The Independence Day of Estonia is on 24 February. This year we celebrated the 101st birthday of Estonia with our school family on 22 February. Almost each and every student actively took part in the festivity.  To begin with, every student got a large blank puzzle piece to fill with beautiful drawings and well wishes for our country.

On February 14, our students had an opportunity to see and try out robots, drones and radio controlled cars. The short event took place during our lunch breaks and served as an introduction of the school’s robotics class.

Forms 1 and 3 students of Mäetaguse Basic School take part in a project led by Räpina School of Horticulture. The name of the project is called „Friends of Tomatoes“.

The regional contest of Estonian (as a mother tongue) took place on 31 January 2019.

 Form 7 student Isabel Mägi earned the second place among forms 7.-8.

Merlin Sepp a form 9 student shared a third-fourth and fifth place with other competitors among forms 9.-10.

In addition, Catlyn Galimov (a sixth place) and Annette Bogdanov (an eleventh place) also got good results in the contest.

Congratulations!

Our form 9 student Merlin Sepp took part in the regional mathematics competition and came to a third place.  Congratulations!

On 11 February there was a training day for practising water safety. Students learned and practised how to save themselves from a hole in ice using ice awls; how to save others from drowning by throwing them a lifebuoy; and how to transport the “victims”.

Big thanks to the workers of the prevention bureau of Eastern Rescue Centre and to the members of Mäetaguse Volunteers’ Rescue Brigade for a great event.

This year’s music week was busy and fun. During the breaks there was music, in accordance with the days’ themes. It is great that there are many students and teachers who actively participated in the different activities of our Music Week! I hope that everyone found some nice moments together with music.

Meeting Kärolin Kruut [on Monday], an alumna of our school, definitely gave students some ideas on how to make music part of their life style. And of course, our school’s first Air Band got a big round of applause.

This year we already started our English Week preparations during the first weeks of school after New Year. The wider aim was to learn English through songs and singing. Each class learnt one song in English. In addition to learning a song, the words, meaning, and other information about it was introduced to the students.