NIKOLA
Hi, my name is Nikola and I will tell you something about our school.
The name is Trgovačka škola, which means Trade school.
NIKOLA
The building is located on J. F. Kennedy square which is a popular square with many schools, dormitories and universities.
The building is 60 years old and has a status of a national historic landmark.
NIKOLA
The school works in 2 shifts, in 14 classrooms and 2 IT rooms. A part of our classrooms is equipped with LCD monitors and computers since we have eDnevnik in our commercial classes, which is an online classbook.
IAN
Our library is a rich archive of Croatian and world literature and the largest archive of specialised books for our vocational subjects in the county.
IAN
We have a school playground for basketball and football and a newly redocorated gym.
PAOLA
This year the school is a home to 761 students in 2 courses, a salesperson and a commercialist.
Salespersons have 3 grades in which they combine theory and practice and after which they can work in various shops.
Commercialists have 4 grades after which they can work in the commercial field - offices, bookkeeping and so on.
PAOLA
Our school is becoming more active in international cooperation. This is our first Erasmus+ project, but we have experience in foreign guests visits from belgium, Germany, France and so on.
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PAOLA
The school is also becoming more active in participating in projects. 3 years ago we participated in a project funded by the City of Zagreb where we presented traditional Zagreb crafts. The project was called Moj naklon and we presented it at fairs with great success.
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PAOLA
Also, the school is very active in vocational competitions in both courses.
STJEPAN
Our students are active in humanitarian aid so we organize many school fairs where all the raised money goes to charity. For example:
1- Every year we hold a Christmas fair in our school where you can buy advent wreaths (1 slika)
2-Pi Day fair - we sell cakes and find out interesting facts about the number pi (5 slika na 2 slajda)
3- Easter fair - we sell decorated easter eggs to help collect money for school needs (nemamo sliku)
STJEPAN
4- Pink shirt Day - Anti-Bullying Day - On this day the teachers and students wear pink shirts to raise awareness againts bullying in schools
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ŽELJKA
We also start regular actions where we collect food and clothes for the Red Cross and other organizations that help people in need.
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ŽELJKA
Our students are active in volunteer work and we regularly have actions where we help around the school and work with younger students on raising awareness about healthier lifestyle.
BARBARA
Over the years the school has been very successful at sports events.
The school has won many awards in football...
...athletics...
...table tennis, orienteering and so on. We have been successful at local and state championships and tournaments.
IVA
We have many successful ex-students, and we’ll mention only the fields of sports and business.
Many of our ex-students have played in the first Croatian national football league and the football national team. We can also boast with famous names in handball.
Also, one of our ex-students is Ilija Tokić, the founder of the biggest selling chain of car parts in Croatia
IVA
This was a short presentation of our school.
We hope you now have a better idea of who your hosts are and we want you all to feel like at home in our school. Welcome!