Masarykova střední škola chemická

Other activities

November - December

In order to subsume our project into all school life we did some extracurricular play fair activities in November and December. However far from the sport concept of "fair play" these activities might seem, we strongly believe that they could contribute to the general and broad understanding of our common subject- various aspects of "(un)fairness"- prejudice, oppression,...

2nd November 45 students and three teachers visited the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz - Birkenau in Poland.
They shared their impressions from this appealing and appaling place through the photographs.

O.Agafonová (class Z3.)
R.Škvor(class L4.)
V. Roček (class L3.)

The same purpose as Auschwitz led us to the Jewish Museum.The students from the first year attended an interesting lecture about Jewish religion, traditions, customs and history. This should help better understand and accept foreign traditions and avoid a culture clash. Our visit to the museum was a couple of days after the "Crystal Night" anniversary when Czech Neonazis were prevented from a planned provocative march through the Prague Jewish Town. Click on the photo to open the gallery
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Czech Press Photo


Class L3. visited the exhibition Czech Press Photo which brings authentic picture report about life. The categories were spot news, general news, people in the news, daily life, sports, portrait, nature and environment and arts. Each student chose one photo and later they discussed the impressions from the exhibition in the class. The winning photograph by D. Materna "Distraint of a Child" expressed by coincidence best the idea of play fair. Unfortunately we cannot "steal" it for our calendar!
Anyway, this exhibition should motivate and stimulate our students to produce their own photos ;-)


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Some of the impressions:
Lukáš Větrovský

Honza Vopička:
That is set of photographs of insects and animals, which are breeded in captivity. These photographs are demonstrating, how we can't the animals. It's base on special light sources, which are mounted into terrariums. Man's eye can't see something special, but the camera can. So we can see the animals in different colour tones, than normally.

Vít Slanina:
LIFTERS
Lifters is one of the few veteran clubs which races in modified historical American cars called HOT ROD that were in USA during the fifties. Today´s Lifters have their true in the 1/8-mile dragster races as well as in hill climb races. Only cars manufactured prior to 1958 can participated. They compete against other clubs like Springers, Stokers or A-bombers. (Lifters is the czech hot rod club. There were 3 photos with this cars and their owners)

We invited to our school two elderly ladies, who were persecuted under the communist regime. The life was very "unfair" to them. The elder lady was a former political prisoner. She was sentenced to prison as a 16-year-old innocent girl, her boyfriend was hanged. Both ladies told us their awful and shocking life stories. This experience could help our students recognize and fight all signs of totalitarian regimes of all kinds.



We, of course, included sports into our project, too.
Just before Christmas the Play Fair Basketball Tournament was organized. The players swore to play fair and they did!

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The students from the class F4. and their form teacher Mrs.M.Mlynářová made Christmas presents for children in a Prague orphanage and subsequently brought them to their home. This charity helped our pupils realize that they should help less fortunate people and do it in the ways they are able to.


Mgr. Zuzana Jušková
19. 04. 2008, 21:21:12
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