The third HUPE Osijek branch meeting in school year 2021-2022 was held on May 26, 2022 at the Faculty of Education in Osijek. 18 members attended the meeting.

The agenda included:

1) Ivana Štiglec, teacher advisor: Teaching culture through engaging and interactive learning scenarios

2) Lidija Šaravanja, PhD & assistant professor Ivana Marinić, PhD: How to teach Gen Alpha?

3) Tanja Pokupić, Suzana Tolić & Dubravka Zebec, teacher mentors: Keep Calm and Enjoy/Survive London

4) HUPE news

The first workshop, titled Teaching culture through engaging and interactive learning scenarios, was held by Ivana Štiglec from I Gymnasium in Osijek. In her workshop Ivana demonstrated how using various activity types, web tools and different information sources can help create meaningful, engaging and interactive cultural lessons and develop our students’ intercultural communication competence. She shared some interesting and student-engaging cultural scenarios the teachers can try out in their classrooms right away.

After the coffee break, the second presentation, titled How to teach Gen Alpha?, was held by Lidija Šaravanja from Primary school Vladimir Nazor in Čepin and Ivana Marinić from the Faculty of Education in Osijek. They talked about the characteristics of different generations in our classrooms with the focus of the Generation Alpha and provided some practical and useful examples on how to address them and help our students develop the skills they will need throughout their lives.

In their presentation titled Keep Calm and Enjoy/Survive London, our colleagues Tanja Pokupić, Suzana Tolić and Dubravka Zebec from primary schools in Čepin, Osijek and Josipovac Punitovački told us more about the HUPE teacher training course in London they attended in April. Their enthusiastic and detailed day-to-day report about the workshops, lectures and treasure hunts related to British history and culture, as well as the sightseeing made all the participants transport to London, at least in their minds.

The participants were also informed about the news in HUPE including the upcoming online HUPE Day taking place on June 4, 2022 via Zoom, the 30^th Annual International HUPE Conference, as well as HUPE teacher training course in London planned for August.

HUPE Osijek is thankful to the speakers and all the members who were able to attend the meeting on Saturday morning and create a lovely and relaxing atmosphere ideal for teachers connecting, collaborating and exchanging ideas.

Hopefully, we will see you at one of our future meetings next school year.

Adrijana Roždijevac
HUPE Osijek Branch President

The second HUPE Dubrovnik Branch meeting in 2021/2022 took place on 26 May 2022. The meeting was held online, via HUPE Dubrovnik Teams channel.

Our first speaker was our dear colleague Gordana Bujanić Tretinjak who held an inspiring workshop about making short videos in the classroom. She gave us some interesting information on Media Literacy, as well as a lot of practical advice on making videos and links to expand our knowledge.

Davorka Bronzić and Nataša Bebić Bačan were our next speakers. They shared with us some exciting moments they had experienced on HUPE's April trip to London. Their talk, pictures and enthusiasm were so amazing, that we felt as if we had been there with them. 

Jelica Šeparović
Dubrovnik Branch President

The second HUPE Osijek branch meeting in school year 2021-2022 was held at the Faculty of Education in Osijek on 12 March, 2022. 18 members attended the meeting.

The agenda included:

1. HUPE professional development course in London
2. Ivana Kirin, teacher advisor: What lies beyond Buckingham Palace  
3. Ksenija Rumora, teacher advisor: Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles/Health and Emotional Education: Creating a positive and effective climate among learners
4. HUPE news

At the beginning of the meeting the members were informed about the teacher training course in London organized by HUPE and supported by Education and Teacher Training Agency (AZOO) planned for April and August of this year. Apart from the course programme, which is all about exploring English language and culture, the participants were also informed about the technical side of the course, such as travel insurance, COVID-19 restrictions, flights, accommodation and the price of the course.

The first workshop, titled What lies beyond Buckingham Palace, was held by Ivana Kirin from Primary school Grigor Vitez in Osijek. In her workshop Ivana demonstrated with various interesting and thought-provoking activities for upper-primary and secondary students the importance of teachers going beyond just British and American cultures in their teaching of English, and exploring the rich cultural heritage of other English-speaking countries with their students.

After the coffee break, the second presentation, titled Inspiring Healthy Lifestyles/Health and Emotional Education: Creating a positive and effective climate among learners, was held by Ksenija Rumora from Primary school Franje Krežme in Osijek. Ksenija shared some useful techniques she has become familiar with while attending the Erasmus+ teacher training course in Cyprus, where the mail objective of the course was how to be active, eat healthy, be and stay emotionally balanced and how to transfer that knowledge into our classrooms to make our students more relaxed and ready to learn.

At the end of the meeting, participants were informed about the news in HUPE including the results of the national writing competition HUPE in the Story Land and the 30^th Annual International HUPE Conference, which is taking place in Valamar, Poreč from 11 to 13 November, 2022.

HUPE Osijek is grateful to the speakers and all the members who attended the meeting and decided to spend their Saturday morning with us, making it a productive and enjoyable experience. Hopefully, we will see you at our next meeting in June 2022.

If you are a teacher of English and would like to join HUPE Osijek, feel free to contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Thank you!

Adrijana Roždijevac
HUPE Osijek Branch President

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the first HUPE Zagorje meeting in this school year was held online via Zoom on 12^th February 2022.

Although it was Saturday, 18 English enthusiasts gathered to hear three interesting workshops. The first workshop was held by Ante Žderić from Primary School Cvjetno Naselje Zagreb. Ante’s workshop titled A Box Of Chocolates provided us with many useful ideas on how to use films in our classrooms. Although it takes time to prepare such a lesson and find the right film, Ante encouraged us not to be afraid to use films in our lessons more often. 

The second workshop was held by Patricia Alberini from Italian Secondary School Rijeka. After a very successful workshop at the HUPE conference last November, Patricia successfully adapted her interactive workshop You Can Kill The King Without A Sword for the online meeting and showed us how to use elements of theatre and acting in our teaching. 

The last workshop was held by Marta Šarčanin from IV. gimnazija Zagreb. In her workshop Language Mediation In 280 Characters Or Less, Marta showed us how she incorporates literature in her lessons to develop students’ speaking skills and promote close reading. In the end, she also provided us with different examples of activities we can use for language mediation.

At the end of the meeting, participants were informed about the news in HUPE, including the HUPE trip to London and the 30^th HUPE Conference.

HUPE Zagorje is thankful to the speakers and all the members who were able to attend the meeting. Hopefully, our next meeting will be held live. We sure hope so.

If you wish to join us, contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Petra Gorički
HUPE Zagorje Branch President