France Prešeren
primary school is situated at Zlato polje in Kranj. This year we celebrate its 30th
anniversary.The school was build upon the plans of architect Stanko Kristl and for its
outlook, equipment and inner arrangement it was considered the most modern school in
Slovenia at that time.In 30 years the school prooved succesful in many fields. Several
different activities let every pupil have a chance to get on on the fields of their
interests.Pupils can choose among sports, cultural, research, and entertaining
activities.They can play volleyball, football, basketball and they can join the
mountaineering group.Those who prefer culture and art can create the school magazines,
join the dance, drama, art, recitation or creative writing classes or they can read to win
the Prešeren reading badge.Pupils can extend and deepen their knowledge in special
classes of Chemistry, Biology, Physics, English and Traffic.They can also learn Itaian
language and have good opportunities to work with computers.And those who prefer more
practical work can join the culinary, confectionary or modellig groupWe issue three school
magazines: Krik, Hrekov list and Krikec. Krik has regularly been pronounced one of the
best Slovene school magazines. Also Hrekov list ('The hamster's paper' in English), issued
by the biology group, and Krikec, the magazine for the youngest pupils at our school have
been awarded for their quality.We have a great drama group, called Raglje (that would be
something like chatterbox in English). They have won several awards for their work
included the gold Linhart badge, the award for quality and creativity.All the texts they
play are original works written by their menthor and they have been published in a book
'Raglje at the theatre'.At our school there are also good sportists who achieve remarkable
results. Every year our pupils succesfully take part in all levels (from school to state)
of competitions of Slovene, English, Maths, Logic, Chemistry and Traffic.We're an
up-to-date school so we also take part in projects of international cooperation of schools
over the world.In 1996 we joined I*EARN taking parts in projects 'Relationships' and 'Tree
in my life'. Pupils of all grades can take part in these projects. Last year our youngest
pupils demonstrated their 
results at Internet fair in
Ljubljana.This year we participated in 4 projects: Medicinal herbs, Teddy Bear, Christmas
tradition and customs and we started the Slovene project about Teddy Bear where pupils and
Teddy Bear read books together.We also got a new computer classroom this year. What we,
pupils, like most is internet, but of course we also use computers for learning, drawing
and making new projects. Our school has its own home page on internet.Once a year we open
the door of our school to everyone who wants to see what we do here. The visitors are
mostly our parents and they can see different exhibitions, join the workshops or have a
volleyball match against a team of our teachers.So as you can see, our work is very
flexible and we're proud to be pupils of France Prešeren primary school.
Update: 11.10.1998