THANK YOU

THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED TO ALL SCHOOL COMMUNITIES OF OUR GREAT PROJECT! IT HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL TWO-YEARS TIME WHERE WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF WORKING TOGETHER, CO-OPERATING AND BECOMING GOOD FRIENDS IN EUROPE. WE HAVE LEARNED ENORMOUSLY FROM ONE ANOTHER, WE HAD FUN TOGETHER AND WE MANAGED TO BECOME A EUROPEAN FAMILY!

SPECIAL THANKS GO TO OUR OUTSTANDING PROJECT COORDINATOR, MANOS, FROM THE GREEK SCHOOL IN HERSONISSOS. HE BEAUTIFULLY MANAGED TO KEEP US ALL GOING AND TO CONVEY IN ALL OF US THE FEELING THAT WE WERE A GREAT GROUP AND THAT OUR WORK WAS IMPORTANT NOT ONLY FOR OUR SCHOOLS, BUT FOR ALL OF US AS PERSONS.

LET'S HOPE OUR PATHS CROSS AGAIN!!!

LA VIE EST BELLE!

OUR FIRST MEETING IN A CONTACT SEMINAR IN BUDAPEST IN OCTOBER 2012, WHERE OUR PROJECT WAS BORN.

OUR LAST PROJECT MEETING IN CRETE - GREECE IN JUNE 2015.

COMENIUS "ACTIVE IN EUROPE" TRAVEL GUIDE

In this travel guide each of the countries and their participating pre-primary and primary schools prepared a small inside guide about how to spend an active vacation if you ever find yourself visiting.
Apart from some general information about the country this travel guide will give you an inside look on the following areas in each country: Málaga – Spain, Paks – Hungary, Zagreb – Croatia, Düsseldorf – Germany, Donegal – Ireland, Ljubljana – Slovenia, Hersonisos – Greece and Kolding – Denmark.

SCHOOL LIFE

The last number of our Active Magazine is here. It deals about school life in each of the project's schools. Have a look and see what we do at school in different parts of Europe:

LAST MEETING IN CRETE (GREECE)

Our Project is coming to an end... After two years working together, exchanging experiences, learning from one another, we are going to hold our last Comenius meeting in the Primary School of Hersonissos, Crete, from the 10th to the 12th of June. We do thank our Greek partners for all the preparations and the wonderful programme they have prepared for our visit.

In fact, Comenius friends, this is not the end, just the beginning of a friendship among European schools. 

LA VIE EST BELLE!

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OUR MEETINGS' GALLERY

EUROPE DAY 2015 CELEBRATIONS

Apart from the videos we exchanged among the partner-schools, we organized different celebrations about Europe Day.

SPAIN:

Each pupil of the Spanish Pre-Primary and Primary schools made a drawing of a person and put them all together in a giant poster about EUROPE DAY 2015

SLOVENIA AND CROATIA TOGETHER FOR EUROPE DAY 2015
 

This year we marked Europe Day, which we celebrate within the Comenius project, in a very special way. Together with our partners, The Croatians, we arranged to honour this occasion with a two-day visit from our Croatian friends and with a one-day visit of a Slovenian kindergarten to Croatia.

We were excitingly expecting the day when we would meet the friends from the Croatian kindergarten. We were excited about their arrival to our kindergarten. After lunch we went on a boat trip which took us along the Ljubljanica River, and then we took a walk up to the Ljubljana Castle. On our way back to the centre of Ljubljana we enjoyed the lovely weather by indulging in delicious ice-cream. In the evening hours we took the bus back to the kindergarten where we then had a »pancake party«, played grass hockey, rode the bikes and overall built new friendships. In the late evening we set up beds in the playroom and before falling asleep we had a real pyjama party. What is interesting is that at night some leprechauns visited us and left a small surprise gift under each child's bed. The following day we had workshops on various topics and unfortunately time passed very quickly until we had lunch and our new friends returned back to Croatia.

In two weeks’ time we Slovenians then had a chance to enjoy a one-day trip to our Croatian friends. They were very happy about our arrival. In the kindergarten they organised a workshop on the topic of face painting and in the playground they set up an inflatable castle. After lunch we headed for a wonderful zoo where our guide told us many interesting facts about wonderful animals. Once again it was not long before we had to say goodbye, but we promised to each other to soon meet again and continue the annual common celebration of Europe Day.

 SLOVENIA AND CROATIA...

 ...TOGETHER ON A TRIP TO THE ZOO

IRELAND:

The Irish school invited parents, school management and the local community to the afternoon events. They started with a ‘Handshake for Europe’ in the school playground. The European Anthem ‘Ode to Joy’ was played on loudspeaker and they all listened while Third Class pupils described the events of May 1950 and their significance. All present then took part in a group handshake.

 

The next part of the day was the ‘Taste of Europe’ exhibition. They had prepared foods from Greece, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Denmark and Spain. It was fun sampling the different tastes. 

  The final event of the day was the ‘All About Europe’ Quiz.  Four teams of 6 from 5^th and 6^th class competed in a close contest over 4 rounds. The parents and other adults present were impressed at how much the students knew about the EU and the European Parliament. The most difficult round proved to be assembling a jigsaw of Europe against the clock! Team ‘Denmark’ emerged as winners with 2 points to spare. 

HAPPY EUROPE DAY 2015!

We made 2 minute videos in each school with a "Happy Europe Day" message as a topic. Enjoy them!!!

SPAIN:

IRELAND:

GREECE:

CROATIA AND SLOVENIA:

HUNGARY:

GERMANY:

 

ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP CAMPAIGNS AT OUR SCHOOLS

Active Citizens in Düsseldorf (Germany)

 


We want active playgrounds! (Rincón de la Victoria - Málaga - Spain)



 

Making healthy choices easy choices (Crete - Greece)

Waste Collecting Campaign (Kolding - Denmark)  

Active Citizens with a bike (Paks - Hungary)

1st phase: riding balance on bikes and scooters – to improve balance, to practice starting and stopping

2nd phase: practicing pedalling on small bikes, with bigger bikes completing slalom courses, practicing traffic rules

3rd phase: a 20km bike tour to the  village"Cseresznyés"

Active Citizenship in Ireland:

We looked at how to make our road safer so that more children could walk to school - Road Safety Project.

Checking for danger

Crossing the road

Researching our project

Active Citizenship in Croatia: 
What does it mean to be active? How can we be active? What can we do to become and be
active?
 

Active Citizenship in Slovenia:
The children of the Preschool Vrtec Pedenjped in Ljubljana designed a new playground together with their teachers.

COMENIUS SPRING MINI-BEASTS

A craft-exchange (mini-beasts) among all partner-schools took place during our meeting in Paks (Hungary). Denmark brought bees and spiders; Croatia, snails and little insects; Slovenia, wasps and ladybirds to play tic-tac-toe; Greece, butterflies; Germany, wasps, bees and ladybirds; Hungary, cute cloth dolls; Spain, hidden caterpillars and Ireland, butterflies and caterpillars.

Mini-beasts exhibition at schools

NEXT COMENIUS MEETING: PAKS - HUNGARY

Our last but one meeting will take place in the city of Paks (Hungary) from the 15th to the 17th April. We will get together to organize the last steps of our project and to visit the Hungarian partners' kindergartens, who have prepared for us a wonderful programme. 

We are also going to exchange crafts that the children of our project's schools have made on the topic "mini-beasts". There will be soon an exhibition about Spring in each school with all the crafts when we come back.

Does anyone know where to see this beautiful church???

SEE OUR MEETINGS' GALLERY

AND

WATCH OUR PROJECT IN THE HUNGARIAN TV!!! 

ACTIVE CITIZENS

Becoming an active citizen is not an easy task! Our European children have been working in a Comenius activity in each school where they have been analysing, designing and planning how their school environment could be changed in order to facilitate regular exercise and a healthier way of life. Some schools have been addressing the surroundings of the school and others the school playgrounds. The children have taken an "active" part as European citizens asking their local authorities to help in the achievement of their initiatives.

We will publish soon a summarize about all the works that have been going on in each school of our European Project.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!

 

SOME COMENIUS CHRISTMAS MOMENTS...!

FROM GERMANY:

FROM SPAIN:

FROM CRETE - GREECE:

Making traditional cookies: “kourabiedes”

Singing and dancing

FROM SLOVENIA:

Father Frost at school

Baking biscuits for an intergenerational event

FROM IRELAND:

Santa Clause and some Elves with the Comenius Christmas Tree

FROM CROATIA: