Poland

By Adelina Ryan
 Flag
The official flag of Poland
 ▪ August 1st, 1919
▪ On modern flag, the white represents the
hope for peace by all of Poland's people.
About the flag
▪ The red represents the symbolic
reference to the days of socialism, that
have gone by.
The Coat of
Arms
 ▪ First recorded in 13th century
▪ White eagle on red shield
▪ Choice of colours not known, but Holy Roman Empire
had a black eagle on golden shield.
The coat of ▪ The Polish flag had this crest up until it was rejected by
arms nationalist organisations, August 1919.

▪ Simple horizontal bicolour, of red and white.

▪ Since WWII and the years after the fall of communist
fall, the flag has been unaltered.
Poland and the E.U.
 ▪ Officially joined on May 1, 2004.
▪ Joined after 15 years of communist rule.
▪ They applied for membership in Athens on 8 April
1994.

The E.U. ▪ Signed Treaty of Accession on April 16 2003 in Athens.

▪ 9 other countries became members along with Poland.
Why the E.U?
▪ Poland decided to join E.U. to have a stable economy and to have a
better trade agreement

▪ The E.U's single trade market is more attractive than others

▪ Better quality of life for people after all the Polish people suffered
through, as it's within the E.U's agreement to have a better quality of life
for all people.
 ▪ Polish złoty is the currency
▪ 1 złoty is equal to 0.24 euro

Currency
Language
▪ National language; Polish
▪ 95.15% of people speak it
▪ Only 18% of foreigners living in Poland speak Polish
▪ Polish is one of the most widely spoken Slavic
languages in the world
Education
▪ Compulsory to stay in school from ages of 7 to 18
system ▪ Both primary and secondary school are free
▪ Primary School (Szkoła Podstawowa) for 6 years (finish around 13 years)
▪ When in secondary, there is either general or vocational
▪ Post-secondary, is for students of vocational schools
(administrators, computer specialists, librarians)

▪ Tertiary options (uni) for those that went to general secondary

Food ▪ Pierogi (dumplings)
▪ The most popular fillings are meat, sauerkraut and
mushrooms, seasonal fruit (blueberries, strawberries
and cherries), buckwheat, sweet cottage cheese or
boiled potatoes with fried onions (called Russian
dumplings).
▪ Pierogi is a Polish food that’s always served for
Christmas.
Food
▪ Polskie naleśniki (Polish pancakes)
▪ Polish pancakes are very thin and they are served
either with cheese, quark previously mixed with sugar,
jam, fruits and powdered sugar or with meat and
vegetables- all equally tasty.
Sports
▪ Palant, Kappela and Kulanie Kulotka are some of the traditional sports in
Poland that haven’t been totally forgotten and replaced over time.

▪ Palant is quite similar to baseball. The player hits the ball with a bat,
runs to the finish line and back to the nest while the other team distracts
the running player by hitting him with a ball.
 ▪ Poland is the 9th largest country in Europe
▪ 90% of Poles have completed secondary schooling
▪ Poland has fought for freedom from 1600 to 1945
▪ Polish alphabet consists of 32 letters
▪ The last Polish monarch, Stanisław Poniatowski, died in
prison in 1798 in St. Petersburg, Russia
Facts
▪ Speedway or Motorcycle speedway is today’s most
prominent sport in Poland. Involving well-skilled drivers,
they ride a motorbike with only one gear and no brakes
inside an oval track with dirt and loosely packed shale for
four counter-clockwise laps.
▪ The sport became famous because of the success of their
athletes like Tomasz Gollob who won eight times in the
Polish Individual Championship, 10 times in the Polish
Pairs Championship, and eight times in Polish Grand Prix.