Our Teachers' Training on 5 February at the Hungarian Cultural Centre proved to be a pleasant event again.

After watching the documentary "Incubator", Viktória Szabó psychologist tried to help us understand the process our bi(multi)lingual-multi cultural students develop their identities, also the problems our teachers may face in their daily work.

Our next meeting in Islington is on 25 January 2012.

Please note: we moved to a new venue in September 2011. The address with map and other information can be accessed via the "Islington" button in the main menu, at the bottom of the page, following the list of classes.

Classes

We introduced a new class in September by splitting last year's Janikovszky Éva class. The new class is called "Hétvezér" and it is our 7th children's class in Islington. (See under "Islington") 

Folk Dance

We have a new Folk Dance Teacher, Panna Herman, who comes with 20 years of experience as a Transylvanian professional dancer and dance teacher.

IT Course

Tamás Tűzkő IT teacher will run an IT Office course for ADULTS in Islington - press the "Continue" button for the dates.

Our next sessions in Morden: 18 February, 2012, at the usual venue.

Other Morden news:

New Class

From September we started a new class for children aged 9 or more called "Világjárók" (Globetrotters) in Morden. We now have 3 school classes for children in Morden!

Waiting Lists

Several of our classes in Morden is full! Please always enquire, eg by sending a Message, before visiting this Group, to avoid disappointment. If you can access our Islington venue reasonably easily, try to come there as, due to our relocation, we can still offer places for all age groups at that venue. If Islington is not an option for you, we can put you on our Morden waiting list.

IT course

Tamás Tűzkő IT teacher ran a 5-session IT Office course for ADULTS in Morden between 30 April and 25 June.

Folk Dance

On the 11th of June 1pm, the H-unique folk dance group was our guests.

With this lovely collage of our Morden student,

Naomi Pretta-Bokros (aged 6),

we wish you all a

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A Londoni Magyar Iskola Plusz

Mordeni Csoportja

szeretettel meghívja

kedves tagjait és barátait

Mikulás- és karácsonyi ünnepségére.

Helyszín: Farm Road Church, Morden, SM4 6RA

Dátum: 2011. December 3. szombat

Időpont: délelőtt 10-től délután 1 óráig

Program: gyerekek műsora, néptánc, Mikulás, uzsonna, népművészeti vásár, tombola, kézműveskedés, babaszoba és Zsolti bácsi zenés műsora

Gyertek, ünnepeljetek, vígadjatok velünk!

from our Islington Branch

MIKULÁS (our very own Hungarian Santa) sent us a message… he wants to meet the GOOD CHILDREN in this country! If you are one of them, then you are kindly requested to come to our Christmas party on

3 December 2011 (Saturday) 3.00 to 5.00 pm

at Sotheby Mews Centre, Sotheby Road, Islington, London N5 2UT

The Program:

- You and, of course, good old Mikulás will be entertained by the new and spectacular Christmas story written and performed by our one and only Islington Drama class

- You can ask for a festive face painting, and try your hands in Christmas decorations

- You may enter our Beigli-, Poetry- and Drawing competition - all masterpieces will be exhibited and the best ones will be awarded (only one piece per category, please)*

- At our Christmas Market you may buy festive treats and presents, including “kürtös kalács”prepared in front of your eyes.

To compliment our regular sessions, we continued our popular walks

On Saturday, 24 September

we invited families to join us on two different walks:

For children of 10 years or older, and of course their families, we organised a trip to the

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th century

exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Children under 10 and their families could join Karolina for a walk to the Vauxhall City Farm.

On Saturday, the 16th of July

we offered these workshops in Islington:

2.00-4.00pm

I. Film Club for under 9s:

A palacsintás király I-II (Dir. Ilona Katkics)

II. Film Club for 9-11 years olds:

Sándor Rideg: Indul a bakterház (Dir. Sándor Mihályfy)

III. Film Club for 12s and older::

It Happened In Europe (Valahol Európában, Dir. Géza Radványi)

3.00-5.00pm

Full Committee Meeting

You can see a video of the folk dance routine of our little ones at the Islington end-of-year ceremony going on our facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Londoni-Magyar-Iskola-/76055522263

Families, young and old, were invited to join our team building game at the British Museum, on the 20th of March, 2pm

Our Drama Group was invited to perform a short program at this year's reception at the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, in memory of the 1848-1849 Revolution and War of Independence.

On this picture they perform a choreography to the musical version of "Nemzeti dal", a popular poem of our revolutionary poet Sándor Petőfi.

We are writing history!

The first issue of our Islington Journalist Club is on the streets!

Written by pupils for children but guaranteed to entertain anyone under 99.

Please support our school by purchasing the magazine which is sold at our Islington sessions, and also before most Hungarian theatre or concert events in London.

Price: £1 Thank you!

Our next Museum Walk is due on 11 March, please take a note of the date. We will go to the British Museum and look out in teams for - what else in 2012? - exhibits connected to the Olympic Games!

Our walks are open to everyone, please feel free to join us. More details to follow.

Our last Walk took us to the MIRO exhibition at TATE MODERN, with our tireless guide, Karolina Koza.

If you click on Notice board in the menu, you can read ads of our members, sponsors and sister organisations.

Also useful contacts for Hungarian families living in the UK (Hungarian music teachers, psychologists, au pairs, nannies etc)

28 January, 2012

2:00pm - 6:00pm

2nd FRIENDSHIP WORKSHOP

At:

ST GEORGES COMMUNITY CENTRE, GREEN DRAGON LANE, LONDON, TW8 0DN

Our Chair talked about our Group, our achivements and our everyday challenges, at a reception for Hungarian President Pál Schmitt, on the 16th of January, hosted by Chargé d'Affaires Klára Breuer-Rudas at the Hungarian Embassy.

On the 7th of May, an even greater honour befell our Group; our chair Edit Zolnai received the Cross of Merit (Gold Grade) of the Republic of Hungary, for her outstanding work for promoting Hungarian language in the UK and organising our Group. Good job, Edit!

We managed to shake the walls with our performances on the "Sinkovits Imre" Literary Festival, organised by the Federation of Hungarians in the UK on Sunday, the 8th of May 2011, 11 am.

Petra Lávay and Szabina Lávay from our Morden Branch, and Regő Kakas from our Islington Branch performed poems without making any mistakes and with buckets of charm.

Our Islington Drama Class performed a 25 minute play, written and played (including live renditions of well-known Hungarian pop music) by themselves, titled Time Travel in History.

Congratulations children, you made us really proud!

The Hungarian Reformed Church in the UK will revealed their new Sekler Gate during a celebratory worship on Sunday, the 13th of March, 5pm.

The Embassy of the Republic of Hungary and the
Hungarian Cultural Centre kindly
invite you and your family to a

Kaláka concert

on Sunday 8 May 2011 at 3.00pm

followed by a performance by
H-UNique Folk Dance Group in Spiegeltent,
Regent’s Park (near York Gate), London NW1.

A talk on Sunday, the 6th of March, 11 am

at the Hungarian Cultural Centre

Saturday, the 19th of February 2011, 7 pm

Szent István Ház, London