The first transnational project meeting 17th October - 21st October 2016,

Rozogi, Poland - the report

First meeting, Monday, 17. 10. 2016

• In the morning, meeting with the Head Teacher at the hosting school, and then at the Municipal Office meeting the Mayor, talking about the project and its implementation.
• Meeting with the teachers and students engaged in the project at school, visiting the school departments and the primary schools in the departments.
• Exchanging information after the meetings with NAs in each country. How we should report our work in the project.
• Talking about the dictionary of useful words in English and all the other languages.

Second meeting, Tuesday, 18. 10. 2016

• Visiting Olsztyn - The Old Town, Warmia and Masuria Museum of Nicolas Copernicus, and Maria Zientara - Malewska - Polish famous writer - the culture and art heritage of the region. We are going to lead outside school lesson about the region in the museum and nearby, there is going to be a workshop for students “Man towards art. Why do we need sculptures and paintings?”- as a preparation for the Croatian transnational workshop
• Discussing the details of the Greek workshop. Planning activities for each day.
• Discussing the necessity of deputy coordinator in each school:

1. In Polish school the deputy is Lilia Krasnopolska - Maliszewska
2. In Slovenian school the deputy is Iztok Škof
3. In Croatian school the deputy is Ivana Valeri
4. In Greek school the deputy is Evgenia Strati

• We discussed the possibility for our head teachers to meet during one of the transnational workshops - Croatian will be the best, as it is not so expensive in Croatia.
• The Head Teachers’ conference on “The impact of the project on the participating schools” (– if possible financially)

Third meeting, Wednesday, 19. 10. 2016

• Attending the Patron’s Day in the hosting school.
• Visiting the Culture Centre and the Public Library - discussing the project events that are going to take place there: performances, video - conferences.
• Talking about TPM - who can go. You can take 1 teacher with you if you have money left from the grant. For workshops you can take one student as well. If you explain to NA you can take one teacher with you as well.  (for the achievement of the aims)
• Discussing the possibility of a problem: when the parents don’t want to have a foreign student in their house while the international workshop, they should write an official explanation to the hosting school why they decide so. But every parent should sign a consent to take a foreign student to his/her house while agreeing for their own child to participate in the transnational workshops abroad.
• Talking about the payment in Greece during the transnational workshop. If it is possible to pay the hotel in advance? How is it with a project credit card - who has a PIN number - is it safe that so many people have PIN code (after the end of the project you have to cancel it). ARRANGE WITH the ACCOUNTANT. There is no point to have so much money with you during travel when there is a credit card for the project account.
• The preliminary findings to the online guide - International conference - October 2017 in Slovenia: Developing basic skills, presenting a good practice, deadline for sending an article to Mojca till 31. 05. 2017. We need 3-5 foreign teachers who will present their article in the conference in English language (5-10 min) with a PowerPoint or other presentation.
• The dates of the December plays were stated (Iztok will check about live stream):

SLO: 8. 12. - afternoon - time?

CRO: 16. 12. - afternoon - time?

POL: 21. 12. - at 10.00

GRE: 22. 12. - at 10.00

• Learning how to create a live event via TwinSpace. We learnt how to create a webinar and how to manage it with the eTwinning tools.
• We agreed to have a webpage for our project. Natasa suggested to do it via wordpress: https://developedbasicskills.wordpress.com/

Fourth meeting, Thursday, 20. 10. 2016

• A trip to the Kurpian Region: visiting the Regional Museum in Kadzidło - “The Kurpian Farm, where some of the transnational workshops are going to take place in March 2018, Visiting a Kurpian artist and a writer in Lipniki, Ms Janina Krzyżewska, (a former teacher) - learning about the history of the traditions and reagin, learning how to make a paper flower in the Kurpian style. The artist is going to teach students at our school workshop and tell stories to the students during the 2nd reading night.
• Learning about the Mobility Tool. We created TPM event. What happens if you spent less/more money. How do you write it in?  -  You don’t. You need your own budget record about all the expenses.
• Anita brought some colour and crepe paper. We tried to do some snowflakes out of the paper and made paper roses from crepe paper - the same as Ms. Janina explained to us. It’s a Kurpian cultural heritage. Discussing the methods used in the workshops.
• Natasa started to work on our project website on Wordpress. She established the main page and some subpages. The work is in progress. We advised her with themes and subtitles. https://developedbasicskills.wordpress.com/
• We discussed the problem that there is still no slogan for the project. We decided that there will be a contest in each participating country on http://www.tricider.com/brainstorming/3EpuYr4tIV3 Every partner school will choose three slogans and every school’s representative will put them on the Tricider voting pole that was already created (see above). Members of the Clubs and teachers involved in each school will vote for the best slogan.

Fifth  meeting, Friday, 21. 10. 2016

• Coordinating the activities by the months - working on the project schedule. Setting the dates of plays, workshops, TPM, exhibitions, reading nights, evaluations for the school year 2016/17, assessment of the participating students tests’ results, framework for 2017/18. The specifics and dates for next school year will be set on TPM in Greece in September 2017.
• Europass - language passport should be created during our project - in June 2018 for the students and teachers. Teachers and students can evaluate their progress in knowledge of the foreign language. There should be certificates written of all the activities that teachers and students were involved in during the project.
• Maria corrected the schedule for the activities. Mojca wrote down the notes about our activities during the TPM. Natasa helped Maria and Mojca. Anita coordinated our actions.
• All our work during the meeting is also visible on the project Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1130309967060277/1154221224669151/?notif_t=like¬if_id=1477504565778723  there is a PDF presentation of the activities and the schedule published on the group profile as well as on the project website: https://developedbasicskills.wordpress.com/.