School events by month, information for parents and an overview of events from the whole of last year.
Events in November 2026
5 November: Skipping workshop – Years 1–5
9 November: Doubravka Library – Even poetry can be fun – Year 4
10 November: Christmas photo session – the whole school
10 November: After-school care event – ‘Save Autumn’
11 November: To the museum with the elf – Blovice Museum (Year 2)
11 November: St Martin’s Day mini-project (Years 1 and 3)
13 November: Pyjama Day – whole-school event
13 November: 17 November mini-project – Year 4
13 November: Presentation of Year 5 pupils’ magazines
18 November: Alfa Theatre – ‘A Fairy Tale in the Palm of Your Hand’ (Year 1)
19 November: Nová scéna – ‘Dr Kroner’s Magic Clock’, a musical (Year 5)
23 November: Advent – Blovice Castle (Year 1)
23 November: Class outing – Years 2 and 4
24 November: Doubravka Library – Illustrations and Illustrators – Year 3
24 November: Christmas market
25 November: Class outing – Years 3 and 5
25 November: Visit to the observatory – Man and the Calendar of Nature – Years 4 and 5
26 November: Class outing – Year 1
News for parents
The end of our distance adoption
From March 2016 to October 2026, our school supported Caroline Syombua Ndunge, a girl from Kenya, through the Adoption of African Children distance support programme. The adoption ended in October and Centrum Narovinu sent us a certificate of thanks.
Easy Start Primary School and Drobeček Nursery School warmly invite you to their Christmas fair, which will take place on Tuesday 24 November 2026 from 2.00 pm to 4.30 pm.
At the fair, you’ll be able to buy Christmas decorations, handmade items and light refreshments that we’ve prepared for you. The proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Hájek Centre in Šťáhlavice.
Christmas Workshop, 5 December 2026
Dear parents, we would like to invite you to a Christmas workshop at our school on Saturday 5 December 2026 from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm.
Please confirm your attendance with your class teacher by email by 27 November. If you wish, you are welcome to bring some light refreshments. Thank you.
Open Day on 13 January 2027
We invite you to an open day on Wednesday 13 January 2027 at our school, Blatenská 1073/27a, Plzeň.
Morning session 8.20–11.30: visits to classrooms and lessons (in small groups), and a discussion with the school management.
Afternoon session 14.00–16.30: a discussion with the school management and teaching staff, and a tour of the school.
Information regarding the start of the 2026/27 school year
Dear parents, the holidays are slowly drawing to a close and we are already starting to prepare the school for the return of our pupils. We are very much looking forward to seeing your children. The teachers are getting ready, and the cleaners are tidying up to ensure everything is clean and decorated. Over the holidays, we’ve had the walls repainted, the floors cleaned and machine-polished, the windows washed and the carpets cleaned…
I hope you’ve all had a chance to rest as much as possible and that we’re in for a peaceful school year.
First Day of Term
On the first day of term, Tuesday 1 September, the children will only spend the first lesson at school. We’ll have a chat together about how our holidays went, the children will find out what’s in store for them in the new school year, we’ll play a game or two, and so on. We’ll also tell the children which subjects they’ll be studying in the coming school year, which teachers will be teaching them, who’ll be looking after them in after-school care, and what clubs and events are in store for them. After that, you can take them home.
Year 1 will have a parents’ meeting to mark the start of the school year, lasting until around 11.00 am.
Please remember to bring indoor shoes, which the children will then store in the cloakroom in their newly allocated space
If children are to leave on their own, you’ll need to write them a note.
After-school care will be open from 7.00 am to 1.00 pm.
In the morning, we will place the textbooks the children will need for that class on their desks for them to look through; if they are interested, they can bring a school bag with them on the very first day of term and take the textbooks and exercise books home to look through.
Meals
On the first day of term, children will not yet have lunch booked, as we expect them to go home straight after the first lesson.
Lunch delivery and serving will begin on Wednesday 2 September.
Lunches will be served between 12.20 and 13.45 according to the timetable, which you will find on the school noticeboard.
You can sign your children up for and cancel their lunches yourself via the app
If your child falls ill, on the first day of their illness you can collect their lunch between 11.50 and 12.10 in your own lunch boxes – please ring the bell at the canteen (Družina 2). On other days, you are not entitled to a meal; you must cancel your child’s lunch.
When choosing lunches, please base your decision on what your child actually eats. I know from personal experience that a lot of food ends up as leftovers because the children aren’t interested in it.
Please do not forget to prepare a morning or afternoon snack for your children, along with a bottle of drink. They can, of course, top up their drinks at school.
The school is part of the ‘Fruit for Schools’ and ‘Milk for Schools’ schemes. This means your children receive fruit and milk free of charge at least once a month as part of these schemes.
Lunch prices and payment
The price of a lunch is CZK 80. – This includes ingredients, preparation and delivery.
Registration will open within 7 days, along with the menu for the whole month. When you register, lunch option 1 is automatically selected; if you change to lunch option 2 or cancel your lunch, the selection will be automatically updated.
Changes or cancellations can be made by 8.00 am on the day in question.
To pay for lunches, you need to set up a monthly standing order to Raiffeisenbank account 2958295002/5500 from 25 August 2026 to 25 May 2027 for an amount of CZK 1,600.
Lunches taken are settled twice a year, in January and July.
Lunches are paid for directly to the canteen, so there is no longer the double payment you are familiar with from previous years. Link to lunch registration: https://easystart.klasickakuchyne.cz/
Parking
Parents may not drive into the school grounds. The car park is reserved for nursery children, who certainly need it more. Please use the car park by Penny and walk your children to school along the path next to Penny. It really is not possible for parents of schoolchildren to drive into the school grounds. Every year we face conflicts in the car park and various excuses from parents (‘I didn’t know’, ‘I’m just popping in’, ‘there was a space’). It really isn’t possible for everyone to take turns in the car park. Please respect this. The children are aware of the ban on driving into the car park. What sort of example does a parent set who knowingly breaks the rules?
Entry to the building
In the morning, the lower doors will be unlocked and the upper doors will be open until 8.15 am
Your children must be in the cloakroom by 8.15 at the latest (at 8.20, the nursery caretaker will be mopping and disinfecting the corridor and stairs, and by 8.35 she must be in the nursery to mop there, so please ensure you keep to this timetable).
If you are taking your child to the cloakroom in the morning (this mainly applies to parents of Year 1 pupils), you do not need to take your shoes off. However, if you wish to visit any areas other than the headteacher’s office or the cloakroom, I would ask you to use the shoe covers provided on the shoe rack in the corridor. Both your children and we teachers change our shoes in the school as well, as we naturally want to keep our school clean.
If you come to collect your child in the afternoon, please use the video doorbells downstairs by the entrance. The teaching assistant or teacher will send your child out to you once they see you on the screen and have spoken to you; therefore, you no longer need to enter the building (entry is not prohibited, and if you need to, the teaching assistant will let you in)
Please pass on this information about collecting children to any other relatives who will be collecting them.
School supplies
A school bag, of course
A well-stocked pencil case containing two pencils, preferably two pens (not ballpoint pens), a glue stick, scissors and a basic set of coloured pencils for use in lessons.
An apron or T-shirt for art lessons
notebook covers, as required.
Year 2 pupils also need a 30 cm ruler and a set square, plus an erasable marker for the whiteboard
Year 3 pupils need a compass (required from the second half of the school year onwards) and an erasable marker for the whiteboard. We will provide the art supplies and hand them out to the children as required.
We will provide high-quality art supplies that are durable and suitable for children.
Equipment for Physical Education
Children need sportswear for the gym and for outdoor use, including suitable footwear, a skipping rope and a rucksack in which to carry their belongings.
Please take care when choosing suitable footwear. Children need different shoes for the gym than for outdoor use – so they cannot alternate between them and have just one pair at school (you can, of course, bring them in for PE, but it is important not to forget them). The teacher will inform you well in advance about any outdoor sessions.
Don’t forget a hair tie (for girls) and socks if your child is wearing something else (tights/stockings).
Please also send your children to PE with a bottle of water (they can use the one from their packed lunch).
Any child who is not suitably prepared for PE will not be able to take part (purely for safety reasons).
Although we always have a box of paper tissues in the classroom, please do not forget to send your children to school with their own handkerchiefs – they will need them when outdoors and during off-campus activities.
Timetables for the first week
On the first day of term, all classes will have one lesson
For Year 1 pupils, we expect the day to run a little longer due to the parents’ meeting on the very first day (until around 11.00)
For those interested, after-school care will be open on Tuesday until 13.00
From Wednesday onwards, lessons will follow the normal timetable without afternoon lessons
From Wednesday, after-school care will run until 5.00 pm
Clubs will start according to the schedule in the week beginning 14 September 2026
I am sending the timetables as an attachment
English
The timetable also includes extra English lessons which are not part of the standard timetable under the School Educational Programme. These are:
English lessons with a native speaker, to be led by David Pearce (UK)
for Year 1: ‘English through Play’ club
for Years 2 and 3: reading in English / SAM /
for Years 4 and 5: cultural studies of English-speaking countries
these lessons are not compulsory. Children may therefore be excused from these lessons and go home (for training or another club). However, the SAM lessons for Years 2 and 3 in particular are very important for learning to read in English properly. We therefore recommend that these lessons are not missed. The other extra-curricular lessons are supplementary and do not form part of the standard English curriculum.
At the same time, one of the Art or Practical Activities lessons is always conducted entirely in English (taught in English by Ms Pavla Polívková or Ms Hana Cuchá), and English is also used in other subjects through the CLIL approach.
Two teachers will be present during regular English lessons
Year 1: Mgr. Pavla Polívková and Martina Česáková
Years 2–3: Mgr. Pavla Polívková and Mgr. Hana Cuchá / Mgr. Julie Lávičková
Years 4–5: Mgr. Kateřina Paušová and Mgr. Hana Cuchá. Each class will receive further information about English lessons separately via Google Classroom.
Extracurricular activities
Please find attached the list of extracurricular activities and a link to the online registration form
Please complete the form/online registration by 1 September 2026 at the latest
On Wednesday 2 September, you will receive details on the outcome of the registration process and whether the clubs have been confirmed, as well as further information on how the clubs will operate.
The cost of the clubs will depend on the number of children enrolled – clubs without materials approx. CZK 900, clubs requiring materials (e.g. cookery, pottery) CZK 1,800 – 2,000 per half-year, science experiments CZK 1,400 – 1,500, and preparation for entrance exams and Cambridge exams CZK 1,400 – 1,700
After-school care
After-school care will have three groups this year.
The morning care will have one group.
The morning care runs until 8.05 am. If you bring your children at 8.05 am, please send them straight to their classrooms.
Group I (After-school care 1) for children in Year 1 and Year 4 will be supervised by Václava Ghitanová
Group I will be open until 17.00
Group II (After-school care 2) for children in Years 2 and 3 will be led by Petra Špačková
Group II will be open until 3.30 pm, after which the children will join Group I
From 3.30 pm, please ring the bell labelled ‘Družina 1’
Group III (After-school care 3) for Year 5 pupils will be led by Bc. Kristýna Běhavá
Group III will be open until 2.30 pm; after that, the children will be divided among the remaining sections according to the number of children registered to attend after 2.30 pm
The standard procedure for collection is to use the video doorbell, through which the after-school care teacher can see you and will send your child down to you (so you do not need to enter the school).
If you wish to enter the school in the afternoon (for example, to ensure your child leaves more quickly, to choose a book from the English library, etc.), you are, of course, welcome to do so.
However, even in this case, please ring the video doorbell and let the after-school care teacher know so that she can send your child down and ring the bell for you.
For safety reasons in particular, please do not enter the building without being asked to do so – that is, without anyone being aware of your presence or ringing the bell for you (even if someone is walking in front of you and the door is open). Conversely, please ensure that the ground-floor doors are closed properly so that the school remains locked and secure.
Just like last year, we will be running an ‘English after-school care’ this year for children in Years 1, 2 and 3. During this time, Miss Polívková and her assistant, Miss Česáková, will be with the children in the English classroom. They will play language games with the children, offer them activities that there isn’t time for during lessons, and perhaps even dance
After-school care registration and payment
On the first day of term, the children will receive after-school care registration form, which we ask you all to complete by 3 September.
Please ensure you list all the people who will be authorised to collect your child from after-school care. If a person is not listed on the registration form, the after-school care teacher will not be able to release your child without first consulting you or receiving a written request.
Please do not forget to specify your child’s departure times. This determines whether your child will attend after-school care until 14:30 or later, and whether you will be charged for the club accordingly.
After-school care is free until 14:30
The fee for after-school care after 14:30 is CZK 4,000 per half-year.
If your child attends after-school care only until 14:30 and then has an extracurricular activity, you must collect your child immediately after the activity ends (it is not possible for them to return to after-school care). If the extracurricular activity is cancelled or does not take place, please collect your child by 14:30
The children will also be spending a lot of time in the garden, so please bear this in mind when getting their clothes ready in the morning, so they can let off steam in the garden and, of course, get a bit dirty if necessary.
Please make a note of the new telephone numbers for each section: Group I (After-school care 1) for children in Years 1 and 4: 775 678 759; Group II (After-school care 2) for children in Years 2 and 3: 776 645 155; Group III (After-school care 3) for children in Year 5: 777 425 327
Payments
– Finally, I would like to remind all parents that school fees for the first half of the school year must be paid by 31 August 2026; this means that the money must already be in the school’s bank account or at the school cash desk by that date. If you pay on 31 August, the money will reach the account too late and you will cause unnecessary problems for both yourself and me. – Fees for extracurricular activities and after-school care for the first half of the school year can be paid by 30 September 2026.
I look forward to seeing you all and thank you for your cooperation. Hana Paušová
Earlier events
Events in October 202616 events
2 October: Luft’s Garden – Autumn in the Garden, harvest – Year 3
3 October: Games Without Borders – a morning of competitions for children and parents
AIESEC – a week-long visit by students from various countries to our school
5 October: Depo – ‘Na tělo’ programme, Year 4
5 October: A Fairy Tale About Water – Club L, Year 1
8 October: Doubravka Library – Fables, Year 3
12 October: Mission: Save the Rocket (project), Year 1
13 October: My Hometown – Club L, Year 2
14 October: Luft’s Garden – Autumn in the Garden, Year 2
16 October: ZČM Hurvínek 100 – in-school programme, Year 4
16 October: Doubravka Library – Comics, Year 5
19 October: ‘Exceptions’ Project, Year 4
21 October: Doubravka Library – Fairy Tales from Pictures, Year 1
21 October: Pirates on the Horizon – project, Year 2
27 October: Class projects – Halloween, Years 1–5
27 October: Halloween celebration in the school garden
Events in September 202614 events
1 September: Parents’ meeting for Year 1 pupils
3 September: Parents’ meeting for Year 4 pupils
4 September: ‘Off to Year 4’ project – Year 4
11 September: Trip to the Caolin Centre in Nevřeň – Years 2–5
14 September: Chocolate Day – Year 1 (mini-project)
15 September: Skoala interactive programme for schools – Financial Literacy – Year 4
16 September: Visit to the Na Doubravce Library – ‘A Fairy Tale Comes to Life’ – Year 1
18 September: Alfa Theatre – ‘On the Waves of Adventure’ – Year 4
21 September: Mini-project for International Day of Peace – ‘Small Steps, Big World’ – Year 3
23 September: ‘The Mouse’s Adventure’ project – Year 1
25 September: European Day of Languages project – Year 5
25 September: St Wenceslas event – Year 4
29 September: St Wenceslas event – Year 3
29 September: ‘Journey to Prehistory’ – visit to the West Bohemian Museum – Year 4
Events in June 202624 events
1 June: Children’s Day celebrations in the school garden – after-school care event
3 June: Road safety playground – practical session for Years 2 and 3
4 June: Morning at Trilopark with ‘excavations’
4 June: Reading initiation ceremony – Year 1
8 June: ‘Detective Agency’ maths project – Year 4
12 June: Doctor Dancer – whole-school performance
15–19 June: School camp in Prachatice
22 June: Escape game – Year 1
22 June: Visit to the fire station in Plzeň – Year 2
22 June: Workshop – Holýšov confectionery – Year 3
22 June: Visit to the Czech Television studio and Pilsen treasure hunt – Year 5
22 June: Pilsen treasure hunt – Year 4
23 June: Doubravka fitness trail – Year 1
23 June: Luft’s Garden – bees (Year 2)
23 June: Visit to the Přeštice fire station (Years 3 and 4)
23 June: ‘First-Year Induction’ event for nursery school children (Year 5)
26 January: District round of the Maths Olympiad – Year 5
27 Jan: Trip to Dinosauria in Prague – Years 3–5
29 Jan: ‘Detective Investigation’ project – Year 1
29 Jan: Half-year school reports
30 Jan & 31 Jan: Enrolment for Year 1
Events in December 202521 events
1 December – 12 December: Computer Science Education Week
1 December: Sleepover at school – Year 2
2 December: Sleepover at school – Year 1
4 December: Sleepover at school – Year 5
5 December: Visit from St Nicholas and the Devil – project
5 December: St Nicholas project – Year 2
5 December: St Nicholas mini-project – Year 4
6 December: Saturday Christmas workshop
8 December: Sleepover at school – Year 4
10 December: Ice skating at Škodapark
10 December: Sleepover at school – Year 3
12 December: Christmas maths project – Year 4
12 December: ‘Dear ZOO’ English project – Year 2
12 December: Trip to Blovice – Advent programme at the museum – Year 1
12 December: School Day – Financial literacy – in-school programme – Years 4 and 5
16 Dec: Advent at Selský dvůr U Matoušů – Years 2 and 3; discussion with the director of the NFG Foundation; presentation of the cheque from the Christmas fair – Year 5
16 December: Christmas party – Year 1
18 December: English project ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ – Year 4
19 December: Advent at the U Matoušů Farmstead – Year 4
19 December: Christmas Here and There – Polanova Hall, Year 1
19 December: Christmas projects and presents – all year groups