Semaine spéciale Erasmus à l'école

Nous avons vécu une semaine spéciale Erasmus pendant que la délégation de notre école était partie en Suède.
Au programme différents ateliers que nous allons vous présenter.
 Découverte de la légende du cheval rouge de Suède

Découverte des différents paysages des pays de nos partenaires avec fabrications de boîtes

Grand projet d'habillage du mur de notre préau avec la carte de l'Europe et ses drapeaux.

Assassin by profession - Vrahem z povolání

We studied lives of two Czech men: Heliodor Píka and Karel Vaš.

First a Czechoslovak general, who spend his active life in the service of the country, second a communist fanatic prosecutor who liquidated many Czech war heroes including Píka. Vaš lived comfortably into his nineties and died recently.

Píka father + Píka son

Heliodor Píka

We listened to Vaš himself testimonies of people, who knew both of them, we saw a video of H. Píka´s son, Milan Píka, where he talked about his father, and read an interview with Karel Vaš´s daughter.

It was such a difference to read and listo to memories of those two.

Milan Píka still remebers his father saying him that he shouldn´t seek revenge, only justice, and that he, as his son, was the bright star of his days. Milan Píka sound and looks like a happy, kind, strong man. so strong that he was able to forgive.

Vaš´s daughter still suffers from memories of her father, remembers that he never had a kind word for her even when she helped him when  he grew old. She is still looking for her inner peace. She donated all the inheritance from jer father to different charities - she didn´t want to keep the dirty money.

It was sad to listen to all this, but also full of hope - that you can go through really bad situations and still manage to keep of find peace within yourself and with thhe others. It was also intersting to listen to the veterans and promer political prisoners speaking - some ended up a bit bitter, some said that they decided to forgive, not forget, and it helped them to have a happier life

Karel Vaš

Milan Píka 50 years later

Vaš 50 years later

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First Days of the Independent Czechoslovakia

At the end of the Great War (1914-1918),  the Austro-Hungarian empire collapsed and new states emerged. One of them was Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovak politicians both in the country and abroad wanted to make the transition as peaceful as possible, without armed conflicts. They wanted to prevent a violent revolution. We studied how they did it:

1) When they were taking over important offices like ministries, town halls, etc. and railway stations, they didn´t rely on army or militia, but just on mandate by provisional government, to avoid armed conflict.

2) They kept people informed: used media - press and radio - and posters in the streets : people were told the country is free, who leads the country now and whose orders they should obey.

3) They encouraged people to protect personal freedom and property of all parties involved.

4) They appealed to people´s pride on being finally independent and used quotes from well-known Czech patriotic authors (ex. Kollar: Only those who respect freedom of others are worthy of freedom.)

5) They reminded people that the whole civilized world is looking at them and and judging if they are worthy of independence.

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Looking for Peace - grade 7 - George of Podebrady

We studied the life and work of one of Czech kings, Jiří z Poděbrad - George of Podebrady.

He was elected to be a king after death of Ladislav Habsbursky - some thought  Jiri poisoned the young king, but in was proven that Ladislav had leukaemia.

Jiří tried to create something like European Union - a treaty among all Christian states.
- The member states would promise to settle all differences by peaceful means.
- There was to be a common parliament and other common institutions and supranational insignia.

He sent his courtiers to other kings to promote this idea. The plane didn´t work out then in 15th century.

From pupils´worksheets:

- He doesn´t look like a cool guy, because he is fat, but he was cool. He managed to give to Czech a period of peace and to the Europe a good idea.

- I like that he wasn´t whining about hard life - his parents weren´t married and it was a problem then and some people made fun of him. He didn´t mind and did his best, and ended as the only elected Czech king from Czećh nobility.

- He had to be really good at talking to people, since he managed to keep both catholics and hussites happy.

He proposed peace first to Czech warlords and then to whole Europe. I wonder how he did it that Czech people listened to him and accepted him.