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TEENS ACTIONS FOR GOOD JULY 2016

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CHRISTMAS HAMPERS

TAG members of Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão participated in the Christmas Hampers campaign that helped relieve hunger in 62 families and make a total of 180 children happier this Christmas, thanks to the solidarity and generosity of the whole school community.

Link: http://goo.gl/Gz0cZj

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

FOOD: WHICH INFORMATION FOR THE CONSUMERS?

On 23rd May all the students of the second year participated in the seminar: "Food which information for the consumers?". The meeting had the aim of informing consumers about labelling, allergenes, expiry dates, OGMs and Organic products as well as the importance of sustainable farming.

IPSAA BELLINI

MAY 2016

THE BLUE RIBBON CAMPAIGN

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and T.A.G members took action during the week of GYSD, from 15th to 22nd April. In Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão (PT) eTwinning group, The Untouchable organised a campaign that was held on the 18th April in Escola Secundária Frei Rosa Viterbo. Carolina, Letícia, Telma,Tatiana e Miguel made 200 blue ribbons and 36 blue masks. They decorated a table and created an awareness video. They distributed the campaign flyers given by the Portuguese Commission for the Protection of Children and Young People and blue ribbons throughout the school. They invited their schoolmates to wear a blue T-shirt and the blue ribbon to show their fight against children abuse. They called students to join a flash mob which consisted of one minute of silence to reflect on the ill-treatment of children. The objective of this action was to alert our community to the issue. We have disseminated our action in eTwinning Live, on Facebook and our school webpage and invited other eTwinners and our partners to leave a message in the TAG Blue Ribbon Campaign mural: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIk7c3RTfPQ Watch our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OU9ISIEFg8

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

AWARENESS CAMPAIGN AGAINST DISCRIMINATION

Our eTwinning group, The Winners organised an Awareness Campaign against Discrimination on 22nd March 2016 at "ATL - Centro de Atividades de Tempos Livres"- the local after-school day care centre in Sátão. We showed the animated short film "The Present" (https://vimeo.com/152985022) created by Jacob Frey to a group of 40 children. It is a touching movie about a young boy who prefers to spend his time indoors playing videogames to discovering what’s outside the door until the day his mother decides to give him a special present, which makes it hard for him to concentrate on his video game. The story is based on Fabio Coala’s comic strip named “Perfection.” After watching the film, we started a little discussion about the message conveyed and we invited the children to draw or colour drawings about the film. We also played affection games. In the end, we exhibited the drawings in the room and we offered a candy and a bracelet with a message against discrimination. We were supported by our parents who drove us to the ATL, our English teacher who gave us suggestions and by the staff of the institution. We intended to call the attention of the children attending the ATL in Sátão to a problem that affects many people in our community and teach them to accept the difference. Watch our video: https://goo.gl/aQqIBo

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

VISIT TO THE ELDERLY NURSING HOME IN SÁTÃO

Guilherme and Rita spent a day at the local Elderly Nursing Home volunteering our time during Easter holidays to help the carers, from 20th March to 30th March. They prepared a set of activities.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/_kunQOWIwRQ

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

Visit to Home for disabled citizens in MaÄ?kov, Czech Republic

The Czech team Twobees and 2 teachers visited on 3rd March 2016 Home for disabled people in MaÄ?kov, Czech Republic. We prepared small refreshment, took part in creative workshops with clients and organised a nice afternoon with singing, playing the instruments and talking.

STREDNI ODBORNA SKOLA BLATNA

APRIL 2016

LILT RACE

In our region there is a great sensitivity about deterrence of the tumours, which affect people of different ages. We decided to participate to "LILT Race" (LILT is an acronym for " Lega Italiana per la lotta contro i tumori", Italian League against cancer) as athletes (five students and two teachers - English and Physical Education) and as a race assistants (one student). Our school organized the race for all city schools. The race took place on 9 April at "Parco del Cormor", a city park near our school; 400 people - students and teachers - ran for prevention. The race consists in a relay 4x1000 in which various teams take part to remember that keeping fit is an important way of preventing cancer. The race is organized to sensitize and inform students on prevention of cancer; in schools are also held experts talks. Our project in the school’s website: http://goo.gl/ERH62t A short clip of the race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq1APvz9YO4

I.S.I.S. STRINGHER – UDINE - ITALY

APRIL 2016

CAMPAIGN AGAINST SMOKING

Our e-Twinning group, decided to organise a school campaign to increase students’ awareness connected with harmful effects of smoking on our health. We made anti – smoking posters and displayed them on the school corridors. We also organised classes when we discussed the problem of smoking cigarettes by teenagers. During the classes we watched a video presenting consequences of smoking. After the film we had a discussion and we organised a debate about the problem of breaking the law by some students of our school. The school council was involved in the campaign and the feedback of the debate was handed in to our headteacher.

GIMNAZJUM IM KS. WACŁAWA RABCZYŃSKIEGO

APRIL 2016

PLEDGE FOR PARITY ON WOMEN’S DAY

On International Women's Day, TAG members decided to Step It Up for Gender Equality by joining the Pledge for Gender Parity and involving their friends and relatives in the action which consisted in posting a selfie with a message for gender equality. More than 400 selfies were collected.

GLOBAL ACTION

APRIL 2016

AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR THE PROBLEM OF PET’S ABANDONMENT

From 31st March to 12th April, we, The Players, visited the dog/cat kennel in Rãs, Sátão. We saw so many pets begging for a home and that moved us. So, we volunteered to give them food, we played with them and helped the kennel staff feeding and medicating the animals. Some of them had just arrived! We also took photos of the animals for the blog we created to invite people adopt a pet. In Sátão, we tried to spot abandoned pets on the streets. We fed the ones we found and took photos of them too. We posted the photos on our blog with the location of the animals on Google maps. We had the support of Bruno’s father who drove us to the kennel and our English teacher who helped us plan and monitor our work in class. With this action we intended to call the populations’ attention to the need to provide a home to these stray pets to make the town we live in safer as well. The staff of the kennel invited us to come more often and that more people should follow our example. Video: https://youtu.be/Gctm_fJ95xc

AGURPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

MAY 2016

LET'S CLEAN OUR SCHOOL

On the occasion of the Earth Day, the 10th May, the students wanted to participate with a modest but representative action. They wore gloves and with plastic bags and sweepers they cleaned the school yard and garden, then they threw the garbage in the suitable bins according to the different types of waste.

IPSAA BELLINI

MAY 2016

FOR BETTER RECYCLING AT SCHOOL

In the corridors of our school there are containers for separate collection of waste for recycling (paper, plastic, unsorted waste). In most villages or cities where students live, separate collection of waste has already been implemented for several years. However, at school, often litter is not thrown in the right container. In order to improve the collection for recycling by the students and the school staff, our class will prepare posters, signs etc that will be put near the containers. We will take pictures of the containers before and after our action to monitor the efficacy of our signs. Our project in the school’s website: http://goo.gl/ERH62t.

Link to our “Recycling” Christmas card : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMgxibygJsQ

I.S.I.S. STRINGHER – UDINE - ITALY

APRIL 2016

ACTION: MEET AGAINST WATER POLLUTION

On 21st March, in a joint celebration of the International Day of Forests and World Water Day, we organised a meet to debate issues related to this year’s theme “Forests and Water - Sustain Life and Livelihoods”. We distributed bracelets with the colours of the Sustainable Development Global Goals addressed by our action to raise the participants’ awareness to water pollution and climate change. We had previously spread posters we created with the help of our Visual Education teacher, Cristina Esteves, and we spread the word and invited people to our meet throughout school on Open School Day on 18 March.

Watch our video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OU9ISIEFg8

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

A FOREST CLEAN-UP BY THE POWERFUL TEENS

On 1st April, we, The Powerful Teens, went to Casal de Cima, Rio de Moinhos, for a clean-up action so as to contribute to keep forests clean and to prevent wild fires. We were four pupils from year 9 Class C (Ana Francisca, Hugo, Maria and Matilde) helped by our parents who drove us to the village. After having announced our action and gotten the authorization from the President of the Parish Council, Mr. Miguel Cabral, we met to clean up a forest area of about 50 m2 around the football pitch of the village. We found a lot of garbage like old clothes, paper, plastic bags, packaging and bottles. We even found an old television set! We had the support of our English teacher who helped us plan and monitored our work in English classes. With this action we hope to have contributed to call the population’s awareness to the need to keep forests clean to reduce the risks of wild fires and soil contamination. We addressed SDG 15 “Life on Land” against land degradation and biodiversity loss. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3zpPquI6ZI

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

A FOREST CLEAN-UP

eTwinning group 50 Shades of Portugal organized a clean-up action of a forest in Silvã de Cima.

The first step towards this action consisted in talking to the President of the Parish of Silvã de Cima to ask permission to clean the forest area. On 30th March three pupils of the group, Marcelo, Rafael and Gonçalo together with their friend Fabiano met in Silvã de Cima for the clean-up. They collected all sort of garbage: plastic, bags, tires, crates of bear, buckets and some tubes. The garbage was then taken to the recycling banks. The action was disseminated on school and on the T.A.G project Twinspace.

Watch our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Kyckj8T5s

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

CIVIL DEFENCE VOLUNTEERING

Forty years ago, on 6th May 1976, our region was hit by a disastrous earthquake. During the organization for rescue the first form of civil defence was established. Now Civil Defence (Protezione Civile) is an institution dedicated to the interventions and aid in case of natural events in Italy and abroad, both with its specialized staff and a network of volunteers in the territory. On April 12th 2016 we organized in our school an informational event open to other classes to know and to spread the culture of civil volunteering. Mr.Giorgio Visintini talked about the origins of the organisation and inspired students to experience some Civil Defence activities during Summer Camps, held every year and open to all young people interested in becoming volunteers on the territory. Our project in the school’s website: http://goo.gl/ERH62t Link to the video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElHasM3PQGI

I.S.I.S. STRINGHER – UDINE - ITALY

MAY 2016

Czech team Scorpions for THE EARTH DAY 2016

Czech team Scorpion helped in frameworks of The Earth Day 2016 and the event “Clean the Czech Republic „ to improve the environment around the school Stredni odborna škola Blatna. The school event took place on 18th April 2016 and the working team consisted of 20 pupils of first grade and 4 teachers. We planted the new plants, cleaned the pavements, picked up litter and cut the dry branches of bushes of rhododendrons outsider the school building.

STŘEDNÍ ODBORNÁ SKOLA BLATNÁ

APRIL 2016

CAMPAIGN: SE FOSSE EU FAZER A MOCHILA E PARTIR/ WHAT'S IN MY BAG?

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LINK TO FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/467713360099818/?fref=ts

AGRUPAMENTO GLOBAL DE ESCOLAS ACTION DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

APRIL 2016

CELEBRATING ETWINNING, CELEBRATING DIVERSITY

Teens in Action for Good took part in eTwinning anniversary on Europe's Day by celebrating DIVERSITY with other eTwinners. We created a Facebook Group to open up our activities to the rest of eTwinning community and shared a mural, on padlet, where videos, posters and nice messages were posted.

Links: - https://www.facebook.com/groups/707785079257966/ - https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/pages/page/124227

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APRIL 2016

APRIL 2016

The Good Tunes’ Campaign Against Homophobia

Our campaign took place in Viseu, on 24th March, between 2 p.m and 7 p.m. It consisted in recording people's opinions about transgender individuals. Four pupils participated in this action, Catarina João, Beatriz, Catarina Gaspar and João Paulo. João filmed people's reactions while Catarina João, Catarina Gaspar and Beatriz interviewed them. We would like to thank Catarina João's and Catarina Gaspar's mother who drove us to Viseu, so that we could accomplish the campaign. In addition, we shared the video with the people who gave us their opinion. We will broadcast the video in our school on the 17th May International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) that was “created in 2004 to draw the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movements, the public and the media to the violence and discrimination experienced

by LGBTI people internationally”: (IDAHOT official webpage: http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/).

You can watch our video here: https://t.co/lsHZi2oWhz

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

CAMPAIGN AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA

eTwinning group The Unicorns wanted to combat homophobia. The action was carried out at school, on 18th March 2016 which was Open School Day. We made Origami Fortune Tellers and played the game with people who visited our school on Open Day. It consisted of 8 numbers in multicolored hearts (with the colours of the rainbow flag which is the symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pride and LGBT social movements) and the word hidden under all 8 parts was the word ‘Homophobia’. The challenge was to say the first word that came into their minds when they heard the word ‘homophobia’. We questioned 60 people. Most of them responded “gay” and some were rude and used inappropriate language as a reaction. Others didn’t know what homophobia meant and some of them even thought about spiders or fear. With this ‘little game’ we realised that people in our community are not aware of the concept and that they still hold discriminatory beliefs towards homosexuals. We hope we have raised participants’ awareness towards the issue and the need to stop discrimination against people for their sexual orientations.

Watch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIk7c3RTfPQ

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

APRIL 2016

MARCIA PER LA LEGALITĂ€

To remember the victims of the Mafia every year in Italy people organize the march of peace not to forget the people who died for justice and to teach the concept of legality to students

I.S.I.S.S BOJANO

APRIL 2016

LETTER WRITING MARATHON 2015

Teens in Action for Good took part in another edition of the Letter Writing Marathon and organized the campaign in their schools to collect as many signatures and letters as possible. The letters have served Amnesty International to put pressure on authorities, and over the years they have resulted in life-changing impacts for many. We collected more than 500 signatures to support the cases above and that we sent to AI. Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/pages/page/79443 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYzaylw-s4g AGRUPAMENTO GLOBAL DE ESCOLAS ACTION DE SĂ TĂƒO

APRIL 2016

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United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/pages/page/80288 Participating schools Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão

Dec 10th, 2015

Letter Writing Marathon

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It is one of the world’s biggest human rights events and carries on a long tradition of writing or signing letter and petitions to right some of the world’s biggest wrongs.

TAG Participating schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão Agrupamento de Escolas de Seia, Portugal "Gimnazjum im ks. Wacława Rabczyńskiego, Poland Střední odborná škola Blatná, Czech Republic

Dec 10th, 2015

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Human Rights Day Participating Schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão IPSAA BELLINI, Italy

Feb 9th, 2016

Safer Internet day

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TAG project's participants took action but joining the Thunder clap for a Safer internet and debating newtiquette rules to be respected in the context of the project's twinspace.

Participating Schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão IPSAA BELLINI, Italy Agrupamento de Escolas de Seia, Portugal Istituto Statate di Instruzione Secondaria Superiore, Italy

Feb 20th, 2016

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World Day of Social Justice Link: http://www.un.org/en/events/socialjusticeday/ Planning and disseminating the action plans for Social Justice.

All partner schools

Mar 8th, 2016

International Women's Day: Action for Gender parity

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https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/pages/page/105422 Participating schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão IPSAA BELLINI, Italy Agrupamento de Escolas de Seia, Portugal "Gimnazjum im ks. Wacława Rabczyńskiego, Poland Střední odborná škola Blatná, Czech Republic Istituto Statate di Instruzione Secondaria Superiore, Italy

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Mar 18th, 2016

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◀ Open School Day Some actions were held during this event so as to disseminate the TAG eTwinning project.

Link: http://www.escolasdesatao.pt/index.php/component/content/article/8-agrupamento-de-escolas-de-satao/602-escola-aberta-2016

Mar 19th, 2016

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Earth Hour Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/pages/page/109873 Participating Schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão

Mar 21st, 2016

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TAG Action Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Participating schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão Istituto Statate di Instruzione Secondaria Superiore, Italy

Mar 21st, 2016

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International Day of Forests Participating Schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão Střední odborná škola Blatná, Czech Republic

Mar 21st, 2016

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The Day of Memory and Committment against mafia in Messina Link: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/home Participating School Istituto Statate di Instruzione Secondaria Superiore, Italy

Mar 22nd, 2016

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Apr 1st, 2016

Campaign of the Blue Ribbon

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The campaign is meant to raise awareness and break The cycle of violence against children and will take place in the context of the Child Abuse Prevention Month which is April.

Participating Schools Agrupamento de Escolas de Seia Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão

Apr 5th, 2016

Campaign about Smoking cigarettes by teenagers

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Students are going to make posters which will inform about the bad influence of smoking on our health. Another thing is that they will ask the local police authorities to cooperate with our school and have some discussions with students who break the law. Students are also going to talk with the people who live near the school what support they expect from the school. Another idea is to create a Facebook page where students.

Gimnazjum im ks Wacława Rabczyńskiego

Apr 6th, 2016

Campaign: “E se fosse eu? Fazer a mochila e partir”/ WHAT’S IN MY BAG? This awareness campaign aimed at sensitizing pupils to the Syrian Refugees crisis and making them feel the hardships of being a

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refugee of war. We will invite teachers, pupils and school personnel and eTwinning project partners to join the campaign “E se fosse eu?

Fazer a mochila e partir" thrown down by the Portuguese Ministry of Education.

LINK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/467713360099818/ Agrupamento de escolas de Sátão Agrupamento de Escolas de Seia Many other eTwinning schools

Apr 15th, 2016

Global Youth Service Day (YSA)

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GYSD is the largest service event in the world and the only one dedicated to torganise youth-led projects that meet community needs in the areas of health, education, human service, human rights, and the environment.

Participating Schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão, Portugal Agrupamento de Escolas de Seia, Portugal Střední odborná škola Blatná, Czech Republic "Istituto Statale d'Istruzione Superiore ""Bonaldo Stringher"", Italy

Apr 22nd, 2016

Earth Day

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Some of TAG members' actions will be implemented on Earth Day which aims to inspire awareness of and appreciation for earth's environment.

LINK: https://twinspace.etwinning.net/11462/pages/page/98252 Participation schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão Agrupamento de Escolas de Seia, Portugal "Gimnazjum im ks. Wacława Rabczyńskiego, Poland

May 17th, 2016

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International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia Link: http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/theme-announced-for-idahot-2016-mental-health-and-well-being/ Video: https://youtu.be/vWhGMgj6NUohttps://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B4H51w3cOsyQLVhqTGJfSlB5cTg Participating schools: Agrupamento de Escolas de Sátão

Oct 11th, 2015

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