New Zealand in 7 LO

On Monday, 27th April, we had a pleasure to have with us
the citizen of New Zealand, 

Glenn Standish 

who gave the presentation on his native land to some students of our school.

 

 

 

 

The Master of German Language

“The Master of German Language”

a school competition.

We encourage all German–lovers from forms I and II to participate in a school language competition.

The competition consists of two parts: written and spoken.

Part one: 20th April 2015 at 10:00 a.m.

More information:

Ewa Błaszczyk 

Jolanta Redmann

One-Actor Theatre Festival

On Thursday, 26th March, two students from our school took part in the acting competition titled

"One-Actor Theatre Festival". 

The competition was organised by High School no. 1 for the ninth time. 

Our school was proudly represented by:

Patrycja Mondraszewska  presented an abstract from K-Pax by Gene Brewer 

Szymon Łagodziński presented The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.

 
The level of performance was exceptionally high so it was definitely a valuable experience for all the participants. The winner of the whole competition was Joanna Smolska who acted in ‘Only a dream’ (by different authors).

Congratulations to all participants!

 

Show Us Your Language Skills - the FINALS!

The regional stage of the national language competition titled „Show Us Your Language Skills” (“Pokaż Nam Język”) organized by the School of Banking was held on 23 March 2015.

The competition proved, as usual, tremendously popular among students and language teachers and almost 19.000 students took part in it across Poland. Only 400 students from dozens of secondary schools qualified for the regional stage of the competition in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. 270 people competed in English language and 90 people competed in German language.

 
Our school was represented by 8 contestants. The competition quiz consisted of 100 questions comprising knowledge of grammar, vocabulary as well as the cultural aspects of the English language speaking countries.

 
 


Five people, who scored the highest results, were qualified for the final round – the debates. Unfortunately, none of our students qualified for the finals. Malwina Fikiert achieved 70 points, which was the highest score for our students. Nonetheless, it is a result worth acknowledgement considering the extent and the range of issues the quiz covered.

In the recess between the quiz and the finals students participated in lectures “Language skills are the key to the world” conducted by Artur Kasprowicz, PhD and a meeting with a renown globetrotter Zdzisław Preisner. The teachers participated in the neurolinguistics workshop titled “Why do we need a brain in school?” conducted by Dorota Ackermann-Szulgit, PhD.

Congratulations

to all winners and participants! 

For more information on the competition visit https://www.pokaznamjezyk.pl

 
 

On 05-13 March more than 65 students participated in the school stage of the national language competition titled

“Pokaż Nam Język” 

The students competed in three languages: English, German and Spanish.
The following students achieved the highest scores in our school:  

Daniel Dybowski	40/40
Malwina Fikier	35/40
Dawid Wiśniewski	33/40
Paulina Dryps	32/40
Waleria Barbagallo	32/40
Adrian Bartkowski	31/40
Mateusz Różycki	31/40
Dagmara Mikołajczyk	30/40

Congratulations! 
The students listed above also qualified for the regional stage of the competition which takes place on 23rd March 2015 in
the School of Banking in Toruń.

"The Teacher of the Year" 2014/2015

We would like to encourage the students of our school to put up a candidate to the

“Teacher of the Year” Plebiscite 

The Plebiscite is organized by “Gazeta Pomorska” newspaper and the main idea is to promote teachers who may serve as an example for others, constantly improve their work performance, have excellent relations with students and are generally perceived as distinguished pedagogues. 

For more information visit the following website: http://www.pomorska.pl/belfer

We strongly encourage the whole school society to choose a proper candidate and nominate him or her for the Plebiscite.

5th English Poetry Competition

We are happy to announce the 
5th English Poetry Competition!

The competition shall take place on 9th April 2015 at 10.00 a.m. under the honorary auspices of Oxford University Press. 

This year the competition’s theme is...
„CHILDHOOD"

The contestants shall present a recitation of one poem of their liking of any of British poets, which shall obviously be associated with the main theme of the Competition. The jury of the competition shall assess the style of recitation and interpretation of the chosen poem.

Do not hesitate! 
Enroll now and astonish and amuse us with your actor's skills! 
Enrollment deadline is 15th March 2015. 
The best contestants shall be rewarded with valuable and attractive prizes. 

If you are interested please contact us on-line: monikajot23@gmail.com 

Organizers:
Monika Jurska and Iwona Zakrzewicka 
Or send us an application containing all the aforementioned details for the following address: 
VII Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Wandy Szuman 
Ul. Batorego 39B 87-100 Toruń

Projects Abroad

If you are interested in the voluntary work abroad, visit the following website or contact you teacher of English for more information.

http://www.projects-abroad.pl

An interview with Harry and Jason

Kasia Wesela and Michał Reszkowski had the pleasure to interview our guests before they left our school. 

Here it is what they said...

Kasia: Have you tasted our regional food? What kind of food was it?
Harry: It was a really special kind of food. I really like bigos. It’s such a big right me that bigos is a few vegetables mix together. And It’s really delicious.

Jason: I can’t remember the name of the food. I don’t remember but it was very delicious. It was very delicious. Harry remember this name. I have bad memory. It was good.

Michał: What do you like most in Poland?

Harry: Let’s see. The town maybe because some of them are really stunning. Maybe the people because you guys are really friendly. Town is stunning and pretty.

Jason: I think the style of architecture. Here is extra originally because I come from different cultural background. You know. I come from different culture and everything is WOW WOW WOW to me. And also I think people here. I think the people I meet was really good and I get it in my heart.

Harry: In Toruń? I don’t think so. I live in host family and they are really nice to me. People are tolerant. Look at you guys. You’re also friendly.

Jason: Vary friendly.

Kasia: Do you want to stay longer in Poland and why?

Harry: Yeah of course. I have two months but I think it’s not enough because this two months I have only for this project. It will be finished in two months. They said that they will give me a week of break and I also stay here one week. It’s not still enough. I need a few weeks to explore Poland.

Jason: You know Poland is a very big country and you know you can just see a culture from one of two cities and I prefer to have more time in Poland to see more parts of Poland. Because I think the culture is not only in big city. In the corners you can see more details of culture and I prefer that. You know it’s like in China. You can’t see China only in big city. You need to go to small and for the corners and taste and explore some culture I think.

Michał: Is there anything that especially surprised you in Poland?

Harry: The weather! I’ m from tropical country and when I’m going here it’s winter and it kind of surprise but I’m expecting something from your weather. Actually even it’s cold but I always expected snow. Because it isn’t in my country.

Jason: I think is the beer culture. I think that if you want to have friends some people especially boys drink beer and it is the same in China. And I have beer culture in China and when I stay in Poland it surprised me

Kasia: Do you see any cultural difference between Poland and your country?

Harry: Of course yeah! My country is religious and still kind of traditional. It is still different. People are tolerant. They know what to do. They are ambitious still. But in Indonesia totally different.

Jason: Your culture is still different than my culture. European culture is totally different from Chinese culture. I’m here and I notice that you protect your traditional constructions. You protect buildings that are beautiful. In China there is a very big problem. It’s a bad situation. A lot of Chinese people prefer modern buildings and destroy traditional constructions and I think that in this aspect you are very good. We need to learn from you guys because you care about your traditional culture. In China is a bad situation.

Harry: It’s different than in Indonesia because in Indonesia most of buildings is the mixture of traditional and modern architecture.

Jason: In my country traditional constructions are destroyed in big cities and capital city.

Harry: In Indonesia it’s different we love to mix styles traditional and modern. We love mixture.

Michał: Have you any advice for students from our school?

Harry: Sure... Learn more. Learn more because it’s like me I tell it every student. My score wasn’t really good but I had opportunity to study English. It’s your opportunity to learn. You still young. You have to learn more. Specially maybe English. You’re so shy. Don’t be so shy! You are good looking.

Jason: I agree with Harry. You know. The world is very big and you have opportunity to study English, Spanish, French, Italian... Why not? In China a lot of people don’t have opportunity.

Harry: It’s like in Indonesia. Less than 60% of people learn English. You got a really huge potential .

Jason: You know it. In some age. In our age we have a good memory and we should learn. If you are older you will be too lazy to study. You’ll prefer to do business and to work. In our age is better. Harry: Try something new but don’t forget about your culture

Kasia: Thank you very much!

One-Actor Theatre Festival

We would like to encourage you to take part in the acting competition
One-Actor Theatre Festival

You may prepare a 5 – 10 minute performance in English on the basis of some play, poem or a novel. The performance shall contain some choreography, music, decorations etc.

If you are interested please contact:
Krzysztof Malinowski
Agnieszka Mach
Deadline: 31 January 2015

In 2013 Filip Okinczyc, our former student, was awarded the 3rd prize in the competition. More HERE