Silesian Day

Silesian Day took place at our school on December 18. This year we focused on the question: whether Silesian is a dialect or a language. The choice of the topic referred to the law passed by the Polish Parliament in April this year recognizing Silesian as a regional language, vetoed by the President of Poland. On the school corridor a week earlier, selected Silesian words were hung with a Polish translation. For the celebration of Silesian Day we invited Dr. Marcin Maciołek – assistant professor at the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice. We had the pleasure of listening to a lecture Silesian language in the Slavic continuum, from which it was clear that Silesian is a language, not a dialect. In the second part of the ceremony, students of class 3cd: Zuzanna Rupik, Emilia Skrzypczyk and Katarzyna Tokarska presented the text Godka jest lepszo by Alojzy Lysko, which they translated from Silesian into Polish. The translation was highly appreciated by our guest. Five teams of three took part in the contest, the winners of which were the students of the 3cd class, held in October, and as a reward, in addition to diplomas, they participated in an educational trip to the Museum of the City in Ruda Slaska. During a break, conference participants enjoyed Silesian kolaches made by the students, their mothers and grandmothers.