the Japanese princess and the third, Charlie Chaplin.