At the Saturday lesson, class B1 gave in to a sweet gingerbread temptation. Pupils tasted Toruń katarzynki gingerbread and then happily decorated gingerbread with icing and colourful decorations.
The sweet treats became a starting point for getting to know Toruń itself. The children found the city on a map of Poland, learnt which world-famous figure lived there and found out how Toruń gingerbread is baked. Toruń, the home town of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, is famous for a gingerbread-making tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, and katarzynki are among its most recognisable bakes. The city lies on the Vistula, and its medieval town complex has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Along the way, pupils learnt new softened sounds: ‘ni’ and ‘ń’ – the last softened sounds the class learnt in the 2025/2026 school year. Lists of words such as ‘słoń’, ‘jeleń’, ‘koń’, ‘dłoń’, ‘pień’ and ‘korzeń’ appeared on their writing boards, and the children built further words from letters on the interactive whiteboard and consolidated them in their exercise books. The rule is simple: before a vowel, softness is marked with the letter ‘i’ (‘nie’, ‘niebo’), and at the end of a word or before a consonant, with an accent over the letter (‘koń’, ‘bańka’). That is why ‘koń’ becomes ‘konie’ in the plural.
Learning combined with flavour proved a real pleasure. More photos from the lesson can be seen in the gallery.
