Easter wishes from Poland to all our friends

  Sending you joyful hugs this Easter. 
 May all of your dreams and wishes come true!

Polish students

The first day of spring in Poland

It is an ancient pagan tradition in Poland (it has also survived in the Czech Republic and Slovakia). It requires the drowning of the “witch” called Marzanna. Marzanna  is a puppet made especially for the occasion from differents bits and rags of clothing. It is a tradition for people to make dolls that are meant to resemble winter, and then take them out into water or burn them on this day, as if to say good-bye to winter.

The first day of spring in Poland is actually an occasion popular among children. It is celebrated on March 21 and it is a day when children traditionally play truant.  In Poland it is sometimes called a day of being truant. Children don’t have lessons but games and competitions. 

 Polish students were very good for their  Marzanna. They decided to save her and not to throw into a river. Accually this tradition is changing nowadays in Poland. Mostly because we don't want to pollute our rivers.
The students brought Marzanna back to the sanatorium, placed in a day room and decided to wait together for the spring. 
Unfortunatelly the spring isn't coming, it is still snowing and it's very cold. Maybe because we tried to change the tradition? 
What do you think?

How to save water - Polish students' works

The students of Zespół Szkół Uzdrowiskowych in Rabka during after - school activities together with their educators were working on ideas how to save water in our everyday life.
They prepared some posters to ilustrate 10 steps to save water.
See how they were working.

Polish students to Turkish students

Today the students of 2nd and 3rd grades were preparing some messages for their penpals in Turkey. They decided to prepare spring flowers as we are all looking forward to spring! The weather is still winter with snow and the temperature below zero.
The students  were reading some letters and then they wrote spring wishes, packed the letters and the teacher took the envelope to the post office. Hope the Turkish students will like our crocuses:)

Polish students making fish skewers

 Today was a special day at school for the youngest students. The pupils of 1 - 3 grades were preparing fish - herring skewers. See our report on that event.


First - the phase of preparation - taking on the aprons:). Our Teacher - Ms Beata was so cute - she helped us with this difficult task.

 Our hands are clean. We are ready to work!

 We have also chosen a chef - Jacek was responsible for coordinating the work!

Our teacher baked a fish bread. It was really cool:) 

We cut all the ingredients: cheese, pickled cucumbers, red pepper into cubes. Then we cut our fish - herrings. All we tamped on long sticks.

Then the sticks we placed in our fish bread.

 Przemek was very happy with his hat. He wanted to stay in it to the rest of the day.

Some of us were so hungry during the work so they secretly ate some food:)

 Our fish -  herrings. Very tasty!

We were very proud of what we had made:)

 The skewers are almost ready!

This is our final result!

 And at last! TASTING TIME!

YUMMY!!! We want more:) You can make them in your schools. It is very easy:) Greetings from Polish students!