The month of December was quite busy for our home daughters. For the first time, on December 7, there was a ball for home daughters and young eagles in Püssi community centre. It was a fun event, where the youngsters could dance and play! Mäetaguse home daughters prepared six parlor games for the ball, which they also carried out.

The Centre for Ethics of the University of Tartu recognised Mäetaguse Basic School with “Good School Pathfinder 2019“ quality badge.

On the 11th December from noon to 1.p.m there is going be a Christmas fair. Come and take part by selling or purchasing Christmas goods. You can register until the 9th December.

On the 27th November two teams (from year 8 and year 9) took part in the regional preliminary for the National Quiz Competition. It took part in Jõhvi Basic School. In order to answer the questions one had to know a lot about every school subject and also to have a wide general knowledge. In the basic school category, there were eleven and in the gymnasium category, there were five participating teams. The winners were Jõhvi Basic School and Järve Gymnasium. But our year 9 team did very well and won the second place.

On 23 October there was a competition for solving math problems – the XXVI Virumaa Mathematics Competition. The first part of the event was individual which meant that each student had to solve 15 multiple-choice math problems. The second part was based on teamwork where students had to work together for 60 minutes and solve another 15 problems.  The tasks and problems were about percentage calculations, number theory, algebra, geometry as well as the history of mathematics. There were also word problems that demanded careful reading and focusing.

Our Young Eagles were victorious in the autumn competition that took place on October 26 in Kohtla-Nõmme. The boys gained the second and third place in the younger age group (up to 12 years).

The family event on November 7 was very successful and offered a variety of activities.  22 cards were made in the charity Christmas card workshop. In December the cards will be gifted to the residents of Alutaguse Care Centre. In the charity raffle Mäetaguse Basic school collected 102€ for a mother of four who suffers from cancer.

Thank you to all who donated and bought the raffle tickets. 

A group of zither players from our school took part in a folk culture festival called Let’s Make Music, the performances of which were part of a project called Ethnic Mosaic 2019. The event was held on October 30th  in Jõhvi Vene Põhikool (Jõhvi Russian Basic School).

Year 3  celebrated the old Celtic holiday of Halloween in a modern Americanised manner wearing fun costumes.