6.1. Activities in Hungary

  • International meeting in Hungary

    25 - 29 Novemer 2019

    In Hungary we realized pupils exchanges and also teacher´s training events. 

    The topic of our first exchange of pupils was: Geographical facts

    ​All partnership schools created presentations about geographical facts of own country.The part of these presentations were also the short quizzes. Students learned this way about parntenship countries a lot of details: position in Europe, area, population, flags, capital cities, mountains, rivers, ...

    Each school brought hand-made projects about all partnership countries,we created international exhibition of these projects and then children talked about them. This was very nice activity.

    We all took part in geography lesson realized using innovative teaching methods. Pupils were completing the text about facts of Hungary, they were making some collages about partner countries using internet and maps. It was great international activity.

    ​We learnt some useful words and expresions from Wordbank created before meeting. After meeting we made several games and published them in website and twinspace. This way more students can learn new words and expresions.

    We visited the capital city Budapesť and got to know some sights. Children enjoyed the workshop in Miniversum  - with English and some information about European cities and stations.

    ​From other interesting activities we can mention- 

    - the traditional march with lamp

    - Local history adventure tour for children

    - Hungarian folk dance show, dance teaching, dancing

    The topic of our first teacher´s trainning event was: Motivation for eduction

    ​At firts we were talking about educational systems in our countries, we had possibility to know personally the system of education at Hungarian school. 

    ​We took part in some lessons realized with innovative teaching method:

    Cooperative lesson of geography - children were completing the text with some geographical facts about Hungary. They were doing some on-line quizzes.

    Art lesson - students were painting the island and ship using fantasy.

    Vocabulary lesson - pupils were learning some new words using various games.

    ​DVD and brochure about lessons and as the summary of seminars will be created: Teaching methods in European schools.

    Message from Hungarian school after meeting:

    Dear All, 

    thank you again for this unforgettable first meeting! We are very happy to be together in this project and thankful of your cooperation and hard work you showed us during the meeting!

    We prepaired an exhibition in the school of the paper projects you have given us as gifts! Thank you very much! These projects are really beautiful and you can see a lot of creativ idea!