Who are we? - our great team works since 2010
We are teachers from various European schools who have been working as a team since 2010. During this time we had seven successful projects together. All of us have received a National and European Quality Label for each of our projects.
Two of our projects “Intercultural Dialogue Through Fairy tales, Drama and Art “ and “Young Scientists” stand out with their special prizes: "Mevlana"- for intercultural understanding in 2013 and "Marie Sklodowska Curie"- in 2016.
As a result of our cultural dialogue that started back in 2010, we have created 7 books:
“Once Upon a Time in Europe” – a collection of fairy tales from 33 European countries, which were translated into English and illustrated by students from 35 schools from all over Europe.
“National Traditions” – a collection of 28 national traditions translated into English, which were presented in 28 European countries.
“European Great Figures” - students from 22 European countries presented 5 of their greatest personalities, who are part of the histories of their motherlands. In this book are included also portraits of the chosen national Great Figures , which were painted from the students, who participanted in the project.
“Europe - so many faces” - an eTwinning Guide presented 126 Great Places from 34 European countries, described and illustrated by students from 40 schools from 34 European countries.
“European cuisine” - with 155 recipes for different European dishes collected by students from 40 European schools.
“eTwinning tree”- stories created by students from 34 schools from 26 countries. With the help of their teachers and parents, the students found special and significant trees in their regions. We made a special trip to look at the primeval trees. Then the students wrote stories answering on the question “What the tree will tell me if it can speak?” and made drawings of the remarkable tree.The Travelling book was created in SU Ekzarh Antim I, Kazanlak, Bulgaria and started to travel from partner to partner. The authors of the best story and the best painting in every school wrote and drew on the provided pages for each school in the Travelling book their creations.The book travelled for two years, from 2015 to 2017, and visited all participating schools and collected the stories and the drawings. An e-book was created with those stories and the drawings were scanned in order to be shared with more people.
"Health and Nature" – our last creation with 25 chain created stories for Squirrel Beauty.
All the books are in English.
During these 7 years we translated 35 fairy tales from 35 different European countries into English. Then randomly assigned between the partners, the fairytales were dramatized and we have 29 videos of dramatised fairy tales.. We organized in every partner school an Evening of European Great Figures and performed on the stage randomly assigned between the partners different Great Figures. We exchanged, learned and performed different partners` national traditions, songs and dances.We learned from each other online-how to do experiments, how to draw with non-standard techniques, to model and make different decorations of non-standard materials. We made an eTwinning Video Cooking Show and cooked together with the students and their parents different partners` dishes randomly assigned between the project`s participants and made exposition of the European dishes in special Day of the European Cuisine.We made one photo contest-"My Pets"
In our last project "Health and Nature" we created 25 original stories about Squirrel Beauty, illustrated and dramatized by the students and published in 25 different Buncees created by the partners` teachers.
All results of this admirable partnership, including the books can be found here:
http://onceuponatimeineurope.wikispaces.com/ http://europeangreatfigures.wikispaces.com/ http://nationaltraditionsongsanddances.wikispaces.com/ http://europeangreatfigures.wikispaces.com/ http://europesomanyfaces.wikispaces.com/ http://youngscientistsetwinning.weebly.com/ http://etwinningtree.blogspot.bg/ https://squierrelbeautyetwinning.blogspot.bg/
Here we are : enthusiastic teachers and happy eTwinners:
1. Bulgaria, SU “Ekzarh Antim I”, Kazanlak:
Natasha Djurkova (Founder) - coordinator of all projects of the team since 2010
Marina Ivanova;
Krasimira Krondeva
Mara Hadjieva
2. Albania, Gjimnazi nr1, Kuçovë - Persida Toska
3. Armenia, Vanadzor N19 primary school, Vanadzor - Nazeli Gishyan;
4. Austria, Volksschule Oberwart, Oberwart - Marlene Ruiter-Gangol;
5. Azerbaijan, Bakı Avropa Liseyi, Baku - Matanat Ahadova;
6. Primary School Kalo Chorio, Lemesos, Cyprus- Vassilis Papastavrou;
7. Czech Republic, Základní škola a mateřská škola Hranice, Šromotovo, příspěvkováorganizace,
Hranice - Marie Šturmová;
8. Estonia, Vastseliina Gümnaasium, Vastseliina - Terje Mägi;
9. Primary School of Galatista ,Chalkidiki ,Greece - Anna Kakarikou, Eugenia Moumoulidou;
Anna Kakarikou
10. Primary School of Zervochoria, Chalkidiki,Greece - Melahrini Papardeli, Theopisti Katsiamantou;
Melahrini Paprdeli
11. Italy, ICS di Staglieno, Genova (GE) - Armanda Magioncalda;
12. Latvia, Kokneses internātpamatskola - attīstības centrs, Kokneses novads - Līga Kraukle;
13. Lithuania, Telšių ,,Atžalyno’’ pagrindinė mokykla, Telšiai - Danute Raudiene;
14. Malta, St. Clare College, San Gwann Primary B, San Gwann - Marouska Azzopardi Duca;
15. Norway, Spetalen, Saltnes - Hilde Øen;
16. Poland, Gimnazjum z Oddziałami Dwujęzycznymi nr 93 im. Księżnej Izabeli Czartoryskiej
w Warszawie, Warszawa - Agnieszka Tymińska;
17. Portugal, Agrupamento de Escolas de Aljustrel, Aljustrel - Guilhermina Brotas;
18. Portugal, B1/PE da Lombada - Ponta do Sol, Ponta do Sol – Rosa Luisa Gaspar;
19. Republic of Macedonia, Primary school Tode Hadzi-Tefov, Kavadarci Former - Elizabeta Filipova,
Nikolche Neshkovski;
Elizabeta Filipova
20. Romania, Scoala gimnazială “Ion Borcea”, Agigea - Ghionul Gogoasa-Gelal;
21. Slovakia, Spojená škola Tilgnerova, Bratislava - Soňa Benčová;
22. Slovenia, Primary school VELIKA DOLINA, Jesenice na Dolenjskem - Irena Rimc Voglar;
23. Spain, Col·legi Sant Josep, Navàs - Fina Vendrell Vila;
24. Turkey, YENİ TURAN İLKOKULU, Ankara - K.Belgin Saka Üstünel;
25. Turkey, Aksaz Turgutreis İlkokulu, Muğla - Seda Apikoglu;
26. Ukraine, Odesa specialized school № 10, Odesa - Maia Seliatina
Some of us met each other at the eTwinning conference in Budapest -2011
at the eTwinning conference in Lisbon 2013 - after Awarding ceremony and receiving the Special Prize "Mevlana"- for intercultural understanding " :
At the eTwinning conference in Athens 2016 - after Awarding ceremony and receiving the Special Prize "Marie Sklodowska Curie" :