Teachers' diary

This week, from 17th to 21st January 2011, Poland, Italy and France met in Portugal for their first Comenius meeting with students.

The aims of the meeting were to :
- share and compare the questionnaires’ results on a Powerpoint presentation
- show the photos of the Comenius tree plantation
- present the mascots
- exhibit the posters about recycling

Each student was hosted by a very friendly Portuguese family, thus discovering their way of life and practising their English. At first, the students were nervous but they quickly adapted to these new circumstances (lessons, playground, meals…) and also made new friends.

The Comenius group visited the school first and also the surroundings. Teachers attended lessons (English, French, technology, 5-year olds). All the people involved (parents, students, teachers and principals) took part in a warm welcome dinner on Tuesday in the canteen. The Portuguese principal introduced the aim of the project and the purpose of the visit to the families.

This was the first step for the students to discover the meaning of being European citizens, open to a sustainable and cooperative lifestyle. It also opened the teachers’ minds to a different way of teaching, planning, organization in general and different teacher-student relationships.

Finally, we prepared for the next meeting in Italy in May 2011.

To be continued…

STUDENTS' DIARY OF THE COMENIUS WEEK IN PORTUGAL

Monday - on Monday we met our friends at the airport. We were very happy . J

  Tuesday – We were at school with our friends. In the afternoon we went to visit Belém. We ate “pasteis de Belém” and they were very good.

When we came back from the visit we went to the welcome dinner in the school canteen and it was very funny.

 Wednesday – We went to school to watch our friends’ lessons and watched their work presentations. Then we made a common powerpoint presentation about the results of the questionnary.

Thursday – We went to auditorium for work on the presentation.

Friday – The students from other countries went home. We were sad to say goodbye.

Other comments:
«We were happy and nervous because we were looking forward to meeting new people». - group of students
«We loved the visit to Belém, to the Monastery and sitting by the river.» - group of students
«I liked the school very much. I liked everything but mostly the school bar!» - Kuba
«I liked the airplane. Liked meeting new friends and I loved Portugal. I liked this school because it is very big and beautiful. I liked Lisbon and my host family.» - Federico D.
«I like my new friend, he's very nice.» - André
« I liked the dinner at school because I met many people.» - Clementine
«I liked eating in the school canteen with my new friends.» - Anaelle

Still in October...

There was a special time at the beginning of the month when younger students planted trees near the school. It is the every year action "The tree grows with me". The trees are the gift of the local forest company and for the paper collected last year. One of the tree was a special coniferous one planted in front of the school. It was called Comenius tree and grows near the direction signs of the 4 Comenius partner schools.

And back to December...

The Comenius students took part in special lessons of building solar cars in the local University. It was the time of learning how the sun energy moves electrical objects, such as cars. This was the good beginning of work over solar cars to bring to suuny Italy in May.

Wciąż w październiku....

Na początku miesiaca był szczególny czas, gdy młodsi uczniowie sadzili drzewka obok szkoły. To jest coroczna akcja "Ze mną rośnie drzewko". Drzewka są darem miejscowego przedsiębiorstwa leśnego za zebraną makulaturę w zeszłym roku. Jednym z drzewek było iglaste posadzone przed szkoła. Nazwane zostało drzewko Comeniusa a rośnie blisko kierunkowskazu 4 partnerskich szkół programu Comenius.

A wracając do grudnia...

Uczniowie z grupy Comenius uczestniczyli w specjalnych zajęciach budowy samochodów słonecznych w miejscowej Wyższej Szkole Zawodowej. Był to czas nauki jak energia słoneczna porusza obiekty, tj. samochody. To był dobry początek pracy nad samochodami na energię, aby przywieźć do słonecznej Italii.

Comenius in Poland