SLOVENIJA 22. WORLD CUP ISF FOOTBALL BRAZIL APRIL 2011 GIMNAZIJA ŠIŠKA, Aljaževa ulica 32, 1000 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA Football sport classes 2010/2011 http://www.s-gls.lj.edus.si GIMNAZIJA ŠIŠKA, Aljaževa ulica 32, 1000 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA Slovenia school team ISF 2010/2011 http://www.s-gls.lj.edus.si GIMNAZIJA ŠIŠKA, Aljaževa ulica 32, 1000 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA Slovenia school team ISF 2010/2011 http://www.s-gls.lj.edus.si SLOVENIA TEAM - PLAYERS ZAGOREC ADAM MOČNIK JURE KLOBAS KLEMEN BARUKČIČ MATEO BORENOVIČ SINIŠA ŠKOFLJANC GAŠPER KUNTARIČ MARKO ZUKANOVIČ JURE TRGIN LUKA PAPEŽ JERNEJ PAŽEK ALJAŽ ROGINA DAVOR ŠUŠAK BRANKO SLAVEC MATIC PENE JANKO KORPIČ MIŠEL PLESEC NEJC JUREČIČ ŽIGA BILKA STREL head of delegation DEJAN BALAŽIČ referee DEJAN JELNIKAR coach SENTIČ GORAN coach Slovenia - Ljubljana Gimnazija Šiška ISF - DENMARK 2005 ISF - CHILE - 2007 ISF – TURKEY 2009 Gimnazija Šiška - Ljubljana Our school is located in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, in its geographical centre, and has special classes for perspective sportsmen/sportswomen. Its origin goes back to 1990, when first sport class was founded in order to give the students involved in sports the possibility of effectively merging their educational and training demands. Our sportsmen place high for medals at national, European and World championships; some even competed at the Olympic Games. Now more than 50% of our students attend so called sport classes, other are involved in general classes. In sport classes, there is a lot of cooperation with the national sport associations, with the aim to achieve the best sport results and provide good general education. This is the reason why students from all parts of the country enrol in it. Classes with football players are organised as college classes (we are unique in Slovenia) – students live in a school dormitory and train under the supervision of the NZS (the National Football Association) although they are members of different clubs from all over Slovenia. The school provides a relaxing atmosphere, where students feel more at ease when striving with their piles of tests. Furthermore, GLŠ offers a wide variety of extra curriculum activities, such as drama classes, archery, voluntary work, etc. Additionally, the competition “NAJ razred”, i.e. The BEST class, is held every year, where classes compete against each other in a vast range of intellectual performances. The students also publish their publications, run the school radio, take initiative in humanitarian and environmental actions and are also dynamic in the field of sports, for which GLŠ was awarded a special prize. Every year the students score above the Slovene average in “matura”, the national examination, and perform excellently on various national competitions. • • • • • • • • • • • For the students living far from school, GLŠ provides a hospitable replacement for home in the students’ dorm. Our school also finds it very important to promote cooperation and mobility in the field of education. With the help of mobility we intend to draw students’ attention to other countries, in a broader sense than school lessons do. We would like to give them a chance to meet their peers from abroad, to get to know and experience multicultural differences and similarities. That is the way we can fight against racism and chauvinism (which students experience daily, even in sport events). We also believe, that the role of an open and distance learning is very important in the whole-life learning process, especially in the fields of: improving language skills, exchanging information, connecting different subjects, increasing interest for learning, using ICT, increasing the students’ view by enlarging social empathy while socializing with young people from other countries, and last but not least, understanding different cultures and living within them, realising that European countries are based on common cultural and scientific background. Our school considers European cooperation an important part of the curriculum because this kind of experience results in the quality of the educational process, in higher motivation and self valuation of the participating students.