Happy Students' Dynamics Guide

HAPPY STUDENTS DYNAMICS’ GUIDE

ERASMUS + THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

HAPPY STUDENTS’ DYNAMICS GUIDE

2016 – 2018

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What is ‌ The Pursuit of Happiness?

This project focuses on the idea of happiness and satisfaction at school and in daily life. Young people in almost all European countries find it increasingly difficult to lead a satisfying life because of the fact that they are faced with so many different challenges. The idea of this project is to make the students feel more comfortable and self-confident through helping them being happy. The basic concept is that happy students attend school with more pleasure, so gaining the necessary basic knowledge and skills. Moreover happy students are more self-confident and will probably make better choices for their future, thus enabling them to be more likely of leading a happy life. This accounts for any student of course, but in particular those students who have little basic skills and are in danger of early-school leaving. Learning strategies that lead to a satisfying life and acquiring basic skills like learning languages or improving their digital knowledge will help the students to improve their academic achievement at school and will open up better chances for their future professional lives.

Furthermore the idea is that working on the concept of happiness with students, first of all lies in the concept of working on their self images.

A better understanding of your own situation also means however learning to look at others, meeting other people, especially in the globalised world we are living in today. To fully understand and appreciate your own life, you must at least have broadened your mind and preferably also have met with peers in other European countries.

Finally we are certain that by helping other people in an active way you will be feeling happier, too.

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Partner Schools and Countries Four European schools are working on the topic of HAPPINESS. HohbergschulePlüderhausen, Plüderhausen, Germany

Liceul Tehnologic "Constantin Brâncuşi”, Satu Mare, Romania

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Almende College, location Isala, Silvolde, The Netherlands

MEV Hasan Tahsin Onalp Ortaokulu, Kayseri, Turkey

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Meetings within the Erasmus + Partnership “The Pursuit of Happiness”

Transnational Meeting – Turkey, Kayseri 1st Learning Teaching, Training Activities – Romania, Satu Mare 2nd Learning Teaching, Training Activities – The Netherlands, Silvolde 3rd Learning Teaching, Training Activities – Germany, Plüderhausen

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Main Activities and Responsibilities within the Erasmus + Project “The Pursuit of Happiness” Room of Happiness (moving exhibition) – all four partner countries’ students and teachers Portfolio – The Netherlands’ students and teachers Calendar of Happiness - Germany’s students and teachers Volunteering work – all four partner countries’ students and teachers Happy students’ dynamics guide– Romania’s students and teachers Interactive

website

"The

pursuit

of

Happiness"–

Romania’s

students and teachers Logo of the Project – Turkey’s students and teachers

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The Transnational Project Meeting from Turkey, Kayseri, Pinarbasi

It was held from 17th January to 19th January 2017 in PÄąnarbasi, Kayseri, Turkey. Its aim was to discuss essential factual, organizational and financial issues connected with all the project activities to be carried out within the duration of the project. It was made a detailed specification of each project task and partners discussed the logistics and cultural issues of project meetings. Beyond these, budget issues and the methods of dissemination of the activities to be held during a project meeting with students were planned.

This first project meeting was organized mainly to confirm the objectives of the project and to discuss the (intellectual) concept of happiness. Also we spent time on the fine tuning of data for the proposed LTTA meetings and the aspect of dividing the tasks between the participating schools was discussed in length.

Besides this quite some effort was put into the objective of team building, too.

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First of all the intellectual discussion we had on the topic of happiness, the main theme of our project. “The pursuit of happiness” is of course way to broad a subject to work on in a project like this. What do we mean with “happiness”? What aspects will we be looking at, searching for …? Should the project be focusing on how to make young people happy, or …?

Through talking about a wide range of examples we managed to narrow down to some really interesting and workable ideas.

The main objective of this project will be: “In

what

way

can

a

school

contribute

to

a

better

understanding of the world that students are supposed to be part of, and how can we provide young people with a set of tools to actively participate in that world. Can these students make better choices concerning their school work and their future studies once they feel capable of participating in this world?

Does

this

ability

to

actively

participate

in

and

better

understand the world, help those lead more happy lives?”

On the project meeting, each partner presented himself/ herself and presented their school, town and country. We talked about where this project idea originally came from.

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We talked about the possible subjects to work on during the visits to PlĂźderhausen, Silvolde and Satu Mare. What do we wish to work on, what aspects should be part of the program, what students do we intend to take along on our meetings, the selection criteria of teachers and students. We decided on the goals and the tasks of our project during the meetings. The partners talked about the program during the visits to their schools. We decided on the agenda for the meetings to come and the different tasks to work on together.

From Netherlands, Jos Kool as a contact person, Sebastian Baumann and Tom Terwiel participated at the Transnational Project Meeting.

From Germany, Julian Mihajlovic as a contact person, Marc Adler, Katharina Trettin and Vasiliki Grigoriadou participated at the Transnational Project Meeting.

From Romania, Ghirasim Alina Lavinia Florentina, Cuha Virgil Ionel, Tinca Maria and Muszka Erika Maria participated at the Transnational Project Meeting.

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The first Learning – Teaching – Training Activities – Satu Mare, Romania Description of the Activities The first LTTA were organized at Liceul Tehnologic “Constantin Brâncusi”, Satu Mare, Romania and the period was 24th – 28th September 2017. The participants at the meeting were the students and teachers from Germany and The Netherlands. The Turkish group let us know they cannot participate directly because their students did not get the visa, so they participated during the five working days , but only indirectly, via internet.

On the last day their contribution was presented through a power point presentation, as well. The German students were Kea Kiefer, Lucas Ziegler, Tom Polachowski, Simon Kolnhofer, Lucy Gunther and their teachers Julian Mihajlovic and Marc Adler, while the Dutch team was formed of Jennifer Scheuter, Rowan Schwartz, Teun Ratering, Luna Heuberg, Brenda Vinkenvleugel and

the

two

teachers

Sebastian

Baumann

and

Brenda

Gosselink.

At the very beginning of the project a questionnaire on Happiness was elaborated by the Romanian team, and the participating

students

from

all

partner

countries

at

the

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in, with relevant answers regarding their concept about happiness.

Instructions Below are a number of statements about happiness. Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each by entering a number in the blank after each statement, according to the following scale: 1 2 3 4 5 6

= = = = = =

strongly disagree moderately disagree slightly disagree slightly agree moderately agree strongly agree

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individual questions; there are no "right" or "wrong" answers (and no trick questions). The first answer that comes into your head is probably the right one for you. If you find some of the questions difficult, please give the answer that is true for you in general or for most of the time. Those statements marked with an 'R' will be scored in reverse.

The Questionnaire on Happiness

1. I don't feel particularly pleased with the way I am. (R) _____ 2. I am intensely interested in other people. _____ 3. I feel that life is very rewarding. _____ 4. I have very warm feelings towards almost everyone. _____ 5. I rarely wake up feeling rested. (R) _____ 6. I am not particularly optimistic about the future. (R) _____ 7. I find most things amusing. _____ 8. I am always committed and involved. _____ 9. Life is good. _____ 10. I do not think that the world is a good place. (R) _____ This project has been co-funded with support from the European Commission. This booklet reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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11. I laugh a lot. _____ 12. I am well satisfied about everything in my life. _____ 13. I don't think I look attractive. (R) _____ 14. There is a gap between what I would like to do and what I have done. (R) _____ 15. I am very happy. _____ 16. I find beauty in some things. _____ 17. I always have a cheerful effect on others. _____ 18. I can fit in (find time for) everything I want to. _____ 19. I feel that I am not especially in control of my life. (R) _____ 20. I feel able to take anything on. _____ 21. I feel fully mentally alert. _____ 22. I often experience joy and elation. _____ 23. I don't find it easy to make decisions. (R) _____ 24. I don't have a particular sense of meaning and purpose in my life. (R) _____ 25. I feel I have a great deal of energy. _____ 26. I usually have a good influence on events. _____ This project has been co-funded with support from the European Commission. This booklet reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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27. I don't have fun with other people. (R) _____ 28. I don't feel particularly healthy. (R) _____ 29. I don't have particularly happy memories of the past. (R) _____ Calculate your score Step 1: Items marked (R) should be scored in reverse: If you gave yourself a "1," cross it out and change it to a "6."

Change Change Change Change Change

"2'' "3'' "4'' "5'' "6''

to to to to to

a a a a a

"5'' "4'' "3'' "2'' "1''

Step 2: Add the numbers for all 29 questions. (Use the converted numbers for the 12 items that are reverse scored.)

Step 3: Divide by 29. So your happiness score = the total (from step 2) divided by 29.

We recommend you record your score and the date. Then you'll have the option to compare your score now with your score at a later date. This can be especially helpful if you are trying some of the exercises, and actively working on increasing your happiness.

Scoring The lowest possible score is 1 and the highest possible score is 6.

(The average is around 4.30).

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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS QUESTIONNAIRE - INTERPRTETATION During the meeting of partners in Romania (23rd – 27th of September

2017)

all

the

students

participated

at

workshops related to the main topic of the program:

several “The

pursuit of happiness”.

There were 25 students (5 students from The Netherlands, 5 students from Germany, 5 students from Turkey and 19 students from Romania) that took part in completing a questionnaire about

happiness.

Students

had

to

read

the

questions

individually and indicated how much they agree or disagree with those statements. There wasn’t a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer for each statement; the students had to answer all 29 questions in relation to what they personally feel towards this subject, the first answer that comes into their mind is the suitable and correct one for them.

For each statement they had to give mark from 1 to 6 (meaning strongly disagree and 6 – strongly agree). There were some statements marked with the letter ‘R’. At the end when the students calculated their score the “R” statements got a reversed score. (For example a sentence marked “1’, it changed into “6”).

At the end students calculated their average score.

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Interpreting the score No students had the score 1‐2: Not happy. If you answered honestly and got a very low score, you’re probably seeing yourself and your situation as worse than it really is.

One student had the score 2-3: Somewhat unhappy.

Three students had the score 3‐4: Not particularly happy or unhappy. A score of 3.5 would be an exact numerical average if happy and unhappy responses Six

students

had

the

score

4:

Somewhat

happy

or

moderately happy. Satisfied. This is what the average person scores.

Seven students had the score 4‐5: Rather happy; pretty happy.

Six students had the score 5‐6: Very happy. Being happy has more benefits than just feeling good. It’s correlated with benefits like health, better marriages, and attaining your goals.

Two students had the score 6: Too happy. Yes, you read that right. Recent research seems to show that there’s an optimal level of happiness for things like doing well at work or school, or for being healthy.

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they have a very great and positive attitude about life in general. There are so many things that can make them happy and even if some problems may occur, they have the power to overcome them and they have all the time a great smile on their faces.

The Room of Happiness – Moving Exhibition The Transnational meeting was organized in Turkey, where each partner school was represented by teachers. It was the time when the Turkish Erasmus + corner was presented to the partners and the moving exhibition – Room of Happiness – was launched. This exhibition evolves during the project; it travels along with the meetings and opens to the general public. So, in each partner institution, a Happiness Room was created, where the outcomes of the projects were exhibited. The last exhibition was organized in Germany, Plüderhausen, where all the materials students associate happiness with, poems, lyrics of their favorite music, short stories, literary texts, photos, pieces of art, drawings, their own reflections on the topic, were exhibited. The Room of Happiness turned into a moving exhibition, being open to the local communities as well.

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Erasmus + Corner In all partner countries, an Erasmus + corner was settled, where photographs, newspaper articles, students’ posters, etc. were exhibited. This corner was refreshed and updated monthly, with the cooperation and co-work of students and teachers from each partner school.

The Happiness Tree The students were asked to express their opinion on what happiness means for them. Each student expressed his/her view on a “green leaf” and then they presented it, while decorating the Happiness Tree.

“What is Happiness for me, personally?”

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Treasure Hunt Game The students were split up in mixed nationality groups for discovering the tourist attractions of our town, Satu Mare. Both groups got a map with the directions, a short description of each attraction and a picture. They had to follow the route and take a group photo at each stop to prove that they discovered all the beauties of our town.

Preparation for Voluntary Activity – The Circle of Happiness Students from the partner schools familiarized with the “Circle of Happiness” and prepared the handicraft activities for the children from the Orphanage “Congregatia Fiicele Indurarii”, Satu Mare, Romania, where voluntary and charity activities developed.

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Students became conscious about the importance of these activities, more exactly, that it is very important in life to help our fellows.

The Day of European Languages The day of European Languages is organized in the whole world on 26th of September. With this occasion, within the first learning,

teaching,

training

activities

from

Satu

Mare,

Romania, we organized an international activity. The students of the participating schools worked in mixed nationality groups and familiarized with everyday vocabulary and expressions in German, Dutch, English, Romanian and Hungarian. They had to match the right pairs of words and learn how to pronounce them correctly.

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Happiness through my Glance Students worked in four mixed nationality groups, each group having a different task. One group prepared and presented a PowerPoint Presentation on Happiness, the second one a poster on Happiness, the third one a crossword on Happiness while the last one a story/ poem on happiness. The students showed great interest on working together what helped them on socializing, making friendship and developed their English language skills.

Volunteering Activity within the LTTA from Satu Mare, Romania The students and teachers participated at the voluntary activity organized by the host school at the Orphanage “Congregatia Fiicele Indurarii.” The students took part in leisure time activities with the little ones as well as guided them in handicraft

activities.

The

students

from

Germany,

The

Netherlands and Romania offered gifts to the little ones learning that it is better to give than to receive. At the end of our activities a dance show was presented by the teenagers from This project has been co-funded with support from the European Commission. This booklet reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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the orphanage. The students made friendships and got close to the little ones and adolescents as well as they asked for their postal address to send them small gifts. Through this activity we consider that we could widen all our students’ empathy, who will transmit this message to their generation and not only.

Preparation for the Traditional Food Festival Each group of students from the three partner countries prepared a traditional dish/ meal for 15 people from the Olds Home “Caminul de Argint” from Viile Satu Mare. The students from Romania prepared 130 stuffed cabbages, the Dutch students prepared “Grandmother's perfect mashed potato stew” and

the

German

ones

prepared

“Kaese

Spaetzle”

that

is

Macaroni with cheese. The traditional dishes of each partner school were served to the olds who enjoyed the taste of each traditional food.

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Each student, individually, prepared 3D Happiness Postcard for the people from the Olds Home “Caminul de Argint” from Viile Satu

Mare,

decorating

them

with

different

seeds

and

personalized them with their ideas about Happiness and Life.

Recipes of the Traditional Dishes Stuffed Cabbage Rolls - Romania List of ingredients: 1 whole soured cabbage 1 onion 500 g of minced pork and beef 250 g of rice Oil Salt, pepper Dill Tomato sauce

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Preparation:

Peel the cabbage leaves one by one cut them in half if they are too big and remove the stalk. Chop the onion and fry them in a little oil with the rice. Mix the minced meat with the rice and a pinch of salt and pepper. Be careful not to put too much salt because the sour cabbage is already salted. Place a tablespoon of meat on a cabbage leaf and roll it tight then push the ends in with your fingers. Repeat with the remaining cabbage leaves.

Chop the rest of the cabbage you did not use sprinkling half of it on the bottom of the pan then add the dill and the tomato sauce. Put the cabbage rolls in the pan, on top of the tomato mixture. Cover the cabbage rolls with water and then add the rest of the chopped cabbage. Cover the pan with a lid and let it simmer for one hour or until the cabbage is softened and the meat is cooked through. Serve it hot with sour cream.

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3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper 3 eggs 3/8 cup 2% milk 1tablespoons butter 1/2 cups shredded Emmentaler cheese 1onion, sliced Preparation: Sift together flour, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Beat eggs in a medium bowl. Alternately mix in milk and the flour mixture until smooth. Let stand for 30 minutes.

Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Press batter through a spaetzle press into the water. You may also use a potato ricer, colander, or a cheese grater. When the spaetzle has floated to the top of the water, remove it to a bowl with a slotted spoon. Mix in 1 cup of the cheese.

Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, and cook until golden. Stir in spaetzle and remaining cheese until well blended. Remove from heat, and serve immediately.

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Grandmother's Perfect Mashed Potatoes Stew –The Netherlands Ingredients: 500 grams of peeled potatoes 250 gram sliced carrots 2 onions in little pieces 400 dl water 100 gram butter pepper and salt and other herbs like parsley Preparation: Fill a large cooking pan with water and a little salt.

Add the potatoes, onions and carrots and boil it for 30 minutes.

Poor the water and add the butter.

Mash the mix with a masher.

Add pepper and/or salt or other herbs.

You can add cheese or sausages or bacon.

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Visit to the Olds Home “Caminul de Argint” from Viile Satu Mare, Romania The students and teachers participated at a visit to the Olds Home “Caminul de Argint” from Viile Satu Mare, where they performed different traditional activities. The German students performed a traditional dance, the Dutch ones presented traditional games while the Romanian students also performed traditional dances. After the show, they offered the Olds the traditional dishes they cooked at the school canteen of Liceul Tehnologic “Constantin Brancusi” Satu Mare.

School Inclusion - Workshop The students from the five partner countries worked together to make conscious how important it is to integrate all students in social groups, even those one who have certain handicaps.

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It is essential to everyone to participate actively in all kind of activities, not only to be present physically. We have to integrate them, not only to include them.

Conflict Management - Workshop The students from the five partner countries tried to find strategies for solving conflicts that appear among students of their age. It is relevant to know methods of solving different problems that arise among students.

The students created the Happiness Tree. Each group had to create a part of it, for understanding ad experiencing that together we can work more beautifully than alone. “Together it is better than one.”

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Free - time Activities The students’ and teachers’ free time was filled up with cultural visits or energizing activities.

At the Romanian LTTA, they visited the Fortress from Ardud, the Village Museum from Negresti Oas and the Potter’s House from Vama.

Energizing and sports activities were organized on the Farm from Ardud Vii, which ended up with a fabulous camp fire.

All these activities had a great contribution to students’ and teachers’ socialization, English language skills development, making our habits, regions, dishes and traditions well-known at international level, widening students horizons about volunteering, co-working, helping the other person, listening to him.

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The Second Learning – Teaching – Training Activities from Silvolde, The Netherlands

The LTTA meeting was organized from 19th November to 23rd November 2017. The participants at the meeting were students and teachers from Romania, Turkey and Germany, and the hosting country The Netherlands.

The program lasted for five days, where students and teachers worked together on the main topic of the project: Happiness.

Workshops and cultural visits took place where the partner countries participated.

Liceul Tehnologic “Constantin Brancusi”, Satu Mare, Romania was represented by the students Mihai Nicolae Rusz, Iulian Cristian Cizmar, Raul Surducan, Virgil Armando Schiopirlan, Marco Cristian Candrea, Raymond Zsolt Reizer and Jenifer Monica Mak. The accompanying teachers were Olivia Pop, Izabella Kovacs andMarioara Harca.

MEV Hasan Tahsin Onalp Secondary School, Pinarbasi/Kayseri, Turkey was represented by the students Ensar Samet Temur, Melisa Kara, Irem Yilmaz, Sedanur Kaya, Enver Bersis Gümüs, Serhat Karabörk and Berat Kazim Kahraman and the accompanying teachers, Kemal Yavuz and Hakan Yesilyurt.

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Hohbergschule Plüderhausen, Plüderhausen, Germany was represented by thje students Viktorija Nazyrov, Zoe Polachowski, Lilli Schneider, Larissa Kopp, Hanna Höhnle and Sandy Marcinski and the accompanying teachers, Julian Mihajlovic and Marc Adler.

Let’s get to know each other

- students worked

individually and had to prepare a word web, presenting details about what they need to be happy. Then, they made a common word web where they listed all the things they need to be happy.

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❖ Bullying (at school) ❖ Cultural identity (in your country) ❖ Gender discussion (in your society) Experts were invited with whom students had a face to face dialogue, who shared their experiences. Students could ask them questions.

Where do you come from?

Students had to prepare, individually their family tree map, where they included information such as where / when they were born, where / when their parents/ grandparents were born.

Human Migration Certain questions were discussed, such as: When did it start?

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When did it become a problem?

Why do people migrate nowadays?

What would you like to ask a refugee?

Do people have the right to look for happiness somewhere else?

Certain

cultural visits were organized during the week

to see how people live and understand happiness from different points of view.

muZIEum

- The Blind people’s Museum from Nijmegen. It

is an important museum, with an important message. It's a museum about blind people's life in which you get to actually experience what blind people go through every day while being guided through total darkness by an actual blind or partially sighted guide. They offer tours in English as well. The museum has a hall with all sorts of exhibits relevant to the theme and you can take tours either out on the street, or inside the buildings, in some rooms excellently created rooms. We took the indoor tour. We were given white canes and entered complete darkness, where we met our guide. Our tour was a simulation of a blind person's vacation in Indonesia. We were guided by Falco through the hotel, the Indonesian market, a boat tour, a beach

bar,

etc.

while

never

seeing

anything.

What

was

absolutely amazing was that you could actually feel like being there by hearing

and touching

the things around you.

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Nevertheless, it was really hard to get by and even though Falco was guiding us I couldn't really realize where to go to most of the time. The greatest thing about it was that, while it really shows you how different a blind person's life is than the life of someone with sight and it points out really well the difficulties they have to face, the museum does it in a fun and interactive way through a really exciting experience.

Amsterdam – Anne Frank’s Home - The Anne Frank House is a museum with a story. As a visitor, you experience

this

story

through

quotes,

photos,

videos,

and

original items. The atmosphere in the museum is authentic and subdued. This is a must visit when in Amsterdam and gives a very powerful representation of how terrifying it would have been for Anne and her family. Visiting is the only way to truly see the conditions Anne and her family had to live in while in hiding. We learnt so much and it is a reminder of the evil the Nazis spread all over Europe during this time.

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Africa Museum

– It is a very interesting place where

students besides visiting the museum, had a workshop on tattoos.

Santa Claus Evening

– We were presented the

traditional way Dutch children meet ad celebrate Santa Claus.

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The Learning – Teaching – Training Activities from Pluderhausen, Germany The second LTTA were organized in Germany, Pluderhausen, were students and teachers participated from all partner countries. The activities were varied and attractive for both students and teachers. We were presented the school, met the headmaster and the mayor of the town, too part actively in well organized workshops, all having as topic Happiness. The students practiced and developed their English speaking skills, the worked in mixed nationality groups, bringing a great contribution to the outcomes of the project. All the outcomes of the project were exhibited in the Room of Happiness, the highlight of the project. The main activities of the meeting were the happy cooking activity, were each group of students prepared a traditional dish; the charity activity had also an important role; all students prepared toys for the little ones from a kindergarten, and then visited them where they received open – hearted the surprises. Another important workshop was the one when students learnt how to find happiness in art, this activity showing them how beauty can bring happiness in their mind and soul.

The participants were the Turkish School’s representatives, students: Kemal Efecan ÖZBEKOĞLU, Abdullah Sait PEKACAR, Hüseyin YİĞİT, Aleyna ÜLGER, Hümeyra SAĞLAM, Dilek KOÇ and the two teachers: Kemal YAVUZ, and Hakan YEŞILYURT. The Romanian school’s representatives, students: David Reiner Herman, Armando Virgil Șchiopîrlan, Monica Jenifer Mak, This project has been co-funded with support from the European Commission. This booklet reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Alexandra Berdar, Zsolt Raymond Reizer, Anamaria Teodora Taloș, Cristian Iulian Cizmar and teachers: Pop Olivia and Kovacs Izabella.

The Dutch school’s representatives, students: Jennifer Scheuter, Puck

Vriens,

Solo

van

der

Linde,

TeunRatering,

Rowan

Schwartz and teachers, Jan-WillemHoogland and Vera van Aken.

The period of the working days was 4 – 8 March 2018.

Happy Cooking - Germany All of the countries cooked together and showed each other their recipes. The students and teachers had a lot of fun tasting new Food, helping each other in the kitchen and at the end they all helped each other to clean the School canteen.

Workshop: "Make Someone Happy" Germany In 2 Workshops the students learned how to make their own chocolate Muffins and how to build Frisbees. After the Workshops This project has been co-funded with support from the European Commission. This booklet reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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we had many chocolate biscuits and many Frisbees. The students invited Primary students to light up their School day with chocolate and afterwards the students and teachers went to a kindergarten and gave the Frisbees which they produced during the Workshop to the Young kindergarten Kids.

Workshop: Happiness and Art This Workshop dealt with the topic happiness and art. First we went to the state Gallery in Stuttgart and we had a guided tour with the Topic Happiness in modern art. Afterwards we drew Pictures and made illustrations for the room of happiness. The students had to illustrate their personal happy moments in life.

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The Room of Happiness The room of happiness is an Exhibition room where all the countries shared their thoughts, illustrations, Poems, drawings, Pictures and reflections about the Topic happiness. This room of happiness was installed in all the 4 countries in order to make the Topic more public.

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This project has been co-funded with support from the European Commission. This booklet reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

HAPPY STUDENTS DYNAMICS’ GUIDE

This project has been co-funded with support from the European Commission. This booklet reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.