Celje Gimnazium- a school of great traditions – Mate Mirela
DGimnazija Celje – Center was founded on the 14th of October 1912. It started as an all-boys school and it became a grammar school in 1989. It has around 900 students, aged 15-18/19, 86 staff members and it’s located almost in the centre of Celje- 3rd largest city in Slovenia.
The school has good working conditions (specialized classrooms, IT work, laboratories), numerous high achievements and awards at national/international competitions, very active student community (lot of projects, theme days and weeks, voluntary, charity work). It was renovated approximately ten years ago, new technology was brought in school, but they kept the architecture of the building, because, being such an old building, it became a part of the Slovenian cultural traditions and according to the law the aspect of it can’t be changed, in order to protect the cultural heritage.
Pupils can choose between three programs that are offered: general grammar school, art grammar school, kindergarten pedagogics.
I talked to a German teacher and a mother of a student from this school that studied here too, to find out what changed since then and what things are still the same. She is also invited to the celebration day of the school. Some teachers that taught the mother, are her daughter’s professors, too. She said that Gimnazija Celje is the best school in Celje and it has the best teachers. When she was a student, there was only the kindergarten pedagogics program. They also had a lunch break, but they didn’t have the canteen that is nowadays, they ate sandwiches brought from home. Even though the school was renovated, the architecture of the building looks the same.
The German teacher said: ”We are a definitely school which supports all kinds of activities like arts, sports, music, theater".
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