SEPTEMBER 2018
GETTING READY FOR THE PROJECT
At the beginning of September 2018 our school and local community were informed about the project Erasmus+ 2018-2020: Museumholics during the school year opening ceremony.
Around 26 September 2018 students took part in a number of activities to celebrate the European Day of Languages. The activities included:
- making posters about the countries of partnering countries - Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Turkey and Poland - posters included information about geography - maps and flags, languages and everyday expressions, capital cities and factfiles;
- presenting the most useful everyday expressions in ITalian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish;
- making posters about chosen UNESCO objects in the partnering countries and creating a padlet about them.
Here you can watch the results of our students' work:
- 6th-graders working on their "My favourite UNESCO object" posters and a pdf file presenting their posters:
- 8th and 9th-graders at work with their posters about the partnering countries as well as results of their work:
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018:
LOGO COMPETITION IN ZESPÓŁ SZKÓŁ IN RUDKI, POLAND
On 1st October 2018 a school contest for the Museumholics' logo was announced. 23 students took part in it. Some students submitted handmade posters, some prepared them in computers. The winning posters belonged to Jacob (grade VII), Peter (grade V) and Milos (grade VI). The jury consisted of students and teachers who picked their favourite designs.
Jacob's poster represented our school in Sibiu, Romania, where the final voting took place:
Here you can watch all the works:
NOVEMBER 2018
AN INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN SIBU, ROMANIA
In November, our school coordinator and another teacher went to Sibiu, Romania to meet other project coordinators and teachers. We wrote about it on our school website. We sent the article to a major newspaper in our region. Here's the article about the visit: https://echodnia.eu/swietokrzyskie/nasi-nauczyciele-szkolili-sie-w-rumunii-reprezentowali-jedna-z-szesciu-szkol-w-europie/ar/13726356
Also, the article appeared on the local community website and in the local quarterly "Kronika Świętokrzyska": https://www.nowaslupia.pl/aktualnosci/3442 and https://www.nowaslupia.pl/aktualnosci/3417
During the meeting the international contest for the project logo was completed. A logo proposed by a Spanish student won. We congratulate the creator of this logo :)
NOVEMBER 2018
A STUDENTS' SURVEY ABOUT MUSEUMS
Our students completed a survey presenting their basic knowledge of a museum as an institution and their experiences of visiting museums. Here are the results of this survey:
STUDENTS SURVEY RESULTS-MUSEUMHOLICS.docx
DECEMBER 2018
VISITING A MUSEUM & EXCHANGING CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
In December our students visited local sites exhibiting and preserving local heritage, history and traditions.
- One group visited a local museum in Nowa Słupia - the Museum of Ancient Metallurgy in the Holy Cross Mountains.
- Another group explored local cuisine traditions in "The Gingerbread Mansion".
Both groups prepared for visitng museums finding out information about them, discussing the rules they should follow while in a museum. The visits included watching the exhibitions, listening to the guide and chef as well as practical workshops.
Finally, our students prepared Christmas cards to be exchanged with students from schools in Battipaglia (Italy), Sibiu (Romania), Purullena (Spain), Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Koaceli (Turkey).
You can watch the report from above activities in our presentation:
And here are some photos of the Christmas cards we received:
Thank you for the cards :)
JANUARY 2019
PRESENTATION ABOUT OUR COUNTRY, REGION AND SCHOOL
Here you can watch a presentation about our country - Poland, our region - the Holy Cross Mountains, our commune - Nowa Słupia and school - Zespół Szkół in Rudki:
Zespół Szkół w Rudkach-prezentacja 2019.pdf
FEBRUARY 2019
A PADLET ABOUT UNESCO OBJECTS
In February our students completed a padlet about UNESCO objects that they liked most. Here's a pdf document presenting their work:
UNESCO OBJECT THAT I FIND INTERESTING.pdf
MARCH 2019
A VIRTUAL VISIT IN THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS
In February 2019 our students took part in classes about POLIN - the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Students could hear about the beginnings of the museum in 1995 to its creation in 2005 - how it was created thanks to the cooperation of the Polish government, local self-government and non-government organisations as well as individual and international supporters.
Our history teacher presented our students highlights of the Polish and Jewish history - history that is 1000 years long and had both light and dark sides. He talked about life in Jewish diaspories and the Holocaust.
The museum is a historical institution, but its aim is to influence the future relations between the Jews and other nations, face stereotypes and current threats such as xenpphobia and nationalist prejudices.
During the classes the teacher used information and images from the museum website: https://www.polin.pl/pl
MARCH 2019
AN INTERNATIONAL VISIT OF PARTNERING SCHOOLS
FROM ITALY, LITHUANIA, ROMANIA, SPAIN AND TURKEY IN RUDKI, POLAND
On 10 March groups of teachers and students representing our partnering schools from Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Spain and Turkey arrived in Warsaw to take part in an international meeting of "Museumholics". They stayed in Warsaw for one day, next took part in a number of activities in our school and finally went to Kraków for one day.
- On Monday, 11 March, they went sightseeing in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. They visited the Olda Town, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews "POLIN" as well as the Palace and Park Complex in Wilanów.
- On Tuesday, 12 March, our guests arrived in Rudki and were invited to take part in a school ceremony. Our school community welcomed them with a show including singing, dancing and funny theatre scenes. All the schools showed presentations about their countries, regions and schools.
- Also, the visitors participated in "ice-breaking" workshops conducted by our students and were shown around our school, too.
- In the afternoon they went on a trip to the local tourist attraction - Mount Holy Cross. There, they visited a late XVIII century church (comprising some medieval parts and interesting pieces of art and architecture) and the adjacent missionary and historical museum (presenting artefacts from Africa and other continents brought by missionaries working there as well as history of the church and monastery on Mount Holy Cross). In addition, they visited the Nature Museum presenting the natural history of our region, its natural attractions, plant and animal species.
- On Wednesday, 13 March, our guests were asked to participate in a creative workshop with Country Ladies' Club "Chełmowianki". The ladies taught the students how to make traditional Easter palms using decorative paper and other accessories.
- On Wednesday afternoon, our guests went on another trip to Kielce - the capital of our region. They visited the Palace of the Kraków Bishops, the Kielce Cathedral and participated in geological workshop in the Geo-Education Centre.
- On Thursday, 14 March, our young guests were asked to dance polonaise. They were assisted by our students and mastered the Polish traditional dance really fast.
- Then, our teachers and students organised a scientific workshop for them. They could try some scientific research and games with our students.
- After that, they took part in kahoot quizes to relax and have fun together.
- On Thursday afternoon, students had a disco. They danced to popular songs and had some integration games, too.
- After the disco, everyone got together to have their final photo taken:
- On Friday, 15 March, our guests left for Kraków to see the Kraków Old Town with its major attractions - the Wawel Castle, the Main square, St. Mary's Church and the Cloth Hall along with it underground museum.
APRIL 2019
A SCHOOL DISPLAY OF STUDENTS' POSTERS
In April 2019 our students organised a display of their posters which included works presenting their favourite UNESCO sites, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews "POLIN" in Warsawe as well as the Museum of Ancient Metallurgy in the Holy Cross Mountains in Nowa Słupia.
Watch the presentation summarising this task:
Erasmus+ Museumholics - April 2019.pdf
MAY 2019
A VISIT IN A MUSEUM - THE FORMER GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU
On 14 May 2019 students from Zespół Szkół in Rudki, Poland, paid a visit to a museum in Oświęcim. The small town in the south of Poland happened to be a witness of one of the most tragic and devastating events in the human history. It was the place where the biggest German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp was built and operated during the Second World War and where over 1000000 people died (Source: http://auschwitz.org/en/history/the-number-of-victims/).
Before the visit, our students took part in lessons preparing them for the encounter with this museum.
After the visit, they prepared comments with their impressions. You can read the report here:
Museumholics-Visiting Auschwitz 2019.pdf
Here you can see photos taken by our students during the visit:
MAY 2019
A VISIT IN A MUSEUM - BIESZCZADZKI NATIONAL PARK
AND NATURE MUSEUM
On 23rd of May 2019 the students and the teachers of Zespół Szkół in Rudki, Poland visited Natural Museum of Bieszczadzki National Park, too.
JUNE 2019
RESULTS OF A SURVEY FOR STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE PROJECT ERASMUS+ 2018-2020: MUSEUMHOLICS IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2018/2019:
RESULTS OF A SURVEY FOR ERASMUS+ PARTICIPANTS 2018-2019.docx
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2019
A VISIT IN A LOCAL MUSEUM
At the end of September the students from Zespół Szkół w Rudkach visited a local outdoor museum -“The Cultural and Archaeological Centre” in Nowa Słupia. Inauguration of the Cultural and Archaeological Centre in Nowa Słupia in the year 2011 resulted from the efforts undertaken to promote results of the research on the iron metallurgy and the Roman period on the Polish lands and the cultural relations between the Central Europe and the Roman Empire. The concept of the new centre covered the creation of reconstructions of particular structures and phenomena known from archaeological sources with a special focus on the results of research on the metallurgical centre in the Świętokrzystkie Mountains. The Cultural and Archaeological Centre has very important value in our local and national history, tradition and culture. There, our students from Zespół Szkół w Rudkach could admire ancient Roman and Barbarian buildings. In the Barbarian area the students visited a cottage of a ‘goldsmith’, a ‘metallurgical’ cottage, a ‘bronzing’ cottage, a pit house and an amber workshop, a ‘blacksmith’s’ cottage, an umbrella roof over a slag-pit furnace, a ‘sauna’ cottage, a ‘fisherman’s’ cottage, a ‘weaver’s’ cottage. In the ‘Roman zone” they got familiar with ‘Hadrian’s Wall’ – part of the Roman fortifications and “Burga” – a watch-tower connected functionally with the Roman limes. After the visit the students worked individually, in pairs and in groups and prepared posters presenting the buildings, symbols and short descriptions in English language connected with the outdoor museum. Finally, the display in the school corridor was prepared where our students shared their experience with their colleagues.
OCTOBER 2019
EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES IN ZESPÓł SZKÓŁ In RUDKI, POLAND -
A MEETING WITH INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS
AND A FAIR WITH SWEET TREATS
To celebrate the European Day of Languages, our School European Club organised a series of meetings with international volunteers from the UK, Spain and Italy. Our students (grade 6,7 and 8) had a chance to show the volunteers around the school, invite them for a cup of tea and some snacks and later have some time for group chatting. Our students also showed a presentation about our country, region, village and school life. Here are some photos:
Additionally, a week later, the School European Club and School Saving Club organised a fair with muffins, cakes and biscuits. The sweet treats were sold along with aphorisms in foreign languages - mostly English, German, Japanese and Russian. Students donated some earnings to a dog shelter. Here are some photos presenting our fair:
NOVEMBER 2019
AN INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN IZMIT, TURKEY
The fourth international meeting of the representatives of the schools partnering in the Erasmus+ 2018-2020: Museumholics took place in a charming Turkish city of Izmit from 11th to 15th November.
First, the participating teachers went sightseeing in the previous Turkish capital city of Istanbul - they visited the Archeological Museum, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, Cisterna Basilica, Galata Bridge, Taksim Square and Grand Bazaar.
On Tuesday all the group went to Izmit where the Primary School 75.YIL CUMHURIYET ORTAOKULU is situated. The representatives of the school welcomed us and offered us typical Turkish desesrt known as Turkish Delight. Then we were shown around the school and officially greeted by the school headteacher, project coordinators, teachers and students. The Turkish students presented us their culture, traditions, music and dances in a beautiful show. Moreover, we were also invited to taste traditional Turkish dishes prepared by our hosts - teachers, students and their parents. It was a delicious surprise!
On the following day, we paid a visit to the Izmit Mayor who gave as a warm welcome. We exchanged gifts and talked about our impressions of Turkey.
The participants of the international meeting got a chance to visit the major attractions of Izmit - Museum of Technology, Museum of Paper, Museum of Earth, Museum of Earthquake and Planetarium.
The aim of the meeting was to get acquainted with the museums, history, traditions and culture of Turkey, but also taking furhter steps to develop the Museumholics project, evaluating the previous activities and planning the next visits in Spain and Italy.
The visit in Turkey turned out to be a great adventure for all of us. The meetings with the Turkish students and teachers, seeing all the places and further integration with other project members proved to be an inspiring experience for us. We were totally impressed with the Turkish hospitality, kindness and involvement. We will never forget these wonderful moments.
Thank you very much!!!
DECEMBER 2019
A MUSEUMHOLICS LESSON: A VIRTUAL VISIT TO THE MUSEUM -
BRITISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
On 16 and 18 December 2019 our seventh-graders were invited to go on a virtual trip to the British Museum of Natural History in London, the UK. The lesson was conducted by Mrs. Agnieszka Jankowska, an English teacher. Students were also asked to answer the question: How to plan a trip to the museum?
During the lesson students were engaged in the three stages planned for museum visiting - an activity before the visit, during the visit and after the visit. Also, they could develop their ICT skills using smartphones and computers to look for information with Google search engine and then make PowerPoint or Libre Office Impress presentations.
I. Before the visit activity: Students participated in a class discussion about visiting a museum - what is a museum. what can you see there, why are museums important, etc. Students also heard basic information about the British Museum of Natural History in London, the UK - its location, collectoin and hostory as well as its sections. After this introduction our virtual tourists decided on the sections they would like to visit.
II. During the visit activity: Students paid a visit to the museum online. They had to find the sections they had chosen and go on a tour of it online. They were asked to collect information about one item displayed in the museum and read about it.
III. After the visit activity: Students made presentations in pairs using either PowerPoint or Libre Office Impress. They used photos of the museum exhibits and basic information they had found on the Internet. Finally, they presented their works in front of their classmates.
The slides below present some images from students' presentations about the virtual visit to the British Museum of Natural History:
If you're interested in an online tour of the Museum of Natural History in London, here's the link:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/
JANUARY 2020
A MUSEUMHOLICS LESSON: A FAMILY MUSEUM
On 14 January our eighth-graders took part in a Museumholics lesson "Museum family" which turned out to be a touching experience fo all. Students gathered important family souvenirs and told stories from their family histories, origins and meaning of the shown items.
The exhibits for brought for the lesson included a watch, a locket, old school notebooks, photos of great-grandparents, a cross and prayer book, postcards and others. Students told stories about these souvenirs and stressed their importnace in the family history.
To sum up, the whole lesson was a great opportunity to talk about the past and learn some facts from the students' ancestors.
The lesson was organised by Mrs Agnieszka Cedzyńska, a Polish teacher.
JANUARY 2020
A MUSEUMHOLICS LESSON: A LITTLE CLASSOOM MUSEUM
On 21 January 2020 our seventh-graders participated in a Museumholics lesson. Students brought family souvenirs to create a "little class museum" and recreate the times of their grandfathers by telling stories from the past.
Every student showed a souvenir and told its story. The souvenirs included old coins, medals, watches, postage stamps, sculptures, jewellery, books, documents, photographs and a lot of other interesting objects. All the students listened to the stories with great interest and asked questions about them, for example about their origins.
After the presentations, students chose a souvenir and story they found the most interesting and justified their choice.
The lesson was a perfect evidence for the fact that history is here and now. You just need to have your eyes open and not miss it.
The lesson was conducted by Mrs Bożena Jop, a Polish teacher.
FEBRUARY 2020:
GETTING READY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN SPAIN
The History of Al-Andalus
In February Polish students learned about history of Al-Andalus - the subsequents contests by the Muslims and Christians. They watched a film presenting the conquest of 711 AD which led to establishing the territory of Al-Andalus with Cordoba as the capital city and then the conquest of 756 AD which brought indepenence to Al-Andalus. Students also found out about the caliphate of Cordoba that was established in 929 AD and the cutural growth of the region. Soon, the caliphat split into smaller kingdoms which fought against each other and this afected their strength. In 11th century the Christians invaded the Muslim kingdoms - all but one in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212.
The link to the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7-gGNvnBuw
Watching the film about history of Al Andalus - part I:
Watching the film about history of Al Andalus - part II
with maps and discussion:
The economy of Al-Andalus
In the next lessons we discussed the economy of Al-Andalus:
a) the crops as well as some technical improvements such as irrigation systems or water mills,
b) craftsmanship,
c) commerce.
The society of Al-Andalus
We talked about the major groups of the Al-Andalusian society - the Muslims and non-Muslims. We learned that the Muslim groups was divided into the Arabs, the Berbers and the muladies. The nonMuslims included Christians and Jews.
The famous women of Al-Andalus
Fāṭima b. Zakariyya b. ‘Abd Allāh al-Kātib al-Shiblārī and Lubna were women known and respected for their skills. We had a closer look at Lubna's biography, too:
We read about Lubna on this website: https://mvslim.com/?s=Lubna
The cities of Al-Andalus
With great interest did we observe the curious elements of the Al-Andalusian city - the mosques (the Islamic temples for worshipping God), souq (public market), medina (old town), baths along with the fortifications - the alcazaba (fortified seat of the city's governor), alcazar (fortified palaca or castle), walls and the adjacent arrabal (suburbs).
Art of Al-Andalus
Finally, we looked at exampels of art created by the Al-Andalusian artists. We found the patterns extremely beautiful and extraordinary due their use of mathematics. We saw shapes such us circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, stars and octagons in the presented examples of mosaics and architecture.
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ERASMUS+ MUSEUMHOLICS - THE INTERNATIONAL PARTNER MEETING ONLINE (MICROSOFT TEAMS CONFERENCING) - MAY 2021
We would like to present you a short summary of our international meeting that took place on 10, 11, 12 and 13 May 2021 and was organised by the project coordinators from the Italian school Instituto Comprensivo "Fiorentino" in Battipaglia on Microsoft Teams.
Our school - Zespół Szkół in Rudki - was represented by four students: Miłosz Cebula, Oliwia Kozłowska, Michał Lewandowski and Karol Metryka and teachers: Marzena Kozłowska and Magdalena Mazur-Młynarczyk. The meeting was hosted by Mrs Carla Bisogni and her team. All the other partners took part in the activities: the Lithuanian, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish teams of teachers and their students.
- 10 May 2021 - The project participants were greeted by the coordinators - Instituto Comprensivo "Fiorentino" in Battipaglia - and watched presentations prepared by them - about the school, town, students' performances and our project.
- 11 May - Teachers and students from all the participating countries listened to a lecture on the history and art of the Etruscans in the south of Italy. The lecture was supported by images of artefacts and exhibits from the National archeological Museum "Pontecagnano". After that all the students decorated paper plates following the Etruscan style. You can see their photos below.
- 12 May - We watched films summarising the experiences of students participating in the Erasmus+ project "Museumholics". Every coutry was asked to prepared such a recording.
- 13 May - Teachers and students participated in separate workshops. Students took part in a dancing workshop. Teachers had a reporting meeting discussing the activities of the project, the dissemination and the next steps that need to be taken within the coming weeks. Also, the final report was discussed and project resutls were presented. The project coordinator, Mrs Carla Bisogni, presented the dissemination padlet involving project activities from all the particpating schools.
- We invite everyone to follow our Museumholics Facebook account:
https://www.facebook.com/Museumholics/
- Also you can find out about our activities on our school Facebook:
https://pl-pl.facebook.com/Zesp%C3%B3%C5%82-Szk%C3%B3%C5%82-w-Rudkach-454483721353177/
- Finally we regularly inform our school and local community about the Erasmus+ project Museumholics on our school website:
https://zsrudki.edupage.org/news/#news-1944
We also inform about the project activities on a special subpage dedicated to our project:
https://zsrudki.edupage.org/a/klub-europejski?eqa=dGV4dD10ZXh0L3RleHQ3JnN1YnBhZ2U9MQ%3D%3D
Have a look at our gallery reporting the activities from 10-13 May 2021:
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