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