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I’ve got all my partners with me!
September 2011 saw the
start of a new era for St.
Faith’s. For the first time in
our school’s life an official
European partnership was
created with schools from
Poland, Italy, Spain and
Turkey. Even tough they
weren’t sure what to expect,
everyone in the school
community embraced the 1-2-
3 Health project with
excitement and anticipation.
Somehow, a year has almost
gone by. It went so quickly we
must have been having fun!!
There are plenty of success
stories to be proud of. The
Christmas cards that children
made to the partner
countries were done with
love, care and lots of
excitement. Healthy packed
lunches were re-introduced
to the school as a reminder to
the most “forgetful” parents and
children. A celebration of
European culture took place in all
classrooms, enjoyed by all
children in our school. An
increasingly mindful school
community has been discussing
environmental issues, thereby
becoming more responsible for
their “world”.
Just when we thought we’d
already achieved our best this
year, the Comenius UK Meeting
came along and proved us
completely wrong!
By welcoming new partners into
our community we became not
only more aware and tolerant of
other cultures, but crucially
much more united within our own
school. The UK Meeting gave us
the opportunity to showcase
what we do best at St. Faith’s,
which is to work closely and
respectfully together as a team.
Staff, children and parents
worked tirelessly to prepare a
fantastic experience for our
special visitors! Everyone was
extremely excited to finally
meet some of the people they
had been communicating with
throughout the year, maybe
even say a few things in their
languages. More parents started
asking about the project and
wanted to know more about it.
That’s when we knew the
project was officially a success
at St. Faith’s and that’s why we
chose this as our success story!
Our visitors, in return,
presented us with a world of
knowledge and ideas that we had
never thought of. They listened
to us and showed interest in our
Education system. They kindly
asked and answered any
questions children and adults
wanted to ask them. They
quickly became part of the St.
Faith’s community, helping with
Crown Competitions and even
tidying up after the Jubilee
party. It was Civic Health at its
best!
Our visitors became our family and it was brilliant to have them all with us!
Raquel Thomson .London
We are a big family! St. Faith’s School. United Kingdom
JUNIO 2012
COMENIUS NEWS 1-2-3 HEALTH !
‘’EUROPE IS MY HOME ’’‘’EUROPE IS MY HOME ’’‘’EUROPE IS MY HOME ’’‘’EUROPE IS MY HOME ’’ activities were our best implementation during the project year. Through these activities we aimed to make cultural exchange with our partners. Although we are a crowded school (1250 students) the variety of activities gave us a chance to involve almost everyone in that big organisation. Some of the teachers tried different recipe from Spain (Marzipan) , Italy (Bread Cake ) , Poland (Ginger bread
Cake ) and UK( Christmas Muffins) with their classses in February . We tasted those delicious recipes made by our students ‘ skillful hands. Another group performed sample folk dances of each partner country and We had fun during these activities and parties. Some of our colleagues played traditional games with their students as the weather was warm enough in the school garden. We recognised that
although our languages are different , the language of the games is the same everywhere . We also saw that some of our games are common. We prepared presentations about each partner school and their local area . Posters were displayed all over the school . By the help of these presentations our awernesses increased, and our knowledge developed. Thanks to our project “1-2-3 Health”, we had the opportunity to know each partner country more and we broadened our horizon. We already feel ourselves as a member of the European Union family now. Ahmet YILDIZER Mersin Turkey
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One of the most involving activities we organised during this school
year have been about healthy food : first a clil activity about food
and second A HEALTHY BREAKFAST AT SCHOOL organised by
parents.
The aim of the clil activity has been to understand why food is
important for a healthy life style and the difference between junk
and healthy food. The teaching unit took 4-5 hours long and in the
end children produced wall posters and a brochure for all families.
To finalise this work we put on the event “A HEALTHY BREAKFAST AT SCHOOL”.
All parents prepared a rich self service in the school canteen with every sort of healthy proper
food children can usually eat during the school break in the morning. Fruit, juices, milk, dairy
product, home made cakes, biscuits, jam, cheese have been delivered and consumed by children who
“A HEALTHY BREAKFAST AT SCHOOL”. Italy
appreciated the meal very much.
Throughout this event we could involve the
families not only in the activities
themselves, but in sharing the aims of the
work as well, nutrition being one of the
most important aspects of education
families have to take care of.
and characteristic for each
country, national costumes. The
students prepared lots of
information about all countries,
like: basic information about
geographical situation, spoken
language, number of population,
names of Queen(s) or
Since September 2012, as we
have been participating in an
international Comenius project
“1-2-3Health”our school
organised many exciting events
to help us understand our
countries, needs and feelings.
One of the most absorbing and
spectacular ventures, prepared
by our students during this
school year was “A European
Day”.
The main goal of this acivity
was to realize the differences
and the common qualities
between our countries. Each
class, at our school has chosen
one of the participating in this
Comenius project country. They
were all dressed in traditional
Presidents. They paid attention
to traditional dances, meals,
habits and believes in each
country. They also wanted to
teach us some new words in
each language, like: Buenas noches, Buon giorno, Merhaba, Good Morning.
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Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa nr1 im. Mikołaja Kopernika Radziejów
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Throughout this event we could involve the families not only in the activities themselves, but in sharing the
aims of the work
C.P.Poeta Juan Ochoa. Asturias. Spain
St.faith’s church of England Primary School.
London UK.
Istituto Comprensivo Antonio Fogazzaro. Milan
Italy
Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa nr1 im. Mikołaja
Kopernika Radziejów. Poland
Dr. Ismail tarhan primary School. Mersin
1-2-3 HEALTH !
at the same time: shared harmony.
At our school, one example of that especial moment was
last May 18th, when we decided to take part in the Big Dance 2012. there were two big aims for this activity: civic health and personal health.
This activity introduced the school to Britain’s Olympic games and to the imminent trip to London and thus, helped us to both introduce the British culture and to work on healthy habits through sports and dance.
Every single child took part as well as the teachers. The trainee teachers prepared the
When we decided to start a Comenius Project we were not really aware of all the implica-tions it had. We just had the need to share and demonstra-te that teachers are more than people who teach, but creative people willing to learn and de-velop as professionals and as citizens. We wanted to do of our job a career and of our life an adventure
Being Comenius means that the isolation of the teacher within a class full of students vanishes to give way to a broader world of
possibilities full of people like you that want to work in teams because this way bigger and nicer things can be done.
Being Comenius means feeling so full of pride whenever you and your partners arrange an activity or an event and magically everybody, no matter how different they are, seems to agree on something
choreography and showed it to the students. At two o’clock on 18 may the show started and somehow everything was simply perfect, everybody knew his/her part and performed perfectly well.
What is more, we all knew that in many other parts of the world there were people doing the same thing at the same time and that meant that we could enter the Guinness book of records!!! Every class got the School pledge certificate to prove their participation.
However, that was not important, because eventually, what really matters is the individual feeling of belonging and the important lesson that we all learnt was that together we can do many BIG DANCES in our life.
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BIG COMENIUS. Spain
That day brought a lot of happiness, joy and smiles on
pupils’ faces. That activity led them to share their
knowledge about European countries, improve their
creativity and it showed our students’ involvement in
Comenius project realization.