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The 4th project

meeting took place at

Sennels Skole, Thisted,

Denmark from May 7 to

13, 2011. We are really

excited of the wonderful

experience we had in Den-

mark. We had teaching

sessions with the Danish

students, met parents and

we had a great time tast-

ing Danish food cooked by

the parents and watching

traditional Danish dances.

During our project meet-

ing in Denmark, we also

planted a Comenius tree,

all the partners together.

It is a chestnut tree, and

the children and adults

were singing this song in

Danish, while planting:

We will plant a

tree to grow big and tall,

all the way up to where

the sky is blue, we want to

keep the green Earth, to

be good to live upon.

Think of a chest-

nut tree, with big brown

chestnuts, we will always

be able to be sheltered,

when it snows and when it

rains.

We will plant a

tree.....

We will climb up,

as high as we can, we hope

the branch will hold, one

wants to make a chestnut-

man, others goblins and

trolls.

We will plant a

tree.... The tree will grow

big and pretty, and pro-

vide shade on sunny days,

the blackbird will

probably soon be-

gin to sing a song

for his mate.

We will plant a

tree....

We also visited a

renewable energy

centre, enjoyed

the Danish coun-

tryside and finally

visited the town

of Arhus, the

Modern Art Mu-

seum “Aros” and

the old town. Last

but not the least we would

like to thank our Danish

colleagues, students and

parents for their great

hospitality and amazing

organization of the meet-

ing!

Inside this issue:

PROJECT MEETING IN

DENMARK

GO GREEN, GO CLEAN ,

ACT NOW!

JUNE 2011 Issue 3

THE BLUE ISSUE

Translation:

TAK DANMARK!!!

MEETING AT

SENNELS

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ITALIAN

SCHOOL

DANISH

SCHOOL

BELGIAN

SCHOOL

POLISH

SCHOOL

PORTU-

GUESE

SCHOOL

GREEK

SCHOOL

CYPRIOT

SCHOOL

ROMANIAN

SCHOOL

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GO GREEN, GO CLEAN , ACT NOW!

Issue 3

Hi, everybody! Here is all

what we have done in our

school in Livorno, Italy, dur-

ing the last months…

Mar 2011 A study visit to an

Italian Regional Park (Parco Re-

gionale del Cònero) in central

Italy, region of Marche, with

walks on the beaches, trekking

on the mountains, see/mountain

environment watching , with

study of plants and animals and

orienteering activities.

April 2011 Italian

school turn for the

Tip of the Month:

how to sort our

house waste cor-

rectly and help our

local waste collec-

tors.

Apr 2011 We had

lessons on instruc-

tions and good prac-

tices about sorting/

recycling waste,

given by our

local waste

collectors

(AAMPS).

They also

gave us spe-

cial contain-

ers to collect

paper for re-

cycling.


SCUOLA SECONDARIA DI PRIMO GRADO

“G. BORSI”, ITALY

Apr 2011 We took

part in a local draw-

ing contest spon-

sored by local mu-

nicipality (Ramazza

May 2011 Making

musical instruments

with recycled mate-

rials: we produced

rainsticks made up

of cartoon cylin-

ders, nails, rice and

sands.

May 2011, 2nd

Taking part in the

Comenius Week:

Our children

planted geraniums in

the school gardens,

along with our

Greek partners of

the project in their

country.

May 2011 Visit to

Denmark, with let-

ters exchange for

the students; les-

sons on biomes and

different food

chains; chat with

classes in Italy;

other project ac-

tivities and meet-

ings. Just fantastic!

May

2011,

16th

“Ramazza

la Ter-

razza

Day”,

sponsored

by Livorno

Munici-

palità. We

learnt

housekeeping and

good practices at La

Terrazza, one of

the most important

and beautiful town

locations on the sea

-side, which is also a

meeting point for

our young people.

May 2011, 12th

taking part in

“Sauvons la

Planete”,

sponsored

by a ly-

ceum in

our town

(Polo

Liceale

Cecioni

Livorno),

for Comenius and e-

Twinning, with work

exhibition, dances,

games...

May 2011 Green

Genesis: ecology and

catholic religion, a

Power Point presen-

tation

with

drawings

and

dedica-

tions to

our

Earth

Planet,

God’s

creature.

Our products are visible on the com-

mon site:

http://2clean2green.wordpress.com/

Issue 3

by Patrizia Salutij

http://2clean2green.wordpress.com/

1st. grade:

In 1st. grade we have worked

with waste and how to deal with

this.

We have read about waste-

problems, seen films how to

recycle and during the next

weeks, we will make waste-bins

in order to sort the different

types of waste.

That will be glass, plastic,

aluminium (cans), cardboard,

paper(we allready do) etc.

The chldren will be making

logos and posters to

make others aware of

the importance of

recycling and getting

rid of our waste in a

correct way.

We have talked a lot

about what effect it

may have on us and

other animals and

that:

we do not understand, that

there are still people, children and adults, who throw waste in

nature


SENNELS SKOLE, DENMARK

Waste and Recycling 2nd class

In 2nd class we have worked with waste and recy-

cling. We peeled potatoes and carrots and found

out that we get a lot of waste from the kitchen.

We investigated the decomposition of waste.

What disappears and what does not.

We buried various materials in boxes of soil and

before our summer holiday we will examine what

has happened with the waste???

5th. grade have been working with circulation of water in nature, water ways, water systems,

how the watersupply works and what happens with water, after we have it in our houses.

They have also been working with understanding how a windturbine works and how we get

electricity from sun-cells.

We are so fortunate, that ON

1st. of June we went to the

University of Ålborg to have 2

workshops on renewable energy

and how to build houses, where

we don’t use so much energy.

We would so much like to tell

you about that experience and

will put pictures on our

comenius website to show you.

In the month of april:During

some of our ”Morning

gatherings” we made a big

orchestra with instrument made

out of waste materials: empty

plastic bottles, newspapers,

boxes, coca-cola cans

And things like that.

We used the orchestra

together with our Comenius

Project Song.

Waste Material Orchestra.

panel

4. group

English

cottage /

Weather Sta-

tion

5. group

creat-

ing different

sculptural

wind mills,

making sculptural persons/

portraits out of waste.

Working with Practical Sub-

jects in 6th and 7th class

The topic was recycling and

wind. The students worked in

groups with different tasks re-

lated to the topic.

1. group creating a wind

turbine with dynamo

2. group creating a test

turbine for different types of

blades.

3. group creating a solar

Issue 3

by Jytte Gill

Some activities of the 6th class.

In February, the children of

the 6th grade enjoyed a

contest.

The theme of this contest was:

“drink tap water!”.

The whole class did some

brainstorming. Soon we came

upon the idea to design a water

fountain, where several kids

would be able to drink at, at

the same time!

Our design was called: SPRITS.

He is an eight-armed octopus.

On Monday, March the 21th,

the whole school promoted the

use of tap

water. Every

child

received an

iron bottle

to drink tap

water. And

just on that specific day, we

got really great news: our class

achieved the first price with

SPRITS! A picture of Sprits

you can find below!

On the 11th of

May 2011, the

last action was

scheduled:

MOBILE WITH

LESS CO2.

“GREEN” is an organisation

which supports schools in

their efforts to educate their

children in a environmental-

friendly and sustainable way

of living.

The title of their campaign

is: “Children change the

climate”.

They have 5 action-days,

spread all over the schoolyear

steps!

We were

very impressed! A picture of

the ceremony

you can find

here:

On Tuesday, the 22th of

March, we went to the award

ceremony in Beverlo. We

received 750 euro’s! We also

had to do a “water test”. They

gave us four different “types”

of water. We had to guess

which was tap water. No one

could guess it! Cédric still got a

gift. Then we went all the way

up in the water tower! 233


SINT JAN BERCHMANSSCHOOL VIVERSEL , BELGIUM

Make a walk, ride the

bicycle, take the public

transport.

We try to make the transfer to

our school without using the

car.

We stimulate to do this as

much as possible throughout

the year.

in the proper way: “plug, socket,

wire

We also worked about

biodiversity.

· little tiny insects and

spiders

· seeds and

pits: dissemination

through wind, water, hair of

animals, animal excrements …

+ the growing proces of a seed.

· parent animals and their

youngsters: observation,

recognising and appointing with

the correct name (bull, cow and

calf – tom cat, cat and kitten …)

· animal home: a home for

animals in trouble.

We discussed items as

· protection

(tormentation) of animals

· caretaking: feed animals,

medical care, combing of hair,

take them out for a walk, talk

(socialise) to them …

· financial side of keeping

animals

Energy

During the subject “World

Orientation” , the children of

the 1 class did some initial

tests about

· magnetism (attaction /

repulsion – positif/negatif)

· sound (progression in

waves, short/long waves,

conducted through wires …)

This to let the children have an

imagination about electricity.

“Electricity attracts (can move

things), has a positif and

negatif pole, is conducted

through wires …”

The children also discussed

about how

· to behave safe with

electric “things”

· to spare electric energy

· to name “electric items”

Some activities of the 1st class: May and June 2011

Issue 3

by Rita Maes &

Koen Beerten

We wrote and sang our

song:

The Green Generation

Song

Nature’s calling you,

Think what you can do

To make the world be clean

and last forever.

Let’s make rivers clean,

Let’s make forests green

Let’s change our lives to

make them better.

We must understand

This is our land

Which needs our help to

survive.

It is time to wake up

Let’s go green!

It is time to wake up

Let’s go clean!

Our planet’s our number one

So let’s act now!

Students made posters

about Slovinsky National

Park (we are going there

in June).

We collected used batter-

ies.

We performed with a short

drama play about the

Earth’s Day and we won

the first prize in our

regional festival.


SZKOLA PODSTAWOWA NR 20 IN BYDGOSZCZ, POLAND

We organized a green eco

fashion show.

We made a large poster

with our tip

off the month

IF YOU

WANT TO BE

ALLRIGHT

JUST

SWITCH

OFFTHE

STAND BYE

LIGHT!!!

Students draw

a smiling face

on it every time they

switch the stand bye

light at home.

We distributed pictures like the following one all around the school.

Issue 3

by Ewa Nawrocka

The last activities in this school

year were:

WORKSHOP ON RECYCLING

AND ENVIRONMENTAL BE-

HAVIOUR (27/05/2011)

The 7th grade students (7A)

organized a workshop on Recy-

cling and Environmental Behav-

iour on 27th May. It was held in

a conference room near our

school. Students from differ-

ent ages (5 to 14) and teachers

of different levels and sub-

jects were invited to partici-

pate. The workshop focused on

recycling, resources saving, en-

vironmental tips and every day

environmental attitudes/

behaviour. The economic impact

of recycling was also discussed.

The first “lecture” was pre-

sented by the kindergarten

students who talked and

showed a lot of pictures about

composting and natural fertil-

izer, recycling bins, biodiversity

and endangered species as well

as tips to protect the planet.

The second “lecture” was given

by the primary school students

(1st and 2nd grades) who talked

about organic gardens. They

also showed the audience loads

of photos of the organic garden

they have at school.

The 7A students

presented the

third “lecture”- a

MovieMaker pres-

entation about

their “every day

behaviour as green

students”: carpool-

ing, recycling and

saving tips.

The fourth and

last lecture was given by a Uni-

versity teacher, Mrs Edna

Cabecinha, who teaches Ecol-

ogy. She talked about recy-

cling, reusing and the eco-

nomic benefits of both.


AGRUPAMENTO VERTICAL DE ESCOLAS

DIOGO CÃO, PORTUGAL

Workshop de Reciclagem e

Comportamentos Ambientais

A turma 7ºA da EB 2,3 Diogo

Cão organizou, em colaboração

com a Associação de Pais e

Encarregados de Educação, um

workshop de Reciclagem e

Comportamentos Ambientais,

que teve lugar no passado dia

27 de Maio no auditório do IPJ.

Esta iniciativa foi o culminar de

uma série de trabalhos e

projectos desenvolvidos ao

longo do ano lectivo na

disciplina de Área de Projecto,

no âmbito do Projecto

Comenius e juntou alunos de

todos os ciclos de ensino do

Agrupamento de Escolas

Diogo Cão. Contou ainda com

uma convidada especial, a

Professora Doutora Edna

Cabecinha do Departamento

de Biologia e Ambiente da

UTAD.

ambiente. Concluídas as

apresentações, todos os

meninos dos Jardins de

Infância cantaram a canção

“Proteger o Ambiente”. A

sessão continuou com os alunos

da EB1 do Prado que falaram

sobre Compostagem e

Agricultura Biológica, ao que se

seguiu a apresentação da turma

anfitriã sobre Comportamentos

Ecológicos no seu dia a dia.

O objectivo inicialmente

traçado para esta iniciativa foi

claramente alcançado: juntar

alunos dos vários ciclos de

ensino do Agrupamento, com

idades tão díspares, mas com

um objectivo comum:

sensibilizar a comunidade

educativa para a necessidade

de proteger o ambiente!

PEDDY PAPER ABOUT ENVI-

RONMENTAL ISSUES

A sessão teve início com os

meninos do Jardim de Infância

de Parada de Cunhos que

falaram de Compostagem.

Seguiu-se o Jardim de Infância

das Árvores que fez uma

pequena dramatização sobre

Ecopontos, o Jardim de

Ferreiros que apresentou o

tema da Biodiversidade e o

Jardim do Corgo que deu

algumas dicas para proteger o

Issue 3

WE FINISHED OUR SCHOOL WEBSITE AND WE

FEEL VERY PROUD WITH IT:

Visit us at: http://comenius.alojamentogratuito.com

It looks like this:

by Joao Pena Gil

http://comenius.alojamentogratuito.com

Under the Headteacher’s guid-

ance and in cooperation with

the Municipality the students

of our school planted flowers

and herbs in our small garden

and took care of them. The

vegetables grew really fast and

we

have

al-

ready

picked

some

and

made salads.

In March we wrote the tip of

the month with advice about

saving energy and every day

two students in every class are

in charge of turning off the

classroom lights during breaks

or during the lessons when it is

sunny.

We also participated in the

“Hour of the Earth” activity on

March 26th by turning off the

lights in our houses for one

hour.


8 DIMOTIKO SCHOLEIO NEAS SMYRNIS,ATHENS, GREECE

We participated in the

COMENIUS WEEK 2011

by planting flowers in our

small garden.

The 1st grade students have

worked on endangered species

and recycling and at the end

of the school year they will

act a short play based on their

work for the project.

The 2nd grade students have

worked on the olive tree. They

wrote stories, made paintings,

filled bottles with oil scented

with their own herbs and fi-

nally their work was issued in a

small book.

They also visited the Caretta

caretta sea turtle Protection

Centre.

The students of class 3 have

worked on the protection of

the forest and the trees that

grow in Greek forests. They

have made paintings and found

information about trees in

Greek forests in an

“interviewing activity”. They

also visited with the 5th grade

the Botanical

Gardens and the

Environmental

Education Cen-

tre of our area

and hiked on the

mountain of Imi-

tos.

about endangered sea animals

that live in Greece. Finally, they

made bookmarks for the Danish

students.

Our school will

participate in

the Environ-

mental

Schools’ Festi-

val of South-

The 5th graders made Power

Points, a game and a puzzle on

endangered species in Greece.

The 6th grade

students wrote

“Recycling sto-

ries”, made

games, puzzles,

crosswords and

found information

ern Attica on June 11 and pre-

sent our work for the project

to the local community.

Some of our students are hav-

ing private chats with the stu-

dents of the Belgian partner

school and some others have

written letters addressed to

students of other partner

schools.

vegetables paper bags. They

made paintings on

the bags about

the protection of

the environment

and wrote some

environmental ad-

vice in the inside.

They handed out

the paper bags to

customers of a

supermarket

nearby our school

on June 3 and thus participated

in the Environment Day, June

5th.

Finally, they wrote the texts

and painted the pictures for

the Eco Board Game.

The latest activities of the 4th

grade on litter and recycling

are making pencil cases using

glass jars, paper napkins and

glue .

They also made leaflets with

Issue 3

by Stavroula Makaronopoulou

On the 11th of May 2011 we had the opportunity to visit the Sennels School in Denmark

where we met wonderful children and adopted useful teaching practices! As Cypriots we

had the responsibility to teach in the third class. Our aim was for the students to get

to know new teachers, to develop friendship between Danish and Cypriot students and

to familiarize Danish students with Cyprus and its traditions.

Below we present the activities undertaken by children throughout the day we spent

together.

1. We had ice breaking activities. The children told their names both in Danish and Greek! They

took souvenir gifts from Cyprus.

3. They sang the traditional

Cypriot song “Roula mou Ma-

roula mou” and they acted

out the traditional tale

“Spanos and the Forty mon-

sters”.

2. They found Cyprus on the

world map. They con-

structed the map of Cyprus

and turned it into a puzzle.

4. They learned about the

role that he olive tree has

played in the history of Cy-

prus. They made on their

own the traditional

“eliopitta”.


A’ DEMOTIKO SXOLEIO ARADIPPOU,CYPRUS

Our visit at Sennels Skole

Denmark, May 2011

5. They watched a film

about our school and ac-

cepted the greetings sent

by our students. They got

special cards designed espe-

cially for them by their

friends from Cyprus. We

also had a conference call

with the children of the 4th

grade.

6. We planted a tree in the

school yard that will always

remind us that wonderful

day.

7. In the evening, the chil-

dren visited the Cyprus

Corner with their parents,

where they had the oppor-

tunity to be photographed

wearing Cypriot costumes.

They danced traditional

Cypriot dances, they tasted

traditional

dishes like “pastelaki” and

“soutziouko” and drank gor-

dial rose!

8. At night, we watched the

wonderful Danish traditional

dances and we ate the deli-

cious food prepared by the

students’ parents!

Issue 3

9. We left Denmark with the best impressions for the people we

met and the places we visited. We will never forget your amazing

hospitality! Thank you Denmark!

by Panikkos Xiourouppas

In Romania, March (well-know

as „Mărţişor” = „Little March”,

a traditional fest celebrated

every year on 1st of March) is

the first month of the Spring

season. Because the tip of the

month was about energy,

students from Horlesti-Rediu

School colored printed papers

and did learn about different

types of renewable energies

(wind, water, solar...) and about

how each of them could

contribute to reduce the

consume of the energy at

school and at home. Then they

realised an exhibition on the

main hall of our school with

their artworks.

realised ships from white paper

with flags of partner countries

sending a message to keep clean

and safety waters in Europe.

Also, best pictures of our

students regarding life in the

water bodies were selected for

a local exhibition. On 26th of

March, in our school all

electronical equipments were

switched off one hour to

celebrate Earth Hour, an

international event contributing

to conserve the energy.

On 22nd of March 2011,

celebrating World Water Day,

students of the third grade

from Horlesti-Rediu School

realised an aquarium from

recycled materials, and

students from other grades


SCOALA CU CLASELE I-VIII REDIU, ROMANIA

We celebrated Comenius week

(2-9 May 2011) disseminating

information and results about

Comenius courses for teachers

(Daniel Lozba-Stirbuleac - June

2010, Austria and Raluca

Romanescu - August 2011,

United Kingdom) and about

European Union symbols among

students and other teachers

from Rediu and Horlesti School.

Four teachers from

Romania took part in the

3rd project meeting in

Sennels School (DK) and

they enjoyed the

European Anthem sung by

Danish students,

celebrating this way the

European Day together

with other partners of our

Comenius project.

knowledge and opinions about

renewable energies with many

pictures and videos took from

Denmark.

Within the Internation Year of

Forests and the World

Environment Day (5th of June),

students and teachers of

primary grades from our school

made a study visit to the

Moldavian mountains, learning

how to protect the environment

and further details about water

energy.

They visited the "bison land" at

Vanatori-Neamt Natural Park.

Students found out that bisons

are representing an historical

symbol for the north-eastern

part of Romania (Moldavia

region), even nowdays they are

just few exemplaires in some

natural reservations like this.

Under aegis of the "European

Year of Volunteering", we took

part in a national programme

called "The Europe Our

Home" (www.europacasanoastra.

ro), celebrating the Europe Day

through arts: singing the

official antheum and drawing

the UE flag and countries. Also,

in Romania it was a National

Day of Volunteering (9-15 May

2011), when teachers who

participated on this project

meeting diseminated to the

parents of our students

Issue 3

At the Izvorul Muntelui Lake

(the biggest artificial lake in

our country), students were

very impressed about the

imensity of the dam and did

understand how water could

produce electricity. Then they

visited another water body

called „Lacul Roşu” (Red Lake),

natural made on a river valey,

finding similarities and

differences with the artificial

lake.


by Daniel Lozba –Stirbuleac

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N,

ACT NOW!

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school Viversel,

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23-26/10/2011

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26-29/10/2011

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