School uniform: pros and contras

School uniform is an important part of our school. School uniform is the face of each pupil. Most of students of our school think that it is a bad idea. Only three students of my class like this idea, but most of them understand that every prestigious school, like our one must have school uniform. And if students of our school go to school wearing other clothes the school will have worse image. There are the things about school uniform some of my classmates told about:

Serhiy Kravchuk: I like our school uniform. I only don’t like a jacket because it is not comfortable.

Katerina Medvedeva: I don’t like our school uniform because it is not comfortable and it is very expensive to buy it every year, and the uniform is not modern.

Olexiy Lebid’, grade 8B

Teachers and students relations

Probably the main thing in all schools is the relations between teachers and students. I think it is more important than problems with uniform or something like that, because for example if your relations with some teachers are bad it can influence on marks. Especially in our school there are also some problems. I want to describe some of the problems that happened at my lessons.

Maybe the first and most popular problem is when the teacher and the student speak about some facts and their discussion is changed into a real dispute. It’s very bad because this dispute can destroy their relations. The next problem can appear because of the marks. I think this problem doesn’t need any comments.

Some problems can happen because of student’s behavior. At some moments students are very noisy, excited and their behavior is not well and it is their blame. So these are the problems in my school but they are not very essential as to good relations. I show only bad things of our relations. Our school differs from other schools because of good relations. Students don’t think that teachers are strange people. They teach us not only their subjects but also the life.

Artem Kolosiuk, grade 8B

November 2003

Alla Tarasiuk, grade 10A:

To continue our school’s project “People to People” we invited the next generation of Stryi Gymnasia students to visit our Collegium. They arrived at the end of November 2003. We looked forward to seeing them that’s why a well-planned educational and cultural program was prepared. We met our new friends on Friday. First they had a short rest at our students’ families, then came to school to stay here till the evening. We had a joined English lesson where we told each other about our schools and their traditions, peculiarities, differences, similarities. We all came to a conclusion to organize such meetings more often to give us a possibility to communicate more. I believe that the best way of learning English is communication. The meeting showed us a great will of Stryi students to improve their knowledge though its level is quite high. There also were a joined lesson of Psychology, a terrific party with quizzes, competitions and much music and dances. After the meeting I decided to learn English better and realized that such kind of communication enriches everybody’s mind with stimulation to learn.