POLISH FESTIVAL: TALENT'S DAY

Talents Day
On March 21st we celebrated a festival called „Talents Day”. On that day students of our school took part in a specially organisted for that occcasion performance. The topic of this year competition and games was healthy lifestyle. Students showed how talented they are: they sang songs, wrote poems, did quizes. To relax students of Year 6 prepared for us a play called „ The sleeping Princess”.The culminating point of that thay was burning the witch called Marzanna. We had great time and can not wait the next year Talents Day

POLISH TALENT'S DAY: 

ITALIAN TALENT'S DAY: Music Show and Comedy

SPANISH TALENT'S DAY: Music Show about famous myths (Below: "The Beatles" and "Marilyn Monroe")

SPANISH SPRING

Easter is a very important celebration in Spain. The whole of Holy Week is usually a holiday for most Spaniards.
Given that Spain has a very strong religious past, catholic rituals are often held during Easter, for example on As Wednesday people go to church and have a cross made of ash on their foreheads as a way of saying sorry to God.
On Palm Sunday there is a big mass where children hold big palm leaves and branches which are blessed by holy water spred by the priest.
Many regions of Spain celebrate Easter with big parades or processions through the street, specially in the South. There are big and elaborated constuctions called "tronos" with statues telling the story of the death, passion and resurrection of Jesus. This structures are carried on the shoulders of tens of men and women who feel extremely proud of taking part on this processions. This can be quite a hard work because they are quite heavy and sometimes they have to carry them for more than 4 hours. This processions are normally accompanied by drums, trumpets and other instruments, there are also some people who sing special songs "a capella" to the religious statues, these songs are called "saetas".


This is the most important festival in our city Lorca and people spend the whole year getting ready for it and arranging all the things needed which are quite a lot! The last day of school before Easter Holidays we hold a mini-parade in our school commemorating the big one that takes place on the street!

POLISH SPRING

SPRING

In the past the first day of spring was celebrated in a bit different way. To prepare themselves for spring people used to clean their houses and decorate spruce trees with colourful ribbons, papper and pictures of saints. Songs about saying goodbye to winter and welcoming spring were sung as well.

Nowadays the first day of spring is celebrated on March 21^st. In Poland there is an ancient pagan tradition of drowning the "witch" name Marzanna. Marzanna, in this case, is an effigy made by students especially for the occasion. Singing the songs and carring the Marzanna we walk in a procession through the streets of Ligowo. Coming back to school we inform everyone that winter is gone. The colourful branches of tree that are held by us symbolize the new season and the rebirth of nature. At school we organise a display concerning the beauty of spring. The symbol of Polish spring is a white stork.

ITALIAN SPRING

The almond blossom festival

The almond blossom festival is a very popular spring festival in Akragas (Agrigento). It was first started in the early thirties to celebrate the beautiful blossom which flowers in February and March here and in the surrounding area. The festival celebrates the coming of the spring, as well as local folk traditions with puppeteers, singers, poets and actors. In Akragas the Torchlight Friendship Procession is very popular with international folk groups winding through the streets of the old town. The International Folk Festival is the central event; different people from all over the world come together to dance and sing in the name of peace and brotherhood.

It takes place at night in the Valley of Greek Temples. It is an amazing show full of music and dances just under the columns of the Concordia Temple dedicated to the Goddesses Demetra and Persephone.

The myth of Demetra and Persephone

As everybody knows, Sicily was a Greek colony and in our land many myths took place.

Greek people explained to themselves the changing of the seasons with the myth of Demetra and Persephone.

Demetra was Crono and Gea's daughter, Persephone was her daughter. One day, while Persephone was collecting flowers with other girls, Ade, the God of Hell, suddenly appeared and forced her to follow him to the deaths' reign. Demetra heard her daughter's screams but she was too far and she wasn't able to save her. So she began her voyage looking for Persephone; she went away from the Olimpo and because her sadness, she brought sterility to the earth putting in danger the Human Nature. So Zeus, fearing the Human Genre could disappeared, ordered to Ade to give Persephone back to her mother.

Ade wanted Persephone to stay with him forever but at the same time he had to obey to Zeus. So before leaving Persephone free, he gave to her some grains of

“ melograno”. She ate them and doing it she was chained to the deaths' reign forever.

From that moment Persephone spent 6 months on the Earth and these months coincide with the beginning of the spring to the beginning of the autumn and 6 months in the hell. This alternation scans the rhythm of the seasons.