ST. SAVA DAY – PALILULA MUNICIPALITY GATHERED  RETIRED TEACHERS AND BEST PUPILS

26.01.2009.

Palilula Municipality has arranged one unique event in NKC – the Municipality gathered the retired teachers from 9 elementary schools from Palilula and the pupils – winners of many competitions in Serbian language, literature and history in the previous two school years. 47 teachers and 90 pupils came to the celebration of St. Sava Day.

Milan Djurdjevic, the president of the Palilula Assembly welcomed the guests in the name of Palilula Municipality with the words that `taking care of children is one of the biggest priorities of Palilula Municipality and that we especially appreciate the work and the efforts of the teachers, since they have very important and crucial role in the development of young people. In this way we would like to express our gratitude to them and to add one more time that they are every time our precious guests `.

The choir from elementary school `Sreten Mladenovic Mika` - conductor Gordana Stamenkovic- took part in programme. This choir has been a winner of choir competitions in the last couple of years in the Republic of Serbia. Also the audience had a chance to listen to fabulous singing of the students of Faculty of Arts in Nis –Nada Jovanovic and Dragana Lalic with Tchaikovsky compositions. They sang accompanied on the piano by their professors Ingrid Jankovic and Dragana Djordjevic.

Many pupils of three Palilula schools took part in reciting: Sanja Stevanovic `Bubanjski heroji`, Milos Rusitovic `Desanka Maksimovic` and six pupils from `Kralj Petar Prvi` school.

In the end of the ceremony Zorica Stoiljkovic, the councilor of Palilula and Milan Djurdjevic gave to all the pupils valuable present- a book. The teachers were also given a book by their younger colleague Marija Randjelovic, also a teacher, the author of the book on St Sava life and work.