Students' Projects! Science Experiments! Houses Activities! Drama! Sports! Etwinning! Eko-Skola! This is just but a small taste of our daily life at St Michael's. On Sunday 24th May, however, St Michael School opened its doors to the general public and invited everyone to witness the fantastic work that goes on in our school throughout the whole year. Without any doubt, the Open Day has become an annual event in our school calendar which students and parents alike look forward to.
This year's Open Day was no exception. People flocked around the school in the morning as well as in the afternoon and from the comments passed on to us, it is clear that they enjoyed every minute of it. Parents of prospective students toured the classrooms and enjoyed listening to what our students had to say about their school life and the subjects they follow while old boys fondly reminisced their time with us.
At times, we stop to ask ourselves: “What are schools and education all about?” We also ask ourselves: “What are the instruments with which one gauges if our school is contributing holistically towards the development of our students?”
To try to answer to these questions, we try to come up with innovative ideas as how to create a scholastic calendar that celebrates the strengths and talents of all the members within our school community, that is: students, teachers, staff and parents. KreaDrama was precisely one particular activity in this direction.
The week between Monday 11th and Friday the 15th of May was a very a special one for our school. After the visit to Vezzano, in the Trentino Alto Adige region in northern Italy in April, by a group of Form 2 students and three teachers, it was the turn of the Italians to come to Malta. Indeed it was a week to remember. We tried to give to our Italian friends a little taste of what our beautiful country has to offer. From the 5500 year old Ġgantija temples to the medieval cities of Mdina and The Cittadella, from the fabulous treasures found at St John’s Co-Cathedral to the spectacular views of Blue Grotto and Fawwara, from the excitement of the Splash and Fun Park to our exceptionally blue sea at Dwejra and Ramla l-Ħamra, the Italians had the opportunity to realise the great potentials of our small yet beautiful island. But their stay was not just site-seeing and entertainment.
The much awaited visit by the Italian teachers and students from the Istituto Comprensivo Valle dei Laghi, Vezzano is now on.
The group landed on Monday at 13:20 and were met by our school's co-ordinating team. Early in the afternoon, we visited the group at their hotel in Sliema and later, with the help of some parents and teachers, a treasure hunt was organised in Mdina. It was a nice ice-breaker, where teams made up of around 5 students from both countries worked on completing a given task. It was not easy, but some persevered and succeeded at the end.
The World Athletics Day has existed for over 10 years and for the IAAF (International Association of Athletic Federations) and its member federations (including the Malta Amateur Athletic Association) it has become a means of promoting the sport of athletics among youngsters.
Each year, the IAAF encourages its member federations to organise a World Athletics Day with school participation. For this reason, each year the Malta Amateur Athletic Association celebrates World Athletics Day by organising an inter-schools athletic meeting.
On May 5th, 1949 was signed the Treaty of London establishing the Council of Europe by ten States: Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Sweden.
«The aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its members...» Article 1 - Statute of the Council of Europe
Origins and mission
The Council of Europe seeks to develop throughout Europe common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the protection of individuals.
