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School information

Shazar Elementery School is located in Noah Ofer council area in the Southern Part of Tel Aviv in Israel. The school was named after Zalman Shazar, the third president of the State of Israel. In recognition of his vast intellectual achievements and extensive Zionist activities, the Israel government appointed Shazar the first minister of education and culture in 1949, and in 1963 the Knesset elected him president of the State of Israel, a position he held until his retirement in 1973. In memory of Zalman Shazar many places in Israel were given his name, so was our school.

The population of the area is heterogeneous. Most of the children are newcomers from the former Soviet Union. Almost all of them are bilingual and speak two languages: Hebrew and Russian. The school consists of 14 classes from first through sixth grade with a special program for the special education classes. There are 310 children in the school. The school, being rather small, enables professional and multi- disciplined teacher staff to concentrate on each and every individual's ability and answer most of the educational needs of its students with a wide and varied study program including enrichment classes and after school activities, in other words, the students are in the center of the learning process. The school is composed of a three story building with two computer labs, a language room and library.

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School policy

The school's policy is to create an environment in which students can grow as responsible and dedicated members of Israeli society. This year our school is involved in special project called " To live together in the world of respect ". At Shazar School we give special attention to developing the important skills of friendship, tolerance, respect and understanding, which we consider very important in our future. The aims of the school are:

to teach humanism.
to develop students' personalities.
to teach the students to have a strong sense of relation to the Jewish people in Israel as well as the Jews throughout the world.
to develop a student, who can cope with the demands of a technological world.
to develop a computerized environment for all the students.

Our school is computerized. The computer activities in the school are highly regarded. We have two computer labs. Our computer program is playing a vital and growing part in preparing our students for the challenges of an increasingly technical world.

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Projects and programs in Shazar

Every year our school is involved in different projects and programs. This year our school leads many special projects:

To live together in the world of respect
Culture Project
Science Project
E-mail Project in Hebrew
E-mail Project in English

and programs:

School Theatre
School Newspaper
Book Week
Maths Week
Video workshop
Computer workshop

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A letter from the English teacher

My name is Janna and I am an English teacher at Shazar Elementery School. I represent my school . Since September 1998 Shazar School is involved in the internet e-mail project, which will develop into additional activities in the classroom. No longer will English be a 5-hour affair per week, but it will be thread of interdisciplinary cooperation within the school and beyong it. The Internet will encourage our kids, even the beginners and the slow learners, to communicate in English, not in Hebrew, to be kept updated here to what is going on the Internet and to be given up to find information. And I am sure that the kids will be taking to English like the proverbial duck to water.. This project means regular exchanges of letters with one of the schools from an English speaking country. Each student will have a pen-pal from someplace in the world which he'll e-mail him throughout the whole year. I would like the students to get to know something about particular country, state, culture, society. This project covers the use of e-mail. I thought of the following schedule:

Introduction of ourselves ( who we are, name, age, family, likes, dislikes )
Introduction of our school.
Holidays
Hobbies
Pets
Favourite books

Twenty one 5 graders are participating in this project. This is their third year of learning English as the second language. The average age is 10-11.

Girls: Bella, Adi, Easther, Liza, Dina, Etti, Sharon, Segula, Mayan, Mazi, Keren, Viki. (12 )
Boys: Udi, Yossi, Igal, Liron, Maor, Uri, Daniel, Yan, Benzi. (9 )

Sincerely,

Janna and the members of Shazar School

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Contacts:

Shazar school E-mail: s-shazar-tlv@akol.co.il
My E-mail: jannaok@iname.com
See my home page: https://members.tripod.com/~jannaok