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School Newscasts

2013-05-04T12:14:27+02:00

Each country produced a short newscast to show what pupils have found out about environmental issues.

Finlands Newscast
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Germanys Newscast
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Italys Newscast
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Romanias Newscast
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Spains Newscast

Turkeys Newscast
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Wales Newscast
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Ways to school

2012-11-03T12:00:11+01:00

FINLAND

My school trip takes 10 minutes. It is about 1 kilometer. Summer time I go by bike and winter by kick sled. Sometimes I stop to play near creek. On school yard I meet my friends.
Matti 3rd class

My school trip is about 1 kilometer. Before I go to school I must go out with my dog. After that I eat breakfast. Normally I go to school by foot or by bike. Winter time I go by kick sled. Sometimes I see birds and squirrels on my trip.
Venla 3rd class

I leave from home by my father´s car. First we drive sand road to the bigger road. There are two roads and then straight. School trip is three kilometers. There are big hills on the road.
Roope 4th class

I leave from home by bike. I drive down hill and next I drive up hill. Next I drive down hill and turn left next I turn right. Next I drive forward about 200m. My school trip takes about twenty minutes. After that I wait school bus. When school bus comes it takes about 20 minutes more and I am at school. Aku 4th class

Students of 4th class interviewed all other students of our school. They asked: “How you come to school summer and winter time”. You can see results from diagrams below.

Students of 1st and 2nd have no license to go to school by bike cause of safety. Winter time no one comes to school by bike cause of safety.

GERMANY

Class 2b produced a little booklet about theier ways to school. Have a look!

ITALY

Alice Buratti 4 class
Hello! My name is Alice and I’m from Melara Italy. I go to school on foot. I leave my house, I straight on, I turn right and in the first street I turn left. I go to school at 07.55 a.m.

Federico Fabbri 4 class
Hi! I’m Federico. I’m 9 years old. I’m from Melara – Italy. I go to school by school bus from Monday to Friday. School is far 1 km.

Sivia Malagutti 4 class
Hello! My name’s Silvia. I’m from Santo Stefano-Melara ITALY. I go to school by car.
School is far two kms from my house. I pass two traffic lights.

To see children prictures click here: A B C D

RUMANIA

To see the Rumanian graphs click here.

TURKEY

Hacer Kaya 5-C
Hello! Myname’s Hacer Kaya.I’m from Istanbul,Turkey. I go to school every week day. I walk along my home’s street and turn left. I cross the street walk just a few meters. I arrive at school at 8:40 in the morning.

Muhammet Cüneyt Kutlay 5-C
Hello! I’m Muhammet Cüneyt Kutlay. I’m Turkish. Every morning I walk to school. I go straight a head and turn right. I follow the street to the park and turn right. At the end of the street I turn right and follow the road to the school.

WALES

Transport:

How Year 4 travel to school
Car	8
Bus	0
Walk	14
Bike	2
Scooter	0

Unicef-Walk

2012-11-03T11:59:46+01:00

Unicef walk is an easy and voluntary way to help children across the world.
It gives pupils a chance to have effect and learn – by exercising!
Material needed (passes, stickers, route signs, posters) in Unicef walk comes from Unicef Finland.
Arranged in Finland since 1998 and originally idea comes from Netherlands.
This year funds are raised for Unicef´s Schools for Africa-campaign.
During the school year 2011-2012 Finnish pupils helped 120 000 African children attend school.

DIRECTIONS – how to organize Unicef walk

Schools choose one day for Unicef walk
Before the event pupils collect sponsors for the walk (parents, grandparents, neighbors).
School sends an info letter to homes.
Before the event teacher tells/shows videos/gives presentation about global issues and children rights in class (local Unicef office can help and maybe visit school).
Pupils walk as many kilometers as possible the day when Unicef walk is organized. Teachers mark the round with route signs before the event. Pupils walk the round with their passes and get stickers to it. Usually pupils walk one kilometer round (pupils get one sticker/km for their passes).
After walk pupils present their sponsors their passes and how many kilometers they have walked. Sponsors give money to pupils.
School collects money from pupils and sends money for Unicef.
Unicef uses money for Schools for Africa-campaign this year.
Pupils can participate for Unicef walk also without sponsors!
It is important to tell children/families how much they collected money for Unicef.

With our Comenius project UNICEF walk we collected a lot of money. All in all we collected 3350 Euro! Thanks for all the great sponsors and the participating children!

Projects

2012-11-03T11:52:04+01:00

During our Comenius Project "Hands and feet" we are doing a lot of actvities with our pupils. In this catogory you will find some outcomes of these activities.

Mini Olympics

2012-11-03T11:49:20+01:00

This year every participating country organised Mini Olympic Games and produced a video about this happening. So have fun, watching children dooing sport and having lots of fun!

Mini Winter Olympics in Finland
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Mini Olympics in Germay
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Mini Olympics in Italy
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Mini Olympics in Romania
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Mini Olympics in Spain (available soon)

Mini Olympics in Turkey
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Mini Olympics in Wales
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Activity Calender

2011-07-24T14:51:22+02:00

Here can you find the timetable for all project specific activities.

Sep 19th 2011	All Countries	Heal the world
		Sing project song 'Heal the world'
Sep 26th 2011	All Countries	e-mails
		Pupils e-mail pupils in each of the other countries
Oct 3rd 2011	All Countries	Interviews
		Pupils interview people 'hands who help them around the school' - find our what they do
Oct 10th 2011	All Countries	Leaflet
		Produce a 'Hands that help us in school' leaflet /flyer to inform pupils in the other school about people who work in their school and the jobs they do.
Nov 23rd - 27th 2011	Germany	1. Visit
		Exchange of 'Hands that help us' leaflets; Discussion of craft book and web-site; Evaluation of work so far - discuss pupils and teacher evaluations; visit classes; talk to children; meet staff and members of the community
Dec 12th 2011	All Countries	Postcards
		Send 6 cards each per country in English or bi-lingual to every country.
Jan 2nd - Feb 22nd '12	All Countries	Posters
		Each country produce 6 posters in total to give one poster to each country in the project at the next meeting in Finland. Each poster should display a range of people who help us in the community and should be displayed in English but could also be bi-lingual.
Feb 22nd-26th'12	Finnland	2. Visit
		Exchange of 'hands that help us in our comunity‘ posters to inform pupils in the other school about people who work in their community.
Mar '12	All Countries	Emplayment graphs
		All schools survey with children the employment in their school (parents). Each country needs to produce a graph of employment and bring it to Spain in May. This can be either an electronic copy or a hard copy or both.
May 23rd-27th '12	Spain	3. Visit
Jun '12	All Countries	Mini Olympics
		Children plan Mini Olympics by thinking about the benefits of sports, E.g. Health, friendship, rules, leadership, etc. Schools are to take videos of the children taking part in sports and discussing the benefits. This will be collated in time for September when it will be shared during the Wales Visit. Each country will need to make a DVD of their work.
Sept '12	All Countries	Produce DVDs of the mini-olympics
		5 picture postcards for each country of local area (30 in total) where children have written simple sentence patterns e.g. I live in...I like...etc - these will be exchanged at the project meeting
Sept 26th-30th '12	Wales	3. Visit
Nov. '12	All Countries	Routes that our feet take
		Children produce maps showing their journey from home to school.
Nov '12	All Countries	History Work
		All schools produce 3 time-lines about three important historical people from their country (exchange in Istanbul)
Nov 21st-25th '12	Turkey	4. Visit
Jan '13	All Countries	Our Carbon Footprint
		Children produce a mind-map to show the impact we have in the world. (Printout A3 for each country, exchange in Rumania) Using local maps, children mark outlines of bad footprints (red) and good footprints (green) (1 map for each country)
Feb '13	All Countries	Enviroment - "Reduce/Reuse/Recycle"
		Children produce persuasive posters to show what we can do to help our enviroment (3 posters for each country)
Feb 15th '13	All Countries	Caterpillar Link Radio Programme (radio station Italy)
		Pupils and teachers switch off the lights at school or at home for 1 hour, videos, photos, pictures about it to document the event to save energy and electricity
Mar 13rd-17th '13	Rumania	5. Visit

Romania - Scoala CU Clasele

2011-07-24T14:50:28+02:00

General School of Dumbrava, Timis County has 3 schools (Dumbrava, Rachita and Bucovat) including infant, primary, secondary schools.

Surrounding area
Our school, Rachita is situated in a very picturesque area, near a beautiful lake (Surduc Lake) where people like to spend their free time and holidays, near the mountain of Poiana Rusca. The river Bega flows throught the middle of the village.

Pupils
Our scool is a small one, we have around 100 pupils altogether. Development of education in the area is linked to the name of Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II.

Our school building
We have school in 2 different buildings. One of them is more than 250 years old, but nowadays is renovated, the other in a 2 storey building and it is about 40 years old. We have one Info Lab, 7 classrooms and one Gym. Our students are from pre primary- aged 3 or 4 to general school, aged 14 or 15.

Spain - CEIP San Jose

2011-07-24T14:44:13+02:00

Surrounding area
San José Infant and Primary School is located in the centre of the Region of Murcia, in a quiet village called “Las Torres de Cotillas”. It´s about 15 km from the capital, the city of Murcia. There are about 22.000 inhabitants in the village.
The village is well-known by its industry. We produce a great variety of cleaning products, medical products and tinned-food, such as fruit and vegetables.

Our school buildings
The school was built in 1979 and is divided into two buildings, separated about 300 metres from each other. In one of the buildings (the “old school”), we have the infants and the first cycle of primary education and in the second building (the “new school”), we have the second and third cycles of primary education.

There is a gym in the school and a sport centre nearby with all kinds of facilities, such as indoor and outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, paddle courts, football pitch, etc.

Pupils and teachers
There are about 470 children altogether and we are 38 teachers plus another 8 people working in the kitchen, dining room and taking care of the school.

Germany - Pestalozzischule

2011-07-24T14:43:23+02:00

Surrounding area
Our two school buildings are situated in a green and quiet area although the town Gladbeck itself is at the border of the "Ruhrgebiet" (ruhr area).

Pupils and teachers
We have 230 pupils and 10 teachers in 10 classes. There are 90 pupils and 5 teachers in the other schoolbuilding. The pupils age is 6 to 10.

Our school buildings
Our school is almost 100 years old. It has been modernized in the last few years. There are ten classrooms, a special classroom for music and an gym. We also use our gym for quarterly assemblies and other celebrations. For our daycare-pupils we offer meals in our own canteen, which also has a kitchen. In February 2011, we merged with a second primary school not far away from us, the "Hermannschule". So we are currently teaching in two school buildings.

The "Pestalozzischule" building (upper) and the building of the former "Hermannschule" (lower)

Classroom

Canteen

Our big schoolyard with old trees and an own playground

Our teachers

Helping hands in our school
The following pictures are taken by our pupils from the 1st grade (6 years old).

Mrs. Gerlinde Drews is our secretary.

Mr. Alfons Güdding is our caretaker. He is often en route.

These are some ladies of our daycare.

Contact details
Pestalozzischule Gladbeck GGS
Brahmsstraße 22 / Schulstraße 1
45966 Gladbeck
NRW, Germany

http://www.pestalozzischule-gladbeck.de

info@pestalozzischule-gladbeck.de

Turkey - Rabia Leman Ilkogretim Okulu

2011-07-24T14:42:27+02:00

Surrounding Area
 Rabia Leman Primary School is located in Atasehir, a rapidly  developing district on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. Istanbul is a  mega city, as well as the cultural, economic, and financial centre of  Turkey. There are about 13 million residents in the city. The city has  always been a tourist destination with a rich historical background  and a vivid socio-cultural life.  The school serves a neighborhood that is left rather  under developed in the middle of luxurious housing projects. There’re  small apartment buildings, individual houses, some small businesses  and two big shopping malls near our school.

Pupils and teachers 
We have approximately 1100 pupils aging between 5 - 15 and 33  personnels; 15 classroom teachers, 16 branch teachers and 2 management  staff. Pupils with special needs are integrated to basic education groups.

 Our School Buildings 
The school building was built in 2002. There are 26 classes, 2 offices,  a teachers’ room, a multi purpose conference hall, a computer lab, a  science lab and a library in the school. The school canteen is located  outside the school building.

Finland - Vehmasmaen koulu

2011-07-24T14:41:38+02:00

Surrounding area
Vehmasmaki primary school is situated in eastern Finland, the city called Kuopio (97000 inhabitants). Our school is in Kuopio countryside surrounded by beautiful nature 20 km from city centre.

Pupils and teachers
We have 130 pupils and six teachers, one special needs teacher and three assistants. We have six classes and pupils are 7 -12 years old. Pupils with special needs are integrated to basic education groups.

Our school buildings
The older school building is built 1884. There are five classrooms, teachers’ room and headmaster’s office.
The other school building is built 1988. There is one classroom, gym, canteen, special classroom for handcrafts and school nurse’s room.

Greetings from Finland

our teachers

old school building

new school building

gym

canteen

6th class at work

friends

Italy - Instituto Comprensivo Castelmassa

2011-07-24T14:39:32+02:00

Surrounding area
The “Istituto Comprensivo of Castelmassa” (RO) includes 13 schools: 4 Infant Schools, 5 Primary Schools and 4 Secondary Schools (Middle Schools) and a Permanent Territorial Centre for Adult Education. The schools are spread over a territory of six municipalities and are placed in line along the left bank of the river Po on the border of three large regions of northern Italy.

Pupils and teachers
In the Comenius project are involved 5 Primary schools and 4 Middle schools: about 200 students and 20 teachers.

Our school buildings
There are five primary schools, one for each little town: Castelmassa, Castelnovo Bariano, Ceneselli, Bergantino e Melara. The bigger school is situated in Castelmassa. Students are from the town of Castelmassa and the little town of Calto.

Primary school of CASTELMASSA

In the computer room

After bell

Primary school of CASTELNOVO BARIANO

In the playground :“Hi from students and teachers of class 5”

Primary school of CENESELLI

The fifth class with the emblem of the town

Primary school of MELARA

Mrs Paola M. and Mrs Paola N. with their students in class 5

Primary school of BERGANTINO

Students outside the school

In the gym: pupils waving flags “sbandieratori”

There are 4 Middle schools situated in the towns of: Castelmassa, Castelnovo Bariano, Bergantino and Melara.

Middle school of CASTELMASSA.

Mrs Simonetta and the students of the class 1 A

Mrs Simonetta and the students of the class 1 B

Middle school of CASTELNOVO BARIANO

Special greetings from teachers and students of class 1

Many smiles from the students in the class 1

Middle school of MELARA

The pupils and the foreign language teachers: we study English and Spanish!

Wales - Gnoll Primary School

2011-07-24T14:38:33+02:00

Surrounding area
Gnoll Primary School is in the Southern part of Wales. We are in the centre of the town of Neath. Our school is in an old industrial area of Wales where there used to be a lot of coal mines, oil refineries and steel works. Now the employment pattern has changed as the heavy industry has closed and is now mainly in the service sector and tourism. We are near to the coast and the mountains. We have a large park near to the school which we can use to enhance our studies.

Pupils and teachers
We have 320 children and fifty staff in the school. There are fifteen classes from nursery (3years old) to year 6 (eleven years old).

Our school buildings
Gnoll Primary School was built in 1940 but was used as an annex to Neath Hospital until the 1980s. It was converted to become Gnoll Primary school in 1991. We have a single story building shaped like a capital ‘E’. Everyone does their best to make our school a fun place to be and our school council are always looking for ways to improve our school and make it even better.

We are all looking forward to linking hands of friendship with other pupils across Europe

Here are some of our classes and other interesting places around our school:

Mrs Long's Year 6 class

Mrs Sharp's Year 5 class

Mrs Raisbeck's Year 3 class

Mr Dobson’s Year 4 and 5 class

Miss Carney's year 4

Mrs Murray in her art and music studio

Our school library

Our dinner hall

One of our outside play areas

Multisensory room

A quiet sitting area in the playground

Schools

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Here is a map of all participating schools. You can also download a KML file for Google Earth:

Hands and feet

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Our 'hands and feet' Comenius Project will explore the similarities and differences between the partner countries in terms of the children's daily lives. The activities, employment patterns and environmental issues of the local and regional environments and also to see how our local problems & efforts link into European and Global issues. We aim to use a wide range of I.C.T involving as many people as possible. This will include people irrespective of age, gender, special needs and religious beliefs - children, teachers, families and the local community. Our project will be be:

Hands: September 2011 to February 2012

Hands that reach out and link In friendship e.g Writing e-mails and or letters to introduce themselves
What they like to do with their hands e.g. crafts, sports (2012 Olympic games)
Hands that help us at home e.g. Mum
Dad – what work does he do?
What jobs do the pupils do to help at home
Hands that help us in the wider community; e.g police, ambulance, fire service etc
Hands that help us in school
What jobs do people do? E.g caretaker, cleaners, teachers, etc

Feet: March 2012 to May 2013

Whose feet have been there before us?
Any important historical people from our area
Historical background to the area
How we can reduce the impact – sustainability
Reduce / re-use / recycle

We will produce letters, e-mails, post cards, posters, DVDs and a craft book and will have to use entrepreneurial skills to cost, produce and sell their books in the local community.

Project visits will give the opportunity to share detailed planning, implementation and evaluation. It will also give teachers the chance to compare education systems, to exchange ideas and learn from each other.

Comenius: Europe in the classroom

2011-07-24T14:23:20+02:00

The Comenius Programme focuses on all levels of school education, from pre-school and primary to secondary schools. It is relevant for everyone involved in school education: mainly pupils and teachers but also local authorities, representatives of parents’ associations, non-government organisations, teacher training institutes and universities.

Part of the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme, the Comenius actions aim to help young people and educational staff better understand the range of European cultures, languages and values. They also help young people acquire the basic life skills and competences necessary for personal development, future employment and active citizenship.

The programme addresses issues strongly related to current discussions and developments in school policy: motivation for learning and ‘learning-to-learn’ skills, key competences, digital educational content and inclusive education.

Goals

Comenius aims to:

Improve and increase the mobility of pupils and educational staff across the EU;
Enhance and increase partnerships between schools in different EU Member States, with at least 3 million pupils taking part in jointeducational activities by 2010;
Encourage language learning, innovative ICT-based content, services and better teaching techniques and practices;
Enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher training;
Improve pedagogical approaches and school management.

Priorities

The programme is currently focusing in particular on:

Motivation for learning and learning-to-learn skills;
Key competences: improving language learning; greater literacy; making science more attractive; supporting entrepreneurship; and reinforcing creativity and innovation;
Digital educational content and services;
School management;
Addressing socio-economic disadvantages and reducing early school leaving;
Participation in sports;
Teaching diverse groups of pupils;
Early and pre-primary learning.

For more details please see: http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc84_en.htm

About

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This homepages features information on the "Hands and feet" project, which is an international collaboration of seven european primary school from 2011 - 2013. The project is financed by the European Unions Comenius Programme.

The aim of the project is to bring european pupils together and tell them more about the life of their european neighbours. Not just by reading books and watching movies, but by having real communication about every-day-life, common problems, wishes and future perspectives. Pupils communicate via eMail, videochat and the blog functionality of this website.

On top, the teachers of the participating schools will visit each other to organize and align sub-projects and learn about the education system and pricinples in other countries.

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