OUR FIRST PICTURES TO CALENDAR

NEWS FROM COMENIUS

Work on the comenius project in our school interests everyone. Our group does a lot to inform the whole school community about the project work and promote it in the local papers. We hope they can also learn about European trees, culture, interesting places and many others. In the time between the first issue of the newspaper and this one we have completed many tasks and some activities are still on the work. To prepare well for the meeting we did a lot of work:
Our teachers organized a meeting with the parents whose children where chosen for the trip to Spain to present them the plan of the trip. They also took part in the meeting with the Major to inform about the progress of the project and ask for some financial support of the trip to Arahal. Thanks to the Major we could take some souvenirs for the Major of Arahal local authority school principal and the families hosting our students in their houses. They had a lot of work with the trip documentation and all the needed papers.
Before going to Spain students started e-mail correspondence with their Spanish correspondents. We prepared presentation about the places to visit on the way to and back from Spain. School notice board was completed with the plan of the journey and the meeting. We started project chronicle which was signed by the Spanish families at the end of the stay in Arahal. We prepared Polish-English short dictionary with words useful for describing trees.
The first meeting of the project took place between 29.11 - 08.12.2009y. There were students and teachers from Turkey, Hungary, Spain and Poland. One of the main aims of the project was getting to know each other, learning about Spanish trees, talking about the project activities, planning the next tasks and meeting and evaluating of the meeting. The meeting students stayed at the Spanish families so we could also learn about Spanish way of life and the Spanish cousine. Apart from learning we visited many interesting places: Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Milano, Venice, Seville. At the meeting we designed a calendar about trees and cross-countries tree guide. Teachers created tools for meeting evaluation and all the participants did the evaluation. We chose Turkish logo to be the project logo. Each partner school chose the tree symbol of every country. Polish team chose an oak. Meeting participants took part in some lessons in Spanish school. Every partner presented power point presentation of the school. We also took a lot of photos of the Spanish trees and bushes to prepare photo-gallery after the arrival.
When we got back home we wrote reports about the meeting and it was sent to the local newspaper “Kulisy Powiatu”. We try to keep in touch with the students from Spain who hosted us in their homes. We completed the school presentation with the news from the meeting. School notice board informs about the meeting. We wrote articles to the ComeNews and school newspaper “To i owo”. We made Christmas cards and sent them to our partners. We are completing school web page with the project news and the blog which was created by the Spanish group at the meeting. As you can see there is no time for boredom!


Jakub Tyszkowski

Peace Day in Arahal

We celebrated Peace Day on 30th of January. At school we played a game with other schools. We wrote separated words from a sentence about peace. We wrote the words on a cardboard. We didn't have the whole sentence. Pupils from other schools had some other words from the sentence. We went to Corredera Square, the main square in Arahal, and there we met pupils from other schools. They had other words to complete the sentence.
So we looked for the pupils with the same number in the word to make the sentence. Then we ordered the words to make the sentence. Finally, we sticked the sentence on a wall in the Town Hall of our city.

Denominator of our school

Móra Ferenc
(1879-1934)

First of all he is one of the most popular writer in Hungary and he’s our school’s name-giving.

His life

He was born in 1879, in Kiskunfélegyháza. His father (Móra Márton) was a tailor and his mother (Juhász Anna) was a bread baker. They were very poor but they love each other very much. Ferenc was an eminent and talented student. He had a lot of supportings. After he was a private teacher. We can read about these years in his most popular novel, in Kincskereső kisködmön (The little treasure fur coat).
He went to Budapest (the capital of Hungary) and got a degree as a teacher. He had to go to Szeged and became a journalist and in the same year he got married. Later he had a daughter.

He was a very coloured individuality: he worked as a journalist, – he wrote lot of political articles - as a archeologist, as a novel writer and as a director in a museum.

The lot of work vandalized his health and unfortunately he died – in cancer – in 1934.

His main productums
Geography and reading coursebooks for children ( Their names’re „Móra coursebooks”)

Youth novels: he wrote more than a thousand articles in a newspaper for children, in „My Newspaper”

Some of his famous youth novels:

-Under the old valnut trees
-The imprisoned man’s sons
-The Szitáry boys and their father
-Csilicsali Csalavári Csalavér ( this a fantasy Hungarian title and this is a tale about a fox)
-The little treausure finder fur coat

Historical legends

His „big” novels:

-The death of the painter (It’s a true story)
-Hannibal’s prop up
-The golden coffin
-From the Daru Street to the Móra Street (It’s an autobiography)

by the Hungarian Comenius Team

Carneval in Hungary

Carneval of February – „Farsang”

The winter-chaser carneval period is about 15-20 days; between 1st and 20th of February.
This period is from Twelfth Night to Ash Wednesday in the Christian churches. People get dressed into costume-dress or they take up a mask or a make-up. Nowadays children take a costume-dress ball by the organization of the teachers in the schools. After this the children have a party.

In our school there were also parties by the reason of Farsang. The first thing what the children could do in the party was seeing a Vienna Waltz dance. These children were preparing for this dance from last October. The children who go to the 8 classes (14-15 years old children), they were dancing Vienna Waltz. The parties were on 5th and 6th February in our school. After this we could saw the costume-dress carneval. There were apart celebrations for the little and the bigger children. About in the middle of the parties there were tombolas. There were a lot of prizes what we could win - if we were lucky – for example cakes, toys and articles for use. When the tombola was over, we could continue the disco.

by Dominik Istrate