On the 9th of June in our Philharmonic one of our students was awarded.

MARTYNA SZLEPER from IE ( an English teacher Marzena Kossak-Wąchała) got the FIRST PRIZE.

She took part in a competition and her task was to write a letter to a friend recommending the most beautiful and worth seeing places from our city. Her work was full of her own drawings and photos, as well. The president of Częstochowa, Mr Tadeusz Wrona congratulated the winners from all the categories and handed in the prizes.

Congratulations!

Just click to see the table with FOX competition results, that our studendts took part sucesfully ;)

The day of recruitment is coming, so we would like to inform you about the open day in our school. The event is taking place 9. 03. 2009 (next Monday) from 9- 14 o’clock.

We will present all the profiles available in our school, so you will have an opportunity to find out which profile suits you the most. To find more about recruitment in our school, follow this link: http://www.kopernik.czest.pl/index.php?p=art&id=56

We invite teachers with groups consisting of 20 students. We would like you to inform us about your visit in advance.

We hope you’ll enjoy your visit here!

 

We would like to remind you about English contest, FOX. It’s going to take place this Tuesday, 3. 03. 2009. Competition starts at 8 a.m. in classes 45 and 48.

Good luck!

For more information, click here: http://www.fox.wombb.edu.pl/index.html

If you want to read a review of "The African Queen" written by one of the students from class Ie click here

The 14th February for „Copernicans” wasn’t the ordinary Valentine’s Day as it happens annually. It was the day of so impatiently expected Prom. All the clothes were bought, hairdressers, beauticians and all the stuff did their best to expose the beauty of everyone. The prom started at 8 p.m. traditionally by the polonaise. The choreography was of course different from the previous year and it looked really nice. Then the toast, dinner and the party started. I think that everyone was satisfied and had a great time, also our teachers  . Unfortunately, the Prom came to an end at 5 o clock in the morning, whereas everyone was willing to stay longer J. Memories of the Prom night will last to the end of life, because it was definitely an unforgetable night.

 

 

     On 12th of November, 2008 some of us took part in a very popular English contest, English High Flier. This competition was held all over the country.
The level of this contest was very high- students had to cope with the grammatical and lexical matters, and also with the aspects of English culture.
The test consisted of 28 tasks.
Results:
Good results:
Ewa Wieczorek- 1e- 77,23%   English teacher- mgr Marzena Kossak- Wąchała
Izabela Kantor-2b- 76,34%   English teacher- mgr Elina Szago- Lalak

Very good results:
Bartosz Michałek-3g- 84,82%   English teacher- mgr Joanna Wołkowicka
Jakub Znamierowski-3f- 83,04%   English teacher- mgr Marzena Kossak- Wąchała
Karolina Rospondek-3b- 80,36%   English teacher- mgr Anna Cholewa- Purgał

Congratulations!

News by Agnieszka Wierzbowska

 

 

 

It is our school tradition that every year 'the freshmens" go on an integrating  tour. This year wasn’t different. First classes went to Janów, where they were able to see the only one exact solar system model  in Europe, having distances and sizes made in proper scale. They also had a chance to learn some secrets of the local forest thanks to being guided by forester. Walking forward they reached the witch's house (where they met Jaś). Scary meeting really. Some of them got too much  thrilled. So they were led by an elderly looking - like -  Moses man to have some meal - a barbecue in the middle of the woods.  After that  horses' carriages  took them to where they were supposed to give short performances - each class had to show something connected with themselves. There were songs, dances, statistics, but I think the most surprising was sketch prepared by class 1 e - based on performances from "Kabaret Dno". After so much time we spent together and all those laughters we did - I think - no one can deny we have made quite a team.
Some pictures of the tour are available below.

 

25 th of October , 2008 Copernicus anniversary

On the 25 th of October there was a Copernicus Anniversary in our school. It was to commemorate that the school was opened 50 years ago. There were many special guests and graduates invited, so it was very good opportunity to meet after many years. I think that photos will better show you the atmosphere of celebration.

Click to see photos from the anniversary

 

11 th of June , 2008 THE RESULTS OF THE COMPETITION „ CZĘSTOCHOWA IS A GOOD CITY”

On the 11 th of June in our Philharmonic two of our students, the finalists, were awarded. They took part in a competition and their task was to prepare a CD Presentation (Power Point) entitled “Seven miracles of Częstochowa”. It was supposed to be a letter to a friend recommending seven interesting sights of our city, of course in English. The text and photos were to be original and exceptional. The works of two students from the school were chosen throughout school eliminations. There were 8 students participating altogether. The best two and their results are :

1. BARTOSZ MACIŃSKI - FIRST PRIZE ( from Ig – the teacher of IT and coordinator was mgr Dariusz Stępień);
2. ADAM KOŚCIELNIAK - RUNNER UP ( from If - an English teacher and coordinator mgr Marzena Kossak-Wąchałą)

Congratulations !

 

28th of May, 2008 – “FOX” results

Just yesterday we got the results of English Language “FOX” Contest. It checked grammatical knowledge, every day English, cultural aspects and vocabulary. The total number of this year participants was 21.

Two people got GOOD results:

1. Cianciara Cezary from II a (English teacher mgr Anna Cholewa-Purgał)
2. Bartłomiej Drobniak from II f ( English teacher mgr Marzena Kossak – Wąchała)

One student got VERY GOOD results:

1. Agata Urbanek from I h ( English teacher mgr Joanna Wołkowicka)

Congratulations to everybody!

 

26 APRIL- "The Top"

“The Top” is an English contest organised by The Top College. Our school took part in the competition. 1st stage took place at local schools. In VII LO about 30 entrants had participated but only 2 passed to the 2nd round. They were

1. Adrian Robak from II g ( English teacher mgr Beata Koszyk )
2. Jakub Znamierowski from II f (English teacher mgr Marzena Kossak – Wąchała)

Second stage was written in The Top College ( Bielsko-Biała ) by 95 people. That one was much more difficult. In the final our school was represented by only one student, who successfully passed the test. It was Jakub Znamierowski . That time 23 participants who had arrived at Bielsko-Biała, were supposed to answer examiners’ questions on the topic they had chosen during the second round ( History of GB/US, Literature of GB/US, Geography and Culture of US as far as I remember ) – each one separately. Two commissions ( one for Great Britain, the other for the USA ) verified competitors knowledge. If only I knew how they would compare the results of their interviewees… What actually infuriated finalists gathered, was the fact of waiting long hours for their turn and afterwards for the results... 13 place in the finals was really good, actually the best our school has ever achieved.

 

30 March - CONCERT “ TOUCH OF IRELAND”

On 30th of March a group of students and teachers from our school had a chance to see a great concert in Częstochowa Philharmonic. The show was called "Touch of Ireland" ( www.touchofireland.pl) , the show of Irish dance and music. A performance was made by "Reelandia" ( www.reelandia.art.pl ), famous dance formation and "Carrantuohill" ( www.carrantuohill.art.pl ) , band which plays Irish music, supported by well-known Polish musician, Robert Kasprzycki.

For nearly two hours we could listen to excellent music played by the band. There were traditional Irish songs and also some original jazz adaptations of the Green Island's music. We've had an occasion to see a performance of "step dance", characteristic for Green Island dance style as well as reel, jig, slip jig and a lot of dynamic and original choreographies. What is more, dancers had very nice, traditional costumes, which were presented in a group, pair or individual dances.

Moreover, not only did Robert Kasprzycki present his music skills, but he had a great contact with the audience as well. That made the concert very original. As a conclusion, traditional music can be interesting for people of each age. A "Touch of Ireland" is magnificent, worth seeing spectacle.

 

“IRELAND SWEET IRELAND”
- OUR REPORT

WE ARE GOING TO IRELAND!!!

It’s 17th of February in the morning…I hear the voice from somewhere: ”Get Up Son…..or you’ll miss your plane..” I’m slowly opening my eyes…damn what hour is it …5 o’clock…..WHAT?? Oh my goodness what a freaky idea. I wish we had an airport in our city…a little shower…brushing my teeth, small breakfast, hot tea, sandwiches going to my bag…ok I’m ready, good bye kisses from mom. It’s cold, dark and there is no one here apart from me…My mother is waving me off from the window..
If you think that it was horrible, you’re right. I am not used to get up so early. So finally I met with my friend, his brother (our brave driver) and his mother. We got into the car and set off to Warsaw Chopin Airport at 6. During the way there was nothing interesting so I’ll skip to the Airport.
We arrived in Warsaw at 9. We still had one hour to our first meeting with our organizer so we were waiting. At about 10 a.m. we were all waiting ready to go. We got nice polo-shirts with shamrocks from Mrs. Justyna Schraam a person who organized everything. Such a nice gift ;-). So finally (we hoped) the check-in began. It lasted ages, but it was only the beginning. The frontier pass control also wasn’t the shortest moment in our life. After all of these necessary “things” we were sitting in the plane, waiting for take off. The flight was quite nice and pleasant ( except for some people whose ears are so soft) and we departed Dublin.

First place to visit – The National Museum of Ireland

The same day we had arrived to Ireland we went to the National Museum of Ireland, which is located in Dublin. This building was designed in Victorian’s Age, though it’s really beautiful and it made a big impression on us. The artifacts in the Museum was exhibited into seven galleries: Prehistoric Ireland, Ireland’s Gold, The Treasury, Kingship and Sacrifice, Viking Ireland , Medieval Ireland and Ancient Egypt. Everyone got some kind of “free time” there, so we could sightsee in our own way without hurry. The first was the gallery of Prehistoric Ireland. This exhibition reminded us about the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age. The second part, Collection of Ireland’s Gold is one of the greatest museum collections in Europe. The Treasury exhibition shows the development of Irish art from the arrival of Celtic people to Ireland in the last centuries of the Prehistoric era to the beginning of the Medieval period. Kingship and Sacrifice display gives us a chance to come ‘face to face’ with our ancient ancestors and see their bog bodies. The Viking Ireland exhibition documents the Viking Age in Ireland from the first recorded Viking raid. The Medieval Ireland deals with the English colonization of Ireland, daily life in town and country and contains all of the principal reliquaries and pieces of art from the Late Middle Ages. The last Exhibition – The Ancient Egypt introduces visitors to the complex civilization of Egypt. In the Museum, we tried to see every exhibition, though we couldn’t stay as long as we wanted in order to watch these displays more carefully, but undoubtedly, being in the National Museum of Ireland was such an interesting experience to us, because we could learn and delight the beauty of the art at the same time.

OUR HOSTEL

About 5 p. m. on Thursday we arrived to our hostel at Mountjoy Street 61 which belongs to the chain ‘An Oige’. This building has five storeys: basement with play room with two billard tables and TV, firs floor with the reception and the corridor leading to canteen which was situated in an old, little church, and three other floors with rooms and bathrooms. Very funny and interesting for us were telephones in confessionals which were near the canteen. Generally in the hostel we spent little time, we only slept and ate because we had a lot of sightseeing, but we also found some time to play billard in a play room.

MONASTERBOICE

On Friday, after breakfast we went by coach to Abbey Monasterboice in Louth shire, with the most beautiful examples of Irish crosses. Monastery was built in the V century by St. Buite’s. This place was very important hub for religion and science. On Monasterboice are three high crosses from the X century, remains of two churches from the XIV century and one of the most beautiful rotund towers in Ireland from the X century. In the coach we spent about forty minutes and after that we got off and started our sightseeing. We could explore this land of legend and mystique, by experiencing some of the most remarkable legacies of the ancient Celtic people. Everybody was stunned by magnificent place, which was some kind of little cemetery. The tower was very high and old, but we couldn’t get inside, so we promenaded between gravestones and crosses. We could take photo there, which are now some kind of souvenirs for us. In Monasterboice we were for about thirty minutes and later we continued our excursion.

NEWGRANGE

On Friday morning we got to the bus and went to Newgrange. When we finally got to our destination we met a very nice tour guide. He welcomed us at Newgrange and our tour started. Newgrange is a tomb and was built in 3200 B.C. - it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge trilithons by about 1,000 years
Once a year, at the time of the winter solstice, the sun shines directly along the long passage into the chamber for about 17 minutes as it rises and illuminates the chamber floor.
Newgrange appears to have been used as a tomb. The recesses in the cruciform chamber hold large stone basins into which were placed cremated human remains. During excavation, the remains of five individuals were found. It is speculated that the sun formed an important part of the religious beliefs of the neolithic ("New" Stone Age) people who built it.
After a very nice trip we went to a restaurant and we ate delicious dinner.

Trinity College.

Trinity College Library is one of the world’s greatest research libraries. Trinity College was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I. The main chamber of the Old Library, the Long Room is nearly 65 meters lenght and houses over 200,000 of the Library’s oldest books. The Long Room is magnificent. We felt greatness and smelt of these old manuscripts. “Book of Kells” is the manuscript that was written over 1000 years ago. Visitors can see two toms of “Book of Kells” one totally iluminated and one with tekst. Every day one page of both toms is reversing. In Trinity Library we can also see “Book of Durrow” which was written in 650–680 .

A NIGHT TRIP ALONG DUBLIN BY DOUBLE-DECKER BUS

On Friday night we had a really nice trip in Irish double-decker bus. We toured nightly Dublin with a bus driver who had wonderful sense of humor. He was also singing ,,Molly Malone” a well known Irish song.
The bus driver told us about the history and culture of Dublin. We visited the main Dublin attractions along our route. We saw Guinness Storehouse, residence of president with light in the window to show way back home to all Irish emigrants, St. Patrick Cathedral and many, many more marvelous places.
We were a little bit scared, because of extremely narrow streets in Dublin, but this trip was very nice and funny.

GLENDALOUGH

On Saturday morning we started our trip about 8:30 a. m. and we had opportunity to ride thorough Wicklow mountains. At last we arrived to Glendalough Abbey, scenic located in the valley between two lakes. The history of Glendalough has its beginnings in the VI century when priest-St. Kevin planted the cloister there for prayer. When he died the cloister was invaded by Vikings and English army many times, but now there are wonderful remains and magnificent peaceful land. At first we could see very beautiful landscape with wonderful flora and runnel. When we moved farther, we saw the remains of old St. Kevin’s tower and little shrine. Of course w had few minutes to take photos and after that we had some walking leading to the lake. Our walk extended for about fifteen minutes. Past the lake we received diplomas – very nice ceremony around magnificent locations - and we took photos as well. We had a great opportunity to enjoy this land of mysterious mountains and spectacular valleys. What is more, as Wicklow is called the ‘Garden of Ireland”, we experienced breathtaking views of beautiful country-side of the famous film locations for “Braveheart”, for example. Finally we got back to our coach in order to get to Guinness Storehouse.

An unforgettable evening in The Merry Ploughboy’s Pub

Last evening in Ireland was very special. We went to the Merry Ploughboy’s Pub, where we could hear a traditional music played by a professional Irish band and see the great dance show made by Irish dancers. Everything was really well-organized there, we were sitting by long tables with white tablecloths and candles. We could also order everything what we wanted to eat – countershafts and entrees. Everything in the pub was connected with dancing and singing – from pictures and photos on the walls to special cards under ours ileums which was written the characteristic sentences on, told by for example William Butler Yeats or Bono (U2 singer). About 9 p.m. four men came on the stage. The performance started. Everybody was singing with them and we really enjoyed the show. It’s worth to say, that in the pub were also plenty of Irish people who had come to see the concert too and who knew all the words of the songs that the band sang, but we were trying to equal to them, so that we were singing as well, despite the fact that sometimes we didn’t know what they were singing about. One of the songs was “Molly Malone” (also known as “Cockles and Mussels”) which is a popular song that has acquired the status of an Irish anthem. It has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City. There was also something else what made a huge impression on us – one man played on a special tabor which is called “bodhran”. This music reminds the sounds of traditional irish step-dance. “Your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it’s the greatest feeling in the whole world” says Michael Flatley, the World Champion in the Irish dance and we could feel it when dancers came on the stage and started their amazing show. It was really gorgeous and everyone who had never seen such a dance like this, was shocked. After this great performance, the band continued singing. We all had great humors, so we were dancing, singing, laughing and having a really good time. The atmosphere in the pub was indescribable. At the end, everyone stood up and the band started to sing an Irish anthem – “The Soldiers Song”. It was a really moving moment. The show ended and we had to leave the pub, but our good humors didn’t leave us and we were singing all the time while we were coming back to our hostel. I think , that this evening was unforgettable and it will stay in our minds for a long time.

…We were going to our hostel singing many songs…It was undoubtelly caused by unforgettable evening in Irish Pub. Arriving at about midnight we all realized:”Damn, we have only 5 hours to go to the airport….this our last night here, so we are not sleeping”.As we decided we did. We had to pack ourselves, take a shower, make some photos with other groups, there were so many things to do and..aarrgh.it’s 4 o ‘clock in the morning…we are just about leaving Ireland…taking our luggage downstairs….putting it into the bus lock…sitting in the coach and looking for the Dublin….tears came to our eyes….but everything’s it’s end…then only airport, check-in…all this airport stuff… nice, quiet flight…good in-flight breakfast…and then landing in Warsaw. Everything was good…and then going out of the plane…”God damned…how cold is here…Yesterday we were only in tops in Dublin….and now about -2*C…..brrr..”Then only receiving our luggage….good-bye kisses with other groups…and calm road to Częstochowa…our home….sweet home..

Text written by the "Irish" ;-) group.

 

 

 

I would like to inform you about the success of a group of students from our school.

We got the first place in our country in the National Competition about Ireland. The aim was to create a map of Ireland with 5 worth-seeing marked places and also a guide-book with description of these places and argumentation of the choice, which was the decisive criterion. The technic was due to the authors.

The School was represented by group consisting of 5 people:

Katarzyna Krakowiecka (2f)
Anna Lech (2f)
Karolina Fibich (2e)
Bartłomiej Drobniak (2f)
Marcin Malicki (2f)

The teacher coordinator and consultant was
Marzena Kossak-Wąchała.

We had had a lot to prepare before the application was sent In October. We had been working intensively for about 1.5 month, then we sent our Project to Poznań to Tourism Ireland premises. It contained a map, a handmade guide-book with bilingual CD enclosed. Our Project was full of interesting descriptions, photos, quotations and poems of famous Irish people and also own ones what was noted.

As the organisator writes it was very hard to choose the best Project, because there were over 100 projects sent, so it was decided to divide the first prize between 3 schools: Our Copernicus High School in Częstochowa, Copernicus High School in Katowice and High School in Łódź. All members of these groups with their coordinators are

GOING FOR A TRIP TO IRELAND

Working on this project was really exhausting , but also very pleasant, we learnt a lot and there are effects ;-)

Click here to see all results and also some more information.

You have also a small sample of our abilities below the text,
to see the whole project just click on this text ;-)

Written by Bartłomiej Drobniak

The struggle in Basketball Women Highschool League season 2007/2008 is ended. Six teams selected in the pre-elimination ( ZSTIO im. S. Żeromskiego, III LO im. W. Biegańskiego, VII LO im. M. Kopernika, I LO im. J. Słowackiego, ZS im. C.K. Norwida, II LO im. R.Traugutta ) took part in the competition. Each team had to play with the other ones. Three of them, the best ones ( VII LO, ZSTIO, ZS Norwid ) have additionally played a play-off tournament and settled on the podium. That way, after two months of matches, the best team of the league was chosen. The first place was fought by VII LO im. Mikołaja Kopernika. The second place was taken by ZSTIO im. S. Żeromskiego, and the third by ZS im. Norwida. The sport level of the competition was extremely high what is proved by even games between the first three teams.

On December 14th 2007 our School Women Basketball Team won for the 10th time in a row and showed it is the best in Częstochowa. In the final our girls’ opponent was ZSTIO im. S. Żeromskiego. Despite winning the first game and huge advance ( 26 points ) our team did not want to leave any doubts who would be the champion of the season.

After a great game our representation supported by phenomenal spectators won surely 57 to 41. Soon our players will come back to the pitch and represent not only our school but the whole city in the provincial competition.

CONTRAGULATIONS for the TEAM from the coach Michał Machniewicz and all of us!!! We are proud of you!!!

Częstochowa Basketball Women Highschool League 2007/2008 champions:

#4 Agata Lada
#5 Patrycja Kokot
#6 Marta Ososińska
#7 Agnieszka Debudej
#10 Magdalena Wawrzaszek
#11 Olga Centkowska #12 Justyna Leszcz
#14 Anita Dziegiedź ( captain )
#15 Gabrysia Tyras
#16 Iwetta Wróbleska
Żaneta Samborska
Małgorzata Bryndza

News prepared by Mgr Michał Machniewicz<.

News translated by Jakub Znamierowski

On 30th November there was a Belgian Day in our school. During that Day the Socrates Team presented to the school community the outcome of their work over the project, namely the Belgian traces in Poland. The pupils saw the calendar pages depicting Belgian traces in Poland, a fragment of the play The Blind by Maeterlinck presented by the school theatre group Under the Hanging Cat. They also admired the Belgian dance, and watched a film about the visit in Belgium. In the official part of the ceremony the winners of the school logo competition were awarded, and the international winner also got his prize. At the end everybody was served with Belgian wafers.
The Belgian Day proved a great success, and now we are looking forward to celebrating the British Day.

news prepared by Ms M. Korpus

 

From 14th to 18th November a group of three students – Olga Jarkiewicz, Piotr Rek and Jan Brożyński - and their teachers took part in the visit in Belgium. It was the first of the series of mobilities held within the Socrates Comenius project Europe Day by Day. After a long (lasting almost 13 hours) journey the Polish team finally arrived in Sint-Niklaas – a beautiful town in Belgium. The visit there was filled with both a lot of fun and a lot of hard work. The first day started with sightseeing Sint-Niklaas – the City of Santa Claus. It included a short walk around the town, an official meeting with the local authorities in the city hall, and finally reaching the host school and preparing the presentations about the countries as well as the outcome of the work over the project. In the late afternoon both the students and the teachers worked over the project, discussed the results of their research and set goals for the future. On Friday 16th November all the participants were taken to an amazing trip to Mechelen. They had the possibility to climb the tower, had the picnic on top of it, played the bells, tasted some local specialities, namely cheese, beer, and chocolate. Saturday – visiting Antwerp – another amazing city, in which the Belgians welcome Santa Claus. It is a big celebration on that day , with games for children, street performances, and a lot of entertainment. Sunday – leaving hospitable Sint-Niklaas and its residents. On the way to Poland one more stop – in Brussels, just to have a glimpse at Manneken Pis, and the Grand Place. Everyone says these were the most fascinating and unforgettable five days in their lives.

news prepared by Ms M. Korpus

Here is the link to some photos of our's student's meeting in Belgium with Belgian pupils:

Click to see the photos

And also a film made by Jan Brozynski entitled: "Europe Day By Day: Sint-Niklaas". You can see it on You Tube. It is divided into 2 parts. Here is the link to movie.

Click to see the movie