At the 26th St. Nicholas Concert, which is held every year by RTV Slovenia, Rotary Club Ljubljana and Rotary District 1912 Slovenia, our school was given a special gift.

The hosts of this year’s concert, actress Polona Juh and doctor Marko Pokorn, announced a wonderful news that the Rotary club Ljubljana and Rotary District 1912 Slovenia, in cooperation with the Postojna cave d. d., are rewarding our students with a free tour of the cave and the Predjama castle.

We thank you for the gift as our students are eagerly awaiting the trip to Postojna.

You can view the concert at the following link: https://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/dobrodelne-prijavi/174579819.

On Monday, 3rd December 2018, at the Cultural Centre Semič, the opening exhibition of artworks created for the 8th Biennial of Children’s Illustration, which was published by KUD Artoteka Bela krajina, took place.

From September to October, students of Fine Art illustrated Župančič’s poems from the poetry collection Mehurčki. The most original works were then sent to take part at the exhibition. At the opening ceremony, the host awarded the winning illustrations.

Benjamin Šutej finished second among junger students, while Ana Hudorovac took the 1st place in the older category.

The school’s art teacher, Andrea Schwenner, received the prize for best mentor.

Congratulations to all three prizewinners.

On Wednesday, November 28th, 2018; the long awaited day finally arrived as the official opening of the new connecting corridor took place. Pupils and teachers were pleased with the crowd of people gathered in the lobby of our school to attend the interesting and emotional cultural program, which was solemnly shaped by our students. The ribbon cutting ceremony by the head teacher Matjaž Barič and the Mayor of the Črnomelj Municipality Mojca Stjepanovič Čemas, then followed the program.
The connecting corridor will enable us an easier, and above all, a safer transition from school to the boarding school.
In addition to the corridor, we are also looking forward to other new acquisitions – the new school van suitable for transport of physically disabled students.

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At the international conference in Novi Sad titled CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL INCLUSION, our school was recognized for its work to promote tolerance and inclusion of students with special needs. The jury was impressed by a number of school projects, such as the Center for Professional Support and Support for Children and Adolescents with Special Needs and Their Families, Video S-Factor and others that promote inclusion.

At the international conference, the principle, Matjaž Barič, participated as a lecturer presenting his view of inclusion in Slovenia and managed to impress over 200 participants in the conference from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/srbija/3155597/okupili-preko-200-ucesnika-vitezovi-osmeha-organizovali-medjunarodnu-konferenciju-izazovi-socijalne-inkluzije

This school year, our school became a part of an international project RISE (Roma Inclusive School Experiences). The participating partners in the project are the University of Bologna (Italy), Instituto Degli (Italy), the University of Minho (Portugal) and RIC Novo mesto. The project’s main goal is to provide an inclusive school for Roma children in order to prevent discrimination in education and to reduce the number of Roma children leaving the school system in Slovenia, Italy and Portugal. Involvement in the project will bring us new knowledge and competences, since within the project we will participate in trainings and different activities for education workers, parents and pupils. In December, we will also attend a two-day meeting of partners in Portugal, where we will present our examples of good practice.

We thank RIC Novo mesto for inviting us to join the project.