30th May - 3rd June 2022
In the last mobility in Poland both students and teachers were involved in lessons, workshops, field trips and activities which extended our knowledge about the specific region on the Baltic coast, Kashubian one, its traditions, culture and the Kashubian language - a local ethnic-minority language officially recognised since 2005, spoken by some 100,000 people. Moreover, we focused on environmental problems, the fauna and flora of the Baltic Sea participating in lectures in the Marine Institute of Oceanography in Hel and Puck. Our Communicative and IT skills were improved and successfully used during meetings, writing a newsletter on etwinning platform and working on the Manual of Good practice, our essential final outcome. We exchanged our knowledge and experience and shared our materials with local community, on the blog, etwinning and in a regional newspaper. We tried to disseminate all our products to underline the values of the project.
All our activities were transparently connected with the mobility and some of them were presented during our meeting. The lessons, trips and activities were focused on main topic of sustainability and integrated with a lesson plan. During the mobility we celebrated The World Environment Day discussing the importance of the environment protection in workshops and discussion groups. The field trips to Hel peninsula and the coastal area of this part of the Baltic Sea helped students understand and witness the impact of World War II on the local environment with ecological damage hidden under the sea level where sunken war ships represent a huge threat to the sea ecosystem. We took advantage of this last mobility to celebrate there our two-year partnership and conclude our work, evaluate the project collaboration and prepare for the publication of Manual of Good Practice.
This activity was the culmination of previous online collaborative work on Twinspace and other online tools. The period before the mobility was used to study various forms of being "green" for the purpose of sustainability. For example we learned about using ecologic means of transport in each partner country (bikes, trains, eco buses, boats etc.) and compared data online. Students studied the use of bicycles as a means of transport to their schools and compared the results. World Oceans Day was celebrated during the mobility so beforehand we investigated online and in libraries or local institutions to be able to discuss the findings during the meeting in Poland. This was very interesting because 2 of the partner school have access to 2 different seas: The Baltic and The Black Sea. The only two landlocked countries learned a lot from the other schools. Czech partner school informed others of the plan to build the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal to connect the Black Sea with the Baltic Sea and discussed its benefits or threats to the ecology and sustainable development. Students worked on the regular newsletter (like after each mobility) which was made as usual in a collaborative way using a shared Google doc published on Twinspace so that the public could make use of all the gathered information and findings related to the topic, issues and tasks planned and precisely sorted out during our last meeting.
The involved participants had the opportunity to get familiar with the local landscape on the coast of the Baltic Sea, local traditions connected to the marine life, typical jobs and cuisine influenced by the direct access to the sea, local dialect/language called Kashubian together with the related art. The region where the Polish partner school is situated is strongly affected by the sea proximity so the participants were able to see how it influences the environment, the employability and thus the importance of keeping the sea clean for the future generations so that they can also benefit from it. Lots of families there rent their homes or rooms to tourists who come there to enjoy the warm summer days on the beach. Without clean sea there would be no tourists and less employment - the students saw it with their own eyes. We also experienced a cross-curricular connection between ecology and history when we discussed the influence of World War II on the sea ecosystem there with lots of sunken war ships around Gdansk causing a huge ecology threat if the tanker shipwreck leaks its hold of petrol. All our skills were improved during the meeting both IT, communicative or language ones. We exchanged the fundamental values about our culture, language and regions. We became more aware of the topic of sustainability to keep our fragile environment clean, safe and healthy for the future generations.
Programme:
8:30- Visit a Sewage treat Hel Peninsula, a lecture on it by Stanisław Cytawa-a technologist
Thursday 2rd June 2022
10: 30 Feeding of seals at Seal Aquarium
11:15- a visit in a Seal Aquarium-a lesson on the Baltic Sea-a lesson of biology in Water
13:30- Fishermen Museum-a view point
15:00 a long walk to experience the connection of the Bay with the sea, the beginning of Poland, a lighthouse and some military points
17:00- Coming back to Darżlubie- to A folk kashubian feast in Darżlubie-dinner with some dessert and folk music, some Polish traditions, barbecue- Potrykus Rafał
In the hotel about 10.00 p.m or later
Friday 3th June
8:00- 11:00 A cruise on a Puck Bay-19 students with Dalimil Sebesta-1,5 hour on a the Bay, 1,5 hour on the coast-a biology lesson with Błękitna Szkoła from Władysławowo
A lesson of Geography at Puck Bay along educational route with geography teacher Izabela Bieszka with teachers and sailing on the Puck Bay
8:45-visit in the Museum of Puck Land- 1,5 hour of visiting the museum, talking about traditions, customs and life in the past (teachers only)coffee break
11:30- A welcome at school by a headteacher and local authorities, newspaper and television, a show by our school artistic group-Wielokąt artystyczny, a dancing class- by Katarzyna-Bartoszewicz Stromska
12:30- Gabriela Niewiadomska and Zuzanna Derc,Aniela Dubicka a presentation on Sustainability, Agnieszka Legęza Manual of Good Practice
13:00-Visual thinking in mixed groups on Sustainability in English- All teams need to think about the subject before, talking and discussing in groups, presenting in classroom 3, prepare some ideas from etwinning
14:00-Visiting school and the surounding-chemistry experiments, playing board games or badminton, a questionnaire- evaluation of the meeting in IT room
15: 30-leaving school
16:00- Dinner in a Restaurant: „Pod Lwem”.
Free time
Saturday 4th June 2022
Saying good bye to all the partners
Newsletter (edit HERE):
Photogallery: click here
Questionnaire results:
What was the BEST experience this week for you?
| Party in Kaszubian style |
| Running in the rain, net fishing in Hel, making rugs and baking bread, party |
| For me this week best experience was "biesiada" we learnt some polish songs, tasted polish bbq, talked with Kashubians, they were in their traditional costume |
| The best experience this week for me was when we went in Hel. We dressed with some overalls and we went in the water to collect some samples from the Baltic Sea |
| The best experience this week for me was when we visited Gdansk where I learned a lot of things about that city . |
| The best experience this week was when we went bowling. |
| The best experience this week for me was the trip to Gdansk. |
| visiting the hel peninsula |
| The kashubian feast!!! |
| Visiting the dunes in Leba Slowinski national park |
| Typical polish party |
| food and the surprise party |
| Definitely the traditional Kashubian feast and food |
| The visit of Gdansk |
| Dragging the fishing net to collect samples |
| A cruise with the marine biologist - it was interesting and dunes |
| When we visited the marine center in Hel + the cruise around the Bay of Puck on friday. Also swimming in the Baltic Sea in Leba. |
| Slowinski park |
| Kashubian fest |
| That would be the dunes in the national park and kashubian feast |
| Everything |
What was the WORST experience this week for you?
| Everything was amazing |
| That the time is passing so fast :((( I'm gonna miss you guys |
| I didn't have any bad experience |
| I don't have a bad experience for this week, everything was perfect to me |
| There were no bad experience during this week. |
| Everything was great. |
| i don't have a worst experience |
| the unpleasant weather |
| Heavy raining almost every day which spoiled some fun |
| Sand everywhere and bad weather |
| sand everywhere and rain |
| Everything was perfect |
| Rain and weather |
| Gdansk |
| When we got soaked in the rain 😔 |
| leaving :( |
| everything was nice |
| Bad weather |
| The rainy weather |
| Farewell |
What would you prefer to do during the next meeting? What would you change?
| I would like to walk less |
| I would only like the week to be longer |
| No more meetings lol :( |
| I would change nothing. Everything was perfect. |
| I wouldn't change anything, everything was just perfect. |
| I don't think there is something that needs to be changed. |
| I wouldn't change anything, it is perfect the way it is. |
| more intresting place, not much museum |
| I would like longer free time on the trips. |
| I'd prefer less packed program and little more free time for us to discover the city on our own |
| More freetime |
| more freetime and little less museums |
| I would like to spend more time in Gdansk |
| I am satisfied, but I would welcome the more free timne |
| just not visiting so many cultural places like churches and museums , more exploring of thge city |
| More free time in the afternoon to buy souvenirs and snacks 👍 |
| I wouldn't change anything |
| More interesting places to visit in Gdansk. |
| More free time in visited areas |
| Probably more free time throughout the day |
| More time together |
Was the meeting well organized?
average score: 4,71 / 5,00
Were all objectives of the meeting achieved?
average score: 4,86 / 5,00
Were all the topics from the agenda covered?
average score: 4,86 / 5,00
Did you like the programme of the meeting? Was it interesting for you?
average score: 4,76 / 5,00
What do you think is the most attractive thing about your work in this stage of the project?
| Meeting my friends |
| Improving language skills |
| That I learnt more about the environment etc. Sometimes I was shocked whats happening in the seas |
| The fact that i got to know new people, learn new information about the Baltic Sea and see new places |
| Learning new things from new people, making new friendships, improving my english speaking skills |
| Meeting new people. |
| The most attractive thing about my work in this stage of the project was meeting new people and learning new things. |
| i don't know |
| The opportunity of travelling abroad and meeting new people and their cultures. |
| I really enjoyed meeting new people, discovering a country that I've never been to and and practicing my English |
| Meeting new people |
| visiting new places, meeting new people, improving english |
| I made new friends, practised my English and learnt new words in Polish |
| Learning new information about the country and training my English |
| knowing the other cultures |
| Meeting with other international students |
| Working together as a team. |
| Meeting new people and communication in other languages. Learning new stuff. |
| Opportunity to learn new languages and travel. |
| The opportunity to be here |
| Education and Friendship |
Add any comment you think might help the coordinators to improve in their work on the project.
| Meeting in Poland was perfect, not boring and well organised, I loved that most of the time we learned through having fun with all the activities and not sitting and listening to lectures |
| . |
| Everything was perfect! Keep going like this |
| I don't think that the coordinators has to improve anything because they are doing a great job |
| Nothing to add |
| Everything was great, keep going!! <3 |
| More intresting places and no everytime museum |
| IT WAS AMAZING!~THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| As I already mentioned, I'd prefer less packed program, but everything else was perfect (accommodation, food,...) |
| Hotel just for students, later breakfast |
| later breakfast, more freetime |
| Everything was perfect |
| keep doing job well |
| do not hurry that much, but you are doing awesome job |
| I don't know |
| Have breakfast a little later? |
| Less churches :{ |
| NE |
| I don’t have anything to add It was absolutely great!!! |
| Everything was attractive. |