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In the eyes of many Diocletian's Palace is one of the most magnificent and unique architectural and cultural construct in Europe. If you take a look at the stunningly beautiful Peristyle, the hang out spot for the City's youth, you will notice that it perfectly mirrors the spirit and the character of the City: it is a mixture of living history as well as modern culture.

Pujanke Elementary

School Split, Croatia

Boris Vidovic,Prinicipal

Our School Logo Bird Peacock from whoes beak lies

hanging a bunch of grapes (a symbol of the eucharist), and under whose feet lies an early Croatian decorative wickerwork. It is a detail taken from a ciborium found in an early Croatin church.

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• We chose this motif as a symbol of our school because this ciborium, is in fact a stone canopy above an altar which is supported by four columns, and represents the earliest evidence of Croatian culture, statehood, and faith of the Croatian people.

• This ciborium, as one in a series of pre-Romanesque monuments of early Croatian art which without delay, and abreast with European styles, touch upon the source of artistic expression of Croatian people and attest the unity of our culture and civilization with Europe.

Classical Languages:Latin & Old-Greek

School MottoSINE CROATIA NON EST VITA, ET SED EST VITA

NON EST ITA!

New Digital Education Technology Motto"The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler

Pujanke Elementary School

in Split is a traditional elementary school in so far as students range from first through eighth graders. The curriculum consists of traditional and progressive courses and programs. School also has a number of innovative and alternative education programs; It offers a wide range of extra-curriculums & projects:

Pujanke Elementary School Projects1) Classical Ballet2) Classical Languages3) Language Learning for the European

Citizenship4) Americana5) E-learning6) European Day of Languages; 7) Day of Europe8) Teacher Development Seminar Series9) Mentor Training Program10) UNICEF Quality School Project11) UNESCO Associated Schools12) Quality School according to William

Glasser13) Our School Serves the Local

Community

14) Education for Human Values15) Developing Parenting Skills16) Drug Abuse & Molestation

Preventon17) On the Springs of Croatian

Spirituality18) Rari Narrant19) Aikdo 20) Citizenship through Education21) GLOBE & Eco-Schools22) This is Our Time 23) Europe @t School 24) Europe, From One Street to the

Other25) European Train of Friendship26) Student Exchange Program with

Schools in Roma, Bari & Bucharest27) Erika Landau: Promotion of

Excellence & Craetivity

Classical Ballet

Classical Ballet Troop atEurofest in Göppingen

• The school boasts with the Classical Dance Studio. Young ballerinas appeared in many cities in which the school has school partners. In Göppingen, Germany, an reporter in the Göppingenger Zeitung, on May 12, 1997, wrote that «the Croatian group of programs were absolutely enchanting», and that it «it can been seen that schools in Croatia are doing good work».

Classical Languages

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• There was a humanist group of poets, artists, scientists and renowned people in the City of Split in the 16th Century. They were in touch with other well-known pepole from European cities such as educators, clerk,s diplomats and travelers visiting Split.

• These people were greatly influenced by the humanist spirit of the Renaissance and they laid the foundation for Croatian culture and science.

• The father of Croatian literature, Marko Marulic, is the most celebrated member of this group. He glorified Split and Croatia in all Europe and the whole cultured world through his theological, poetic and scientific works.

• Living in the City of Marko Marulic and Markantun de Dominis, a great scholar in physics, and particularly in optics, his research won a wide acclaim, and was later praised by Newton. He was Archbishop of Split and Dean of Windsor, who always looked upon western Europe as their a place where they belonged, similar to their own homeland.

• The school naturally has directed towards learning the classical languages, nurturing the importance of the Croatian language and the Croatian heritage.

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Latin Language: 3 hours a week from 5th to 8 grade;Old-Greek Language: 3 hours a week form 7th to 8th

Language Learning for the European Citizenship

• The school composed an experimental program of Early Language Learning for European Citizenship in 1992.

• The kids from first to fourth grades were taught English every day, divided into smaller groups.

• They had 5 hours of English instruction (of that one four with a native speaker).

• All school subject – except Croatian language – were taught in English.

• When eight graders finished their elementary schooling, they took the First Certificate Test in English by Cambridge University, all passing with flying colors. They achieved CE Level B2 according to A Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (fourth grade high school level of knowledge), unheard for such young elementary school kids in Croatia.

English Mentor Training Program

• Mentoring & coaching of young Englsih teachers has been a priority in the professional development of mentors & mantees.

• 55 hours of mentoring plus peer obsevraion of colleagues.

English Mentor Training Program

English Mentor Training Program

Americana• Students Remember American Tragedy Friday Noon, September 14, 2001 Pujanke Elementary School in Split, Croatia,

joins the rest of the world in a moment of silence to remember the thousands of innocent Americans who were killed in the tragedies that struck the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. These brutal acts of terrorism have left us at a loss for words to express our horror and shock and have taken from us any sense of security that our small country was beginning to feel after the brutal war that afflicted us not long ago. As a sign of respect, our flag is draped with a piece of black fabric, a sign of mourning in our country. May God Bless the victims and their families and all the American people and together, we will somehow try to restore our sense of security and faith in our fellow man.

AMBASSADOR LAWRENCE G. ROSSINU.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia

Americana• AMERICA DAY• Co-sponsored by the U.S.

Information Service and the City of Split,City Museum Split Thursday,

April 27, 1995, 15:00

Dale Baker, American Center Director: Presentation on USIS and the American Center

• Ron Christner, U.S. Fulbright Lecturer, Zagreb Faculty of Economy: American Finance

• Donald Domm, Strategic Planning Professor, John Carroll University: American Business

• Juliana Mutti, USIS EFL Fellow - Is There Life After High School?

• Questions and answers

Americana: Halloween celebration

• The kids learned the origins of Halloween as well as and how it is typically celebrated today.

• The school was decorated with their craft projects and they played such games as Bobbing for Apples, Cake Walk, and Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin. They also participated in a coloring contest and were awarded certificates for their merits.

Americana: THANKSGIVING DAY

• As is customary in the United States, a Thanksgiving Party for tke kids & their parents.

• A cold buffet is prepared with a turkey.

• In conjunction with the mass and assembly, to show our Thanksgiving spirit, a visit the Convalescent Hospital run by the Franciscan Sisters on Dobri, as well as the Home for the Mentally Challenged, run by the Ancelle was organized.

E-learning

• The school started using the Internet in the classroom in 1994. An article appeared in the American newspapers in 1995.The reporter described the kids were using the “21First Century technology” by exchanging information between the fourth graders from Miller Perry School in the USA and their peers in our school which at that time had only one computer.

6A Kingsport Times-News / Friday, December 15, 1995

Local students reach Croatians by e-mailClass in contact with Croatian students by e-mail

E-learningThe school has created the first

Croatia Office for UNICEF web page

E-learningThe school has created the first web page

of MiRTa, non-government, non-profit associtations of psychologists in Split

E-learningWhen the Pope visited Split and Solin, students on their own initiative made a web page for this occasion, which reported a reporter for Slobodna Dalmacija, in an article on October 2,

1998, under the title: The Popes Visit to Croatia on the Web, pointed out, that in comparison with CARNet and HRT sites, that «site of elementary school students in Split from Pujanke,

make in the honor of the Popes visit to Split, exudes delight and cheerfulness».Later on the web pages was accepted as an official web site of the Split

E-learningThe school has created the first official web page of

the Ministry of Education in 2001

E-learning

E-learning• Teachers, students & their parents use the education platform LMS Moodle every day at school & at home. They utilize the advantages of this system by working at home by doing the specific tasks in a collaborative way, such as debates, forums, chats, quizzes, searching information on the database (EBSCO). A key factor of this new way of learning is the involvement of the parents and their ability to communicate with the teacher and principal of the school, as well as checking their child’s grades or progress.

European Day of LanguagesThe school cherishes Euopean Day of

Languages

European Day of Languages

European Day of LanguagesThe school cherishes Euopean Day of

Languages

Day of EuropeWho does not dream, wakes up tired!The shool has been always open to allnew movements and ideas that camefrom Europe. Systematically we havenurtured programs with the European dimension, not only the Day of Europe, which we not only celebrate in our school, but also on the Split waterfront.

Day of EuropeWho does not dream, wakes up tired!The shool has been always open to allnew movements and ideas that camefrom Europe. Systematically we havenurtured programs with the European dimension, not only the Day of Europe, which we not only celebrate in our school, but also on the Split waterfront.

Day of Europe

Day of Europe• The school organized with great

success the big public event for the Day of Europe 2002 on the Split waterfront (Riva). That same year our students received first place for the contest Login@Europe for creating the best Internet web site aimed at youth, local events, the Internet andEurope.

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Day of Europe

Our School Serves the Local Community

Our School Serves the Local Community

• Community Education is a philosophy of education and a system for community development.As a philosophical concept, community education transforms the idea of education from a narrow view of schooling to a much broader view of continual lifelong learning.

• Financed by the Forum for Freedom in Education in Zagreb, The City Hall in Split & the Moot Foundation.

• Community centers are places where young & eldery people gather to learn, to enjoy themselves, and also to become involved in community problem solving. It is open to students, families and the community before, during and after school, seven days a week, all year long. It also called the the school of open doors.

Our School Serves the Local CommunityParenting Skills

Workshop• Discussions 4 principles of

the Choice Theory of William Glasser.

• Ssystematic and parallel interaction of the parents in two inseparable and complementary aspects should be cultivated: In furthering one's own resources, inclinations, skills, knowledge, wishes and needs

• To help a child in his growing process and development.

Our School Serves the Local CommunityArts Workshop

Our School Serves the Local CommunityDrug Abuse & Molestation

Preventon

Our School Serves the Local CommunityAIKIDO Professor Steven

Rehrauer

Education for Human Values

• June Autun, who holds workshops on Human Values in more than 250 schools in Great Britain and in many schools throughout the world, teaches kids character values.

Our School Serves the Local CommunityICT Workshops

Citizenship through Education

Europe: From One Street to the Other

The school has been successfully implementing projects run and organized by the Council of Europe, entitled: ‘Europe: from one street to the Other.’ It was monitored by 40 experts from 30 European countries over the last 5 years. The work of our teachers and students was evaluated very high compared with peers in other countries as shown in the book: Il patrimonio culturale a la sua pedagogia per l‘EUROPA.

Europe, From One Street to the Other

The school has been successfully implementing the project run and organized by the Council of Europe, entitled: Europe, from one street to the Other. It was monitored by 40 experts from 30 European countries over the last 5 years. The work of our teachers and students was evaluated very high compared with peers in other countries as shown in the book: Il patrimonio culturale a la sua pedagogia per l‘EUROPA. The 222 page thick book will be translated into 8 languages, including Croatian.

Europe, From One Street to the Other

Europe: From One Street to the Other

Europe, From One Street to the Other

• The conclusion of the 5 year study about living peacefully in a multi-cultural Europe was stated by Croatian student Petra who also drew this cathedral. In the times of Diocletian's, this was a Mausoleum where he was Diocletian was buried. Catholics turned the Mausoleum into a cathedral later on.

Europe, From One Street to the Other

We have discovered that all nations, peoples, cultures, civilizations and languages are interwoven, and that they all depend and influence each other, and that there is no true life without a mutual understanding. Europe is an amalgam of many countries, cultures, languages and civilizations. The City of Split is a prime example of many changes during its 17th Century existence. You can identify different layers of different cultures from various periods of time.

Europe, From One Street to the Other The City of Split is a typical

European town because it comprises all the elements of many cultures, civilizations and languages.

European Train of Friendship

Dr. Lida BRANCHESI, professor of Didactics at the University of Roma La Sapienza, researcher at the Italian Institute for the Evaluation of Educational Systems (INAVLSI) & the leader of the Council of Europe Expert Group, on the terrace of Istituto Comprensivo 4 Novembre, a school collaborator in the project, located near the large Pantheon in Rome.

European Train of Friendship

Dr. Antonio de Gasperis, the Italian Ministry of Education Dr. Lida BRANCHESI, Mr. Mario Kezic, the Croatian Embassy in Rome, Dr. Rosa Amoriggi, Principal, Boris Vidovic, Principal

European Train of Friendship

• The school has been successfully participating in the European Train of Friendship which celebrates the Day of Europe in a way that many school delegations take part on the train from all over Europe

European Train of Friendship

• They meet in Bari, Italy, on May 5 where there is a ceremony celebrating Saint Nicholas, who is cherished by both the western and eastern churches.

European Train of Friendship

• Each school presents their projects and achievements to each other and discuss the important issues of a global education.

• The logo of our school was taken as the logo of the whole project.

European Train of Friendship

European Train of Friendship

European Train of FriendshipDestiny maybe wanted students from Pujanke Elementary School to plant the first medlar tree in the newly established European park on the Square of Umberto I. Once upon a time, Puglesi (residents of Puglia) navigated on sailboats to Split and there sold fruit, clothes and attire. That is how originated the district name Pujanke, which is how the Pujanke neighborhood and its elementary school received its name.

European Train of Friendship

Bari students visit Split

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