2009/2010

On ANZAC day, 25 April 2010, the 3rd Annual 1st International School of Ostrava Indoor Cricket Tournament was held. Two teams from India, the ANZACS (Australia & New Zealand), the UK Barbarians, Czech Senior Boy Bruisers and the Libertarians (USA & France combo) competed bravely for the honour of raising the winners cup! This year, the honour went to the lucky and skilful ANZACS with the Indian teams placed second and third. All teams ought to be congratulated for their fine efforts with the bat and ball. The strokeplay, the curry, the runouts, the amber nectar, the sixes, the reflexes, the kids, the umpires - a perfect recipe for a great day indoors.

Over the past couple of months we have had a lot of Dads visit our school to read with us. Our Dads do a lot of different things. Some are basketball players, som are actors, or public servants, office workers, and teachers. We are proud of them, and are looking forward to more visits!

On Wednesday April 21st, we had a special visit from Mr. Kumar, who showed us how to do some special wirk with paper. It was truly amazing!

On April 14th and 15th, in cooperation with the Canadian Embassy of the Czech Republic and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, we organised Canada Days in Ostrava, 2010. For a full programme, go to our News Page.

The Primary School students are swimming at the great new indoor pool in Bohumin! Here are a few great shots, and even a News report (in Czech) about our kids at the facility!

Christmas came early to the Primary School! On December 10th, we celebrated with our students and everyone did a great job singing, acting and celebrating!

Lots of fun! On Tuesday October 13th, we celebrated Culture Day. This was a chance for the students to spend 3 hours preparing information about a certain country or culture and then present their findings to each other. As a special bonus, Year 4 students from the Primary School in Ludgeřovice joined us to present the Czech Republic. Their were lots of songs, dances & presentations. Good job, everyone!

We celebrated early... On Friday, October 23rd, 2009 the 1st International School of Ostrava was visited by ghosts and witches and lots of scary and magical things!

On Friday, September 11th, 2009, the students of Year 1 & Year 2 dressed up for the Circus! One week later, we painted our faces like clowns!

On Friday September 4th, we launched our Opening Ceremonies at the International Primary School. Helping us to launch the new school year were: Professor Ivo Vondrak, Honorary Member of the 1st ISO Board of Trustees and Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Ostrava Technical University Jiří Carbol, Member of the Czech Parliament and regional leader of the KDU-CSL Aleš Zedník, Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in Ostrava Helena Pipreková, Director of our partner Ludgeřovice Primary School.

NATO Bombarded by questions from students September 18th, 2009 What a great visit! Our school hosted 4 American NATO pilots from the base in Lake Heath, not far from Cambridge in Great Britain. Students were invited to ask whatever questions they wanted, and the results were quite surprising. “This was the best group of students we’ve ever had”, declared Petr Zlatohlavek, the tour organiser.