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1.Valladolid-Spain
(2-6 November 2009)
The theme of the meeting was "Diary
of festivities" and get to know each
other country and school.
In this project meeting there were involved 30 teachers and 8 students
from 8 countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy,
Lithuania, Romania) and the Spanish team. Poland and UK teams were
not present due to some financial problems. Our school team participated
with two teachers: Popa Liviu Mircea (our project coordinator) and
Terente Vladimira (ICT teacher).
In the first day of the meeting, the introduction of the project and the
members of the different participating countries and greetings from the
director of the Spanish School (Río Duero) took place, a representative
of the local educational authorities and the mayor of village where the
school is located (Tudela de Duero).
Then each team presented the educational system in the different
countries and the types of participating schools. Our presentation was
created by our students. During the presentations, we analyzed the
differences and the similarities between our educational systems.
The students involved in the project exchanged experiences and e-mails
for future contacts . A guided study visit to a training school followed.
In the afternoon and in the evening we had the first cultural approaches
in the project: a study visit to the National Museum of Sculpture and
to
the Library of Santa Cruz Palace. During the next days we continued our
educational and cultural approaches: The Headquarters of the Regional
Government and University of Salamanca. During the last day of Spain
meeting we were on a study visit in La Alberca, a very beautiful traditional
village near Salamanca, and participated in a video presentation of their
varied and rich traditions and festivals. We were welcomed by the cultural
counselor of the village on the behalf of the Town Hall.
In the morning of the second day, we took part in a presentation of a
diary of festivities (religious and private) and the National Day in all
the
countries, going through their origins, evolution and present meaning.
Some of the students made their own presentations and switched
experiences with the rest of students and teachers of the project.
On the next day: final working session in a secondary school - there was
presented a final assessment questionnaire to be filled in by every country
in the different general meetings. We determined the two final tasks to
carry out: the celebration of a European Day in Greece at the end of the
project, as a result of a mixture of the eleven countries and cultures
and
the creation of a web site ( 11IDS ) with links to all the countries to
see
the activities that each of us is working on. The times and places for
nex
meetings were decided. It was presented a chart to be filled in with the
approximate number of students travelling to the different countries.
At University of Salamanca we had a work session where we organized
the different topics to be developed in future sessions, always with the
common goal of creativity and innovation:
• Private Festivities (weddings, birthdays, baptism…)- to
be presented in
Cyprus and Romania
• National Day of every country - to be presented in Estonia and
United
Kingdom
• Religious Festivities - (mainly Christmas and Easter) - to be
presented in
Poland, Germany and Hungary
• Preparation to celebrate the European Day in Greece - To be presented
in Lithuania and Italy
• Celebration of our European Day - To take place in Greece
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2.Nicosia-Cyprus
(10-14 January 2010)
The
theme of the project meeting was private festivities: wedding traditions;
cooking workshop.
In this project meeting there were involved 30 teachers and 10 students
from 10 countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania,
Polonia, Romania, Spain, UK) and Cypriot team.
Our school team participated with 4 teachers: Popa Liviu Mircea (our project
coordinator) Vasile Mariciuc (headmaster, Social Sciences), Gabriel Matei
(Physics & ICT), Onica Florin (Social Sciences) and 2 students: Secuianu
Alina Andreea and Chiriac Andreea.
The Acropolis Gymnasium (Nikosia) is placed in the heart of the capital
Lefkosia in an old building opposite the Presidents’ House. It opened
as a school after the Turkish invasion in 1974. At the beginning it had
all six levels of Secondary Education (Gymnasium and Lyceum), but, since
1986 it is solely a Gymnasium
On Sunday, 10th of Jan. 2010, a meeting at the hotel was held, in which
the head teacher of the school, Mrs Athina Papademetriou, welcomed the
teachers.
On Monday, 11th of Jan 2010, the teachers and the students were welcomed
and visited the school. The teachers and students then paid a study visit
to the Pancyprian Gymnasium Museum. The museum has exhibits of the school
life in the past, and its history and development in Cyprus. Later, the
students and teachers visited Byzantium Museum. The museum has religious
icons which are part of the Cyprus folk art.
In the afternoon, the teachers had a work session. We debated on the next
meetings and we present here the decisions: sending photos of students
and teachers to the host country up to ten days after the meeting; the
host country should prepare a CD or DVD with the presentations, photos,
videos, report and evaluation and send it to all countries; in Romania
the subject is on private festivities: weddings, or baptism or death;
in UK and Estonia the subject will be National Day; Germany changed the
date to 1st December and will finish on the 5th of December.
On Tuesday, the teachers and students were involved in a study visit to
Lefkara, a traditional village, famous for its embroidery (Lefkaritika).
In the afternoon, another work session was held at the hotel by the teachers.
The issues discussed were: completion of website, uploading pictures on
website of the school, e-twinning, profile of the students hosting and
visiting, dictionary of festivities, Europass.
On Wednessday, in the morning the cooking seminar took place were countries
were able to present their traditional food. Our students, helped by one
of our teachers, cooked traditional food ("Tochitura Moldoveneasca")
In the afternoon, the festivity took place at the school. At the festivity
Acropolis Gymnasium has invited people from the local community (Local
Education Authority), Ministry of Education ( School Inspector), the Lifelong
Learning Authority (Senior Officer), teachers, teaching staff, students
and their parents.
The program of the festivity was as follows:
Welcoming speech by the Head teacher, Mrs A. Papademetriou and the President
of the Parents ‘Association, Mr. P. Dracos.
Estonia: Video of traditional wedding.
Greece: PowerPoint presentation by students for the traditional wedding.
Hungary: Modern and traditional wedding in Hungary.
Italy: The wedding day in Italy, PowerPoint presentation.
Lithuania: Video of traditional wedding.
Spain: Video presentation of modern wedding in Spain.
U.K.: English wedding traditions, PowerPoint presentation by students.
Germany: Traditional German wedding, theatre.
Romania: Traditional wedding songs. Our team played four wedding songs
in front of an audience.
Cyprus: The traditional wedding in Cyprus in five parts:
Part A: The meeting of the couple – dance
Part B: The matchmaker – theatre
Part C: Dressing the bride – theatre.
Part D: The Wedding.
Part E: The Wedding party.
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3.Negresti-Romania
(20-24 March 2010)
On Saturday, 20th of
March 2010, a meeting at the hotel was held, followed by dinner, in a
“Crama Domneasca” restaurant.
On Sunday, 21st of March 2010, the teachers and the students went on an
educational trip in the northern part of Romania. In this trip both teachers
and students had the opportunity to see some of the most interesting landscapes
of Romania, and visit some monasteries where they experienced the way
traditions are still preserved.
On Monday, the teachers and students were welcomed in our school; after
that a guided tour of the school was provided. Each participant of the
meeting exchanged posters which are going to be used for the Comenius
Classroom in every school.
Then we organized two workshops for students and teachers: boxing and
Romanian traditional dances, which were presented at the final festivity.
After finishing the workshops all the participants were taken to visit
local churches: the orthodox “St. Spiridon” Church and the
Baptist Church where local priests had a short presentation of their church
and of baptism traditions.
After having lunch, students went to their host families and the teachers
went to Vaslui for a project meeting which was held at the hotel’s
conference room. During this meeting we discussed about the development
of our project and the problems we were confronted with during the process.
On Tuesday, in the morning the teachers were welcomed by the county authorities.
During these meeting teachers asked questions regarding economical and
social issues of the area. Following that teachers visited the local History
Museum where they could have an insight over local history, ethnography
and traditions.
Around noon we went for an educational visit al “Mihail Kogalniceanu”
Highschool where we were welcomed by the Head of the school. We were offered
a guided tour and we discussed about educational systems in our countries.
Then we had a project meeting at the local Human Resource Center where
we discussed about the next meeting in Estonia.
In the afternoon we went back to Negresti for the final festivity. The
program of the festivity was as follows:
1. Welcoming speech by the Head teacher, Mr. Vasile Mariciuc.
2. Introduction “Private Festivities” - pantomime.
3. Cyprus: PowerPoint presentation by students for the modern wedding.
4. Estonia: Video of modern wedding.
5. Germany: PowerPoint presentation by students for the modern wedding.
6. U.K.: PowerPoint presentation by students for baptism.
7. Greece: PowerPoint presentation by students for the modern wedding.
8. Italy: PowerPoint presentation about the baptism in Italy.
9. Lithuania: Video of modern wedding.
10. Poland: PowerPoint presentation of traditional wedding.
11. Spain: Video presentation of modern wedding in Spain; PowerPoint presentation
of death traditions.
12. Romania:
o Presentation - products of workshops: traditional
dances, traditional songs, wedding box
o Romanian traditional wedding songs performed
by students and teachers
o Traditional Romanian songs peformed by “Firicelul”
Ansemble.
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4.Paikuse-Estonia
(18-22 May 2010)
The theme of the meeting was National Festivities.
In this project meeting there were involved 21 teachers and 13 students
from 9 countries (Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain,
Romania, UK) and the Estonian team. Hungarian team couldn’t participate.
Our school team participated with 2 teachers: Popa Liviu Mircea (coordinator),
Matei Gabriel (ICT).
The theme of the meeting was “National Day”. The aims of the
meeting were: presenting each partner’s work on National Day; getting
to know our countries better – playing “Jeopardy”; get
acquainted with Paikuse Basic School.
On Wednesday, the 19th of May, the opening of the 4th meeting took place
at Paikuse Basic School. All participants were welcomed by the rural municipality
mayor Mr Kuno Erkmann and the headmaster of Paikuse Basic School Mr Aare
Külaots.
Teachers and students were given a guided tour of the school. Before lunch,
“Jeopardy” was played by mixed teams of students. Every participant
got a sticker with the Estonian symbols – a barn swallow and a corn
flower. The questions had been sent to all partners before the meeting.
We continued our day with a study visit to Paikuse Police School where
it was possible to practice laser shooting, visit the museum and the training
area for the future policemen.
In the afternoon, there was a meeting for coordinators at school. Our
coordinator and Estonian coordinator presented their school's websites.
It was decided that only presentations, linguistic work, vocabulary and
the other materials created by students will be uploaded. Every partner
can download materials from other partner’s website. There should
be the names of participants – students and teachers. There will
be no personal information like telephone numbers, students’ e-mails.
The photos are uploaded as it is allowed by law in every country. Germany
introduced their New Family Book.
For the meeting in Italy every country was suggested to choose a topic
(sport, fashion, money, geography etc) and start working on it by communicating
with other countries, asking and sharing information.
On Thursday, the 20th of May, the students and the teachers were taken
to a study visit in Tallinn, an opportunity to find more about the culture
of this Baltic country: the Tallinn Song Festival Ground and Tallinn Old
Town. On Friday, the 21st of May, we started our day at first Estonian
president’s Konstantin Päts birthplace monument, because the
topic at Estonia’s meeting was National Day. This place is tightly
connected with Estonian independence.
Teachers had their work meeting at the hotel, where the UK team introduced
their draft program of the next meeting, which will be held 13-18 June
in Southampton. The program and some leaflets were given to every participant.
In the evening the students had their workshop at Paikuse Basic School
where they played different games taught by the Estonian students.
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5.Soutampton-Great
Britain(14-18 June 2010)
In this Comenius project meeting there were involved 24
teachers and 16 students from 9 countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Greece,
Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Romania) and the British team. Hungarian
team couldn’t participate.
Our school team participated with 2 teachers: Popa Liviu Mircea (coordinator),
Mariciuc Vasile (Social Sciences) and 2 students: Apetrei Lidia and Cojocaru
Cristina.
The theme of the meeting was "National Day”. The aims of the
meeting were: presenting each partner’s work on National Day; getting
to know our countries better; get acquainted with Oasis Academy - Lord’s
Hill and city of Southampton - its people and its cultural approaches.
In the first evening, there was a meeting of all teams in order to discuss
and clarify some aspects of this project meeting.
The next day we went to “Oasis Academy: Lord’s Hill”
school, where we were welcomed by the headmaster Ian Golding and by the
British project team. After that the students presented their school in
an interactive and modern way. A working session for the teachers followed,
meantime the students were invited to attend some classes.
In order to make contact with the cultural and most of all historical
values of the Southampton city, our hosts granted us a study guided tour
of city places that has a relevant significance to their inhabitants,
allowing us to notice similarities and differences of our cultures. This
tour was prolonged next day with surroundings of the city, especially
the city of Portsmouth, the residence of the Royal Navy.
In the evening we had the opportunity to attend a theatrical performance
organized by academy’s students, named “Stop the Traffik”.
This show allowed British students to achieve some national awards in
related contests and festivals.
In the last day of the project meeting ,there were the activities related
to the National day. Our team presented a video presentation about the
significance of the National Day in Romania, with an interview taken by
the students involved in the project to other students from the school.
Also, our students presented images of how is national day celebrated
in Romania. We had the opportunity to broaden our knowledge and the cultural
horizon, noticing similarities and differences in the way National Day
is celebrated among the participating countries.
At the end of this activity, there was a teachers’ meeting when
some details about the next visit in Poland were discussed. Also we tried
to find some innovative solutions in order to enhance the communication
between partners.
Students from all countries had the chance to see and even participate
a cricket game.
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6.Skoroszyce-Poland
(26-30 September 2010)
The theme of the meeting was religious festivities: Easter.
There were involved 22 teachers and 18 students from 10 countries (Cyprus,
Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Spain, UK) and the
Polish Team.
Our school team participated with 4 teachers: Popa Liviu Mircea (coordinator),
Mariciuc Vasile (Social Sciences), Onica Florin (Social Sciences), Matei
Gabriel (ICT) and 2 students: Uleru George and Bogdan Ciorobîtca.
On Monday, 27th of September 2010, the teachers and the students were
welcomed and we were offered a guided tour of the school. The teachers
and students then were involved in a study and cultural visit to the Opole
Old Village Museum. This open-air museum has exhibits of the rural life
from the XVIIIth and XIXth century. It was possible to see wooden village
architecture, learn about rural life in the past, as well as try traditionally
baked bread. This study visit offered us the opportunity to get into contact
with traditional values of Polish culture. Folk Polish art and architecture
presents many similarities with the Romanian ones. We had a chance to
notice also some differences and, becoming aware of those differences
proves to be very useful regarding mutual knowledge and communication.
In the afternoon, the teachers had a meeting at the hotel where the German
team introduced their draft program of the next visit and other project
issues were discussed. Items discussed: Italy - materials for a calendar,
Italy - starting a new Comenius project, Germany - draft program of the
next visit, Hungary - the date and topic of the meeting in Hungary; changing
the date of the meeting in Greece. Decisions was made: each country has
to send a short information and photos about their school and national
symbols for the Italian educational calendar; the German team presented
the draft timetable of the visit in their country and tasks for other
teams – posters connected with Christmas; Hungarian coordinator
presented the date and topic of the 8th meeting – 6th-10th February
2011, the topic – Carnival. Due to important school examinations
in Italy there is a need to change the date of the meeting in Greece.
The decision will be made soon by the Greek Coordinator.
On Tuesday, the educational and cultural approach continued with a study
visit to Krakow. This former capital of Poland is still very important
centre of Polish cultural, academic and artistic life. We saw the historical
monuments on the Wawel Hill. On Wednesday, the teachers and students were
welcomed at a local culture house in Skoroszyce. Each country had with
them Easter symbols and prepared an exposition about how Easter is celebrated
in their country - a very colorful and interesting Easter Exhibition was
established.
Then two workshops on painting eggs took place. The students were working
under the supervision and guidance of two Polish folk artists. They were
taught how to decorate eggs in two ways: a wax flowing technique and scratching
eggs.
On the second hand, the teachers divided into four groups had to make
a big poster – an Easter egg and then make some comments on their
work. Both students and teachers were very creative and cooperative. Our
teachers’ team received most of the appreciation, because our work
was the best. We also presented PowerPoint presentations about Easter
in Romania.
In the evening the final festivity took place. Polish students showed
their artistic program including a short recital, a drama about the Cracow’s
Dragon and a dance show – Polish national dance called “Polonez”.
The guests were asked to dance the Polonez together with the students,
too. At the end, all of the students joined the choir and sang a song:
“We are the world, we are the children”. Afterwards, the speeches
of Polish and Greek coordinators were given and all of the participants
received their certificates from Poland.
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7.Borbeck-Germany
(8-13 Decemeber 2010)
The theme of the meeting was religious festivities: Christmas.
In this meeting there were involved 24 teachers and 23 students from 10
countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Polonia,
Romania, Spain, UK) and the German team.
Our school team participated with 2 teachers: Mariciuc Vasile (Social
Sciences), Onica Florin (Social Sciences) and 2 students: Boitan Mirabela
and Cocea Ramona.
After having worked on Private Festivities in Cyprus and Romania and on
Political Festivities in Estonia and the United Kingdom, the topic, starting
in Poland, was Religious Festivities. So the main topic in Germany was
"Christmas“. The aims of this meeting were: to get to know
the city of Essen at Christmas time; to present and to get to know the
Christmas traditions of the involved countries and to invent a kind of
Comenius-Project-Christmas-festivity and to live it; to work together
and to communicate in international workshops creating decoration and
music in order to prepare this festivity; to open the group of 11 partners
towards two other Comenius-Project-Groups and to feel a European Identity
during a Christmas party with students, teachers and guests coming from
14 European countries; to assist the "International Comenius Meeting
in Essen in 2010“, which was one of the activities schools organized
during the year 2010, when Essen was European Capital of Culture.
On the first day, the German students and teachers tried to present the
school, the history of Essen and the city centre to their guests. In small
groups the students visited the school building and accompanied their
hosts into their classes. The teachers followed a guided tour prepared
by young German teachers.
After the exchange of gifts, students and teachers went to the Town Hall
to assist at the first part of the "International Comenius Meeting
in Essen in 2010“. On the 22nd floor, Mayor Mr. Jelinek welcomed
the Comenius Project-Groups of the three Comenius Schools in Essen: Städtisches
Mädchengymnasium Essen Borbeck, Gymnasium Borbeck and Maria-Wächtler-Gymnasium.
The next day started with a study visit, prepared by three students, with
the theme "Industry and Culture.”
The three main topics of Saturday were the teachers’ assemblies
preparing the next meetings, the main topic of the 7th meeting, “Christmas”,
and the final part of the "International Comenius Meeting in Essen
in 2010“, the Christmas party with the other Comenius Schools.
Hungary presented the program for the meeting in February and Lithuania
gave a short idea of the activities for the meeting in March.
In order to practice intercultural communication preparing the Christmas
festivity “Christmas at School” the students chose different
creative workshops: Christmas biscuits (artificial), Hänsel and Gretel’s
House, Christmas songs, Christmas art (branches).
A research by intercultural communication had to be done on the traditions
in the other countries and a result had to be invented in order to create
a new European Comenius Christmas, presented on posters that should be
diffused on a CD as an outcome of the 7th meeting. But the different partners
chose different kinds of presentations: videos, PowerPoint presentations,
collages, paintings, photos, songs and performances.
Our team distinguished itself through originality, first of all due to
the fact that all the members of our team wore traditional popular costumes;
they also presented a pantomime about the adorning of the Christmas tree
and of the houses during Christmas.
In the morning of the last day teachers and students had one hour of dancing
class with professional teachers to prepare the evening when a mixture
of Christmas ball took place in an old industrial building, the "Borbecker
Dampfbierbrauerei“.
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8.Jászberény-Hungary
(6-10 February 2011)
The theme of the meeting was religious festivities: Carnival.
In this project meeting there were involved 21 teachers and 10 students
from all countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania,
Poland, Romania, Spain, UK) and Hungarian team.
Our school team participated with 3 teachers: Popa Liviu Mircea (coordinator),
Mariciuc Vasile (Social Sciences), Matei Gabriel (ICT).
The theme of the meeting was “Carnival”. The aims were: to
raise awareness of the importance of intercultural dialogue among European
citizens in order to contribute to foster an active European citizenship
– cosmopolitan and with respect for cultural diversity; to promote
intercultural dialogue among students and teachers and to get to know
the culture of the people that live in the society; to present and to
get to know the Carnival traditions and customs of the involved countries
better; to get acquainted with school in the host town, Jászberény
and Hungarian culture and history –study visit to the Hungarian
capital, Budapest; to get to know the host town, Jászberény
– study visit to the Town Hall, the local museum, library, interactive
Tourist Center, Folk Music and Folk Dance House and ‘Déryné’
Cultural Center.
On Monday, 07th of February 2011, the teachers and students were welcomed
at the school. The Hungarian coordinator introduced the management of
the school; Mr. Tamás Zoltán headmaster opened the 8th meeting.
Each guest received the program and a wooden board made by the students.
After the exchange of gifts, students and teachers went to the Town Hall
where the Lord Mayor, Mr. Szabó waited for the guests.
The teachers had a meeting at the school where some issues were discussed
in connection with the final ‘European Comenius Festivity’
and the Lithuanian and Greek coordinators introduced their draft programs
of the next visits.
Our topic was Carnival, so everybody took part in an interactive workshop
in ‘Déryné’ Cultural Center. The participants
could watch a film about a typical Hungarian custom during Carnival.
Then two workshops took place where everybody could work under the supervision
and guidance of Hungarian folk artists. It was demonstrated how to do
patchwork and work with maize leaves, then the guests were taught to use
the different techniques. Both students and teachers were very creative
and cooperative.
On Tuesday, 08th of February 2011, the teachers and the students went
to Budapest by bus, on a study and cultural visit. We continued our educational
approach by visiting the Folk Music and Folk Dance House. The goal of
the Hungarian team was to show the living traditions of the Hungarian
peasant dance and music folklore during Carnival. This program was organized
by the ‘Jászság’ Folkdance Ensemble.
On Wednesday, 09th of February, each country presented how they celebrate
Carnival; the participants could get interesting and useful information
about different traditions, customs, dresses and dishes during Carnival.
Our team presented a movie created by our students, with the theme: “The
Carnival in Romania”.
As the teachers hadn’t finished the discussion on Monday, after
lunch all participating schools were represented and they had another
meeting at the school with proposals in connection with the final “European
Comenius Festivity” in June. In the evening the final festivity
took place. The Hungarian students showed their artistic program with
music, songs and dance. Then all the students joined the choir and sang
a well known song together (“Ebony and Ivory”).
After the headmaster speech all of the participants received their certificates,
DVDs with films and photos of the meeting from Hungary.
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9.Alytus-Lithuania
(20-24 March 2011)
The theme of the meeting was traditional games and music.
In this project meeting there were involved 23 teachers and 11 students
from 9 countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Polonia,
Romania, UK) and the Lithuanian team. The Spanish team couldn’t
participate.
Our school team participated with 3 teachers: Onica Florin (Social Sciences),
Dominte Costica (ICT), Eremei Pavel (Visual Arts) and a student: Pîrau
Dan.
The theme of the meeting was “Musical Games”. The aims of
this meeting were: to get to know the city of Alytus, its people, its
festivities and its cultural approaches; to present and to get to know
the musical games traditions of the involved countries; to work together
and to communicate in international workshops creating together a “Song
for Europe” (our project common song) guided by the teachers of
the music school in Lithuania; to learn more about each others country;
to present each topic of every country involved in the project; to work
together, communicate and discuss details about creating a European common
final festivity.
On the first day, the Lithuanian students and teachers tried to present
the school, the history of Alytus and the city. All participants met first
at Alytus music school concert hall. They listened to the Lithuanian greeting
(Greeting song) and say “hello” to each other in different
partners’ languages and shared souvenirs and gifts. For this meeting
we prepared in our school, during two workshops, a collection of painting
with musical themes (“Musical Emotions”, coordinated by our
Visual Arts teacher, Eremei Pavel). Each country received one of these
paintings.
In small groups, both the teachers and the students visited the school
building and accompanied their hosts into their classes, being aware about
the work methods and material resources in a school dedicated for musical
studies.
At noon, we attended a reception at Alytus municipality, where the mayor
welcomed us. Then we had an interactive workshop (Creating Song for Europe).
All countries sent their folk song. Alytus music school students and teachers
created melody based on the all folk songs and left empty places in the
note sheets for all Comenius team tasks. Three different variants for
the empty bars in the song were prepared and put in nine envelopes (an
envelope for each country). During the workshop, participants had to choose
an envelope, to fill empty bar in the notes sheet. After that all song
was completed and learnt. All participants had a rehearsal and learnt
“Song for Europe” by heart (lyrics and melody). Lyrics were
created by Alytus music school students.
All participating countries demonstrated their folk dance or song. Alytus
music school students met each team with the song performed in each country’s
national language. Our team presented a musical game, created by our students,
based on the Romanian traditional song "Alunelul"
On Tuesday we were involved in a study visit to Trakai, the ancient capital
of. Our points of cultural interest were Trakai Museum and Trakai Castle.
Our day continued with a descent in Vilnius, an excelent opportunity to
know more about Lithuanian history and culture.
The next day started with an educational lesson at Regional museum of
Alytus. Teachers were introduced to Lithuanian money and their making
history. Then, the teachers had a work session with administrative and
other actual questions: preparation to the next meeting in and preparation
to the final meeting in Greece. Each country has to prepare Song for Europe,
to sing with the teachers and students. A small brochure with the composers
of each country and note sheets with the Song for Europe was presented
by Lithuania to all teams. All countries gave their ideas about the final
meeting and final products.
The meeting ended with an extraordinary musical festivity, organized by
our Lithuanian hosts. In the end, all the participants’ played the
song we created together, our Song for Europe.
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10.Crotone-Italy
(12-17 May 2011)
The theme of the meeting was European Day.
In this project meeting there were involved 23 teachers and 18 students
from ten countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania,
Poland, Romania, Spain, UK) and the Italian team.
Our school team participated with 2 teachers: Mihai Donita (Headteacher),
Manea Daniela (PE) and 2 students: Postoi Sara and Scafariu Ivona.
The aims of this meeting were: to learn more about each others country
to present each country's topic; to work together, communicate and create
a European festivity; learn more bout the city of Crotone, its people
and its festivities.
The Italian school is a secondary high school with three different locations
in the city of Crotone. It offers three principal courses of study: Social
Studies, Social Economics and Linguistic (where the students must learn
three modern languages they can choose from English, French, German or
Spanish).
On the first day, the coordinator met with the group at the hotel and
accompanied them to one of the three school buildings where the first
meeting was held while the Italian students and teachers waited for the
delegation at school. During the official opening of the meeting, the
headmaster Alberto D’Ettoris greeted the guests with a welcoming
speech. The teachers and students were able to admire the 11 bulletin
boards that illustrated the different activities of the past meetings
with pictures, drawings, pamphlets and brochures. A power point presentation
of the project created by the students was also played along with a video
of Crotone. The Italian students played three typical Italian songs "Calabrisella",
"O Sole Mio", "Nel blu dipinto di blu" and the Song
of Europe.
After the exchange of gifts the group went to the town hall to meet with
the authorities.
After the welcoming speech and short presentation of the city of Crotone
by the authorities, the group was taken on a study visit to the old part
of city centre to the museum and to the medieval castle of Carlo V.
In the afternoon, the group returned to school, where each team presented
its topics (Spain – The Origin of Different Languages; Cyprus –
Tourist Attractions; Estonia – Geography; UK – Sport Quiz;
Poland – Food; Hungary – Cultural Heritage; Germany –
Youth Fashion; Lithuania – Music; Greece – Olympic Games).
Our team’s topic was 9th of May – European Day in Mass-media.
Our teachers were dressed in typical Romanian popular costumes and our
students gave a short performance and presented a video. Also, we organized
a small stand with some usual Romanian items (handicrafts, pottery, decorative
eggs).
The next day was dedicated to cultural approaches.
We had a study visit to Le Castella and Capo Colonna. The group continued
the study visit to the Aragonese Castle. In Capo Colonna we went to a
small church, a museum and an archaeological park and the last Doric column
that remains from the temple erected during the Magna Græcia period
dedicated to the goddess Hera Lacinia.
Since one of the topics of the project is religious festivities, the date
chosen for the meeting in Crotone was not by chance the period of the
Madonna of Capo Colonna feast, where the entire group was involved.
The last day includes the meeting with the major of Santa Severina and
a work session with teachers, where we disscused the ultimate details
regarding the final meeting of our project, in Greece.
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11.Salonic-Greece
(18-23 June 2011)
The theme of the final meeting was "European Day".
In this project meeting there were involved 27 teachers and 21 students
from ten countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania,
Poland, Romania, Spain, UK) and Greek team.
Our country was represented by 3 teachers: Mariciuc Vasile, Dominte Costica,
and Matei Gabriel, and 4 students: Ionescu Georgiana, Stan Corina, Uleru
George Iulian and Budescu Vlad.
On Saturday, we attended a traditional dance and musical festival in Kalamaria,
where we had access to the beauty of Greek customs and traditions.
On Sunday we had an study visit to Stagira, Aristotle’s birthplace,
and Ouranopolis where we had the opportunity to see a traditional Greek
village.
On Monday there was the official opening of the final meeting; we had
a welcome speech from the Greek team and their educational authorities.
After that we had a guided tour of the school where we attended an exhibition
made by the Greek team with stands for every country involved in the project
and some materials made for the meetings held in those countries.
We had meetings with the authorities: the mayor of Kalamaria and the prefect
of Salonic Region. After that we had an insight of the historical heritage
of the region by visiting the Archeology Museum and the Byzantine Museum.
Students had a workshop where they rehearsed the song of the project created
in Lithuania and made final arrangements for their presenting moment to
be held on the final festivity on Wednesday.
In the evening, we attended the official ending of the school year where
all of us sang the common song of the project.
On Tuesday we went in Vergina for a study visit, the first capital of
the ancient Macedonian Kingdom to have an insight of the ancient Greek
history. There we had a look at the archeological complex where there
are some tombs of ancient kings including Philip, the father of Alexander
the Great.
On Wednesday there was the final festivity in which every country presented
their impressions about the project using drama, music, posters, PPT and
video presentations, speeches, etc. Our team presented a video presentation
about our contribution to the project using some materials (photos) from
previous meetings categorized in the main aspects we considered to be
relevant for the whole project. All the participants expressed their opinions
about the impact of the project on them and their communities.
We consider the project to be a success because our students and teachers
had the opportunity to interact with their European colleagues, so that
they could broaden their perspective over Europe in order to become active
European citizens. Moreover, we consider that we became more open-minded
and we learnt many new things by improving our social, educational and
cultural skills.
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