On Saturday, May 11th, in our school was held the 14th presentations of essays in the field of philosophy, called Cognitia Libera. This year, eight students from different schools and towns entered the finals (Sremska Mitrovica, Zrenjanin, Kikinda, Vladičin Han, Novi Sad and Belgrade), and the topics they chose are: “Od Agore do Instagrama”, “Šta (ni)je umetničko delo”, I “Čovek izmeđuprirode I slobode”.

In a great atmosphere of discussion and exchange of ideas on the subject, all students showed high level of maturity in thinking, as well as enviable philosophical knowledge. The winner of the competition was a pupil of IV Belgrade Gymnasium Tatjana Petrović, who was slightly better than the other competitors. Members of the jury this year were our teachers Nena and Ivan Šurlan, and the chairman of jury was Predrag Krstić from the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

We started the program in the “Bežanijska kosa” home for the elderly people with the dance hull of our school. Introduction to the play “Gospodja ministarka” according to Branislav Nušić’s text was followed by the composition performed by our student Luka on the guitar. At the end of the performance, the choir performed three tracks.

We believe that we will again socialize with some new program with the members of this institution. We also prepared books for their library that they were very happy with them. At the end of the program, we were hanging out with our viewers. They liked the range of art we showed them, we wished to come again.

Our guest in classes of  Serbian language and literature on Thursday, April 18, 2019 was Igor Rill, editor of the Serbian edition of the National Geographic magazine. We have been preparing for this meeting for two weeks, writing news, articles, interviews, reports … At today’s workshop, everything we had gathered, we were meant to to put together on two pages of the magazine or newspaper. Making up a name of the magazine was also important. We can say that it was very interesting for to play the roles we got and to present our ideas to the editor-in-chief (a.k.a. Igor) and the copy editor (teacherr Katarina). All groups received excellent reviews. The most successful two pages will be published in our school papers.

On 11.04.2019.Ruđer Bošković School in Belgrade, presentations from different areas of the Mexican culture were held. Students with their teachers Marina Milovanović and Suzana Amanović prepared typical Mexican cuisine meals according to the original recipes, such as Guacamole, Tortilla, Burritos, Pico de Gallo, Churros etc. The presentation on Mexican food was held by Ms. Eloise Mendez. After the presentation and food tasting, students sold the food they made themselves to the teachers and other students, and money was raised for humanitarian purposes. After that, the youngest ones, grade 4 and grade 5 had the opportunity to briefly travel with Ms.Eloise Mendes, Marina Milovanović and Juliana Merdović to Mexico and to get acquainted with the Mexican idols, which were taken after the presentation. Both the elderly and younger students showed great interest in the topics covered, which they were familiar with and met with in regular Spanish language classes. Special thanks for the activities we owe to Mrs. Eloise Beatris Mendes Gutieres, who was born in Mexico, where she completed her studies in Sociology. She lectured at the University of Mexico for fifteen years, taught at the University of Bolivia, at the University of Honduras, and was a guest lecturer at the University of Kragujevac. Ms. Eloise Mendes is co-author of various publications and articles on Mexican and Mexican cuisine, which include: “Taste of Mexico” and “This Is My Mexico: Children’s Stories of Independence and the Mexican Revolution”. She has lived in the United States, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Honduras and Nigeria, and currently lives in Belgrade.