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This week, the best athletes of the City of Zagreb were announced. One of the winners of the award is our Principal dr. sc. Martin-Tino Časl who was awarded with the Trophy for Lifetime Achievement in Sports. Dr. Časl has been in competitive sports (table tennis, tennis, basketball and handball) for a full 56 years. For years as a competitor, and for the last 16 years as President of the Dr. Časl Table Tennis Club, Vice President of the Croatian Table Tennis Association and the Zagreb Table Tennis Association and a member of the Executive Board of the Women's European Champions League. During that time, his club was 16 times Croatian champion, 7 times Croatian Cup winner, winner of the Mediterranean Cup (women) and finalist of that cup (men). They won the Central European Super League twice and played in the final 3 more times. The crown of his career was winning the European Champions League in 2018 and the final in 2019. In June of this year, the girls won the European Trophy for Women as their 6th different title. No club in history has won so many different competitions. Before his entering to professional sport, the students of our school were 18 times Croatian high school champions (9 times boys and 9 times girls), double European High School champions in 2007, and twice played in the final of the World High School Championship (2010 boys and 2012 girls) and the girls were third in the world in 2010. In amateur table tennis, dr. Časl was 8 times in a row SOKAZ first grade champions and won the Winter Cup 5 times. All of this was recognized by the Sports Association of the City of Zagreb and he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Trophy. On behalf of the winners, Dr. Časl gave a short speech of thanks with a clear message that this is not the end and that there are still many victories and goals to be achieved in future. In the pictures, he can be seen in the company of the individual athletes of the year, the golden Olympians Sandra Elkasević, the great rowers brothers Martin and Valent Sinković, and their coach Mr. Nikola Bralić. At the Trophy, he was congratulated by numerous famous athletes who won medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, the Mayor of the City of Zagreb, Mr. Tomislav Tomašević, and the President of the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Zoran Milanović, who praised our school in the conversation and called dr. Časl a top educator.

At privatna gimnazija Dr. Časl we are proud to have a modern library that contains a range of educational resources to boost student's interest in research and reading. As a Cambridge International School, students are taught to be responsible and to utilise independent study skills which are endorsed in our library. With hundreds of titles from a range of genres, subjects and areas of interest, students at Privatna gimnazija Dr. Časl who follow the Cambridge International Education IGCSE, AS & A level programme can truly value what it means to have a library at their school. Reading lights up your entire brain. A 2013 study by Emory University measured readers' MRI scans as they read a book. They found that the deeper readers went into the story, the more areas of their brain were activated. Even more surprisingly, this activity stayed elevated for several days after participants finished the book. The more you read, the stronger these complex networks of activity become. Please check our modern library video.

Learning is interesting and builds curiosity. Our students at Privatna gimnazija Dr. Časl develop skills that are essential for lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is important for an individual's competitiveness and employability, but also enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development. The emergence of internet technologies has great potential to support lifelong learning endeavors, allowing for informal day-to-day learning. Please check our new video.

As a parent, seeing your child step into Privatna gimnazija Dr. Časl classroom is like a world of possibilities. A world of learning, discovery and building character in a safe and healthy environment. As a school we are proud to have formed a very strong and dedicated international community which enriches our everyday experience and thus creates a diverse multicultural educational environment. Privatna gimnazija Dr. Časl offers the famous and world recognised Cambridge International Education IGCSE, AS & A level programs which enable our students to enroll into the best universities across the globe like Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Imperial College London, Edinburg and other prestigious institutions. Please check our new video.