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Vidin School to Teach Children to Make Bread

Vidin, on the Danube, April 28 (BTA) - The students at the Tsar Simeon the Great school in Vidin will have access to optional classes on making bread and baking it in a real oven. As of Thursday, the school basement will house a bakery. The idea belongs to its principal, Ventsislav Stanev, he told BTA.

The Bread House, as they have called it, will provide additional involvement for students and the teachers are convinced this is an excellent means to curb violence at school because the aroma and taste of a loaf straight from the over can tone down any passions.

The school has also found a solution for calming down angry parents. There is a separate room where they can wait for the relevant teacher and talk about their children in peace. This prevents any opportunity for violent altercations between parents and the children of others - a simple and easy solution with considerable preventive effect.

Stanev came up with the idea for the room after he visited a school in Norway.

Another good example, the Bread House, came in the wake of his visit to the United States where he saw how much store was set by such activities.

"There was enormous interest while we were making the bakery at school, but it seems the teachers were the most impatient. We are already members of the International Bakery Association and their specialists will help us," Deputy Principal Svetlana Pesheva added.

In addition to the Bread House, the school hosts are ready to show the other amenities in the basement, including a spacious board room, a canteen for the children, a library, a centre for TOEFL and SAT courses, five computer rooms, a fitness centre and special rooms where the children can eat their homemade sandwiches for lunch. There is also a room where Chinese is being taught by a Chinese teacher for a second year.

The upper storeys of the school are no less inviting. The feature tables with chairs for informal contacts during recess, all aimed to improve school environment. The team thinks it is important for the students to be comfortable, particularly as the school is in the centre of the city and is housed by a beautiful building.

The school is successor to the first secondary school from which it has inherited the building. The story began in 1850, when the desire for lay education in Vidin resulted in an elementary school which grew gradually. On May 11, 1982, it was declared a complete secondary school named after the Russian General Skobelev.

The new bakery was unveiled officially by Bishop Polikarp of Belogradchick with a blessing of the waters.