(17.05, 2010) For the occasion of 17th May – Constitution Day of Norway, as gratefulness to the donor and financier of the project “Integrated bilingual primary school”, a formal ceremony has been held in the school premises, accompanied by a short speech of the Director of NDC Skopje, Sasko Stojkovski and the Mayor of Jegunovce Municipality, Toni Koceski.
Congratulations, gratefulness and wishes will be sent on behalf of the school to the Norwegian people through Ms. Bente Knagenhjelm, a representative of the management of Nansen Network from Norway, who honored us with her presence on this occasion.
All this would have looked too serious if it wasn’t for the surprise from the students. They have surprised the guests and the parents and with support from their teachers and NDC Skopje team, the students have evaluated memories from last year’s victory of Norway on the Eurosong contest.
Like true professionals, Sara Simovska, Anita Aliti and Driton Fejzuli in the capacity of Elena Risteska from Macedonia, Kejsi Tolja from Albania and Aleksandar Rubek from Norway have represented their countries and caused a lot of smiles, sighs and long applause from the audience.
The event has been closed by Ms. Bente Knagenhjelm, who gave a short speech about the importance of this day for Norway, gratefulness about the invitation and assurance that she will give her vote to Macedonia on the Eurosong contest 2010 in Oslo, mentioning that this Eurosong contest that has been realized in the school is much more beautiful because the songs are being performed by children.
And now, we will leave you to be part of the celebration of this day and our children’s Eurosong contest through video.
(05.04, 2010) Third day of Easter. Following the tradition, friends visit each other and exchange red Easter eggs between themselves, saying Hristos Voskrese – Navistina Voskrese.
Today, we – the teachers and students of IBPS Fridtjof Nansen from the village Preljubiste, have also attended the Easter table of the family Simoski in the village Preljubiste.
The purpose of this visit was for the students in first grade from both ethnic communities to get to know the traditional customs related to Easter Holidays.
At the entrance of their home, the hostess Lidija Simoska has greeted us with a warm welcome and after that, she took care each child to be seated by the rich Easter table, prepared by her. Besides food, the table was plentiful with Easter decoration, a basket with eggs colored in many colors. The happiness of the children was huge.
Before leaving their home, according to the customs, the hosts have given a red Easter egg to each child.
Special gratitude to the family Simoski, who have contributed that we and the students feel pleasant in their home and also to realize the purpose of our visit.
(01.04, 2010) On 01.04.2010, Thursday, Fools Day, all students from I and II grade from the village Preljubiste have been masked with different costumes which were very beautiful.
After they came to school, we were organized and jointly went to the school from the village Zilce, where we have gathered together with the students from that school, who have been also masked in a very interesting way. We have joined them and paraded together through the streets of the village, i.e. from the school in the village Zilce to the stadium in the village.
After we have arrived on the stadium, all children have been lined up and the most successful masks have been selected. On our pleasure, among the most successful masks were also those of the students from our school: “Snowwhite and the 7 dwarfs” (Kate – Snezana and Rilend, Juled, Adi, Veton, Drilon, Ahmet, Ljavdrim – the 7 dwarfs) and “Skeleton” (Igor).
At the end, the children were given small gifts as a reward for the victory and after that we have returned to school, where we continued the extracurricular activities.
(30.03, 2010) March is the month when the whole nature starts to waken.
Today, 30.03.2010, the students from our school have marked the Tree Day. Due to the constructive works that were going on in the school yard, instead of trees, we have planted flowers in pots with the students.
All students know that each planted tree means life, but today, they have all agreed that also the flowers which will be planted today, will beautify the nature in their own way.
That is why the students in both first and second grade took part in planting different types of flowers, with satisfaction.
(15.03, 2010) On 15.03.2010, a representative from UPS – uniformed police officers from the police station in Tetovo has visited us in the school.
This visit has been organized within the activities of the Club of parents in cooperation with the teachers from IDOU “Fridtjof Nansen”.
Jovica Misajlovski (a parent from IDOU “Fridtjof Nansen” and a representative from SVR Tetovo) has introduced the students with the role of a traffic police officer in regulating the traffic, how to properly and safely walk on the pavement and cross the street.
The children have paid a great attention to his presentation and asked a lot of questions that Mr. Misajlovski gladly answered.
Special gratitude to the police station in Tetovo for their cooperation.
(26.02, 2010) On 26.02.2010, in the regional IBPS “Fridtjof Nansen” in the village Preljubiste, a workshop named “Flowers for my mother” has been held due to the forthcoming holiday, 8th of March.
In this workshop, 25 mothers and 4 teachers from this school took part.
The purpose of this workshop is that the mothers of both ethnic communities get to know each other, spending time together, cooperation in terms parent – parent, teacher – parent, overcoming the stereotypes and prejudices of the mothers and helping with the creations necessary for the screen writing for the forthcoming event. The purpose of the workshop has been realized in a pleasant setting.
(28.12, 2009) Due to the coming New Year and the end of the first half of this school year, a New Year performance has been organized on 28.12.2009 in IDOU “Fridtjoj Nansen”.
The New Year’s performance consisted of recitals and singing New Year songs by the students and it has been also enriched with a drama play in which Santa Clause, a fairy and a clown have participated. The drama play has contributed this performance to be much more interesting for the students and their parents who have attended the performance.
At the end of the performance, all students have received New Year bags with chocolates and candies from Santa Clause and in return they have given Santa Clause a kiss and a hug.
(01 - 06.12, 2009) Part of the teachers and parents of the students from the second generation who attend the integrated bilingual school in the village Preljubiste, Jegunovce Municipality, have made a study visit to the Kingdom of Norway from 1st till 6th of December, 2009.
The purpose of this visit was for the parents and teachers to get familiar with the educational system of Norway, to exchange experiences how the schools are functioning, the conditions in which they are operating, the quality of the teaching programs and the involvement of the minority groups in the Norwegian educational system.
The group had an opportunity to visit the primary schools “Sore Al” in Lillehammer and “Toyen” in Oslo, as well as the National Center for Multicultural Education in Oslo.
The parents have attended a performance in “Sore Al” school in Lillehammer, organized by the students. After that, they had an opportunity to directly follow part of the realization of the teaching and also the Director of the school has introduced the parents with the way the school is functioning and the role of the parents in this school.
In the primary school “Toyen” in Oslo, the parents through attending part of the teaching classes and meeting with the school management have learned about the biggest multiethnic school in Norway which is attended by 25 different ethnic communities The visit to this school has been a good opportunity to see how both languages in the teaching are being used – the mother tongue and the official (the Norwegian), also the methods, the methodology and the skills for bilingualism which are being used by the teachers when working with the students.
Part of the teachers has also visited the National Center for Multicultural Education in Oslo, where their hosts have informed them about the goals of the Strategic plan and the way and methodology of its operating. NDC Skopje team and the teachers have received the curriculum and teaching programs that are being applied in the multilingual and bilingual schools in Norway.
The experience from this visit is of a great importance for the teachers, parents and the future development of the project “Integrated bilingual primary school” which is being realized in Jegunovce Municipality.
(13.11, 2009) Ambassador Erwan Fouere on 13 November 2009 together with his coworkers visited the first integrated bilingual primary school “Fridtjof Nansen” in the village of Prelubishte, municipality of Jegunovce.
During the visit, the Ambassador Fouere met the students, the staff of the school and the representatives of the NGO Nansen Dialogue Centre – Skopje which is the implementing organization of the project “Integrated bilingual primary school Fridtjof Nansen”.
The main goal of the visit was informing the ambassador with more details regarding the methodology used for implementation of bilingualism and integration in the educational process as well as briefing him with a general introduction about the school itself which is the only school of this kind in the Republic of Macedonia.
It is worth mentioning that H.E. Erwan Fouere expressed his gratitude for visiting our school and gave institutional support in the name of the Mission of the European Union towards IBPS “Fridtjof Nansen”.
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