Saying no to Bullying

To mark the significance of National Stop Bullying Day, BESST High School students brought their Teddy bears to school and got stuck in to a web quest where they learned about the dangers of cyber space, the sometimes devastating impact of bullying and discussed steps to counteract the problem. In small groups, they began to create their own campaign videos to raise awareness of the problem which they will with share with their younger counterparts in primary school.

Ms. Hayley

Kick Butt Day

Today the whole of BESST High School empowered themselves by setting a week long lifestyle target. After discussing the importance of a healthy lifestyle and exploring the benefits of target setting, students and teachers alike added their new-found goals to the BESST Target wall. And they fully intend to Kick Butt this week as they challenge themselves to achieve their aims.

Ms. Hayley

Old Toys

Friday 6th of October , there was theatre atmosphere in Y2. Before the students went to see the play, we had had a good time during the first two lessons with the “Old Toys” event. Teachers and students brought their toys they used to play with and then the students searched for information on how these toys/games were invented, when and where and how they have changed over time. They presented their results in front of all of Y2 students of course. Now that searching for information can not be fun.

Mr. Rasťo

English Theatre

A dystopian novel, by American writer Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 is undoubtedly interesting for a contemporary reader despite the fact that it was written over half a century ago.

On Friday, October 6th our pupils visited theatre performance Fahrenheit 451 performed by The American Drama Group, based in Munich, Germany who perform American classics in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland. The language of the play is unabridged but comprehensible for students and the performance was dynamic and inspiring. We are grateful for the fantastic experience.

 Ms. Lucia

Do Something Nice Day

The BESST High School family bonded over ‘niceness’ this week. Students took on the role of, ‘Secret Santa’, bringing each other small tokens of appreciation as a way to mark their friendship. Class teachers also brought in small gifts and letters to show their admiration for their students. All in all, it was a very lovely day and great to see the respect and gratitude our family have for each other.

Ms. Hayley

Smart talks

During the Project Day on Friday, 29 September, 2017, the students had a chance to hear a lecture by Milan Zongor, a student of Prague’s Czech Technical University in Prague, named “Smart Talks”. The lecture was focused on the process of choosing a suitable university and what to expect from university studies, and the students were given several pieces of useful advice on how to choose their college. They learned how to get to know oneself better and how to better get to know the school they are interested in. Milan tried to motivate the students to try out new things, work on their self-development, and to use all the opportunities to get to know new people and things through projects like Mini-Erasmus, Lead up, or Nexteria Leadership Academy.

Mr. Juraj

A holocaust survivor visits our school

On 27 September, 2017, our high schoolers had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet with a survivor of one of the Nazi concentration camps, Mr. Tomi Reichental of Dublin, Ireland. In preparation for his visit, the students read select chapters from his autobiographical book “I was a boy in Belsen” as well as discussed Holocaust in Europe and Slovakia in the History and Global Perspectives classes.

Mr. Reichental started his talk by sharing his life story with us. He was born in Piešťany in 1935 and spent most of his youth in Merašice — a small village between Hlohovec and Topoľčany. While he managed to evade the destiny of most of Slovak Jews – the lethal transport to Auschwitz — by living in hiding with a false identity and baptism certificate, in 1944, he and his entire family were eventually turned in and subsequently deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Only thanks to the fact that it was this close to the end of the war, he and some of his family members survived the harsh conditions of the transports and the concentration camp. Most of his 40+ relatives, however, were killed in the Nazi concentration, with only seven survivors. It was really sad to hear that Mr. Reichental and other children in the Bergen-Belsen camp would be playing among the corpses of dead inmates that served as their playground…

Our students listened to the personal story of Mr. Reichental with emotion and respect, many of them being deeply touched by his lecture.

At the end, the students and teachers had an opportunity to ask our guest speaker questions, which was followed by an interview carried out by our Journalism class.

Let us only hope that such atrocity will never ever happen in our country again!

Mr. Matej