Sur les pistes de la France – orienteering by francophone

Professor Darko Miletic was our charming guide through the French part of Belgrade on 13th March, 2019. The first point was French cultural center. Lovely Katrin and the center left very good impression on us. The second point was the search for French bakery in Dobracina Street. Unfortunately, it does not exist anymore so we had to find solace in doughnuts we found along the way.

Bogdan Kosutic informed us of the embassy and the monument on Kalemegdan.

It was a beautiful day to acquaint our city. Professors Svetlana and Katarina questioned us about previous points, but our experienced orienteering team was at its best. At the end Nadja drew a conclusion in French.

English and German language municipal competition

At municipal competition held at Milos Crnjaski School last week our students proved one more time that they were the best experts in Serbian and German language.

We commend 9B students and their results, congratulate and keep cheering on students who placed themselves into the next round of competition.

We wish them success in the next round of the competition which is going to be held 23rd March.

St. Sava

On 25th January Saint Sava Academy was held in our school. The festive program was held by members of drama club and the choir. Our teacher of Theology Sava Mumin held the sermon. After the manifestation students who were outstanding in some areas got Saint Sava’a awards.

Saint Sava play

Our school celebrated Saint Sava’s day in a salient way. We started the festivity with hymn and speech that represent the main idea of this festivity. Dancers presented their skills and the acting team astonished us in the play ‘The Lady Minister’. Mrs. Ivana Vukmirica, school manager, gave awards to students who deserved it by learning and well behaving. 31st issue of ‘Sokolske novine’ has been published.

The Spawn of a Carp- Atelje 212

On 12th January high school students spent their Saturday evening in Atelje 212. We watched ‘The spawn of a carp’ and we were well prepared. This Aleksandar Popovic’s play is in our school programme so we revised our knowledge about certain moments in Serbian history. The theatre was full, the actors were excellent and the audience was delighted. The theme was grave, but if we realized that life was full of tragic and comic moments we would have chance to feel catharsis and think of the demise of family and an individual through social turmoil.

Guest lecturer

On 26th December, Grade 4 students attended the lecture about the function and living habits that act positively on heart and the cardiovascular system. Our guest lecturer was Ph.D. Danko Cuckovic. He presented, in an interesting way, how the heart, the most important human organ, works.

A round table

On Monday, December 24th, our school held a round table with Belgrade high school students. This year we talked about the topic “The Man between nature and freedom”, and our guests were students and teachers from the Fifth, Tenth and Fourteenth Belgrade High School, as well as students from Techno Art High School.

The introductory lecture was given by the philosopher Ivan Milenkovic, who showed, through his presentation, using examples from literature and philosophy, how difficult it is to define freedom. After the lecture there was a discussion that continued during the first module when our philosophy and global politics teacher, Ivan Surlan, emphasized the importance of this topic in the context of political action. We ended the discussion in the field of ethics, where, through an example from everyday life, our teacher Nena Surlan, incited the students to debate the issue of making the right decisions in everyday situations, freedom of will and freedom of decision-making.

All the participants of the round table actively debated, exchanged great ideas with each other, but  they managed to have fun, chat and arrange their next meeting.

Exhibition – Classical and symbolic

A group of students visited the exhibition “Classical and Symbolic” at the Museum of Applied Arts.
The exhibition presented the museum collection of the rings and earrings from the ancient times to the medieval times by the author Mile Gajić, senior curator of the Museum of Applied Arts.
It contained 95 objects from the Collection of Metals and Jewelry of the Museum of Applied Arts, as well as 10 valuable items from the collection of the Historical Museum of Serbia.
The objects that will be presented at this exhibition illustrate a specific segment of our cultural heritage that testifies about the centuries-old tradition of making and wearing jewelry in this region, the interweaving of various artistic influences and their authentic merging with the time of the Serbian medieval state, when the classical and natural lived in the modern world, and symbolic was the only way of thinking and living.

Exhibition “The Heart of Darkness”

We visited the exhibition “The Heart of Darkness” by Katarina Petrović in the Art venue U10. She is an artist and a researcher who is dealing with the relations between art, science and humanities and the unusual setting made us stop and think. By creating empirical and scientific information, and guided by theintuitive insights, the artist conceives and suggests thinking about the issue of processualism, first of all in the context of the creation of meaning and form.
Following the chronology of Katarina Petrović’s thoughts, the exhibition “The Heart of Darkness” focuses on the inaccessible aspects of our reality, the beginning and the movement, the presence and the absence.
Katarina Petrović is focused on the research of the concept and the process of creation and generativity, and in her work she uses media such as text, language, sound and code. She is currently working as a researcher at the Leo Apostel Transdisciplinary Research Center in Brussels. She completed her master studies at the ArtScience Department of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, as well as her Bachelor and Master studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade.

Guest lecturer

Dr. Jugoslav Mijovic was a guest lecturer in the grade 4.

During the transdisciplinary theme “Who we are” grade 4 was working on the central idea that our knowledge about the human body enables us to take better care of ourselves. Dr. Jugoslav taught our students the organ system in an interesting way. They were talking about the components necessary for a healthy and balanced lifestyle, pyramid nutrition and the importance of being healthy.