EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN SLOVENIA

Educational System in Slovenia

The Reformed School System

•          The Slovenian school system has seen a number of changes in recent years which are intended to ensure that as many people as possible use their right to education and achieve a higher educational level.

•          Financial Resources for Education.

•  The education system in Slovenia is almost fully financed from the state budget. A small share of the finance is also contributed by local authorities. Included are both state schools and accredited private schools.

Compulsory Basic Education

•          The nine-year basic education is divided into 3 three-year cycles (the first six years as primary education, the final 3 years as lower secondary education).

•          Elementary schools provide a compulsory and extended curriculum.

•          The compulsory curriculum must be provided by schools and studied by all pupils. It consists of compulsory subjects, electives and activity days (culture, science, sports and technology).

•          School must provide the optional elementary school curriculum, but pupils are free to decide whether they will participate. It includes educational assistance for children with special needs, remedial classes, additional classes, after-school care and other forms of care for pupils, interest activities and out-of-school classes.

Upper Secondary Education

•          Upper secondary education includes vocational and technical programmes preparing students predominantly for labour, and general secondary programmes (called gimnazija) preparing students predominantly for further studies;

•          Programmes in secondary education vary in content, duration and goals.

Higher Education

•          Higher education institutions are universities, faculties, art academies and professional colleges.

•          In Slovenia the academic year begins in October and lasts until the end of September in the following year. It is divided into two semesters: the winter semester usually runs from October to January, and the summer semester from February to the middle of July. The organisation of studies is defined with a study programme.

SCHOOL EXIBITION - AQUAMOBILITY WATER POEMS AND FASCINATING PHOTOS

HARRY IN THE WATER

I was swimming in the water

When I met Harry Potter.

I was travelling to hide

Somewhere outside.

He spelled me to a frog

And I  felt like a hot dog.

I  escaped to Iran

But Harry teleported me to Piran.

Everybody smiled

Because  Henrik was dancing Gangnam Style.

And then out of the blue

Came the kangaroo with a tattoo

He wanted to find

Somebody his kind

But everybody was blind.

The Kangaroo was telling a fairy-tale

But a policeman took him to jail

Because  the fairy-tale was about the cocktail.

This was our song

We hope it's not too long

Now go, to learn the alphabet,

And don't forget this song

till the sunset. (Jan Urankar, Aljaž Božič, 9.b)

HIDDEN

We've got oceans, rivers, sea

There we feel free.

There are things we can't see

For some things, human eye

Is blind

But in your mind,

There is some humanity to find

Blue water is what matters 

It is there in any weather. (Tina Tonin, Nika Pestotnik, 9.a)

WATER-ICE

Water is nice

It freezes into ice.

Begins in the pool

It's nice and cool.

It looks like a sky

Sparkling in your eye.

Even when it's night,

Everything is all right

When the weather is nice

Everybody skates on ice.

When summer comes

nothing is the same

ice is not there

anywhere.  (Teja Bajde, 9.b)

FROG

On the river there's a frog,

 reading a blue catalogue.

The frog takes a fork,

And gets to the sidewalk.

The frog has a superpower,

To take a hot shower.

To take a yellow canoe

And going to the crocodile interview.

Te crocodile jumps out in his style,

And takes a beautiful smile.

He thinks he's cool,

But he's only cool at school. (Klara Vrtačnik, Klavdija Hribar, 9.b in 9.a)

MOUSE STORY

One time there lived a mouse

She lived in a house

The house was next to the Nile

So the mouse smiled with style.

When she went to swim

She saw a penguin

Who caught a frog

And she brought a hot dog.

She came home,

And she was alone

Somebody rang oh, it was a king.

The mouse wanted to hide

She ran outside

She fell into the  Nile

And was eaten by the crocodile.

Boštjan Zajec, 9.b

LOVE

We've been sitting by the lake

So close that I can hear the beating

Of his heart

He made a mistake

He may not know it but I'm awake.

He used to be sweethearts

But now we agreed that we have

To be free

So we are apart

And we decided to make a fresh start.

Mojca Pavlič, 9.b