“Summer is winding down and so is our holiday. The school session has started and we are looking forward to facing the challenges of the forthcoming school year. We do hope to be as hardworking and successful as we were in the past school year when we had a lot of achievements that brought us confidence in our own skills and great joy” says Andreea Silter, a Romanian teacher.
Here are some of the activities that helped us become locally and internationally recognized in the past school year.
Our web-based project Discover Bucharest was highly appreciated and awarded the first prize at "Europa 2004", a local competition (organized by the Ministry of Education from Romania) and an honourable mention at the International Schools CyberFair 2004. About 130 pupils from our school (assisted by their teachers, parents, grandparents and community members) worked and learned together by sharing in order to create it by March 2004. We have recently uploaded to it some photos and information about two special events we participated in during our summer holiday. We invite you all to click here and enjoy the photos we took at The Museum of the Romanian Peasant and The Village and Folk Art Museum on 24th June and 16th July, 2004.
Knowing Me Is Knowing You (KMIKY) is another web-based collaborative project we are very proud of. It is focused on cultural awareness and intercultural learning and helps pupils from all over the world to learn about each other via the Internet, thus becoming well-informed global citizens. Since November 2003, many pupils have submitted us their contributions (texts and photos), thus creating a global archive (of personal accounts about different cultures) that aims to increase cultural awareness and foster tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. This project has an open enrollment and we would be very excited to add you, pupils and teachers alike to our growing list of schools and friends!
Since last year one of our institution's priorities has been implementing new technologies in the teaching-learning process in order to meet our learners' needs and prepare them for their future careers. From March to May 2004, my colleagues and I took a course in ICT (organized by the Teacher Training Centre from Bucharest) that gave us ideas and insights into the way different computer tools can be put to use in building interactive, communicative and creative learning environments.
Foreign languages have also become one of our institution's priorities due to our pupils and teachers' contacts with their international counterparts. That is why, apart from the usual English classes our pupils will have the opportunity to study this foreign language within an optional course and a club (for the 1st and 2nd graders) as well.
Within the optional course called European Cultural Diversity, my 8th graders and I will keep on working on the activities provided by myEUROPE and Spring Day in Europe 2005. For your information, we have been contributing to the above-mentioned European projects for almost two years. Thanks to them my pupils not only practise and improve their English but also develop their computer skills. Moreover, they learn more about other cultures and make their voices heard in Europe.
Our web-based project 
Since last year one of our institution's priorities has been implementing new technologies in the teaching-learning process in order to meet our learners' needs and prepare them for their future careers. From March to May 2004, my colleagues and I took a course in ICT (organized by the Teacher Training Centre from Bucharest) that gave us ideas and insights into the way different computer tools can be put to use in building interactive, communicative and creative learning environments. 
