Erasmus KA2
Project 2016-1-FR01-KA116-022868
Newsletter for our Second Learning Teaching Training in France October 15th to 19th 2018
On Sunday everyone arrived to France. We were all eager to meet again. Monday, October 15th 2018 The Portuguese and the Cypriots arrived at school by minibuses. They were hosted by the headmistress and had some coffee and some croissants and pain au chocolat. They were delicious then the French students made a guided tour around the premises. It is an interesting school with a lot of facilities. Then it was lunch time. We all had lunch in the canteen of the school. In the afternoon we met in the Library of the school for a conference on entrepreneurship. Olivier from “La maison de l’Europe” of Saint Germain came to do this activity. First we started with enigma; we had to find celebrities who became very famous such as Pietro Ferrero, Ingvar Kamprad…. Then he presented some funny inventions made by people. After we played games which allowed us to communicate and collaborate together in order to achieve our aims. We learnt that we must never work alone and together we are stronger. There was a game that we put a pile of chairs. The master of the game picked up someone and told him/her “take off your shoes and jump over”. Of course it was jumping over the shoes and not over the pile of chairs which was impossible to do. All those little games made us realized what qualities
we
need
to
be
a
good
entrepreneurship. In the late afternoon, we went to St Quentin to the shopping centre to buy some supplies and later on we went to eat at school Hotelier and enjoyed some really tasty food. Then the Portuguese and Cypriot students went to their hotel and the French went home to rest.
Tuesday October 16th: Tuesday we all met at the motel in the morning and then we took the bus and the trains to go to Paris. We saw the Eiffel tower and explored the area and various buildings around it. We went to the Trocadero. Afterwards we went to eat at a restaurant in the city center. The meal was delicious and
the
atmosphere too. We took a boat ride on the river Seine that showed us all the many
famous
monuments
and
buildings. Then we went shopping and came back at night to see the big lights of the Eiffel tower and went back to the hotel. Some of us didn't like it because we walked a lot. It’s been a really great experience to see a new country and its culture and how big it is compared to Cyprus and we learnt about its history and we hope to see more. Wednesday October 17th On Wednesday morning we worked at school. We had a presentation of the different activities that had been done so far. We worked on our IT programme. On the Twinspace we wrote the reports of the previous days so the students who couldn’t come could see what we did. We had lunch at the canteen. In the afternoon we went to the palace of Versailles and saw many paintings and statues. We learnt
about
the
different
kings
and about a lot of paintings and old decoration and the history behind them
and discovered
the beautiful
outside buildings and its decorations. It was very entertaining and very
interesting at the end of the visit we went to the beautiful garden of the castle. In the evening we went to a big shopping mall and we went shopping and then we ate some delicious pizza for dinner. We were very happy to go to the restaurant to have an amazing meal with pizzas. Then everyone went back to their homes and to their hotel.
Thursday, October 18th
We went to the school early and went to the famous European place we went to the house of Jean Monnet and learnt about his role in creating Europe and his personal life. We had a conference on the construction of the European Union and talked about the values of Europe. We saw a film about Jean Monnet. He was a great man. We had lunch at school. In the afternoon, we worked on entrepreneurship. We looked for words giving the qualities
of
an
entrepreneurship. We did a competition game. We were in international teams and we had
5
marshmallows,
20
spaghetti, 1 m of sealer tape and one meter of rope. The aim was to build the highest pyramid with marshmallows and pasta in 20 minutes. We had to talk in groups to know how we are going to create it. The winner group had the
86-cm-pyramid. We created posters. We ended the day playing with a simulator. The day was very enriching, and we had a lot of fun. In the evening we all went to a “Creperie� we all like it very much. Friday, October 19th We went to school and we worked in teams to write the summary of the week. We worked on Twinspace. We talked about the next activities to do and find a date for the
next visit in Portugal. In the afternoon we discovered the products France bought for the dissemination of our project. We had backpacks, notebooks, pens, Bluetooth amplifiers, mugs. We took photos with them. A journalist came to visit us and we explained to her the project. She interviewed some of us. We had a ceremony where we all got some certificates and the journalist took a photo of us. Unfortunately, the week in France was over. It was time to say goodbye and we were all sad to leave because all the participants were sympathetic and nice.
Thank you to all for this fantastic week
Written with the collaboration of all the participants of the Learning Training teaching in France.
Erasmus + KA2 Project 2016-1-FR01-KA116-022868