Prom 2025

On Friday evening, January 17, the headteacher Anna Sobala-Zbroszczyk gave the signal to start the ceremonial polonaise and all fourth-year students danced into the the prom.  The traditional dance, lasting over fifteen minutes and prepared under the direction of Wojciech Świątek, was rewarded with thunderous applause by parents and teachers.

Transition

The coordinator Tomasz Mazur was the first to speak and shared his reflection on the moment which was currently being experienced. He recalled Søren Kierkegaard’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s thoughts regarding the stages of human life and rites of passage. Following Kierkegaard, this particularly solemnly celebrated moment may be a transition from the so-called aesthetic phase – the phase of possibilities, contingencies, or anxious searches to the so-called ethical stage in which in order to become yourself you have to give up something. In turn, according to Nietzsche and his metamorphoses of the spirit, fourth-year students may be passing from the camel phase to the lion’s stadium, that is they may be in the process of transforming the burden of education into a fight for what is important. Tomasz Mazur wished the fourth-year students to boldly move to a new stage of life. The coordinator encouraged them to freely choose their own path and to use their resources to create a better world, a world in which it will be possible to live courageously and joyfully, bravely and carefree at the same time. Moreover, the coordinator wished the fourth-year students to beautifully and creatively combine the norm with exceptions and the rule with what is individual.

Zest for life

The headteacher Anna Sobala-Zbroszczyk drew attention to the feeling of joy that accompanies her and recalled the hero of George Orwell’s dystopia and Miron Białoszewski’s words about joy: the hero is happy to be here and now, to really exist, and the poet encourages us to catch joy by the tail, because even if it breaks free, it will leave its feathers in our hands. Our reality is a reason to be happy: Poland is a democratic country, 2nd SLO Jasienica High School is one of the best schools in the country, so it’s time for joy, concluded the headteacher.

Fortitude

The formteachers, Mateusz Pencuła, Małgorzata Próchniak-Krupowicz, Anna Brymora, Ewa Błasiak, Franciszek Fijałkowski-Wojciechowski and Misha Tomaszewski, recalled the past time with emotion and encouraged students in optimism, openness to the unpredictable, cultivating friendship, enjoying fun, being yourself and abandon the facade of perfectionism. Michał Górski and Joanna Utri emphasized the pleasure of working with fourth-year students and assured them of their faith in success in exams.

Life to the Full

The parents, Łukasz and Agata Rozdeiczer, thanked the fourth-year students for the wonderful dance, Wojciech Świątek for its preparation, and the teachers for their professionalism and shaping the youth in an atmosphere of friendship. They wished everyone good fun that complements the essence of life.

Lodestar

A doyenne, whose grandson and son were both graduating from 2^nd SLO Jasienica High School, also spoke and expressed her gratitude to the entire school community for showing young people what is most important in life.

Guides

At the end, student representatives appeared and thanked both parents and teachers on behalf of all four-grader students. The students called the group of 2nd SLO Jasienica High School teachers the believing in their students, inspiring and patiently supporting guides.

((text: Beata Ciacek; photos: Beata Ciacek and author unknown)