The concert to honour St. John Nepomuk

 It was held on the 13 May 2012 at the Church of St. John Nepomuk on the Green Hill and we could visit it. There were two famous Czech musicians Jitka Baštová, who played the accordion, and Jindřich Macek, who played the flute.

At the beginning we made questionnaires with the visitors. There were about a hundred people and we asked some of them. They told us that they came from Brno, Ústí nad Labem or Havlíčkův Brod especially because of the traditional fair. They were Catholics, they knew a little about the Church and other sites of UNESCO in the Czech Republic and they recommended to use this site for masses and special religious services. One visitor suggested to organize exhibitions there. Filip took the pictures and after our work we could sit and listen to the beautiful baroque music which was connected with the time of Jan Blažej Santini Aichl, the architect of the Church.

Jitka Stráská, Alena Hanzlová, Natálie Zelinková a Filip Vaníček

EU Projekt Comenius

EU Projekt  Partnerství škol Comenius

Na počátku školního roku 2011 – 2012 byl Národní agenturou pro evropské vzdělávací programy schválen bilaterální projekt Biskupského gymnázia ve Žďáru nad Sázavou v České republice a Kuokkalan koulu v Jyvaskyla ve Finsku.

Cílem projektu je vytvoření „Wirkko magazine“, jehož obsahem bude postavení a význam památek UNESCO v jednotlivých zemích ve 21. století – poutní kostel sv. Jana Nepomuckého na Zelené hoře ve Žďáru nad Sázavou a kostelík v Petajavasi u finského Jyvaskyla. Studenti obou škol budou svůj časopis tvořit s použitím ICT v anglickém jazyce po dobu dvou let. Na projektu participují studenti ve věku 14-17 let. Nedílnou součástí projektu je i výměnná stáž studentů obou škol v obou zemích a kurz českého a finského jazyka v anglickém jazyce.

PhDr. Jitka Stráská, koordinátor projektu

EU Project Partnership of Schools Comenius

At the beginning of the school year 2011 – 2012 the National Agency for European Educational Programmes approved a bilateral project of the Bishop Grammar school in Žďár nad Sázavou in the Czech Republic and Kuokkalan koulu in Jyvaskyla in Finland. 

The main goal of the project is to create ´Wirkko magazine´ which will deal with the position and importance of two UNESCO sites in the 21st century – the Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk at Zelená hora and the Old Church in Petajavasi near the  Finnish city of  Jyvaskyla. The students of both schools will be creating the magazine on computers in English language for two years. The inseparable part of the project is an exchange stay of the students in their countries and courses of Czech and Finnish languages in English language.

PhDr. Jitka Stráská, coordinator of the project

Czech express

Dobrý den! Ahoj! Cau! Hello! Hi! Hyvää päivää! Moi! =)

In 13 practically oriented lessons Finnish students got  some answers and introductions about Czech language, culture and life in Czech republic. Finnish students learned to understand and react in basic communicative situations (e.g. the topics of Getting to know each other, Directions, Shopping, Restaurant).

We had fun and it was nice way to learn something about language and culture. The movie Snowboardáci was very funny movie and students liked it a lot.

FAQs about Czech!

1. Is Czech related to English? (compare: mother - matka, brother - bratr, sister - sestra, three - tri ).

2. Do all Czech words consist of horrifying clusters of consonants? Strc prst skrz krk (stick your finger through your throat).

Introduction

Evangelical Lutheran Church and Catholic Church

Our priest at school told us that in the Czech Republic Catholic faith is the most widespread. About 11% people believe in it. However it is a few people. In Finland lots of people believe in Lutheran faith. About 89% people believe in it, 1% people are orthodox and only 10% people are atheists.

History

The beginnings of Catholic Church are found in 4^th century . The centre was Constantinople and next centuries the Church was divided into two different Churches. Roman Catholic Church was created in 1054 and it was situated in the west. The Church was secret before the year 1054, but in 1054 the centre of Rome Catholic Church was Rome and it is the centre of Catholic Church now too. In the east Orthodox Church was founded and its centre was Constantinople.

Evangelical Lutheran Church was created by protestant Martin Luther in 16th century. He did not agree with behaviour of Catholic priests. Catholic Church sold indulgences and priests did not behave in a right way. The priests were rich and Martin Luther did not like them. He made 95 thesis against Catholic Church and indulgences sale. He burned the Papal bull. It was the reason for separation from Catholic Church. He created the new Lutheran Bible. Women can be bishops since 1790 in Lutheran Church which is impessible in Catholic Church.

Churches nowadays

The Evangelic Lutheran Church of Finland is part of worldwide Church of Christ accordingly the Church confesses the Christian faith, which is based on the Bible.

Finnish and Czech people do not talk a lot about their faith. They go to church, sit and sing spiritual songs and hymns or hear them and these songs provide expressions for people ´s need and thankfulness before God.

Both churches – Lutheran and Catholic are separate from secular government so that church workers are not public officers in the same sense as state emploees.

The Old Church in Petäjävesi and the Church of St.J.Nepomucký on the Green Hill have the main services for the whole parish usually on Sundays in summer at about 10 p.m. But worship services can also be held at other times or other days of the week. In Finland and the Czech Republic worship services can be arranged with schools at certain times of the year (the beginning or the end of the school year).

Recently there has been a lot of talk about „Metal masses“ in Finland where hymn tunes have been arranged in the style of hard rock music.(More on websites of Evangelic Lutheran Church in Finland.)

Anyone can attend worship services in both countries – one does not have to be a church member for that.

Dictionary

česky                                                      english                                                suomi

mše                                                         mass                                                   messu

rozšířený                                                  widespread

víra                                                         faith

století                                                      century                                               vuosisata/ luvulla

rozdělit                                                    divide                                                 jakaa

tajný                                                        secret                                                 salaisuus

souhlasit                                                  agree                                                  olla samaa mieltä

odpustky                                                 indulgences                                         aneet

kněz                                                        priest                                                  pappi 

teze                                                         thesises

prodej                                                     sale                                                    myynti

papežská bula                                          papal bull                                           paavin tiedote

oddělení                                                  separation                                           erottaminen

označit (jako)                                          indicate                                               osoittaa

Radka and Stina

Daniel and Topias

Easter Visit from Jyväskylä in Žďár nad Sázavou

On Wednesday, 4th April 2012  Eve Riikonen visited our school. She is a Finnish student who participates in the bilateral project Comenius School Partnership COM-BP-2011-02. She spent with our language group lead by PhDr. Jitka Straská one lesson of conversation, especially about the differences between Finland and the Czech Republic. Despite of the fact that Eve is only in the 8th class, her knowledge of English is very good, and so she could not have any problems answering our questions. It was a good opportunity to learn at least something about the country  which maybe some of us will never visit. Eve was very nice and friendly and we will look forward to another visit from the country of lakes.

Jan Kysilka, II.B

Today Eva visited our English lesson. She is a very pretty girl. She taught us some very interesting Finnish words, for example earth warm is said kastemato, Easter bunny is said  pääsiäis pupu and hello is said moi…

Hanďa, PET course

Eva says: „I can say some  Czech words.“ It was funny. She was not embarrased to speak with us. It was a great lesson.

Barča, PET course    

Eva told about Finnish weather, about her favourite place and about typical Finnish animals.
She says, that she goes to school by bike.                                                                        

Dominika, PET course

Eve visited our lesson. She told us many interesting things and some Finnish words. She is staying in the Czech Republic at Easter.

Jana, PET course

Eve has learnt English for 6 years too, but she speaks English better than we can, because in Finnish people speak English more than here in the Czech republic. Thank you Eve…