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Hello! I'm Flash and I am a camera, but everybody calls me 'The

Comenius mascot'. I was born in Spain, in Baudilio Arce School and

I was created by Maria González, a student from year 6.

María González Flash

So, I am the mascot of the Comenius Project titled: 'Travelling

towards multicultural Europe'. The Comenius partners in our

project are:

UK: Botanic Primary School, Belfast, Northern Ireland Stanley Primary School, Blackpool, England.

Poland: The Primary School in Sliedlin.

Italy: Istituto Comprensivo G. Falcone, Catania, Sicily.

Turkey: Vali Kutlu Aktas Ilkokulu, Izmir.

Greece: The 10th Primary School, Thessaloniki

Spain: CEIP Baudilio Arce School, Oviedo.

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MY DIARY SEPTEMBER, 2013

The corners have a space to display, the flags of all partners, a

poster with the title of the project, information about schools and

countries and all the outcomes.

They are fantastic! Here are some photos:

Turkey Northern Ireland England

Poland Greece Italy

Spain

September is a busy month at school. Comenius partners have been

working on their Comenius corners. They will be situated in an

important place in each school where everybody can see it.

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Final mascots

Mascot 1

Mascot 5

Mascot 2

Mascot 6

Mascot 3

Mascot 7

Mascot 4

Mascot 8

Students from different countries will vote their favourite mascot

using 'SurveyMonkey'.

And the winner is….. ME! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!

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Spanish students are drawing their mascots for a contest. It's very

exciting! Oh! I've got many friends! Here are some photos of

the children's favourite mascots:

FLASH, the winning mascot!

through the countries collecting about culture, lifestyle, and

relationships in each country; but I'll need transport! Plane, train,

boat, car, bus, carriage and… hot air balloon!

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OCTOBER, 2013

Oh! I've got an idea! I'm going to do the Comenius trip. I will travel

I love travelling!

It is great! It's the title of the Project! I think it's going to be an

amazing experience!

Europe', and will be displayed to promote the project in partner

countries. The logo will be in all final products.

Well done friends! It's amazing!

And the English school has created the blog of our Comenius

project. And they will create the web page too!

I love the Comenius blog!

'TRAVELLING TOWARDS MULTICULTURAL EUROPE'!

http://travellingtowardsmulticulturaleurope.blogspot.co.uk/

I am still in Spain but the Turkish school has created the logo of the

project in a democratic way, through a competition. It will be

centred around the symbol of 'Travelling towards multicultural

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from Italy, Greece, Poland, Northern Ireland, England and Spain

will meet in Belfast and Blackpool for a week. Unfortunately,

Turkish teachers had VISA issues.

First visit: Botanic Primary School. Belfast

Comenius partners Botanic Primary School Stormont Buildings

We are in Belfast! It is the first time we meet each other. Mr.Paul

Bell and Mrs Nicola Henderson are our hosts. We have the

oportunity to visit the school, observing lessons, work on the

project, collect the information for second contacts in each school

(to ensure our project work continue as planned in case of illness or

absence). We also have the chance to visit Ashfield Girl's Hight

School, the Titanic Museum, a tour around the city, Stormont

buildings and meet the Junior Minister. It's amazing!

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FIRST WORKING MEETING!

Wow! First Working meeting in The United Kingdom! Teachers

Stanley Primary School Working meeting Harvest Festival performance

After a really lovely time in Belfast, we leave the hotel for Belfast

International Airport for flight to Manchester at 7.05am. A busy

morning! I am tired!

We have arrived at Stanley Primary School. Mr Craig England

(headmaster), teachers and students are waiting for us. They have

prepared a traditional Harvest Festival performance by the infant

children and an assembly about Blackpool by Year 5 children. I'm

really happy because we have the chance to visit Blackpool Tower,

Ballroom and Circus, as well as Blackpool Zoo; and also see the

world-famous Illuminations and some illuminated trams.

Time to back home! At the end of the meeting, we met Mr.

England in London where we visited the HMS Belfast (a museum

ship) and the most famous places of the city.

Second visit: Stanley Primary School. Blackpool.

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HMS Belfast UNFORGETABLE!

All of the schools have been busy these past few days video-

conferencing with one another. Unfortunately, the English and

Northern Irish schools were having some technical issues, so didn't

manage to chat. However, they have started correspondence by

post and will be trying to video-conference again next week. That's

great we can connect via Skype with other people and share

information. What a lovely way to be in contact! New technologies

are in the project!

Here are some photos

Schools will Skype once a month.

I can wait for the next video-conferencing!

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NOVEMBER, 2013

VIDEO-CONFERENCING

DECEMBER, 2013 December! We are getting ready for Christmas! I'm wearing my

English school.

https://sites.google.com/site/multiculturaleurope2013/

Father Christmas' clothes to send season's greetings to my friends.

Students from different schools are making Christmas cards to

send to their new friends. And we also will send our best wishes

through the Comenius blog.

Our Comenius project also has a nice web page created by the

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Merry Christmas

everyone!

Schools are busy after Christmas time. They are gathering and

collecting information about different kinds of transport (one for

each country). They are preparing multimedia presentations

(Power point, Slide Share, Slide boom) and wonderful scrapbooks.

Each school will work on a kind of transport:

Spain, the train; Italy, the car; Poland, the bus and the carriage;

Turkey, the hot air balloon; Greece, the plane and U.K. (England

and Northern Ireland), the boat.

JANUARY & FEBRUARY, 2014

MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS

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Have a look at these fantastic scrapbooks.

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Students are working on their scrapbooks to prepare their

Multimedia presentation and via video-conference, they will

present it to the rest of the schools.

I was taking the photo!

It's a very nice country and people are friendly. Guess what! It's the

second working meeting! Yes!!!

Teachers from the UK, Italy, Poland, Greece and Spain will meet

their Turkish colleagues at Vali Kutlu Aktas Primary School in

Balçova, Izmir. Mrs Meryem Demirkiram Soucas, the whole staff,

parents and students are waiting for us.

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MARCH, 2014

SECOND WORKING MEETING!

I am in Izmir, Turkey

Klutu Aktas Ilkokulu Comenius corner Lesson

Ephesus Virgin Mary's house Sirince

Our visit began with a day at school where we joined in with English

lessons and children dramatized their information on hot air

balloons. We attended a reception at the National Education

Department; we worked on the project, evaluated all the activities

different school has done since the last meeting and the blog's

results. It was really nice to see the Schools' multimedia

presentations. I especially enjoyed the lesson observation and the

meetings with teachers, students and parents. And, of course, the

Turkish delicious food, the city tour, our visit to the wonderful city

of Ephesus, Virgin Mary's house, Sirince village and Kemeralti.

WE WON'T FORGET THIS MEETING!

Thank you!

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There are many things to do and many places to visit!

Back home from Turkey and busy time again!

It's time to do the 'Dramatising readings about the history of

transport'. Pupils in each school will swap information compiled

through the blog. Another school will dramatise the information,

perform, record it and post the recording on the blog. They will be

presented in the meeting in Catania.

This is a nice way to learn more about transport.

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APRIL, 2014

DRAMATISING READINGS

I am looking forward to watching each school's

dramatisation of the presentations they had

been done.

Students are compiling information about the vocabulary related

to the transport each school has studied in each partner's national

language, to prepare a Multi-language dictionary (English-

National languages) of names of vocabulary related to different

transport The Polish school will be responsible for the presentation

of the Multi-dictionary based on the contribution of all partners. I

am excited!

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What a busy month!

MULTI-LANGUAGE DICTIONARY

After a lot of work at school, teachers will meet in Italy.

I am very excited! I'm going to

pack my luggage! All schools will

visit Istituto Comprensivo

Giovanni Falcone in Accicastello,

Sicily. It is nice to meet Mr. Natalino

Fraggetta (Principal), Mrs Caterina Scudery and the rest of the

staff. What a wonderful place! We have the chance to visit

three different schools and meet teachers, students and parents

there. The Comenius corners and the classrooms are really nice.

A lot of hard work!

MAY, 2014

THIRD WORKING MEETING!

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The Polish school has been

responsible for the presentation of

the Multi-language dictionary

based on the contribution of all

partners. I love it!

During our visit we got to visit the

Mayor of the town and he made us

feel very welcome. Whilst we were

at the school we got to meet lots of

children and we visited lots of different classrooms. It has been

fabulous to attend the concert by the School Orchestra.

Congratulations!

We have worked on the project and evaluated all the activities we

have done since the last meeting. We also got to visit many beautiful

places like Ottobrata, Taormina, Catania and Mount Etna. And, we

also got to sample some of the local food. I love Italian food And

gelato! Yummy! AN AMANZING MEETING!

School Orchestra Gelatto Delicious Italian food

We were all looking forward to watching each school

dramatization. Brilliant!

Dramatising Readings

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I am really happy to meet our Comenius friends in Sicily.

During the meeting in Italy we have evaluated the project

and planned the next activities. The main one will be to

make a magazine compiling information on one aspect or period of

the history of transport in each partner country. The Polish school

will collect information from the partners about one significant

event in the history of transport in their country and include

within this information the impact it had in the partner country.

The end of the scholar year is close and

schools have a lot of work. It is a stressful

time for everybody, also for me because I

am collecting photos from different

countries to upload them on Drive. I believe

it is the best way to share the photos and also documents.

https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive

And now…. It's time to wish a nice summer. We need a rest

because we have worked very hard! I am very proud of all partners

and I hope they enjoy their summer holidays.

SEE YOU IN

SEPTEMBER

JUNE, 2014

HISTORICAL MAGAZINE

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SEPTEMBER, 2014

BACK TO SCHOOL!

After our holiday, are you ready to work hard? There are many

things to do before the next meeting in Poland.

Italy coordinates video-conferences with each partner and

feedback on these video-conferences to all partners on the blog.

Students are waiting for next video-conference. Here you are the

timetable for the scholar year:

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All Partners are recording a video about the school to present it

in Poland and a song for 'The National evening'.

Comenius partners are in Poland

to attend the meeting at the Primary School in Siedlin, Szkola

Podstawowa. It's nice to see everybody again!

The meeting began with a wonderful

presentation of traditional Polish songs

and dances and a performance about the

magazine that the schools have all been

involved in producing. Amazing!

We visited the facilities of

school, participated in

lessons and worked on the

project. We also evaluated

all the activities different

schools have done since the last meeting and planned next

activities.

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OCTOBER, 2014

FOURTH WORKING MEETING!

Working meeting in Poland!

What can I say about the National evening with the headmaster,

teachers, students, parents and

members of the school council? We

showed a presentation about each of

our schools and then each school

performed some traditional songs

from their country. I love the

Comenius song and the nice T-shirt!

We visited Plonsk, Warsaw and

Plock, and enjoyed the games in

the forest and the carriage walk!

We also went to visit the Major and

the Commune Council.

CONGRATULATIONS FOR AN AMAZING MEETING!

The Polish school presented the

Historical Magazine based on the

contribution of all partners. It has been

printed on high quality. You can see it on

the blog.

fantastic!

Congratulations! It is

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After the last meeting, schools will prepare a mini-guide to compile

the information about important facts one should know when

planning to travel or live in another country: location, main

historical events, places to visit, traditions, what to eat

(gastronomy), what to do (free time), where to sleep, relationships

between people, etc. Every school will collect this information and

post it in the blog to share with the rest of the schools; the Greek

school will prepare a mini-guide based on the contribution of each

country. A lot of work to do! Are you ready?

NOVEMBER, 2014

MINI-GUIDE

Everybody is busy at the moment

working on the project. Students

from different schools are making

some Christmas cards to send to their

friends. And we also will send our best

wishes through the Comenius blog as

we did last year.

I have prepared a video to post it on the blog and send Season's

greetings.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND A HAPPY new YEAR 2015!

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DECEMBER, 2014 Christmas time again!

JANUARY, 2015

After Christmas time, all partners are ready for next video-

conferencing. Each country connects with another school once a

month. We are seven different schools, so Spain (as coordinator)

connects with two schools each month. We are very lucky!

VIDEO-CONFERENCING: JANUARY 2015

! Spain-England

! Poland-Greece

! Northern Ireland- Turkey

! Italy-Spain

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On the other hand, the Greek school will be responsible for the

preparation of a web-quest about the culture, lifestyle and

relationships between citizens in each country. They will present it

in the meeting in Thessaloniki.

And all schools are very busy preparing a video about their school,

to present it in the meeting in Greece.

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Thessaloniki

Oviedo

Izmir

Plonsk

Catania Belfast

I love it! I can't wait to

meet everybody again! Blackpool

WEB-QUEST

FEBRUARY, 2015

FIFTH WORKING MEETING! Thessaloniki, Greece.

M r s M a r i a B a s m a s i d o u

(headmistress) Mr. Kostas Okkaç,

teachers and students are waiting

for the Comenius partners who

received a warm welcoming. Students

performed some plays and sang songs.

They showed us traditional Greek

dancing. They gave all us the olive wreath

also known as kotinos (Greek: κότινος),

the prize for the winner at the ancient

Olympic Games. It was an olive branch, of the wild- olive tree that

grew at Olympia.

Everybody is very friendly here. We have

received some handmade presents from the

children while visiting different classrooms.

THANK YOU!!! We have worked on the

project, evaluated the activities all partners

have done since the last meeting and planned the next activities.

Also, we visited other school and the Major of the town who made

us feel very welcome.

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The Greek school has also worked very

hard on a Web quest. I believe that

students from different schools will

enjoy doing it.

What can I say about the lovely time we

spent at the theatre? Students and teachers

put on an amazing musical performance and

delivered a detailed history of the ancient

Greeks. We also had the opportunity to

present the videos about our schools. A wonderful experience!

During our stay in Thessaloniki we got to visit many beautiful

places: Mount Olympus and Dion which held the ancient burial site

of Phillip II; pretty villages such as Litochoro and St Antonios; a tour

of Thessaloniki; visiting the White Tower; Cathedral of Haghios and

many interesting archaeological sites and museums.

THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL MEETING!

The Greek school has been responsible for the

presentation of the Mini-guide which all the

schools have contributed to. It has been

printed on high quality. Schools have received

three mini-guides and a CD format. We will

post it on the Comenius blog too. It will be very

useful when planning to travel.

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The meeting in Greece has finished. We have worked very hard, and

we have enjoyed the time we spent in Thessaloniki.

And now… it's time to think about the next activities we have to do

before the conclusion of the project.

For instance: Working on a film lipdub that will

be presented by all partners as a final product at

the end of the project.

I will show the way, and pupils and teachers will

follow me showing how we have worked using

art and music. Wow! It's going to be a wonderful

experience! I am ready to do the Comenius trip again because I'm

going to help all schools to film the video. I will follow next itinerary:

Spain to Italy by train; Italy to Poland by car; Poland to Turkey by

bus; Turkey to Greece by hot air balloon; Greece to UK by plane and

UK to Spain by boat to complete the itinerary.

Northern Ireland is responsible for the editing of the lipdub. They

will compile all digital parts of the lipdub based on the work of all

partners. Schools will send their videos via Dropbox that is a safe

way to share them. LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!

MARCH, 2015

LIPDUB

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LIPDUB

Also, we have to work on a Slogan related to a common idea of

citizenship. Each school will work on the topic in assemblies in a

democratic way. Students will create a sentence that condenses the

idea they have about what is a European citizenship.

They will tell me this idea and I will tell this information to students

in the next country I will visit through my diary. Finally, we will

create a common slogan.

Here you are the slogans different schools have created:

'A community working together' (Northern Ireland)

'Always proud, always open-minded, always together' (England)

'Europe is well known for us today-Flash always shows us the way’

'Being together to be better’

'Thousand hearts beat for community’

'All different, all equal, all together’

'Building our path together’

Italy is responsible for the creation of a poster

using new technologies. It will include the

common SLOGAN based on the contribution

of all partners; the logo of the project and

also Flash, the mascot. Haha, Me!!!

The slogan will be printed on high quality to send to all partners

and to National Agencies. The Italian school will also create a pocket

poster version, to distribute to pupils, teachers and other members

of the scholar community. It's going to be great!

APRIL, 2015

SLOGAN & POSTER

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As everybody knows, I am writing a diary about all the activities

different schools have done during the project. I believe that my

diary is the best way to describe the project and all the experiences

we have had since the beginning until the end of it.

The project started in Sepember 2013 and finishes in June 2015.

I have to finish and print the diary next month at the end of the

last meeting that will be hold in Oviedo, Spain.

I will be very busy because my diary will have a handmade cover.

So I have to think about the materials I will use to make a nice

cover; for instance, scrapbooking paper, colored paper, cards,

fabric bows, glue, scissors, etc. So, it is going to be a stressful time

for me.

Do you like the materials I have chosen to make the cover?

MAY, 2015

THE MASCOT’S DIARY

DIARY

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exciting! I hope they like it!

The cover of the diary is almost ready! Have a look at the materials I

have used to make it!

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I have to finish the diary before the end of the project and also

describe all the activities we will do during

the meeting in Spain. The last thing I will do

is attach some photos and make the

handmade cover. Finally, I will present it

with the rest of the final products during

the last meeting in Oviedo. Schools will get

three diaries and a digital version. They will

help to finish the diary! I believe it is a great

idea! They will stick the cover! It is very

Oviedo,Spain.

The big day has arrived and everything is ready in Oviedo for the

final meeting of our Comenius Project.

M r s B e l é n C a s t a ñ o, o u r

coordinator, arrives at Baudilio

Arce school with the whole group

(22 teachers from different

c o u n t r i e s ) . M r s M e r c e d e s

Rodriguez ( head teacher),

teachers, some members of the

Regional Education Department,

students and parents are waiting for us. An Asturian bagpiper

plays some traditional Asturian songs, and students from different

levels welcome Comenius partners with the flags from their

countries.

Very nice

has been

countries

Welcome Ceremony! It

fantastic to stick the

on the big map of

Europe, also listen to the Welcome

song and sing the lipdub song and

the Comenius Project anthem!

Hey, hey, hey, let's play, with

Comenius is a funny way! Hahaha!

JUNE, 2015

FINAL WORKING MEETING!

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Cathedral, Fontán Square, Saint Francisco's park, Campoamor

theatre… and had dinner at a typical Asturian Sidrería.

We have worked on the project, evaluated all the activities different

schools has done since the last meeting and talked about the EST

(European Shared Treasure). During the meeting we have

presented the last final products: Our Final libdub (also schools

lipdubs), the Slogan and poster. They are fantastic!

POSTER & LIPDUB

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We visited the school and Comenius partners loved all the projects

we have done. That's great!

In the afternoon we visited the old city centre of Oviedo: The

What about the trip to Covadonga, Ribadesella and Lastres.?

Unforgettable! Asturian food is delicious and we had the chance

to drink 'sidra' at Asturian style!

Covadonga Lastresssssssss

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Students from Baudilio Arce school

have prepared a Musical trip around

the countries of our association. Our

music teacher, Esther has helped them.

It has been wonderful!

Congratulations everybody!.

objectives of the project in order to ensure that all the objectives

are fully met.

! We also talked about the development of the project and filled

in the final report.

The presentation of the mascot's diary was a special moment for

everybody. The mascot wrote the diary and made a handmade

cover. It is really nice and everybody liked it.

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To conclude the meeting, we worked on the final report:

! We evaluated the blog and web's results, and analysed the

The last day of our project has arrived! I can't believe it!

And…. Finally, the Summary of the discussions and final project activities: games and dances in the playground and some songs such

as the Asturian anthem..

We have had a great time in Oviedo. Our Comenius partners have

enjoyed all the activities we have prepared and we are really proud

of our Comenius group.

It has been a successful project. We hope we can do another one in

the future.

It's time to say good bye and conclude the meeting but I prefer to

say….. SEE YOU SOON MY FRIENDS!

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SOME NICE MOMENTS

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UK: Botanic Primary School, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Stanley Primary School, Blackpool, England.

Poland: The Primary School in Sliedlin.

Italy: Istituto Comprensivo G.Falcone, Catania, Sicily.

Turkey: Vali Kutlu Aktas Ilkokulu, Izmir.

Greece: The 10th Primary School, Thessaloniki

Spain: CEIP Baudilio Arce School, Oviedo.

Edita: CEIP Baudilio Arce School

Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain