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Date: 14 -  18 May 2018 

Place: Dabrowa nad Czarna 60, Aleksandrów, Poland

Web: www.spdabrowa.pl

Organizor: Szkola Podstawowa im. Jana Pavla II v Dabrowie nad Czarna

From 14th to 18th May has been our first meeting with pupils in Poland. We couldn’t find better hosts. The kids have enjoyed being together working, singing, playing, learning... all in English and with our motto: Arts talk about us. Here we leave you some great moments.

LEGENDS PRESENTED BY PUPILS:

The Czech team presented "The knights sleeping in the Blaník Hill" legend.

The Blanik Knights.pptx

The Finish team presented "The mouse helps the bear" story.

FIN - The mouse helps the bear - Enni, Fjolla, Sade ja Viljami.pptx

The Romanian team presented "The Trinket" legend.

RO LEGEND the Trinket.pptx

PHOTOGALLERY

Sunday trip: we met the Oldest Tree in Poland!!! We visited the museum of a miniature architect or historic places of interest located in the surroundings. We studied nature in the local fish aquarium.

Paper flowers workshop with Polish teachers on Thursday. Thank you so much!!!

Glass Christmas Balls Workshop in the Glass factory in Piotrków Tribunalski on Tuesday morning.

On Tuesday afternoon, we had a dance workshop and learnt Polish dance Oberok at Piotrków Trybunalski Music SchoolNext we had a music workshop and used PET bottles to practice the sense of rhythm. Finally, we sang the old Polish kanon.

Visiting Chopin birth house in Želazowa Wola on Wednesday.

Workshop with Romanian teacher on Thursday. 

Of course, a final concert on Thursday. We presented our international orchestra workshop results and all national teams took part too.

Paper Workshop on Friday... Amazing!!! We made paper, wrote with a feather, coloured our paper in the old way.

Meals together

Of course, time for sports too...

Czech workshop on Monday. The international mixed group worked on the pop-up books with animals and finished with "I lend you my book because ..." activity.

Finish a workshop on Aurora Borealis on Thursday. The Czech team is getting ready for Legend about Blanik´s Hill Knights presentation.

Legend presentations.

Polish pupils presented legend about Vawel Dragon from Krakow. Finish teachers prepared a workshop on Aurora Borealis.

Another photo from our Christmas ball decoration workshop in the Glass factory.

Teams brought more books to their partners to continue international workshop "I lend you this book because ... " Spanish team brought us easy English copy of Don Quijote. 

We had traditional Romanian and Polish dance workshops and pupils practiced in their free time too.

Polish teachers lead paper flowers workshop on Friday. Children took the products home to give them on Mother´s Day on Sunday.

We observed the school and we could see that they also joined the Peace Day in January.

Czech teachers lead another workshop and created with pupils this poster.

Italian teachers also lead another workshop and created with pupils this poster.

We visited Chopin birthplace Želazowa Wola on Wednesday to learn more about this great Polish piano player and composer.

Some of us visited Oceanika to learn more about the environment.

Teachers had meetings during this LTTA. They evaluated and planned project activities.

PROJECT VIDEO

made by Finish team

Arts talk about us also included dances in our Poland meeting... Take a look!!!!!

Dance Belgijka, “Ego”, by Willy William,  Learning Romanian Folk Dances

And you will see more: dances, songs, legends... just take a look at our Facebook account to stay in contact.
Special thanks to our hosts in Dąbrowa nad Czarną 60, 26-337 Aleksandrów, at Szkoła Podstawowa im Jana Pawła II.
Thank you very much, Anna, Mr. Brandis, Ola, Anneta, and the rest of the teacher's team, the families, pupils, hotels and restaurants...
It has been unforgettable!!! Poland and Polish are amazing and we will miss you, for sure. Arts talk about us Team

What we planned in the project for this meeting (The objectives from the form):

DATES: May 14 - 18, 2018

OBJECTIVES:

1. Encourage relationships between educational communities, especially teachers and students.

2. Exchange good teaching practices, innovation, and quality actions within the educational community.

3. Exhibit works and results of joint actions carried out in a cultural, relaxed, integration and personal promotion environment.

4. Carry out teaching-learning activities in the international educational framework that strengthen the European social dimension and highlight the inclusive and inclusive nature of the school.

5. To put the pupils in a position to use a foreign language.

DESCRIPTION:

These activities aim to highlight the social dimension of the project. Our students will be able to experience coexistence and communication through the artistic representations of the centers they visit, their surroundings, their history, and culture. In addition, the children will share with their classmates the activities carried out in the centers, through samples that can be transferred, lip dubs, photographs, presentations, etc.

ACTIVITIES:

1. Exhibition of the works carried out by the students of the different associated centers.

2. Participation of students from different centers in creative, manipulative, experiential, and coexistence workshops.

3. Realization of:

- representations of traditional stories, myths, legends, puppet theaters, shadow theaters, dramatizations, atrezzos, make-up ...

- workshops for the construction of instruments, concerts, collective painting, traditional dances, dances of the world ...

- creative workshops: art with recycled material, pseudografittis, trompe l'oeil ...

- traditional dances, dances of the world

- visit to museums, exhibitions, emblematic buildings

- physical and/or artistic representation of sculptures, athletes, mime ...

- gastronomic workshops ...

- others: hieroglyphics, building models, bracelets and necklaces, bookmarks

During the development of these activities, we will be very aware that May 18 is the international day of museums and that these are an integral part of our project insofar as they represent cultural centers of conservation, exhibition, and knowledge.

Tasks:

2 - 3 songs (national, famous, max. 1 instrumental) for Italian school to perform on concerts since March and at last project meeting

team and school presentation - 30 minutes max

WHAT SHOULD WE TAKE TO POLAND?

1. Presentation of a national legend

2. Stickers of the participants (pupils and teachers) for the project album

RESULTS OF OUR MEETING:

our legends are presented in part 6) LITERATURE - folk tales here,

book trailers are presented in part 6) LITERATURE here and presentations of recommended books are here

MOBILITY TOOLS:

Czech report for the mobility tools is in the document on the right

Below you can read the Polish school description of the meeting                                          

The visit to Poland took place from 14 to 18 May 2018 (with 13^th  and 19^th as travelling days). During this LTTA meeting, 33 pupils from six partner countries with our Polish pupils worked, learned, and played together in order to reach the goals of our project. The programme of the meeting was organized in a way, that enabled all participants to experience as much as possible of Polish culture as well as learning and spending leisure time in an interesting and creative way.

At school  all pupils participated in lessons prepared by international teachers:

• Croatian teachers -  Maths with music;
• Spanish teachers -  learning a Spanish song;
• Italian teachers – music lesson
• Finnish teachers – Aurora borealis, Finnish culture
• Romanian teachers – traditional Romanian dance
• Czech teachers – arts – a pop-up book
• Polish teachers – paper flowers for Mother’s Day.

Pupils together with the teachers prepared and performed a mini-concert for the school community. During an hour and a half concert, we could enjoy a show of talented pupils from all seven countries. There were folk songs, piano, saxophone, flute, guitar, and accordion performances, solo and group play.

One of the learning activities were presentations of legends and folk tales. Each country pupils presented one legend to the audience, either in the form of presentation or drawings displays.

During activities at school, pupils had the opportunity not only to practice English communicative skills but also to experience peer learning.  Children learned their traditional dances, songs, rhymes in their native languages.  

Pupils had a chance to take part in learning activities organized outside the school. One of them was workshops at Musical School in Piotrków Trybunalski. For two hours pupils learned some Polish folk dances and a Polish cannon “Kanon na dzień Dobry”. Also, the same day they participated in art workshops in Szkło Dekor Factory – the place where they learned how hand-made Christmas decorations are produced, and also had a chance to create their own Christmas balls. Other artistic activities were hand-made paper workshops, where children learned how the paper was produced and colored a long time ago, they prepared their own pieces of paper and wrote their names with goose feather and ink.

One of the important events was a visit to the local authorities of the County of Aleksandrów. All our guests met the Mayor, the Secretary, and the manager of the Culture Centre. During the meeting, teachers had a discussion panel with the authorities and children some art activities with Culture Centre workers.

As an aim of experiencing Polish culture, our guests visited Żelazowa Wola Museum – the place of Chopin’s birth.  

In leisure time children and teachers spend time playing sports, walking in the area and admiring our nature and landscapes, singing and dancing together.

The only thing that was planned in a programme and wasn’t accomplished was a visit to Rogów Arboretum, a park of unique flora. Because of the heavy rain, the visit was cancelled in the last moment.

Stickers of most teachers who took part in this meeting (Finish team had Aija instead of Risto).

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