The document summarizes the opening of the new school year at Nikola Vaptsarov School. It discusses welcoming speeches by the school headmaster, a ceremony handing the key of knowledge to new students, and an old Bulgarian tradition of welcoming students with bread and salt. It also provides information on upcoming events at the school in September and quotes related to education.

1. The New School
Year Began! Hurray!
Nikola
Vaptsarov
School
Opening of the School Year
The long days of summer ter, ” Harry Potter was a Volume 1, Issue 1
are now behind and an- strange boy, he loved 15 September 2011
other School Year begins school.” What does
and with it all the poten- school mean to you?
tial and promise that Maybe you’re like Harry
awaits each person who Potter and love it. For September Events at
school :
is awake. Optimism is some it is about having
 15 September 2011, Open-
the key to unlocking the the ‘craic’ with friends.
ing of the New School
great gifts that will pre- For others it is a huge Year.
sent themselves each academic challenge.  24 September 2011, Sport
and every day this year. What is it for you? Tournament.
Are you ready? Is your Students! Ask yourselves  26 September 2011, Cele-
bration of the European
heart open to being sur- what you would like to Day of Languages.
prised? Seize the day! achieve this school year,
 26-30 September 2011,
The gates of Nikola what projects you would Week of the Languages
Vaptsarov School have like to implement, what  1-2 October 2011, Nature
opened on this 15th day events to celebrate. It’s Days.
of September to welcome up to you as everything
 Quotes on education
its students and teachers is in your hands. Use
for the new school year. your gifts and make
J.K.Rowling once said wonders!  “The whole object of edu-
cation is...to develop the
about her book charac- mind. The mind should
be a thing that works. “
Sherwood Anderson (1876–
The Stone Soup Folktale 1941)
Not so long ago, during neighbors and friends. went and again were told  “You cannot teach a man
the American Revolution- The soldiers were hungry there was no food in the anything; you can only
ary War, three patriot and stopped at the first whole village. help him find it within
soldiers were walking to house in the village to ask "It is time for us to make himself. “
return to their home and for some food to eat. some stone soup!" shouted
came to a small village.
Because food was
"I have no food for you,
and there is little in the
one of the soldiers to the (
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642)
other two. They readily
scarce, the people hid whole village," said the agreed and marched to the
what food they had, in- woman of the house. So on center of the village.
cluding from their to the next houses they announcing to all along

2. Page 2 The New School Year Began! Hurray!
The Stone Soup Folktale
the way that they would make some with a couple of small heads of cabbage have a great feast.
stone soup. and quickly tossed them into the kettle
Soon everyone came to the village green of stone soup. "Marvelous!" cried the
to see the soldiers make stone soup, soldier.
which they had never heard of before. Sipping the broth again he said, "Why
The soldier asked that a big kettle be this soup would be fit for a general if it
filled with fresh spring water and a fire had . . .carrots." Soon some carrots ap-
built under it to heat the water. peared ... and on it went, with potatoes,
Then, with great ceremony, he pulled a corn, mushrooms, onions, and greens
small velvet bag from inside his coat being brought by the villagers to add to
and took out three round stones and the stone soup.
dropped them into the kettle of boiling "Ahhh," said the soldier as he tasted the
water. soup again. "If it just had a little chunk
The villagers watched with amazement of smoked beef, why it would be stone
and anticipation as the soldier took a sip soup fit for General George Washington
of the broth. "Mmmm, it is very tasty himself!" Quickly the village butcher
stone soup," said the soldier. "Of course, managed to find a chunk of beef to add
it would taste so much better if it had a to the stone soup. By now the villagers,
little cabbage." from young to old, could smell the soup
An old woman left and soon returned and brought tables ,chairs and bowls to
The Stone Soup Folktale
Everyone in the village had plenty to eat History of the Folktale
and they thanked the soldiers for The folktale dates from the 1600’s.
making stone soup. The soldier reached Stone Soup – Friends of All The Stone Soup folktale was popularized
down into the now empty kettle and took Abilities brings together by a version written in 1947 by Marcia
out the three round stones, put them “friends of all abilities” to build Brown (b. 1918), a pastor’s daughter, for
back into the velvet bag and then into which she won a Caldecott Medal for
and transform a community
his great coat. The soldiers thanked the children’s literature. The story is a popu-
villagers and marched happily toward and everyone benefits.
lar children’s play in schools today.
home, leaving the people wiser and mak-
ing plans for their own stone soup.
Class Dismissed
We have broken all the black- front door. There won't be school no more.
boards There won't be school no more.
so the teachers cannot write.
We have painted all the toilets Glory, glory hallelujah!
black School is closed now, what's it to
and all the lockers white. ya?
There won't be no more home-
We have torn up all the math work
books and there won't be no more
and we've locked the school's tests.

3. Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 3
European Day of Languages
The year 2001 was declared by the Europe. Learning other peoples' are never too young nor old to learn
Council of Europe as the European languages is a way of helping us to a new language.
Year of Languages, and was suc- understand each other better and
cessful in involving millions of peo- overcome our cultural differences.
ple across 45 countries. From this
time, each year 26 September is In addition, globalization and pat-
celebrated as the European Day of terns of business ownership mean
Languages. that citizens increasingly need for-
eign language skills to work effec-
The aim of the European Day of tively within their own countries, as
Languages is to celebrate multilin- well as abroad.
gualism in Europe and to promote
the learning of languages. There are Europe is rich in languages – there
many events organized in Europe are over 200 European languages,
with the aim of promoting the im- 23 of which are official languages of
portance of language learning and the European Union. Knowing sev-
to increase awareness and apprecia- eral languages takes you further
tion of all the languages spoken in and means greater mobility. You
10 Things you Need to Know
5. 2011 is the 10th European Day of
Here are 10 key things you need to Languages.
know about the European Day of “Those who know nothing of 6. The first European Day of Lan-
Languages! foreign languages know nothing guages was held in the European
1. The European Day of Languages Year of Languages in 2001.
of their own.”
is celebrated annually on 26 Sep- 7. It has a European website -
tember. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe http://edl.ecml.at/
2. It is a Europe-wide celebration of 8. It's a celebration of all languages,
language and culture involving 47 not just European ones.
countries. 9. Everyone can get involved!
3. It is an initiative organised by the 4. It is coordinated in the UK by 10. It's brilliant fun!
Council of Europe. CILT, the National Centre for Lan-
guages.
European Day of Languages in Nikola Vaptsarov School
This 26th Day of September , students
and teachers from Nikola Vaptsarov
School gathered together to celebrate
the European Day of Languages.
Students from different classes took
active part in preparing the event.
Brief history presentations about lan-
guages have been delivered . A special
quiz about languages took students
and teachers’ attention challenging
them to rack their brains.
The junior classes presented the play
“At the Airport” and their outstanding
performance was welcomed in loud
cheering by the audience.

4. Nikola Vaptsarov
VocationalSchool
Nikola Vaptsarov Vocational School was founded in 1925. We are
proud to say that it is the first school to teach electrical engineering in
our country. During its long history the school has given profession to
more than 7 thousand specialists for home power engineering.
The tradition generated and stored over the years and the look to the
future are the basis of its activities. 261 highly motivated young people
are trained in day-time training and 50 in private form of education.
The school has spacious classrooms, updated with new tables, chairs
and white boards, three computer labs, 2 gymnasiums and a multi-
purpose sports playground, rich school library with over 10 000 vol-
umes. There are several clubs in our school: Historian, Theatre Club,
Literature and Word and Internet Safety Club.
In December 2010 we celebrated 100th anniversary of the patron and
85th anniversary of the foundation of our school. At the celebration,
dedicated to 100 anniversary of our patron, the youngest students in
our school presented the play Christmas present.
You can read more information about our school on the school home-
page: http://www.tpg-radomir.com/
Nikola Vaptsarov School
Welcome speech of the school headmaster.
Ceremony of handing the key of knowledge
to the youngest students.
Old Bulgarian tradition of welcoming new
students with bread and salt.
Bread and salt are symbols of joy, fertility http://www.tptpgg-
and health.
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