“THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE”

COMENIUS MULTILATERAL SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS

1 AUGUST 2012 - 31 JULY 2014

PARTNER SCHOOLS

NETHERLANDS - Stichting Ichthus College Kampen

GERMANY - Erzbischoefliche Marienschule Opladen

POLAND - Zespol Szkol Publicznychw Jozefoslawiu, Publiczne Gimnazjum

ROMANIA - Scoala Gimnaziala Daesti, Popesti, Valcea

BULGARIA - Profesionalna gimnaziya po ikonomika “Aleko Konstantinov”

BENEFITS

Students will learn:

  - to work in cooperation  - to develop research studies  - to deepen their knowledge about other European cultures  - to create new documents with the final aim of promoting regional coming - to enrich their ICT knowledge and skills - to develop communication skills in foreign languages and ICT

The first meeting of the project, from Kampen, Netherlands

A group of 8 students and 4 teachers from Secondary School Daesti, Popesti, Valcea County, Romania, participated in 5 to 9 November 2012, to the first project meeting in Kampen, the Netherlands, the Project Comenius Multilateral Partnership, "The school of the future", which takes place between partners in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, in the period 1 August 2012 - 31 July 2014, in English.The activities carried out during this meeting, students from our school have improved their communication skills through ICT supported activities both within the Ichthus College Kampen, the Netherlands, the coordinating school, and within their stay in families hosts of Dutch students, who received much hospitality and whom we thank for the chosen training offered and great collaboration undertaken. The proposed program was formative and educative.Activities meeting in Kampen is focused on the following:

Monday, November 5, 2012:Check the Netherlands, the "Ichthus College" school project coordinator

We arrived in Kampen, after a plane trip from Bucharest to Amsterdam, then the Intercity train from Amsterdam to Zwolle, where we were taken by our hosts, teachers at Ichthus College Kampen and families of Dutch students.At school we met with school teachers, where we were welcomed and beautiful stay in the Netherlands. In the evening, we met a Chinese dinner, given by the host, where we had the first discussion, face to face, about our schools, on school programs, about our country, about the modalities of the project.We were invited to a show Koggezangers - Choir ratings on Kogge, made up of volunteers who love to sing old songs about the sea, boats and other times. Singers sang songs in English and we tried to learn to play with them, songs that we liked and we were enchanted.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012:

-Presentation activities with studentsThe next day at school, students have conduct presentation on the subject. Students from each country presented their creations in PowerPoint about their countries and presented investigative activities chosen by each country . Students in Romania exposed presentation "Romania is my country" and the video "My School, the most beautiful". Further sporting activities took place in the Sports Hall.

-Documentary visit city Kampen, guided, walking ...  In the afternoon we ‘ve Made Kampen city tour, with a guide. I saw the symbol of the city: Kogge ship yard, an old boat, amazing, kept in a stately old shipyard. Kampen is a municipality, an old Hanseatic city at the lower reaches of the river IJssel, the largest city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. Kampen is one of the best preserved center, the old city in the Netherlands.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012:

-Visit to the Museum "Anne Frank House"We visited the museum and noticed albums with photos. Anne was born on June 12 in Frankfurt, Germany. She lived there the first years of life with her parents, Otto and Edith Frank and her sister Margot. Journal Frank family tries to live a normal life as possible. June 12, 1942 is the birthday of Anne, the thirteenth anniversary. Anne gets a lot of gifts, including a journal that is very happy and began to write in it immediately.

-Visit to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, which in English means the State Museum, there are more than two hundred years and now forms part of the most amazing museums in the world. Rijksmuseum has a unique position in the world acquired over the centuries. Among the masterpieces are found "The Night Watch" by Rembrandt, paintings by Vermeer, Van Dyck and Jan Steen.

-Down-town visit in Amsterdam, walking ...It was wonderful. We met a Nordic city of unique beauty. We saw the Old Town, medieval center, the most visited area of Amsterdam, known for its traditional architecture, canals, stores andcoffee shops. Boat tour on the canals of Amsterdam, we were fascinated. A boat tour of the city channel knowledge is a rare opportunity. The city has grown dramatically around these channels many very interesting and admired worldwide. Ring Channel is part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

-Visit to the "leprechaun-forest"...We went with joy to coach the "Forest elf", where I got all, students and teachers, dinner, Dutch pancakes: apple, cheese, with jam. We had the choice of decor admire the tale, forest scents, novelty oven in the tavern, the elves, music or juice flavors pancakes topped with roses and berries.

Thursday, November 8, 2012-Visit to the Wadden Sea, North Sea, with boat ...

Wadden Sea is among the largest in the south-eastern North Sea. It lies between the northwestern coast of continental Europe between housing and Frisian Islands, sea and wetlands. It is rich in biological diversity. In 2009, the Dutch and the German parts of the Wadden Sea were inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List. Wadden Sea stretches from Den Helder, the Netherlands, south-west of the big river estuaries of Germany to the northern border, north of Skallingen Esbjerg in Denmark. The Netherlands is bordered by the Ijsselmeer, the Afsluitdijk. The islands are marked by sand dunes and beaches, North Sea coast and a low Wadden Sea.We got off the boat barefoot on a sandy sea ice. It was for us one of the best moments of the tour boat on the North Sea. Boat trip we were fixed in mind and memory for life. It has consolidated and sealed our project meeting in the Netherlands.

-Visit to the Center for Research and Rehabilitation of seals.    Seal Hospital Lenie't Hart was sick and injured seal rehabilitation center founded in 1971, in Pieterburen. Center has evolved from a simple "nursery" for young seals to a hospital for seals science-based research, with features that accompany it, such as quarantine, laboratories, chemists and all research equipment unimaginable. All fittings seal rehabilitated are released into the wild after their rehabilitation period, which lasts from several weeks to several months maximum. None of the animals remain in captivity and none of seal gaskets are grown here. Most important thing in SRRC is the daily care and medical treatment of seals. This is the main concern of all vets and carers seal. No matter whether patients are sick or injured seals, each animal had full attention and everything is done to rehabilitate the species of seal, so they are strong, healthy and able to return to their habitat, largely as soon as possible.

Friday, November 9, 2012:-Workshops, creative, T.I.C.

We met at Ichthus College, the school coordinator of the project, all project partners from the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and participated in creative workshops ICT. I realized this week reflect the knowledge and documentation using media. I learned to create presentations Prezi, Glogster posters, Picozine, web design and layout of a newspaper page. I took pictures of the group and I went on another tour through Kampen.Saturday morning, I was led by hosts to Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport. We said goodbye with permenente desire to have contact with partners to increase learning English, to improve our ICT skills, to address the investigation and after-class research, to fully achieve the objectives and activities of project and we promised to meet again at the next meeting in Poland.

COMENIUS MULTILATERAL SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS

“THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE”

PROF. ELENA DOBRINOIU ROMANIA