„The future in our past”

In March there was a project in our school. The name of this project is „The future in our past”. This project was for 3 weeks.
In these 3 weeks we were studying the Hungarian education system of the past and we could get to know the form of the old education system and methods.
On English and German lessons our Year 8 made a film about our school. We made this film in English, German and Hungarian language. Moreover we could listen an irregular Russian lesson.
On History lesson our class made a chart about the history of Hungarian education.
On Hungarian lessons we attend to old and new school slang. We used etimologian and synonym dictionaries. In addition we studied the Hungarian education system. We gave a a funny play what was about the old school.
On Music lesson we sang different „path-breaker” songs.
( When the communist USSR controlled our country, „path-breaker” was the name of those students who go to senior classes. They had to wear uniforms, all „path-breakers” had a red tie.)
On Art lesson we designed and drew our school.
On the last day of this project there was a hurdle-race for the students of the senior class. These children had to match their power with the other children in sport, history of school education and history of our school.

When this project was over, there was a gala where some children gave several plays for the students. In some classrooms there were showing films about our school. During the presentation children could see that film what the senior class-children made.

As the name of this project is „The future in our past”, „we were not in the past only”. The project has got a „tree”. All classes wrote their experiences on some sheets of paper and we took these sheets of paper on this „tree”. Moreover all classes sent something for the generation of the future. Our target is to hold our past, because without past there is no future.

News from Hungary

Activities From Suleymanpasa Primary School

EXCURSION TO ISTANBUL
Two weeks ago the students and our teachers went to İstanbul.We have seen many beautiful places there. Dolmabahçe Palace is the one of the beautiful place. There was an interesting show of the dolphins.
We had very good time.

BASKETBALL TEAMS OF OUR SCHOOL
Süleymanpaşa Primary School is the champion in our city in Tekirdağ.Both our girls team (primary and secondary) and boys team (primary and secondary) teams won the matches and our friends brought four cups to our schooh.

EARTHQUAKE DRILL IN OUR SCHOOL


Tekirdağ is in an earthquake region That’s why we should do all the preparations to prevent damages.Last week we did practice against any earthquakes.Since our school is very crowded this drill was neseccary, because all the students have to know how to behave during the

earthquake.

Trip to Burgos

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