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Celebrations · 2024

Independence Day celebrations 2024

Photos from the celebrations of the 106th anniversary of Poland regaining its independence, held at the school on 9 November 2024: time together in the school hall, lessons about national symbols, flags made from tissue paper, maps of Poland, white-and-red cockades and portraits of pupils in the patriotic corner.

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Cupcakes with pink icing and small white-and-red flags on a plate, on a table in the national colours.Two pupils in white-and-red outfits hold a plate of cupcakes decorated with small flags.A screen with text on a white-and-red background in the school hall, next to a banner with words about 11 November.A teacher wearing a floral wreath holds a poster with white-and-red handprints and the words ‘Poland Unites Us’.Pupils sitting on the floor of the school hall wave small white-and-red flags during the celebrations.Pupils from one of the classes, dressed in white and red, pose with flags large and small in the classroom.Two teachers in the classroom present the ‘Poland Unites Us’ poster with handprints in the national colours.A collage of four shots: pupils at their desks colour an outline map of Poland in white and red.A collage of four shots: pupils show their coloured maps of Poland with the word ‘Polska’.A pupil in a red sweatshirt colours an outline map of Poland with a felt-tip pen at a school desk.A collage of four shots: smiling pupils work on white-and-red maps of Poland.A collage of four shots: focused pupils colour maps of Poland at tables in the classroom.Pupils from one of the classes raise red and white flags for a group photo in front of the board.Small plates of biscuits with pink and chocolate icing, decorated with small flags, on a white-and-red tablecloth.A collage of five slides: a map of the Polish lands under the Partitions, portraits of poets and the word ‘Patriot’.A collage of four shots: pupils in the classroom watch a presentation titled ‘National Independence Day’.A collage of four shots: a calendar showing the date ‘Saturday 9 November’ and cards with the flag, emblem and anthem of Poland.A collage of five shots: pupils trace mazes and patterns on worksheets.A group of pupils sits on the floor in the classroom; the photo is decorated with a graphic of flowers and leaves.A worksheet titled ‘1918 – Regaining Independence’ with a flag made from white and red tissue paper.Finished work with the date 1918 and a flag made from balls of tissue paper, with scissors and scraps of white tissue paper beside it.A pupil's hand presses red tissue paper onto the outline of a flag on a card with the date 1918.A teacher and pupils at a table make tissue-paper flags on cards about the year 1918.Pupils at their desks colour in drawings of the eagle on worksheets about Independence Day.A view from above of a table where a teacher and pupils are making white-and-red flags.A collage of five shots: pupils fill in flags with tissue paper on ‘Regaining Independence’ cards.A collage of five shots: close-ups of the tissue-paper flags and pupils wearing cockades at work.A girl in the classroom shows a coloured-in eagle with the words ‘Independence Day’.A girl wearing a cockade sits in front of a display with the emblem, the flag and an outline map of Poland.A smiling pupil with a white-and-red bow poses in front of a display of national symbols.A pupil wearing a cockade sits cross-legged in front of a red curtain and boards with the Polish emblem.A girl in a white-and-red outfit sits in front of the patriotic corner with the flag and emblem.A laughing pupil wearing a cockade in front of a board with a portrait of Józef Piłsudski and a map of Poland.A pupil in a white shirt wearing a cockade sits in front of a display prepared for Independence Day.A smiling girl wearing a cockade poses in front of boards labelled ‘flag’, ‘emblem’ and ‘anthem’.A pupil with a white-and-red bow raises a finger, sitting in front of the national symbols corner.A pupil in a red T-shirt sits in front of a board reading ‘Independence Day’ with the emblem.A girl in a red skirt wearing a cockade poses in the patriotic corner with the Polish emblem.A girl in a red jumper sits in front of boards about national symbols and a white curtain.A pupil with a cockade pinned to a jumper sits against a display with the flag and emblem.A cockade of white and red ribbon with an image of the eagle on a round badge.A collage of six shots: smiling children with white-and-red flags painted on their cheeks.A collage of six shots: pupils with worksheets, including one with a November calendar and a flag.A collage of five shots: pupils match pictures to the labels ‘anthem’ and ‘map of Poland’ on worksheets.A collage of shots: children in floral wreaths and white-and-red outfits complete worksheets at their desks.Girls in floral wreaths and outfits in the national colours sit among the audience in the school hall.A collage of four shots: pupils cut out strips and stick together large paper cockades.A collage of three shots: sticking strips onto cockades, and a girl with a finished white-and-red rosette.A collage of four shots: a classroom in which pupils at tables assemble cockades.Children with white-and-red bows sit in the school hall beneath an Independence Day banner.A collage of four shots: pupils at their desks stick white and red strips onto paper circles.A collage of four shots: pupils present finished cockades made from white and red paper strips.A collage of four shots: pupils try on and show large white-and-red paper rosettes.A collage of four shots: children hold up their finished cockades in the classroom.

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