Slovenia, a small country in central Europe, lies at the meeting pointof the Alps, the Dinaric mountain range, the Pannonian Plain, and the Adriatic Sea. Few places in the world boast such a variety of landscape as Slovenia with a surface area of no more than 20,265 km2.

Geografically speaking, Slovenia is one of the most diverse countries in Europe. Therefore, the diversity of landscape is the most typicaland recognizable feature of the country. It lies at a crossroads of important international routes which link the Alpine and CentralEurope with the Adriatic and lead from Westeren Europe toSouth-eastern Europe. This certain fact makes it an easily accesibleregion.

Slovene people live on the territory where cultural and naturalworlds of different nations have been interwoven for centuries.As a result, Slovenia has been a meeting point of differentcultures and influences as it noticeable in its today`s image.

ZEMLJEVID SLOVENIJE

Litija, was first noted in the year 1145.

The name comes out from the Latin names Litus meaning a bank of a river. In the past the river Sava was a very important water way for boatmen and raftsmen.

The first wooden bridge across the Sava

In 1848 the railway Wienna - Trieste ran through the town and changed the way of life in the town completely.

Litija, the town of nearly 7000 inhabitants is situated in thebasin on the two banks by the Sava river. This picturesque townis surrounded by rolling hills Sitarjevec, Svibno, Veliki Vrh andGradišče which from their peaks give the citizens or touristsa nice vista. The Castle Turn, the church of St. Nicholas andLitija Primary School are placed in the old town kernel on theright bank. Here one can find important institutions, banks,shops and restaurants.

Seven kilometres from the town on the top of the hill there is the castle Bogenšperk whose owner was Janez Vajkard Valvasor, nobleman and polymath, Slovenia`s Renaissance Man.

He collected data on natural phenomena and local customs, as well as books, drawings, mineral specimens and coins.His The Glory of the Dutchy of Carniola (1689) contains3500 pages with 535 maps, copper engravings and illustrations. Valvasor explained the mystery of disappearing karts lakes and rivers in his treatise on the karts phenomenon of the intermittentlake Cerknica. It aroused so much that he was madea member of the Royal Society in London.

Litija, as it was seen in the copper engravingmade in the copperplate workshopat Valvasor s Bogenšperk Castle.

The Primary School Litija is located in the very centre of Litija on the bank of the river. It is housed in the two old buildings connected together by a new smaller one. One of them was the school buildingin the past and the other at was a previous courthouse. It is one ofthe oldest and the most beautiful buildings in the town.

Vision: Primary school Litija will become a sports and cultural center that offers superior performance, excellent knowledge, rich culture, friendly atmosphere and personal development of each student.

455 students attent the Litija Primary School, 37 in the two of sub-school in the Villages Polšnik and Sava, 41 pupils in the sub-school for children who are educated with adapted curriculum and 16 kids in the Kindergarten Polhki in Polšnik.

SAVA

POLŠNIK

-Culture-Sports-International cooperation-Cooperation with neighborhood-Creativity

Our strengths:

SPORTS CLASSES- very tallented basketball and football players from this school were ranked among the state`s best.

FREE TIME ACTIVITIES, COMPETITIONS, PROJECTS, EVENTS...

- the school cares about student`s free time offering them 51different extra-curriculum activities,

-competitions in 16 different subject areas,

-8 different School or International or Innovation projects

- some events.

PROJECTS

EXTRA-TUTORIAL CLASSES for very gifted and tallented students

SPORTS CLASSESfor pupil aged between 7 and 11 (five school lessons of physicaleducation a week

SCHOOL WINTER

SUMMER CAMPS

VACATIONS in the countryside

School library

Various events

THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR

THE INTEGRATION of children with behaviour deviances intothe community of children in the central school.

Litija Primary School is the only school in the community ofLitija which houses the School with the adapted curriculum wherethe children with physical and mental disabilities are educated.

Presentation prepared by members of the library club and mentor Nena Mandelj.Litija, october 2011