REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Comenius partnership “Friendship of dances”

Location of Croatia in Europe

Croatia is located in Central and Southeast Europe, bordering Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the southeast, Montenegro 

to the southeast, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and Slovenia to the northwest.

Basic info about Croatia

o Declaration of Independence: 8th of October, 1991o Population of Croatia: around 4,29 milliono Capital city: Zagreb o Official language: Croatiano Demonym: Croat, Croatiano Currency: Kuna (HRK)o Anthem: Lijepa naša

domovino(Our Beautiful Homeland)

CROATIAN NATIONAL FLAG

Croatian National flag is a red-white-blue tricolor with the historic Croatian chequered coat of arms (25 red and white fields) and stylized crown with five smaller shields featuring coats of arms.

coat of arms

Croatian national flag

CROATIAN ANTHEM

The Croatian anthem Lijepa naša (Our Beautiful Homeland) was written in 1835 (Antun Mihanović ) and set to music in

1846 (Josip Runjanin).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjqgLZ7fZY4&feature=related

The Kuna

The currency of Croatia is the Kuna.

Croatian Language

The Croatian language is based on a Southern Slavic language used in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and some parts of Italy.

Croatian alphabet

Try to read these Croatian sentences

Laku noć. – Good night.

Dobar dan. – Good afternoon.

Ne govorim hrvatski. – I cannot speak Croatian.

Regions of Croatia There are eight zones

that Croatia can be split into.

There are the Dalmatian regions (purple, tan, blue, and light purple).

The Mountain region. The Slavonia region.

(Slatina is located in this region)

The is Middle Croatia (green).

The Kvarner region (blue/green).

The Istria region(red).

MAYBE YOU DIDN’T KNOW BUT...

DALMATIAN DOG–NATIVE CROATIAN

101 DALMATIAN

Dalmatia - the coastal part of Croatia

Recognized as Croatian autochthonous breed (FCI-153)

Croatian Mascot - 2000 Olympic games Sydney

CROATIA - HOMELAND OF CRAVATS

Every day worn by the 600 million men around the world.

French - la Cravate German- die Krawatte English – Cravat Italian - Cravatta Spanish - Corbata Portuguese - Gravata Irish - Carabhat Swedish - Kravatt Finnish - Kravatti Flemish - Krawaat Polish - Krawat Ukrainian - Kravatka Hungarian – Kravat Croatian - Kravata

Nikola Tesla - inventor of the light bulb

INVENTORS - PEN

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871-1922) from Zagreb invented a mechanical ball pen which is bearing his name and now it is in everyday use.

INVENTORS - PARASHUTE

Faust Vrancic (1551-1617) from Sibenik invented and constructed a parashute and also performed a first jump in order to test it.

Famous Croatian sportsmen

Goran Ivanišević – tennis playerIvano Balić - handballJanica Kostelić - skiingDavor Šuker – football

NBA PLAYERS FROM CROATIA

Drazen Petrovic

Radja vs. Rodman

Toni Kukoc

Zan Tabak

Basketball team from Split - several times European champions.

Traditional Croatian food

Our hometown Slatina

•Slatina is a small town which is in the east of Croatia (Slavonija region) and its population is around 12 000. •We have two main primary schools, two high schools and two kindergardens.

City Centre

Slatina’s main park and local musicians Town’s court

Museum

Lake Javorica in Slatina

Primary school Eugena KumičićaSlatina

Our school has got 542 pupils in 29 departments and our regional schools, which are located in the villages near the main school, have 67 pupils in combined classes.

We also have 16 children in classes with special needs and are divided into 3 classes depending on pupils age.

Total number of teachers,

pedagogical staff and administration is 84.

Pupils who attend our school are from age 7 to 14.

Our classes are organized in two shifts which change every week.

Our library

We like to prepare different school shows for our local community

Every year in October we bake and sell our traditional food

We are an eco-friendly school

Vegetarian Monday – vegetarian food served in school canteen

Our products made of recycled materials

St Nicholas in schoolChristmas train with Santa

Our pupils are good at sports

National champions incross

Every year our pupils dress up as flowers to welcome spring

And here we are... Hello

Teachers involved in this project

Božica Majhen – headmistress

Silvija Mađarić – coordinator English teacher

Kristina Premec – English teacher

Renata Grahovac – class teacher

Mira Brezovčan – class teacher

Gordana Maroević – class teacher

Vera Menčik – class teacher

Željka Novotni – class teacher

Spomenka Bošnjak –class teacher

Sanja Bujanić – Art teacher Marijana Toplak – Croatian

teacher Nikola Marjanović – History

and Geography teacher Melita Schmitz - librarian

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

Osnovna škola Eugena Kumičića, Slatina