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New year (Portugal)
On this day, all the people celebrate the beggining of New Year and they usually eat twelve raisins at midnight (corresponding one to each month of the year) and silently asking for a wish. -
New Year (Turkey)
New year´s day is celebrated in Turkey, very much like it is celebrated anywhere in the world. After all, it is yet another opportunity to have a holiday and enjoy ourselves. You can see large groups of people outside, counting down the seconds as loudly as possible during the last seconds of the year. -
New Year's Day (Italy)
On the 1st of January we celebrate the beginning of the new year. We stay with family or our friends, in fact we like to say: "Christmas with your family and New Year´s Day with your friends". In this day we shoot a lot of fireworks; They can be very beautiful and can have particular shapes and colours to get more fun to people.
For the 1st of the year the Italian tradition includes some superstitious rituals: dressing red underwear, eating lentils and exchanging kisses under the mistletoe... -
New Year (Poland)
New Year – international anniversary celebrated in 1st January. In Poland it’s a free work day. It beginns 31st December at 12 am by opening the bottle of champagne and shooting by petards. -
New Year ( Estonia)
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The three Wisemen from East (Portugal)
According to the Bible three Kings from three Kings from the
far-eastern contries come to Betheem to visit little Jesus.
Itś a free day in Portugal. All Portuguese kids go from home to home and sing songs typical of this day (As Boas Festas). In return for their performance, people give them money and sweets. -
Three Wise-Men (Poland and Portugal)
Festivity celebrated in the memory of Three Wise-Men who came to Jesus with gifts. Celebrated in Poland and Portugal on 6th January. -
Maturity ball (Poland)
Maturity ball is a traditional ball for final grade high school students, analogous to senior prom in the United States or formal in the United Kingdom. It is held approximately a hundred days before the matura, or final exam, hence its name. The ball is usually organized by parents who also pay most of the costs. -
Grandmother`s (Poland)
21st January in Poland. Grandmothers gets presents from their grandchildren -
Grandfather’s Day (Poland)
22nd January in Poland. Grandfather’s gets presents from their grandchildren. -
Fat Thursday (Poland)
Fat Thursday- the day of eating traditional Polish doughnuts and Angel Wings special sugared cripsy pastry. Celebrated on the last Thursday before the religious period of Lent.
Who won’t eat any dount, will not have luck in this year. -
Liberation Day (Turkey)
In 12 February 1920 K.Maraş gained its freedom and Since then we have been celebrate 12 Feb. as the Independence Day. Local Groups dressed in traditional clothes March trough streets with the intensive interest of people. Also the Governorship and the Muniapality of K.Maraş hold a number of activities with the porticipation of local people. http://www.belediyetv.kahramanmaras.bel.tr/component/hwdvideoshare/?task=viewvideo&video_id=340 -
Valentine's Day ( Estonia)
Making Valentine gifts at home is one of the most popular Estonian Valentine's Day traditions. We use our imagination to create beautiful greeting cards and heart-shaped decorations. Popular gifts are also chocolates, candy, flowers and gift baskets. In our school every class have to make their own mailbox so that their friends can send them a greeting card. We usually have a Valentine’s Day party at school. Sometimes the friendliest boy and girl from each class is elected. -
Lover's Day (Poland)
Annual celebration of love that fall on February 14. Customary on this day is to send letters containing confessions of love (often written in verse). In the West, especially in Britain and the United States venerated St. Valentine as the patron saint of lovers. February 14, thus became an opportunity to bestow a small Gift Shop. -
Carnival (Italy)
A Latin etymology: "Carnem Levare" which means: "stop eating meat", because after Carnival a ritual period starts: "Lent”.
During Carnival’s feast people generally wear fanciful masks and multicolored costumes, eat a lot of food and drink a lot wine. As to masks and multicolored costumes, they are related to our regional traditions.
They also make papier-mache or flower wagons, representing important characters, like in Acireale, Viareggio, and the best known in the world, Venice’s Carnival. -
Shrove Tuesday (Estonia)
Estonian tradition is to have a ride down a hill on snow and also compete with each other. The common food on that day has been bean or pea soup with pork. Very popular desserts are buns with whipped cream. At school we usually have a skiing day which basically means that we have skiing competitions. -
Carnival (Portugal)
Itś always celebrated on a Tuesday, depending on Easter day.
Most towns and cities organise amusing demonstrations in which lots of people wear masks and criticize some politicians´ measures. -
Independence Day (Estonia)
The Republic of Estonia was created on the 24th of February 1918, when for the first time in the history of the state declared independence of the Republic of Estonia. There are many concerts and special TV shows on that day. A very big event is the President’s Reception.There are a lot of very important Estonians and many guests from other countries, mostly politicians. The parade of the Independence Day is also a remarkable event. For students the day is free so we don’t have to go to school. -
Shorve Tuesday (Poland)
Shorve Tuesday the last day of the Carnival, when people party before the beginning of Lent. -
Women´s Day (Poland)
The International Women´s Day on 8th March was a public holiday and one the most important dates in the Polish calander during the communist regime. The whole female workforce received gifts such as flowers, cosmetics and other scarce good. Nowadays the Women´s Day is most spectacularly celebrated by feminists who organise demonstrations. -
Mother Tongue Day (Estonia)
This is the day when we honour our native language - the Estonian language. Every school usually celebrates the day in different ways. Our school for example organises a special week, not just a day. In that week we have different activities like some quizzes or workshops. They are not exactly the same from year to year. Every year we have a formal ceremony where the headmaster makes a speech and students perform dances or songs. They are not exactly the same from year to year. -
San Giuseppe (Italy)
This feast is very heart-felt by Italian people, it refers to St. Joseph, Holy Mary’s husband. In the evening of 18th March Sicilian families set a table full of food and decorated with the Saint's image. The feast is celebrated in different ways through Italy. For example in Palermo the traditional food of this feast are some typical fried pancake enriched by cream of cheese and chocolate called “sfincie”. In some Italian places the feast is also related to the burning of a bonefire... -
The First Day of March (Poland)
The first day of spring (21st March) the day of the spring equinox, when people used to burn or drown an effigy of Marzanna, who was considered the embodiment of death and winter. Today school children play truant on that day. -
Prima Aprilis (Poland)
1st April. In this day people makes pranks each other. Who doesn’t remember. that ‘s a day of hoaxes, can be very suprised. -
Easter (Italy)
Easter is one of the most important events in all Christianity. It celebrates Jesus Christ's resurrection which, according to the Scriptures, occurred on the third day following his death on the cross.
In Italy each reagion has its own traditional way of celebrating Easter. In Sicily, in large towns and tiny villages processions weave their way through streets and squares until finally they arrive at the local parish church or Cathedrals. Typical food is Martorana and Cassata. -
Easter (Portugal)
It's a religious holiday, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus with a lot of masses and processions all over the country. At lunch, we usually eat lamb, roasted potatoes and a big variety of cakes and puddings. -
Easter (Poland)
(The date of this holidays changes every year.)
Easter is a holyday celebrated in the memory if Jesus’ resurrection.
It's one of the most important holyday for Christians and in Poland this is also the most important.
On Easter Monday people play tricks on their family and friends by pouring some water on them.
People eats a festive breakfast with whole family.
The sign of this holiday in Poland is a lamb and easter chickens. -
Cultural Week (Portugal)
Our school has been organizing for more than 25 years the so-called Cultural Week, which always takes place in April. Along this week a lot of teachers and students get involved in many cultural activities: exhibitions, musical shows, as well as fashion ones, peddy-papers, etc. -
National Sovereignty and Children`s Day (Turkey)
23rd April Children’s Festival is a children’s festival that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, bestowed to Turkish children and that has been celebrated among countries since 1979. -
Theatre Club (Portugal)
The school has had a Theatre Club for 19 years and every year it performs two different plays that are rehearsed along the school year. There are always two performances of each play: one for the school community and the other one for the town community. -
Freedom day - The Carnation Revolution (Portugal)
For about 50 years, we have lived under a dictactorship; fascism. But on 25th April 1974, there was a revolution led by the MFA (Movement of the Armed Forces). It became known as The Carnation Revolution, because a flower saleswoman began distributing red carnations to the crowd in the streets of Lisbon and many soldiers put one in the their guns' top. Thus it was a bloodless revolution. From this date on, we have been living under a democracy. -
25 April: Liberation Day (Italy)
This celebration commemorates the liberation of Italy by Allied troops in the Second World War. The holiday is meant to honour all those who died during the war, from soldiers fighting overseas to civilian victims of Allied bombings and atrocities committed during Nazi Germany's bitter retreat from its former ally's territory. The lives of those who served as partisans in the Italian Resistance are especially honoured. -
Walpurgis Night (Volbriöö) (Estonia)
In Estonia, Volbriöö is celebrated throughout the night of 30, April and into the early hours of 1. May, where 1. May is a public holiday called "Spring Day" Volbriöö is an important and widespread celebration of the arrival of spring in the country. Influenced by German culture, the night originally stood for the gathering and meeting of witches. Modern people still dress up as witches to wander the streets in a carnival-like mood. -
Labour day (May 1) (Turkey)
International Workers' Day, also known as May Day, a day celebrated internationally to acknowledge the efforts and achievements of labor unions around the world. In Turkey Labour Day, was accepted as an official holiday in 2009. on that day workers gather in big squares and labour sendicates hold some activities. -
Labor's Day (Portugal)
Being the Labor's Day, it's commemorated in most democratic countries all over the world. In Portugal, the main Trade Unions organize demonstrations, in which thousands of workers take part to demand a rise in their wages or to protest against some work-related measures imposed by the government. -
1st May: Labour Day (Italy)
May 1st is Labor Day for most of the world. In Italy, it is not just a workers holiday, but a day for political parties of the left to hit the streets and protest their various causes. A concert is ususally held In Rome with both famous and less famous singers. -
Labour's Day (Poland)
Labor Day, International Day of Solidarity of Working People, commonly known as May 1 - an international celebration of the working class, celebrated annually since 1890 on May 1. In Poland, on May 1 declared a public holiday.
Feast II, introduced in 1889 to commemorate the International events that took place in early May 1886 in Chicago, in the United States during the strike as part of a nationwide campaign to introduce an 8-hour working day. -
Day of the Flag (Poland)
2nd May, this day was establshed into memory of Polish flags wich had been taking off from officials buildings after Labour Day beforeFeast of the Constitution of May 3 by communists who didn’t recognize this holiday.- -
Consitiution Day (Poland)
On this day in 17912 Poland as the first country in Europe and the second in the world proclamaited its modern codified constitiuton (KIonstytucja 3 Maja) -
Matura Exams (Poland)
In 4th May stars final matura exams which is necessary to finish school education in Poland. It longs neary all May, in each day there's another subject's exam. Obligatory for all students is maths, polish language and one foreing language. -
Science Club (Portugal)
Our school has been having a Science Club for more than 10 years. Its members (9th, 10th and 11th-form-students) take place every year in an International Astronomy Meeting. It also organizes many activities related to Robotics. This year, our school won a NASA prize which allowed two students and the club´s founder/coordinator to represent our school in an International Astronomy Meeting that took place in the USA. -
19th May Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)
The Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day, or simply Atatürk Commemoration or Youth and Sports Day, is an annual Turkish national holiday celebrated on May 19 to commemorate the start of the Turkish War of Independence. -
Legality day (Italy)
This celebration is connected to the anniversary of the murder of Giovanni Falcone, the judge killed by mafia on the 23rd of May 1992. Following the example of Giovanni Falcone, whose commitment was not only addressed to fight organized crime by means of the law enforcement system but also to promote civil rights and active citizenship of young people,
the main actors of this celebration are young people and students from Palermo and all over Italy. -
Mother's Day (Poland)
26th May. Children gives their mothers flowers, little presents and flatters me. It shows their respect to mothers for birth and upbringing -
Child's Day (Poland)
1st June. Children gets presents from parents, grandparents, etc. This holiday was established to protecting children rights. From 1994 in Warsaw takes place the Diet for Children and Youth. -
Child's Day (Portugal)
On June 1st, there are lots of activities not only at our school but also all over the country. Children take part in physical and artistic activities, play games, dance, perform plays, etc. They are also offered gifts. What really matters is that children have a wonderful time on this day! -
2 June (Italy): Republic Day
It commemorates the institutional referendum of 1946 when (by universal suffrage) the Italian population was called to decide what form of government (monarchy or republic) to give to the country after World War II and the fall of Fascism.
After 85 years of monarchy, Italy became a Republic, and the monarchs of the House of Savoy were deposed and exiled. This is one of the most important Italian public holidays which, celebrates the birth of the nation. A grand military parade is held in Rome. -
School ends (Estonia)
This is the day when all the kids throw their school bags into the corner and have three month's of vacation waiting ahead.On the last day of school we have a tradition to go to the open-air stage
at a procession,The headmaster usually makes a speeche and the school rewards the best students -
Drama day (Italy)
On this day which hasn't got a precise date, drama performances are held at our school, one usually in the mother tongue and one in English. The plays are performed either in the school premises or, sometimes, in one of the city theatres. Last year we performed Brecht's Life of Galileo in Italian and Marlowe' s The Tragycall History of Doctor Faustus. -
Camões and the Portuguese Communities Day (Portugal)
Camões was a Portuguese 16th-century-poet. On this day we also celebrate the Portuguese maritime discoveries (second half of the 15th century and along the 16th one). During this time, financially supported by the royalty, well-equipped caravans set away from Lisbon to far-away, unknown lands. Courageous sailors discovered two archipelagoes, Azores and Madeira, Brazil, the maritime way to India and many other African places. 10th June also celebrates the emigrants´day. -
Award Day (Italy)
In June our school celebrates Award Day. This "ceremony" is held at the end of every schoolyear in the theatre room. All the students that have distinguished themselves during the schoolyear are given an award. These students have either got brilliant grades or distinguished themselves in extracurricolar activities (courses, projects, IT Olympics, Maths Olympics, drama, sport etc). -
Corpus Christi (Poland)
Celebrates 60 days after Easter. The date changes every year, depends of Easter's date.
Faithful particularly remember the Last Supper and the Transubstantiation of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
During the streets pass processions with monstrancces. -
Victory Day ( Estonia) Midsummer Night's Eve
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St John's Day (Estonia)
For Estonians, St John's Day celebrations were merged with the celebration of Victory Day during the War of Independence when Estonian forces defeated the German troops on 23 June. 1919.It is a public holiday and people have to hoist the Estonian flag.On St John's Eve ( Midsummer Night's Eve) Estonians all around the country will gather with their families, or at larger events to celebrate this important day with singing,dancing and making the fire, as Estonians have done for centuries. -
The Anniversary of Grunwald Battle (Poland)
The day of the battle which took place in Grunwald in 1410. The battle was fought between the Polish and Lithuenian kinghts and the Order of the Teutonic Knights. It was a very significiant event becouse it weaknened tghe power of the Order and led to its closure in 1525. On that day every year there is a great performance of the battle in the fields of Grunwald when people dressed in armours mock, fight and of course the Polish army wins every year! ;) -
St Rosalie (Italy)
Santa Rosalia saved Palermo from the plague in 1624 and became the patron saint. In the midst of a plague epidemic , the saint appeared to a hunter pointing to where he could find her remains; the remains were brought in a procession in the town after which the epidemic miraculously stopped.
The Saint "Feast" consists of a procession and final fireworks.
The procession is opened by a oxen-drawn wagon with the statue of the saint followed by small floats and a historical costume parade... -
Jarocin Festival (Poland)
It longs three days, from 16 to 18 July.
Jarocin Festival was one of the biggest and most important rock music festivals in the 1980s Europe, by far the biggest festival of alternative music in the Warsaw Pact countries.
It takes place year by year in Jarocin.
Among most popular bands that played or debuted in Jarocin, there are:
Dzem, TSA, Kult, Acid Drinkers, Sztywny Pal Azji and Siekiera. -
Ramadan Feast (Turkey)
The Holy Month of Ramadan Ramadan is the third of three holy months(Rajab, Shaban and Ramadan). Islamic calendar is 354 days so Ramadan comes nearly 11 days earlier. This year it started on 11 August and ends on 8 September. I want to describe Ramadan briefly:
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the Islamic month of fasting, in which participating Muslims refrain from eating and drinking from dawn until sunset. Fasting is intended to teach Muslims about patience, humility, -
Mid August (Italy)
The mid august is a typical italian holiday, absent in other European countries, which is on 15 August.
People usually spend a day out in the countryside or on the seaside. Moreover many people gather on the beach and dance, sing and play around a bonfire all night long. At midnight there are beautiful fireworks everywhere.
The term derives from the Latin phrase feriae Augusti (Augustus' rest),
It coincides with the Catholic celebration of Holy Mary ´s assumption to heaven -
The Day of Regaining the Independence (Estonia)
With this day we celebrate the independence what we gained in 1991. -
Coke Live Festival in Cracow 2010 (Poland)
Coke Live Music Festival - a cyclical festival held in Cracow since 2006, always at the end of August. The event is a concert agency Alter Art, the festival's main sponsor - Coca-Cola Company. The festival was a great success and the commercial media, which lasts years longer (the first edition of one day, the fourth just three days) is coming more and more stars, as well as the audience arrives at each new edition. This year the stars of festival were Muse and 30 Seconds to Mars. -
Sopot Festival (Poland)
Sopot Festival (International Song Festival first for the period 1977-1980 Intervision International Film Festival, after resuming again in 1984 under the name "International Song Festival" Sopot Festival in 1992) - Polish Music Festival takes place at the Forest Opera in Sopot, the most important addition to the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole. It longed from 25 to 27 August. -
Victory Feast (Turkey)
30 August
The victory Aug. 30, 1922, over the Greek military was the last big engagement between the two armies.The war began with the Greek invasion of İzmir in May 1919 after the end of the First World War with tacit support from the allies, especially Great Britain.The invasion generated a huge reaction in Anatolia and resulted in an independence movement led by officers of the disbanded Ottoman military. -
First schoolday (Estonia)
The first schoolday is very formal and every school has its own traditions how to celebrate it. Very excited 7-year-old children come to school for their very first day as a student. These little boys and girls go to our assembly hall with final-year students. They have a special assembly where they get their first ABC-books.
Other students from classes two to eleven have an assembly in the interior court of our school. After that they have the classteacher's class. -
The beginning of the school year (Poland)
This day children and youth go to school after their holidays. There are no lessons, just celebrations and welcomes with class teachers. -
First schoolday ( Portugal)
The first day of school doesn't have a specific meaning. The main purpose is that we meet the teachers and come back home. The biggest difference between the first schoolday is that we don't have a certain day that the school starts, it can start from 8th to 15th September. -
Opole Festival (Poland)
Longs from 10 to 12 Seotember.
National Festival of Polish Song in Opole (KFPP Ogre) - Polish music festival held annually in Opole, usually in June. Provides a summary of the artistic season (the Opole to Opole) of Polish artists and singers. -
Freshmen fagging (Estonia)
Freshmen fagging has been a long tradition in Kadrina Secondary School. The students of the 10th class come to school dressed as foxes. Students from the 11th class have organised a whole day full of funny events for them. These events can be anything as long as it is decent. In the morning the freshmen have to give an oath. And then the day starts. The events take place during break time, so the students can go to classes as well. href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4EK4MnFZrY ' >Freshmen -
Father's Day
25th June. This day is tributed to fathers. Children give them presents and flatters me, sometimes flower. -
The End Of The School Year (Poland)
In this day ends school, starts holidays. There's no lessons, just celebrations and goodbyes with teachers and friends from the school. -
Christmas Ball (Estonia)
Before the holiday, there is a ball in the school hall , where everyone dresses up and dances. Usually there is a show and a band too. After the show and before the dancing, Santa Claus comes and gives everyone their bag of candy.
