{"id":4519,"date":"2022-05-04T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/?page_id=4519"},"modified":"2022-05-04T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T17:01:29","slug":"bulgaria-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/bulgaria-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9a\/Flag_of_Bulgaria.svg\" alt=\"upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9a\/Fla...\" width=\"588\" height=\"353\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Name of school: SECOND ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL \u201cTHOMAS JEFFERSON\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City:  Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brief Description of the School:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018<em>Thomas Jefferson\u2019 <\/em>Second English Language School is situated in Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria.&nbsp; Our school is among the top ten schools in terms of national end-of-course assessment tests. There are over 1200 students altogether, aged 14 and 18, who follow a five-year intensive course in English as a foreign language and a four-year intensive course in German, Spanish or Russian as a second foreign language. Besides that History, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Philosophy are taught in English in 9th and 10th grades. Students are streamed according to their preferences&nbsp; into the following groups: History and Literature, Mathematics and Literature, Mathematics and Geography, Biology and Chemistry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have also participated in three two-year Comenius projects with other European counties (France, Spain, Turkey, Poland, Slovenia, Romania) and a number of two-year Erasmus + project&nbsp; (Portugal, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia, Italy, etc.) in the last ten years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since our students have different interests, there are a number of extra-curricular activities they can choose from: maths clubs, web-design clubs, journalism, drama clubs,&nbsp; law-club, debate-club, folk-dances club, cheer-leader\u2019s club and a variety of sports clubs. Creative, enthusiastic and knowledgeable, our students often show their skills and intelligence by joining in different campaigns and competitions on local, regional, national and international levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have participated in a number of Moot Courts since January 2018 \u2013 both the World and European formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>School Crest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/0IEVMWT-afs5rW1jXRqUVzVVFU7NoPCWe3NCpNWTMh2KHBxb8ER8UxzlmzQ8btJds7s5LcB8BrlWPGgz3VuPfJY9gtRogqQEcOUsfGHN_O3fBPiU2Wd1SuAogJbwN3uxBZgP8P965cPyib768w\" style=\"width: 200px;\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Welcome to Bulgaria!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Welcome-to-Bulgaria-a-land-of-magic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4521\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Welcome-to-Bulgaria-a-land-of-magic.jpg 460w, https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Welcome-to-Bulgaria-a-land-of-magic-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Welcome-to-Bulgaria-a-land-of-magic-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 85vw, 475px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ProminentBulgariansRaynaKabaivanskaValyaBalkanska.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4522\" width=\"644\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ProminentBulgariansRaynaKabaivanskaValyaBalkanska.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ProminentBulgariansRaynaKabaivanskaValyaBalkanska-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ProminentBulgariansRaynaKabaivanskaValyaBalkanska-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 85vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ProminentBulgariansportspeople.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4523\" width=\"644\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ProminentBulgariansportspeople.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ProminentBulgariansportspeople-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ProminentBulgariansportspeople-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 85vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name of school: SECOND ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL \u201cTHOMAS JEFFERSON\u201d City: Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria Brief Description of the School: \u2018Thomas Jefferson\u2019 Second English Language School is situated in Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria.&nbsp; Our school is among the top ten schools in terms of national end-of-course assessment tests. There are over 1200 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/bulgaria-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bulgaria&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4519\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}