On 4th March 2015 the DCG students and their mentors participating in the project Erasmus+, Art nouveau-Art Renouveau went to see the exhibition entitled New Art and Nature in the National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana. The exhibition is a part of an international network of Art Nouveau European cities, with Ljubljana being a part of this group.
The founders of Art Nouveau movement observed and researched natural parameters and motifs and included them in their art, thus establishing a new artistic expressiveness. The nature was considered as a sanctuary and was depicted and interpreted with numerous symbols.
Observing nature and interpreting its symbols is part of the Art Nouveau – Art Renouveau project and therefore we were extremely pleased to have the possibility to see the results of the observations of the Art Nouveau founders from 1900.

Students who take French in the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium are getting ready to stage a new theatrical piece in cooperation with 14 other Slovene high schools. They have been working on it for last five months under the mentorship of a French director and an actress. They will stage a contemporary play by David Lescot L’Européenne. The mentor in the DCG is Daša Oberč.

The performance will take place on 27th March, 2015 in Slovensko ljudsko gledališče Celje. Welcome!

The traditional exchange with three Slavic Gymnasiums took place from 2nd – 6th March, 2015. This year the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium hosted students from Piarist Gxymnasium in Trenčín (Slovakia) and Piarist Lyceum from Krakow (Poland). Traditionally, students exchange their knowledge of singing as well as of all three Slavic mother tongues, namely Slovak, Polish and Slovene. The exchange ended with a concert of all three choirs and presentation of their language work.

We offer out heartfelt congratulations to Katja Logar from 3D class for her outstanding achievement at the contest Juvenes Translatores. She has chosen to do a translation from English into Slovene.
The contest promotes learning languages, raising awareness of the importance of translation skills and cooperation among schools from all over Europe. Every year a random electronic drawing is held to select a certain number of schools from among those that submitted registration forms, and we are happy that this year the DCG was chosen. The translation test is carried out simultaneously in all participating schools of all member states.
Katja will be travelling to Brussels on 16th April to attend the award ceremony at which the Commissioner for Multilingualism will present the awards.

A team of DCG students (year 3 and 4), who are engaged in the entrepreneurship club at the DCG, won 1st prize at the International Innovation Camp in Norway in November 2014. The annual competition took place in a prestigious innovative camp. There were actually three teams from the DCG, who took part, and the other two  entered the finale.

The exchange with fifty-one students from Horsens Statsskole took place in the DCG from 8th – 12th March, 2015. The aim of the exchange was to get to know the Slovene educational system, the country and its history.

When visiting Denmark, the DCG students got abundant information about the Second World War in Denmark, while Danish students increased their knowledge about Slovenian history of the decades following WW II. All students involved reflected on the issue of memory and remembering the past. Danish students had also an opportunity to visit Slovenian parliament and explore our capital. We look forward to further exchanges with Horsens Statsskole.

The first transnational meeting took place from 26th November – 1st December 2014 and was organized by the coordinating school of the project, Wellington School from Ayr. In spite of rather gloomy weather, partner school coordinators and participating teachers were warmly welcome by the organizing Wellington team. We got to know each other and discussed the tasks and timeline of the project. We found out that we all look forward to researching the similarities and differences of the Art Nouveau movement in each country respectively and enjoying artistic ideas that will be a source of inspiration for everyone involved.
The mentor of this Erasmus+ project at The Diocesan Classical Gymnasium is Alenka Battelino, teacher of English.

The teacher of German in St. Stanislav’s Institution, the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium Irena Bolta participated in a course on methodology and German language teaching, which took place from 18^th -29^th August 2014 in Regensburg. The objectives of the course were to refresh oral and listening skills, update one’s knowledge in current German affairs, improve methodology skills and didactics in teaching German, and to benefit from the exchange and share best practice with colleagues. Six teachers had lessons from Monday to Friday (9.00 to 12.30 & 13.30 to 15.30), which included working with pictures, texts and films, talking about songs in the classroom and German products, thus getting acquainted with the youth and street speech. Besides that, there was additional programme in late afternoons and evenings in which we were expected to take part: a guided city tour, a Regensburg quiz, an excursion to Walhalla, a visit to a local brewery and the cathedral.

I benefited a lot from the course. I discussed different ideas with other participants and got plenty of useful teaching materials. I will try to apply these materials in the classroom as often as possible, especially with the advanced groups of learners. Some examples include various topics such as characteristics of the German language, healthy food, travelling, living in Germany as well as other useful materials for teaching grammar, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.

I had a presentation of my two-week stay and the course in Regensburg at a teachers’ meeting at The Diocesan Classical Gymnasium in October 2014, another presentation followed in November 2015 at the International German Teachers’ Conference of Slovenia held in Rimske Toplice. Furthermore, I share my experience and the materials with my colleagues at my school and other German teachers in Slovenia I meet on different occasions. /Irena Bolta/

An online version of the proceedings of the Symposium School as a Place of Dialogue Among Faith, Science and Arts has been released. The symposium took place between 9th and 13th May 2013. For more details you can contact us at [email protected].

The publication contains only abstracts of lectures, with English translations.

An online version of the proceedings of the International Symposium Religious Education in the World Today has been released. The symposium took place between 4th and 6th December 2012. For more details you can contact us at [email protected].

The entire publication is written in the English language.