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From October 23 to 29 we carried out two more project meetings. We vis- ited the Belgian partner school Sint Jan Berchmansschool in Viv- ersel from 23 to 26 Octo- ber and then the Italian school G. Borsi in Livorno from 26 to 29 October. Both meetings were very successful and we were all very busy carrying out the meetings‘ agendas. We had teaching sessions in both schools, planted a tree in the school gar- dens, met with the par- ents and enjoyed the stu- dents‘ performance in Bel- gium. Our meetings also in- cluded some visits to places of environmental interest in both countries. In Belgium we visited the ―Closing the circle pro- ject‖ which is a factory and a dump where the rubbish that can‘t be re- cycled is buried and en- ergy is produced in the factory. In Italy we visited the Museum of Natural His- tory and the Aquarium of Livorno and we also ex- perienced a nice walk along a protected natural area with pine trees, dunes and sand beaches in Cecina. We would like to thank the Headteachers and teachers of both host schools who offered us a very warm and unforget- table hospitality. ROMANIA 21 POLAND 25 MEETINGS 1 DENMARK 4 BELGIUM 9 CYPRUS 11 GREECE 14 ITALY 16 PORTUGAL 18 Inside this issue: 5th & 6th project meetings GO GREEN, GO CLEAN, ACT NOW! Issue 4 THE ORANGE ISSUE NOVEMBER 2011

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From October 23 to 29

we carried out two more

project meetings. We vis-

ited the Belgian partner

school Sint Jan

Berchmansschool in Viv-

ersel from 23 to 26 Octo-

ber and then the Italian

school G. Borsi in Livorno

from 26 to 29 October.

Both meetings were very

successful and we were all

very busy carrying out the

meetings‘ agendas. We

had teaching sessions in

both schools, planted a

tree in the school gar-

dens, met with the par-

ents and enjoyed the stu-

dents‘ performance in Bel-

gium.

Our meetings also in-

cluded some visits to

places of environmental

interest in both countries.

In Belgium we visited the

―Closing the circle pro-

ject‖ which is a factory

and a dump where the

rubbish that can‘t be re-

cycled is buried and en-

ergy is produced in the

factory.

In Italy we visited the

Museum of Natural His-

tory and the Aquarium of

Livorno and we also ex-

perienced a nice walk

along a protected natural

area with pine trees,

dunes and sand beaches in

Cecina.

We would like to thank

the Headteachers and

teachers of both host

schools who offered us a

very warm and unforget-

table hospitality.

ROMANIA 21

POLAND 25

MEETINGS 1

DENMARK 4

BELGIUM 9

CYPRUS 11

GREECE 14

ITALY 16

PORTUGAL 18

Inside this issue:

5th & 6th project meetings

NOVEMBER 2011 Issue 4

THE ORANGE ISSUE

GO GREEN, GO CLEAN, ACT NOW!

Issue 4

THE ORANGE ISSUE

NOVEMBER 2011

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Meeting at Sint Jan Berchmansschool, Viversel,

BELGIUM

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Meeting at Scuola secondaria di primo grado "G. Borsi",

Livorno, ITALY

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Visit at Ålborg

University

5.Grade was at Ålborg Uni-

versity for a day – having

workshops about 1) en-

ergy, how to store the en-

ergy from wind power and

2) how to build in the fu-

ture.

2 architects from the uni-

versity told us about how it

is possi-

ble to

make

houses

that do

not use

energy

and how

to inte-

grate

sun and

wind

power etc. at the same time. We

all want houses and buildings,

where it´s nice to live. 5.grade

then were given the things needed

to try and make their own sugges-

tions on areas to live. You see

some of their results here:

those weeks, we have an extra focus

on waste and recycling.

2.,3.,4.,and.5th grades have learned a

lot about what to do with waste, how

do we recycle and especially: How

big a difference it makes to our en-

vironment, if we recycle all the

waste we can – from our homes and

households as well.

All the classes had different

streets in our village to cover, and

they collected so much waste right

there on the street, that other peo-

ple had just thrown there. So not

From the 24th oct. – 11th Nov. Our

school participated in the national

competition ―Dåserydderen‖. In

only did they clean our environment –

they saw for themselves how stupid

it is, to just throw something out

your car window etc. instead of

bringing it to the waste bin or recy-

cle it. We will continue to have this

focus on waste the next month.

DENMARK Sennels Skole

selves to do different things, meas-

ure on different light bulbs etc. It

was then very clear to us, that it

makes a big difference what bulbs

you use, if you turn off the power,

when not being in a room etc. What a

big difference WE can make.

This day was very interesting and

inspiring – we sure want to go next

year again. Not only have we learned

a lot about our environment, but also

been and seen how the university

and students there live, learn, work

–a possible education for some of

the children in 5th grade.

In another workshop, we had an en-

gineer in power current teaching us,

what the challenge is to ―save‖

power from wind turbines. When the

wind blows, it´s not always the

times, when people and factories

needs the power. How do we store

the energy without loosing to much?

How do we save it until needed??

After the lesson in the auditorium,

we went to the house, where univer-

sity students make experiments on

power and electricity. We tried our-

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Dåserydderen

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to know the seasons.

On those days we go to either the

forest or to the fjord. We collect

materials from nature,

take these back to school

and use them in class af-

terwards.

In the spring we went to

the fjord, and found many

interesting small animals.

Every Monday is the kindergarden

class moved to the nature.

The children learn to move with con-

sideration in nature, and they learn

Days out in nature – 0.grade/kindergarden class

difference does it make, if you use a

lot of imported foods for your cook-

ing? How long did your pizza (for

instance) ―travel‖ if you look at,

what you put on it? Instead of using

locally grown vegetables and locally

produced meat?

We plan with this in mind, looking at

maps and figure out how much trans-

portation is needed, if you do not

take an environmental look at your

cooking style.

In 6th grade we have cooking-classes

at Sennels Skole. We learn about

how to behave in the kitchen, about

hygiene, how to cook etc. For the

time being our big focus is – how can

you cook for the climate?? What

Cooking for the climate

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This autumn, the children learned

about mushrooms.

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The pupils in 5th grade have made

pictures for The Green Wordbook in

our art-class-lessons.

The Green Wordbook First class at Sennels

Forest Animals

The class has their Christianity

hours worked with the story Noah´s

Ark and the class has in this regard

made Noah´s Ark out of a card-

board box. Noah and his wife and

the animals were made out of carton.

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Pumpkin heads

Our first class has been on an out

day home at one of the boys from

the class. They made a pumpkin

head, they used as lanterns for Hal-

loween.

Friday 4 November was the first class at Sen-

nels School again on a day out. They were this

time in the woods where they were at an orienta-

tion, race. The class should find its way through

the woods using a map. During the trip they had

to pass 10 items all of which contained questions

about one of the forest animals: the squirrel.

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ing their own stand is important to

visualise the progresses each stu-

dent achieve.

We also have rules for cleaning up

the classroom (who does what

when..)

And we have hung up a traffic signal.

When the red light is up the stu-

dents must be absolutely quiet while

working. When the yellow light is up

they can talk quietly and when the

green light is up they

can talk freely.

The abovementioned rules are part

of securing the personal well being

of each student. We have these

kinds of rules in all of our classes

and we note that it helps the stu-

dents felling responsible towards

their class, their friends and all of

In the second grade the children

have made class rules. Rules con-

cerning their behaviour towards

each other, how they must work and

behave in a group, their attitude

towards homework and preparations

for school in general and so on.

Twice a year the students evaluate

them selves according to the rules.

Setting the rules together as a class

is part of a democratic learning

process for the student and evaluat-

Working with class environment in the 2nd grade:

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―Sun oven‖

When looking for solutions using the sun instead of eletric-

ity, it is possible to make a sun-oven. The temperature can

get high enough to cook water, bread, vegetables etc. Very

usefull in places with a lot of sun and no electricity.

Here some groups of students made experiments how to

make a sun-oven and how to use it.

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Is another national competition our

school participated. For 2 weeks, we

all, children and grownups, go as

much as possible on bicycle to school

for different reasons. To focus on

not using the car for short drives,

when it´s really not necessary,

bringing down pollution and use of

fossil fuels and to make the roads

safer for all of us and – of course –

to have natural exercise in fresh air,

to move and be active for health and

fun reasons.

In September we had the scientific

weeks, where we, in nature, science,

technic- lessons made a lot of dif-

ferent experiments concerning the

environment and own health.

3 classes went to the scientific fes-

tival in Ålborg, where we spent the

day going to many different and ex-

iting workshops. How does our body

function? What do our organs look

like? Blow air into lungs of a pig, to

see how they work, how does your

own DNA look?, what does it matter,

if you are smoking? What can pollu-

tion do to you? Scientific experi-

ments, hands on experiments etc. It

was a feast in science!!!

―We All cycle to school‖

2. We are going to produce the

―Green wordbook ― which will con-

tain 52 environmental words in Eng-

lish as well as the languages spoken

in the partner countries. There will

also be a sentence in English for

each word explaining the meaning of

word and the illustrations will be

made by the students.

3. The Danish, Belgian, Cypriot ,

Greek and Italian schools applied

and got the European Quality Label

so now we will apply for the eTwin-

ning European Competition.

4. The next meeting will be in Portu-

gal from 11.2 to 16.2. 2012 and the

final one in Poland from 16.4.-20.4.

2012.

5. We will exchange Christmas

cards .

6. Our students will write a story

book in common. The story will have

environmental content. The Cypriot

students will begin the story, the

Greeks will continue it and then the

Italians, the Portuguese students,

the Belgians, the Romanians, the

Polish students and finally the Dan-

ish students will write the end of

the story. Thus our story will

―travel‖ throughout Europe and our

heroes will solve the environmental

problems we are facing in our coun-

tries. The Cypriot coordinator, Mr

Panikkos Xiourouppas, will try to

find sponsors to print books, other-

wise the story will come out in CDs

as well as online.

Of course we have to mention our

Comenius project meeting in Belgium

and Italy. We had a wonderful stay

in both countries, learned a lot about

some of their projects and environ-

mental challenges, and had a great

time teaching children there about

our work with the ―Go green, go

clean, act now‖ project.

During the project meetings we dis-

cussed about the following subjects:

1. We decided to make a teacher‘s

book, describing our teaching ses-

sions during our meetings in the

partner schools. The book will con-

tain the teaching plan we used in-

cluding aims and methods , list of

materials, ―how to do‖ and back-

ground knowledge for the teachers.

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Scientific Festival in

Ålborg Zoo

Project meetings

by Jytte Gill

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Actions that will last

throughout 2011 –

2012

We have to reduce the

emission of CO2

because …

Millions of people in the South are

struck by climate changes:

extreme heavy rains, extreme

heath and dryness, poor harvest,

floods, …

The South cannot be pay the bill

for what the North has done to

the climate.

Therefore we have to act NOW

and TOGETHER.

We want to do actions to increase

pressure for an international

climate agreement.

We have the possiblilty to sign

our own ―CLIMATE

AGREEMENT‖, offered by the

organisation 11.11.11.

The actions we will do:

1. Again a car less on

the street !

If we can, we will walk or take the

bike instead of using the car. Our

children will receive a plate to

attach on the handle-bar of their

bicycle, with the words ―AGAIN

A CAR LESS‖.

2. We try to be careful

not to waste energy.

a. September: the last one

switches off the light before

leaving the room !

b. October: switch off all the

electric machines completely (not

stand-by)!

c. December: don‘t lay

anything on the radiator !

d. January: wash your hands

with cold water !

e. February: every day ―Thick

Sweaters Day‖ !

f. March: is the heating on?

Close all the windows and doors !

g. May: order in the

refrigerator !

h. June: the sun is shining,

make profit of it, go outside !

BELGIUM Sint Jan Berchmansschool, Viversel

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3. I drink tap

water !

By stimulating the drinking

of tap water, we try to

reduce the transportation of

water which includes less

trains, trucks, refrigerators

… which means less CO2 in

the air‘.

We also try to avoid litter

by reducing the amount of

plastic bottles.

Our school has the ambition

to become a ‗tap water only‘-

area as soon as possible. our

All our students received a bottle

(sponsored by the company of tap

water) which they bring to school

every day, filled with tap water.

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Tuesday 25 October 2011:

partner-evening.

The comeniuspartners had the

opportunity to make a presentation

of their country, their school and

the content of their

projectworking to the Belgian

partners.

Tuesday 25 October 2011:

teaching sessions

Monday 24 October 2011:

Welcome of the

comeniuspartners in "De

Vierseleer".

Daan Bormans presents the show

as mister Belgium.

Content of the show:

· 2 class sings: ―It‘s great to

be a Belgian‖.

· 5 class: rapsong ―1 2 3 4

garbage‖.

· the children of the

kindergarten welcome the

comeniuspartners with their

national hymn, their national flag

and a welcome-word in their native

language. They also give a present.

· the primary class sings: ―Up

above the clouds‖.

· everybody sings the

projectsong ―Go green go clean –

act now!‖

Month October 2011:

preparation of the visit of

our partners.

Each class worked about one

comeniuspartner.

·

6 class:

Denmark

· 5

class: Italy

· 4

class: Greece

· 3

class:

Portugal

· 2

class: Cyprus

· 1 class:

Romania and

Poland

· Kindergarten: Belgium

· research on the internet,

research on the endproducts 2011

of our comeniuspartners (CD‘s/

DVD‘s), making of presentations,

powerpoints, handicraft …

· preparation of the welcome-

moment.

The children of class 1 – 2

– 3 visited BOF-LAND

(September 2011).

The people of the BOFS, aliens,

have noticed fom outer space that

there is a black, dark veil

surrounding the planet Earth.

The Earth obviously needs help !

What a pollution ! What a waste

of energy !

The BOFS contact Ran, the

traveller, if they can use his house

as a base on Earth.

This base is named BOF-LAND.

From here, Ran and The Bofs tell

our children how they can help

mother Earth in a ―green way‖.

· simplified environmental

education

· songs

Info about the visit of our comeniuspartners.

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by Rita Maes &

Koen Beerten

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pared and every class decided to

accomplish at least one activity. The

eco committee decided to make a

competition between students. Stu-

dents are motivated to bring their

food in plastic boxes and their water

in stainless steel bottles, so to di-

Our school has been for many years

member of the European program

―Eco schools‖. This year the project

we deal with is called ―Litter Less‖

and has the aim to find ways to di-

minish litter in school but at homes

too. A short Action plan was pre-

minish foil and other kind of wraps.

We are very excited because chil-

dren responded with happiness to

this initiative.

2. Litter Less project

place in this

committee. The

committee

holds meetings

frequently, de-

cides serious

problems that

the school

faces and takes

the appropriate

measures.

Our school continues for the sec-

ond year the Comenius program

and many activities took place dur-

ing the last 3 months:

1. The eco committee. Every class appointed their 2 rep-

resentatives and so one committee

was formed that manages the envi-

ronmental issues of the school.

Parents and teachers also take

CYPRUS: A’ ARARIPPOU PRIMARY SCHOOL

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COMENIUS PROJECT 2010-2012

CYPRUS A΄Δημοτικό Στολείο Αραδίπποσ

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effort for

students to

separate

their litter

properly.

Paper recycled bins were put

into every classroom. A na-

tional bank sponsored carton

bins to all schools of Cyprus

so students can recycle pa-

per. The paper is collected

and then is carried to the

big recycled bins that there

are outside of the school.

Recycled bins for PMD and

paper were also put in the

yard but still we need more

3. Recycle bins

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Students made several draw-

ings for the illustration of the

common environmental glossary.

Our school had to draw pic-

tures for the words Dam, De-

forestation, Earth, endemic

species, Flora and Fauna. The

drawings were really great!

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4. Our Green Word Book

Caption describing picture or

graphic.

were put on the one board and

we still have your wishes from

your last year visit to Cyprus in

the flowers on the other board.

Soon we‘ll install a cabinet were

all Comenius products will be

exposed.

Two of the big permanent

boards in the hall of our school

were decorated only with

Comenius material. Photos from

the trip to Belgium and Italy

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5. Comenius Board

by Panikkos

Xiourouppas

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GREECE 8 Δημοτικό Στολείο Νέας Σμύρμης

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May — June 2011

In May and June we collected a lot of vegetables from our vegetable garden. We made fresh salads

and traditional Greek dishes with our tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes and aubergines.

At the end of the school year, the students of the 1st grade acted a play, written by their teacher

Mr. Ilias Trontsios, about the endangered species and in June we participated in the Schools‘ Eco

festival in our Educational District.

During the last two months of the previous

school year, 2010—2011, we carried out some

more activities. We participated in the Comenius

Week 2011 and

planted some flowers

in the small school

garden.

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Two of last year‘s activities are

still in action this year. The eco

patrol and the school garden.

The sixth graders are responsi-

ble of advising the younger stu-

dents to keep the school prem-

ises clean as well as to plant

vegetables in the school garden.

So, this year they planted some

lettuce, broccoli and cauli-

flowers.

The 5th and 6th grades had a

visit to an environmental

centre and learned a lot about

solar and wind energy.

We applied for the National

eTwinning competion.

This year we are going to work

on the sea, energy and air

pollution. We have merged our

Comenius –etwinning project

with the Eco projects of our

Educational District.

Finally, we presented to our

students the meetings in Bel-

gium and Italy and we are

now making the Christmas

cards we are going to send

to the partner schools.

New year activities

The fifth and sixth graders

translated the words of the

eco dictionary and they

also illustrated words be-

ginning with J, K and L.

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by Stavroula

Makaronopoulou

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Project visits to Belgium and Italy 23-26 October 2011

Two new project visits for our “Go Green, Go Clean” people. We, the Italian delegation, enjoyed them so

much and will keep very nice memories in our hearts. In Viversel, Flemish Belgium, we had the pleasure

to show our students’ work on Tuscan’s Islands. By a Power Point presentation we took our pictures and

information on typical plants and animals living there. The Belgian students talked to us and let us know

all they know about Italy and its landmarks, including pasta, pizza and tiramisù! The meeting with teach-

ers, students and community was really enjoyable.

Italy Scuola secondaria di primo grado "G. Borsi", Livorno

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It was also nice to take all to-

gether the same flight from Maas-

tricht to Pisa. We, 22 teachers and

headteachers jumped on the plane

for another three-day adventure

down to Italy. As we did in Bel-

gium, we planted a new tree

(evergreen oak) in our school-

yard, had lesson sections during

school time and open our school

to families and children for the

purpose of learning each oth-

ers. One classroom for each of

the seven hosted Countries, a real

trip around

Europe. In case

you can’t go

around visiting

Europe, we’ll

bring it to your

home!

visits - and an ecological

storybook to develop all to-

gether, among the partner

Countries. Ambitious pro-

ject!

Of course all our students in

the eight Countries involved in

the ―Green‖ project will be

keeping exchanging letters,

postcards and e-mail contacts

to keep in touch.

Next work for the following

months is a collection of sci-

ence lessons - most of them

were already held during our

From Belgium to Italy

Caption describing picture or

graphic.

Downtown we all visited the lo-

cal Natural History Museum and

the Aquarium. In the vicinity of

Livorno we also experienced a

nice walk along a protected natu-

ral area with pine trees, dunes and

sandy beaches.

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by Patrizia Salutij

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Hi everybody!

Here we are again for another Comenius year!

This is what we have been doing since the school year started in September:

- Teachers‘ meetings in order to organize 2011/2012 activities;

- School website and Comenius corner updating;

- We joined the school‘s English Club and organized a Halloween Parade - ―The most ecological

fancy dress‖. All the costumes were made out of recycled materials and old clothes;

- We accepted a mobile phones company challenge to launch dozens of biodegradable balloons

with environmental messages. We participated with 500 students.

- We finished the environment wordlist and the drawings for the common wordbook;

- We started the ―free garden plots‖ project. We selected the spots, gave them to the inter-

ested classes, wrote letters and e-mails to local institutions to ask for gardening tips, plants

Portugal Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Diogo Cão,

Vila Real

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Launching biodegradable balloons with ecological messages

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«Free» Garden Plots (some classes from our school are going to look after

one plot)

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Halloween Parade

«The most ecologi-

cal fancy dress»

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Trip to Smodzinsky Las, Poland

By Joao Pena Gil

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At the end of the school-year

2010-2011 and of our first

Comenius year, students from

2nd grade from Horlesti-Rediu

school did participated in a per-

formance in front of the other

students and parents with a

theatre piece about animals and

human behaviours. They real-

ised costumes recycled materi-

als and we choose a natural dé-

cor (in front of our school).

With this occasion, our head-

master realised a disemination

of the first year within our

Comenius part-

nership to our

students, their

parents and

other represen-

tatives of the

local community.

For a national project called

―Let‘s do it, Romania!‖ held this

year on 24th of September, stu-

dents from primary level from

Horlesti school cleaned a part

of the main street of the vil-

lage colecting 15 bags with gar-

badge and students from lower-

secondary level took part in a

The work for the multilingual

eco-energy dictionary started

with a selection of the English

words and continued with

translations of them into each

partner language. Also, for

some of them, each school pro-

vided a sentence in English and

a symbolic picture made by stu-

dents.

competion of posters for this

event.

Romania Scoala cu clasele I-VIII Rediu, Iasi

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To prepare for the lessons held in the 4th project meeting, students from Rediu school realised a

3D eco-tree with colours of autumn. Mihai was their teacher and they enjoyed doing fun with recy-

cled papers and colours.

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At the beginning of the second

school-year of our partnership

(2011-2012), in our institution

it was necessairy to renew the

team of teachers because many

of them changed their school.

Before that, the coordinator

made a dissemination at the

staff council (6th of October),

than at the meeting between

parents, school administration

and the major of Rediu com-

mune on 9th of October 2011.

With the help of our students,

we realised a mini-shop of re-

used toys and books collected

from them, hand-made art-

crafts and other objects. With

money received from their sell-

ing we want to help some stu-

dents from disadvantaged

families from both villages:

Rediu and Horlesti. This action

will continue till the Easter

holiday 2012.

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Because each year we celebrate

the 18th of September - World

Water Monitoring Day - this

autumn students from 3rd

grade, than from 1st grade from

Horlesti school did learn and

made a test of quality of the

water from Cacaina river lo-

cated nearby our school (in Za-

horna, the historical center of

the Horlesti village).

Lozba-Stirbuleac was invited to

share information about this

project as a good example for

other teachers, stakeholders,

students and other partici-

pants. Also, results and infor-

mations about this project,

we‘ll diseminate on 9th of De-

cember 2011 within a national

seminar of the National Agency

about how of rural schools

could be involved in European

projects.

The most important dissemina-

tion of our project in Romania

was done during the national

conference ―Verde, Voluntariat,

Valorizare‖ (‗Green, Volunteer-

ing, Valorisation‘) organised by

our National Agency

(A.N.P.C.D.E.F.P.) in Bucharest

(‗The Ark‘ center) on 18th of

November 2011. Mr. Daniel

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by Daniel Lozba

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Our students of the fifth

grade were able to learn a lot

about the nature, they saw rare

examples of plants and some

animals living in this area. Our

Portuguese friends joined us

and we had wonderful moments

there. The students made

friends and shared experi-

ences. They became aware of

man‘s influence on the environ-

ment and became familiar with

rules which must be abidden by

in the national park. We also

visited Gdansk (the historical

city), Ustka (one of the most

popular seaside resorts) and

Kluki (a local skansen). Our stu-

dents really enjoyed their com-

bookmarks were distributed

among the students of Belgian

and Italian schools during our

visit in October.

The kids were asked to make a

piece of art (painting, 3D work

or drawing, computer work).

Then we had a display at school.

Our students of 1-3 grades

made bookmarks presenting

wild animals living and pro-

tected in Poland. All those

Poland Szkola Podstawowa Nr 20 im. Ks. Prymasa Stefana

Kardynala Wyszynskiego, Bydgoszcz

An art competition ―The forest and its inhabitants‖ and Eco-bookmarks

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A visit to Slovinsky

National Park

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We recorded our version of the

project song ―Go, go Green!‖

This is the Polish – English lyr-

ics which tell us it is high time

we started taking care about

the environment, saving water

and electricity etc…

Matka Ziemia potrzebuje pomocy

Już czas najwyższy by ratować ją

Dbać o przyrodę i w dzień i w nocy

By jak najdłużej cieszyć się nią.

Jedź więc rowerem, nie

samochodem,

Segreguj śmieci, licz każdy Watt,

Gdy myjesz zęby, zakręcaj wodę

By zazielenił się cały świat!

Ref: Go go green boys!

Go go green girls!

Go go green baby

You’d better act now!

Go go clean boys!

Go go clean girls!

Yoy’d better better, better act

now!

We‘re collecting empty milk

cartons, old CDs and batteries.

We also collect plastic bottles

caps. Last time we won the

plastic bottles smashing ma-

chine .

Our song

Collecting, segregating, recycling

It is a national action always

held in September. Kids are

equipped with garbage bags and

rubber gloves and we go to col-

lect garbage from our streets,

parks and forests near the

school.

Clean –up the world.

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It was a competition – the stu-

dents were supposed to make a

green mascot – their eco-

friend. This is the winner:

We made decorations out of

reused materials and garbage.

My eco-friend mascot and Comenius board

Decorations

Students made posters about

saving water

Water is important

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We organized a big board with

basic information about the

project. We also bought 2 gall

boxes in which we keep all the

souvenirs gathered during the

project meetings

Endangered animals

Students made posters pre-

senting wild animals in Poland

which are protected

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We prepared our part of our Green Words Book

bly and then they are going to

Tell about their experiences and ad-

ventures

We‘re making more bookmarks with

animals (we‘ll take them to Portugal)

Calendars for the

year 2012 presenting

trees in different

seasons

Ecological mini drama

play

Class competition: a

commercial of some-

thing eco

A competition: make a

Christmas bauble out

of garbage

Eco Christmas cards

which will be sent to

our partners

5 and 6 year classes

are working on poster

projects on all coun-

tries involved in our

project

Students who had

already taken part in

project meetings are

working on presenta-

tions. We are going to

have a school assem-

Things we‘re actually working on:

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by Ewa Nawrocka

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NEXT PROJECT MEETING

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Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas

Diogo Cão, Vila Real,

PORTUGAL

12—16/2/2012