"WE CHOOSE HEALTH“ ERASMUS+ PROJECT "ALL FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH FOR ALL” E-MAGAZINE NO.1
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PROJECT SUMMARY The K2 Erasmus + project ”All for Health and Health for All ” brings together 6 public schools from six European countries: Spain, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland and Italy. Therefore, this project will be a good opportunity for transfer and exchange of experience regarding project management between partners (pupils, teachers and local communities and authorities). The main aim of the project is to promote healthy nutrition, preserving traditional dishes, removing trick of obesity through sport and healthy environment conservation in a joint campaign in Europe. We achieve our goal through two pathways: 1. by theoretical information-which will include information about nutrition and debate on the right to healthy and safe; the children of today are the adults of tomorrow, which is why we must engage in valuable experiences that will help them become informed citizens; 2. by practical activities (transnational volunteering, workshops, debate, seminar, exhibition, celebrations) performed by pupils, parents, teachers- the project will be an experience that will remain in the memory of the young people, teachers and families involved. The project’s theme will be included in schools’ curricula (classes of science, civic education, geography, foreign languages, ICT, technical education, arts, music). Our project's target group is pupils from 6 to 15 years old. The staff will lead project's management strongly related to students by mixed working teams (boy and girls from all the partner's schools). The project's activities will involve teachers, pupil’s families, local authorities and communities, too, for a better impact and dissemination. Final products: 2 E- magazine ”Children Save the Nature” and ” We choose Health”, Web-page, Blog, Facebook account, advertising leaflet, Brochure and DVDs with all the materials (final products, articles, movies, photos). All those will be use to disseminate the ongoing results and all the activities performed during the project.
SPAIN CEIP SALAMANCA FROM SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE COORDINATOR: MRS. Reyes San MartÃn Cruz
Description of the school (English) Our school is located in the city peripheries. It is made up of 15 teachers and about 220 students. It is an Infant and Primary School so we have students from 3 until 12 years old. The families´ socio cultural level is middle-low class and we sometimes do not have the necessary families support to carry out many activities developed in our school. Unemployment has become one of the main problems in this area and that is reflected in our students´ academic outcomes due to the lack necessary equipment, in most of the cases. We have never participated before in a European project, although some of our teachers, including the Vice Principle and Accountant, have a very large experience on several previous Comenius Projects. We consider this fact as a unique opportunity to involve the entire school community, to share and exchange our experiences with other schools by participating in the project. It's very difficult to develop a teaching work without the families support and this kind of projects can be the connecting link between families and school. In recent years, Tenerife has received a large number of immigrants from Latin America and consequently we have in our school a considerable number of students from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Russian, Chinese, Romanian, Brazilian students. In this sense, our students are very conscious about an education for equality, accepting each different culture and showing interest in learning about new ways of life. Our school is daily used to deal with digital equipment and all our classrooms are equipped with projectors controlled by individual laptops. We reinforce our students the ICT teaching and learning. This project is also a challenge for our teachers who seek to bring Europe closer to our island.
ROMANIA SCOALA GIMNAZIALA MARIA ROSETTI, BUCHAREST
COORDINATOR: Mrs.Emanuela Popescu
Description of the school (English) School Gimnaziala Maria Rosetti it's a public school placed in a district of Bucharest with a stable population formed mostly by middle-class families. The school has near 700 pupils from 6 - 15 years old and 40 teachers; there is a little number of pupils with special needs, migrants, refugees, but has a great number of pupils belonging to different ethnical communities (Armenian, Macedonian, Rroma, Jewish) and different religions (orthodox, Greco-catholic, Romano–catholic, muslins, mosaic and others). All the pupils from our school are perfectly integrated in our school community. We have a good experience on management of national and international school projects being partners and coordinators. In the last years we participated in projects with intercultural topic which had a great impact and success in our school in cooperation with different partners from our country or abroad. This projects involved a great number of pupils and a lot of activities inside and outside of school. We consider that it is very important and useful to share and exchange our experience by participate in European project with other European schools by sharing the different curricula and methods of teaching and learning. Taking into consideration all our previous projects had great success, the pupils we have now in school and their parents desire to participate in this kind of projects. The school is good at usage of digital equipment and they have quite well success in ICT teaching and learning. Classrooms are also equipped with projectors controlled from a computer or a laptop. Our school policy is to stimulate the participation of our pupils in curricular and extracurricular activities no matter the ethnical origin, religion, gender, social level. In addition, the pupils should be connected to European pupils community because in this way they can develop cooperation, friendship, tolerance, communication and information feed-back.
POLAND GIMNAZJUM NR 4 W STARACHOWICACH FROM STARACHOWICE
COORDINATOR: Mrs. Eliza Kostrzewa
Description of the school (English) We are a state lower secondary school in Starachowice. Our town is located halfway between Poland's two biggest cities - Warsaw and Cracow, in a region of one of the oldest mountains in Europe, Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains). Our school has got 241 pupils, aged 13-15, and 32 teachers. The school is located in the newest district of our town and it is combined with a kindergarten, a primary school and a modern sports hall. Our students are very good at sports, especially basketball and volleyball. We have classes that specialize in sports and classes for students with special needs. Our pupils learn three languages - English, German and recently Russian, although English is the leading one. Majority of our students come from underprivileged families, where low pay or unemployment is rapidly becoming a barrier hindering their ability to fully take advantage of social, cultural and educational resources and preventing young people from accessing higher education altogether. Some years ago our town was home to the largest truck manufacture in the country which was the driving force behind town's economy, not only providing employment to the residents, but also supporting many other nearby businesses. Sadly, with the demise of the industry most of its workers found themselves in a desperate financial situation, which had a direct effect on young people's functioning, perspectives, basic living skills and competence.
TURKEY SULTANTEPE ORTAOKULU FROM ISTANBUL COORDINATOR: Mr. Hakan Gündüz
Description of the school (English) Sultantepe Ortaokulu is the secondary school in Ä°stanbul. It is located near the Bosphorus in UskĂźdar in Istanbul. Sultantepe Ortaokulu is the one of the oldest school in Istanbul. Sultantepe Ortaokulu was established in 1901. Sultantepe Ortaokulu has 60 teachers and two deputies, one headmaster.It has about 900 students ranging at the age of 10-13 years old. There is an auditorium and a gym. There are co-curriculars activities in Sultantepe Ortaokulu. They are dance team,handball teams, and more than 10 clubs in Sultantepe Ortaokulu. We have some experiences about the international projects. We have worked with different countries for international projects so far. We joined Comenius and eTwinning projects. Also we have two sister schools from Macedonia and Azerbaijan. Besides the provision of formal education acts on the following fields: - advocating for the protection of the rights of children and mothers in situations of risk and emigrants; - encouragement of international scholarship and exchange teachers and pupils experience; - promoting the use of ICT and multimedia-materials with the educational purposes and services. Also our main objective is the permanent teacher training. We have the following activities: training courses, conferences, congresses, symposiums, seminars y participation in projects. We cover the following areas: specially language and media. Improving the process teaching-learning, expression and understanding (written and orally), working on the correct use of language in different circumstances (administrative language, economic language, business language, etc.) working on interdisciplinary (relating all areas through communication), working on multiculturalist, relating different languages, applying informatics to the teaching-learning process.
ITALY IC5 BOLOGNA FROM BOLOGNA COORDINATOR: Mr. Marco Pelillo
Description of the school (English)
School IC5 is a public school placed in a district of Bologna with a mixed population of Italians and immigrants belonging to different social classes. The school has near 1100 pupils from 3 - 14 years old and about 120 teachers; about 50% of the students has foreign origins from different regions of the world (mostly from Asia, Africa and East Europe). This peculiar aspect allows a continuous comparison among religions, traditions, different foods and life styles. Our school is divided into sections for Children aged 3-5, Primary School (6-10 years old) and Secondary School of First Grade (11-14 years old). The study of food and healthy eating is deeply developed in the classes of 12 years old students (approximately 120 pupils per year). In the last years the school took part into several projects of Citizens and Civil Convivence Education, Journalism, Contrast to Early School leaving, Technical and Practical Labs and Certification of Linguistic Competences in English and French. The school provides Informatics labs and Interactive blackboards with Internet Connection in all the classrooms.
BULGARIA SOU "VLADIMIR KOMAROV" FROM VELIKO TARNOVO COORDINATOR: Ms. Katya Genova
Description of the school (English) SOU "Vladimir Komarov" is a general public school situated on the outskirts of Veliko Tarnovo, in a neighbourhood inhabited by working class families mostly. There are 232 students in the school from the age of 7 to 19, and 23 teachers. In addition to the sunny classrooms, the school has 3 classrooms equipped with computers for the students to study IT, an especially designed room for the pupils from the 1st to the 4th grade to have lunch in, a small library, a gym and a very good volleyball team. In our school we have several students with special needs and also the students belong to different ethnic groups(Bulgarian, Turkish, Roma) and different religions(Orthodox, Islam). Due to the relatively high unemployment certain number of people who live in the neighbourhood are compelled to seek and earn a living abroad and thus some of our students live with their grandparents which implies some emotional issues. That's why taking part in such a project will make our students feel Europe closer, see our continent as an united community and themselves, their parents and their families as a small part of that community. Also our students almost never have the opportunity to travel abroad and such a project will allow them to get in touch with foreign cultures, make friends there and thus enrich their lives.
TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETINGs THE TRANSNATIONAL PROJECTS’ OBJECTIVES 1- Education of the youth to a healthy food, reducing the products consumption that causes obesity and other diseases, focused attention on a traditional cuisine; 2 - Plant protection through transnational common shares and understanding of how important is that food plant cultivation is made organically; 3 - Increase the knowledge of foreign languages by communication using modern ICT; 4 - Increase free expression of pupil’s personality, creativity, making decisions and assume responsibilities; 5 - Cooperate between partners by working together on same activities, exchange good practice examples; 6 – Elaboration of the activities, communication and dissemination plans and reports.
TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING ROMANIA – February 2016
TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING SPAIN - April 2016
TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING BULGARIA - May 2016
SHORT-TERM OF EXHANGE OF PUPILS The first short-term exchange of groups of pupils was carried out in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain between 4th – 8th of April 2016. The host school organized the curricular and extra-curricular activities. It also organized the hosting of some students in Spanish families. The goal of these five days exchange was that participating students to follow different classes of Spanish school, to see different manuals, different programs of study and to come in contact with the teaching- learning methods of the host school. After classes, students have organized several extracurricular activities related to the project: an international exhibition of traditional food, a photo exhibition of traditional costumes, performed two plays in English and all the partners took part in medicinal planting activities of their countries. This student’s exchange had a tremendous impact in school and in the local community - attended a large number of parents and members of the City Hall.
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