On Friday, 3rd October, the official presentation of prizes in the Preventive Fairytale Competiton took place in the Prevention and Health Promotion Centre at 1 Pocztowa Street. The competition has been organised by the Town and Municipality of Wieliczka.
The prizewinners were presented with commemorative certificates and prizes by the vice-mayor of Wieliczka, Henryk Gawor. The prize-winning "preventive fairytales" are accessible on webpage www.wieliczka.eu and shall soon be published in the local press.
A preventive fairytale can portray a certain part of reality with its problems and conflicts, experienced by the children as well.
A person who's writing a fairytale - a child in particular - discover an identity of their own: who they are, what problems they have,what ways of solving the difficult life situtations they encounter and who they wish to become in the future.
Through a confession to the reader the fairytale's author unburdens himself partially of the guilt for the life failures of his family and his own, gets rid of negative emotions, lowers the level of fear of the reality. Preventive fairytale sensitizes the reader to the life course of the people surrounding him as well as animals and the nature.
It points at the source of evil, injustice and pain.In its therapeutical message it defines in a substitutive way a model or a pattern of behaviour leading to acceptance and safety, while in the area of prevention it may point out what to do in order to avoid or level the future problems.
The preventive fairytale received by an independent reader (a child) expands knowledge by different patterns (frequently not accepted socially), not known to it before, allows him to improve its skills in the area of management of new, stressful situations.
All the mentioned aspects of the preventive fairytale can be found in the works of the children from Garbie, Grajow, Janowice and Podstolice.
The results of the competition:
1st place– Agnieszka Surówka, Edyta Turcza for the fairytale:„The wonderful world of childhood vs the gray life of an adolescent"
2nd place – Natalia and Marzena Tatarczuk for the tale: „Asia and Aman”
3rd place– Patrycja Stachnik, Karolina Zabycz for the tale: "The drugs gang”.
The distinctions were awarded to the following persons:
- Anna Ćwioro, Aleksandra Starowicz for the tale: "The abduction of Weronika”;
- Małgorzata Pabian for the tale: „Kacperek's adventures”;
- Bartłomiej Pilarczyk for the tale: „A story of a thirteen-years-old whose life suddenly lost its sense"- Natalia Cholewa for the tale: „The friends next door”;
- Łukasz Fliśnik: „A tale of two brothers"
- Anna Bednarz, Paulina Pyrz for the tale: „Love,goodness, respect... shall save the world”;
- Małgorzata Gołoda for the tale: „Hope”
- Joanna Mleczak for the tale: „The emerlad hills”
The guardians of the prize-winners were Ewa Korta (the Janowice Primary), Małgorzata Rosołowska (the Wyspa – Podstolice common room), Beata Nagięć (the Grabie Primary). We congratulate all the prize and distinctions winners!
