ST.PATRICK S DAY AT OUR GYMNASIA

On March 17th  is the world celebrates St.Patsrick s Day . St.Patrick is the patron of Ireland, who brought Christianity to the island. It is believed that St.Patrick used a shamrock (a three-leaf clover) as an analogy to explain people about the Trinity of God. On this day people wear green clothes as a symbol of spring, shamrocks and Ireland. According to the tradition Irish people have special parades with lots of songs and jokes, as well as famous Irish dances.
The festivities take place not only in Ireland, but in New York, Melbourne, Buenos-Aires and other parts of the world.
This holiday came to First City Gymnasia. Upon an initiative of the teacher of English Y.K.Rabenko for the second year in a row there was a traditional parade for the students of primary and middle school. This year the students of 3-6th forms were dressed in green and had special shamrocks as a decoration. They recited poems and rhymes as they were walking on parade. In the lead of the parade there was the student of the 11-B form Ivan Vozniuk, who later conducted the themed quiz show for the participants. The winners received the lucky shamrock which they could use to raise their mark in English the following week. In addition, the participants of the parade could enjoy the traditional Irish dance performed by Illia Zarubin and Olena Liapkalo from the Dance Studio “Nightingale” of the Community Centre named after Kulyk. Everybody enjoyed leprechauns, who revealed where their treasures were buried to those who could catch them. On a final note the participants of the parade sang a traditional Irish song.