Comenius Bilateral Project "Aiming for a Better World with a Multicultural School": Celebrating Comenius Immigrant Students´ Day

We celebrated another Comenius Immigrant Students´ Day!

This time we discovered some things about Cape Verde, we learned some expressions in Creole and we cooked typical Cape Verdean pastry.

Here are some photos.

 

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens"

Last week we were in Grottarminarda for the 4th Project Meeting.
Here are some photos of the activities and visits we had.

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens"

Working on the script to take to Italy and trying to solve the puzzle done by our Latvian friends!

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens ": Meeting in Lousado

Here is a short film about our meeting in Lousado.

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens ": Project evaluation

In order to evaluate the impact of the ongoing project and to collect information about the project activities and the students´ involvement, we asked the forty students and the seven teachers working on the project to answer a short questionnaire. Here are some of the conclusions.

 

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens ": Charity Fair

In order to raise funds to an association which helps people at risk of social exclusion or with problems related with unemployment, our Comenius Team made some “gifts” and recycled some objects which were sold in a Charity Fair held at the school yard.

“The revival of the historical food of Europe and benefits for healthy diet of population”: last meeting in Blansko.

The last meeting of our Comenius Multilateral Project “The revival of the historical food of Europe and benefits for healthy diet of population” was held in Blansko, between 9th and 12th May.
The Italian, Czech, Swedish and Portuguese teams met to evaluate the project and to discuss the  final product – a booklet/DVD with all the research and presentations done by the students.
Here are somepictures of our last meeting.

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens ": Meeting in Cracow.

Here are some pictures of our meeting in Cracow.

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens: “Tolerance games”

Different “Tolerance Games” were held in our school not only by the Comenius students, but also by several of our classes.

These were the statements discussed:

-          Disabled youngsters should attend special schools.
-          In the labour market, women are as capable as men of performing certain tasks.
-          Our government should prohibit immigration.

All the students were very interested in these topics… they shared their thoughts, heard all kinds of different and interesting points of view and sometimes, after these vivid discussions, they changed their minds.

“TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens” - “ Adopting... grandparents and grandchildren”

During our discussions about “Tolerance” and what it is to be tolerant, our Comenius students concluded that a great percentage of elderly people are living in "social isolation”, sometimes even at risk of abuse or neglect. So, determined to help older people, who have never had families, have outlived them or just can't possibly be in touch with them, some of the Comenius students visited an elderly care home.

During this visit, we shared experiences, listened to special personal histories,  built bonds which will endure in time... and we promised to go back for more visits!

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens: Workshops “Drawing Tolerance”

Our students did some drawings about Tolerance and their ideas on this subject...

All the drawings were done using the techniques they learnt with the help of Arts teachers during two workshops held at FORAVE.

Some of the results were shown in an exhibition at our school.

Comenius FORAVE and FACEBOOK

We have joined FACEBOOK! Follow us on Comenius Forave!

“The revival of the historical food of Europe and benefits for healthy diet of population”: Meeting at FORAVE

Between 4th and 9th March, the Italian, Czech, Swedish and Portuguese teams met at our school to carry out the planned activities concerning the Comenius Project “The revival of the historical food of Europe and benefits for healthy diet of population”.

During this European meeting there were ice-breaking activities which allowed the students to get to know each other and to make new friends; students´ presentations about the schools, countries and the project´s theme; field trips to food processing companies like Caves Ferreira (Porto Wine)  and Imperial (chocolate factory) and some time to visit the cities of Porto and Viana do Castelo. However, the main activity was a practical workshop, which took place at  ESEIG - Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Gestão, in Vila do Conde,  during which students and teachers had the opportunity to cook and taste some traditional Portuguese recipes like Caldo Verde, Rojões à moda do Minho and Papos de Anjo.

"The revival of the historical food of Europe and benefits for healthy diet of population”: Meeting at FORAVE

Here is a short film about Portugal and our school done by the Portuguese Comenius Team.

Comenius Multilateral Project "TOLERANCE as a Key to Social Integration Into European Dimension for Young Citizens "

"Tolerance" and how to be tolerant of others were topics discussed by our Comenius students and some of the conclusions were on PowerPoint presentations shown to all the students in our school.

Here is one of those presentations.