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BAREFIELD youngsters have been learning a thing or two about how their fellow students from far away Aol vector
As part of a series of ongoing ex- changes with the National School for Folklore Arts in Shiroka Laka in the Rhodope mountain region of Bul- garia, students in Barefield National School celebrated the National Day of Bulgaria on March 3.
The school principal, John Burns, welcomed Professors Toshko Zhelev and Sonia Zheleva from the Univer- sity of Limerick who represented the Bulgarian Embassy at the afternoon presentation in the school.
Professor Zhelev took over the class- room to entertain the third and fourth classes and to teach them a little more about life in Bulgaria.The students were then presented with Bulgarian handicrafts known as “martenitzas” specially made for them by their Bul-
garian counterparts.
Barefield pupils, in turn, presented Professor Zhelev with hand made St. Patrick’s Day cards and artwork to be presented to the Bulgarian stu- dents for St. Patrick’s Day.
The school band entertained the visitors with some Irish music and a Bulgarian polka and another group of pupils performed short dramatisa- tions in Irish.
A group of music students under the leadership of teacher Denis Lid- dy will travel to Bulgaria later this month to perform at a number of St. Patrick’s Day events in Sofia.
The group will then travel to the school in Shiroka Laka to take part in a joint St. Patrick’s Day concert with the Bulgarian students.