During lessons in autumn 2025, the pupils learnt about different kinds of bread and traced the journey bread makes before it reaches the table – from sowing the grain to the finished loaf. At tables and on the carpet, they put picture cards showing this process in the correct order. After all, the grain has to be sown, harvested and milled into flour, and only then can the dough be kneaded and the bread baked. In Polish tradition, bread is treated with special respect – in the past, the sign of the cross was traced on a new loaf before it was cut.
The word ‘chleb’ (bread) served as the starting point for learning another digraph – ‘ch’. A digraph is a combination of two letters representing a single sound; Polish has seven of them: ch, cz, dz, dź, dż, rz and sz. The pupils looked for ‘ch’ in a text and in words, unscrambled jumbled words and completed tasks at the interactive whiteboard. The worksheets proved really challenging, but everyone saw them through to the end.
Every pupil also took part in the international art competition ‘Psie troski’ (Dog Worries), announced to mark World Animal Day on 4 October. The result was a set of colourful pictures showing dogs surrounded by trees, sunshine and rainbows. The results were due to be announced in January 2026, and the class kept its fingers firmly crossed for its young artists.
More photos from the lessons can be seen in the gallery.
