My School - BG

Dobrich Secondary school of Mathematics
and Natural Sciences
“Ivan Vazov”

Dear students,

My name is Delyan. I’m fifteen years old and I’m from Dobrich, a town located in northeastern Bulgaria. I study in the Dobrich Secondary School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences “Ivan Vazov”.

I was asked to write a short description of my school for you, so here it is:

The school was founded in 1923. In 1972 some major changes were made and there were two new departments – three classes majoring in Mathematics and one in Physics. Later on, the school developed other departments majoring in the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Geography and IT. During school year 1988/1989, the school introduced a new foundation program majoring in English. The Dobrich High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has had very notable alumni throughout the years frequently winning Physics, Chemistry and Maths competitions and being accepted in the best universities in the country.

However, the schools success is mainly based on the teachers working there. All of them are outgoing, friendly, very helpful and inspiring. They know how to make students study to good
purpose. There are many extracurricular activities for students, willing to develop their Mathematics, Physics or Programming skills.

The Dobrich High school of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is not only famous of its success in scientific competitions, but in sports ones as well. Its football, basketball and table tennis teams often win their spurs in contests around the country and abroad. The school table tennis team, for example, is one of the very best in the country and competed in the National Championship last year. The team won third prize, which was considered a major success.

The school has a big yard with a basketball court and a football pitch. The PE classes are usually held there, in one of the two gyms, or in the table tennis room. There’s a nice cafeteria just next to the school yard, where students meet for lunch.

Nowadays, there are about a thousand students, in 40 classes. Students usually have 7 periods a day. The length of each period is the one approved by the government - 40 minutes. There is a 10-minute-break after each of the periods except for the third one, when the break is 20 minutes.
Delyan






My name is Nikolay Momchev.I’m 15 years old and I’m in the 9th grade of the Dobrich High School of Mathematics and Biology “Ivan Vazov”. It was originally built in 1923 as a Girls’ High School. Later it was made into a Polytechnic High School and it was finally converted into what it is now in 1972.It is one of the leading high schools in both the city and country. Ever since it started work students from it have achieved great accomplishments in regional and national science contests of all types. Sports aren’t forgotten in “Ivan Vazov” either as shown by the school’s great football, basketball, volleyball and badminton teams that have also represented the school in numerous tournaments. Many respected teachers, medics, chemical engineers, journalists, lawyers and members of other professions have graduated from it, some of which have achieved international acknowledgement.
The reason behind all of these achievements is simple – methodical and extensive preparations before each and every event that tests the knowledge and skills of us students. As a student here and a representative of my school in regional and national contests I hope to be able to show that my school and my city are among the best there is. I’ve won many regional Maths, Physics and Chemistry tournaments and I’m among the first 10 in almost all of the national contests I’ve entered. However, I don’t owe these successes to some incredible intellect I have – I owe it to the many hours spent in “Ivan Vazov”, preparing for them and to the teachers in it that have helped me in this preparation in every way they could.
This school nurtures a great deal of qualities, one might and will need later on in his/her life and they are sharpened even further for some students while preparing for and during contests – the desire to give your best and to win, the acknowledgment of defeat and continuing on nevertheless. Being able to defend your theses and reason yourself are also considered to be important things you can learn here, but there are 2 more qualities that are among the most important qualities you can receive while studying here – the ability to work effectively in teams and to be able to lead them.
The Dobrich High School of Mathematics and Biology “Ivan Vazov” is a great place to work on your talents and offers great possibilities for development of your capabilities. It is among the leading schools in Bulgaria and I am happy to be able to study in it.




THE CHESS AND OUR CHESS TEAM!

First about the game:
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, where the king is under direct attack (in check) and there is no way to remove or defend it from attack on the next move.



Chess Club "Energy 21 "


This is the chess club of our town . There are one hundred children training from the whole town. In it train several of the students of Ivan Vazov high school. Our club has many talented and knowledgeable children who wish to become Republican champion (the most prestigious title in Bulgaria.).The club has many successes. For example in 2008 four students who playing until 16 years, studying in Ivan Vazov high school took second team place in classical chess and one second place in zonal championship. Another success in team competitions is third place in 2010, which participated same players (Emil Todorov, Daniel Karadaliev, Tito Titov and Georgi Tsonev) . The team has many individual titles in various categories (8,10,12,14,16,18 and 20 years). When we go on tournaments we have fun . We have many friends from all cities. We are opponents on the chessboards but we are friends in the life. Practice is every day if you have a chance to go. On practice we have more fun and laugh than to play chess.I have many medals from tournaments and I will never be unhappy with that I am chess player.