Portuguese team in Slovakia

Erasmus report of the week by Irish team: 

Erasmus Report January.docx

Meeting - video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eag2P2M_2bI&feature=youtu.be

Location :  Základná škola A. Sládkoviča, Pionierska 9, 962 31 Sliač, Slovakia

Attendees : 

Portugal: Aida Oliveira Diamantino Cardoso, Manuela Domingues Frias, Augusto Proenca Pereira;

 Ireland: Claire Corley, Emily Lloyd, Breed Hassett;

Turkey:Cigdem Cerdik Ukrmez, Makbule Taskin, Sirullah Celebi, Beycan Yontar, Kemal Akbas ;

Poland: Magdalena Dyrda, Krzysztof Gajewski, Monika Guzik;

The Netherlands: Henk Frenken, Marieke van Haastert, Mireille Esseveld;

Slovakia: Alžbeta Krupova, Alena Lisičanová, Radoslav Ištván, Oľga Vonkomerová, Miloslav Storoška;

Minutes by      :  Alžbeta Krúpová

Monday, January 27, 2020 (14:00 – 21:00)

Slovak coordinator arranged the transport from airport in Budapest, Hungary to Sliač, Slovakia for all project partners. Polish team arrived by minibus. Travel day of project partners – all partners agreed to wait for the last team to come to Budapest, so that one bus could pick them up. Host families came to school to pick up the children. Teachers stayed at the Urpin City Residence hotel in Banská Bystrica.

Things to prepare at home by each project partner:

1. Presentation of one day of a pupil (video or ppt)
2. Christmas and New Year postcards to be sent to each project school in December 2020
3. Erasmus corner at the school
4. Music for a traditional or well-known dance – pupils will teach each other the dance
5. Upload the documents, pictures, etc. on Twinspace

Tuesday, January 15, 2018 (07:30 – 16.00)

5. Pupils arrived at school at 7:30 They had the lesson with Slovak pupils. After lesson they walked to town hall.
6. Teachers arrived  to town hall.
7. Welcome programmme : Slovak pupils welcomed them in folklore costumes with songs and dancing and playing the violin. The member of local folklore group played the fujara and sings old folk songs.
8. Introduction by Alžbeta Krúpová, school coordinator of the project. Alžbeta welcomed all the members of project meeting and introduced all teams. The vicemayor officially welcomed the project members in the ceremonial room. He told the invited guests about the past and present days of the town.  Henk, coordinator of the project, had a short speech at the beginning of the project meeting. All participants took a common picture and they signed their names in the visitors book.
9. After the meeting at the town hall all participants went back to school.      
10. Programme of today: 10:15 – 16:00

Puils guided the participating teachers and pupils around the school. Dancing workshop - pupils from each partner school taught other pupils traditional or well-known dance from their country. Also teachers took part in dancing lesson.

All pupils had lunch together in the school canteen (3 vegetarian meals);

After lunch pupils had a floorball tournament in school gym. They enjoyed this activity a lot. Then they were divided into two groups and worked in creative workshops – 3D workshop and art workshop. where they created 3D model of project logo and hearts made of metal wire using taditional technique.

At the end pupils were picked up by host families, teachers traveled to hotel. Teachers took pictures and videos to prepare the dissemination materials.

19:00

A dinner for teachers  was served at a restaurant in Banska Bystrica.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 (07:45 – 16:30)

7:45 Arrival to school

Programme of today: 

8:00 – 9:00

What are the school rules – pupils worked in group and created posters about rules in their schools and then they presented them to teachers and pupils. They comapred the rules in each school and discussed them.

9:00 – 17:00

Travel to Banská Štiavnica- Excursion to Terrra Permonia – place to learn, have fun and relax, inspired by the Dutch know-how. They made various objects from plastic, wood, paper and used different techniques and their own fantasy and creativity.

After lunch we went to excursion to mine. Mining is an important part of our region history. So participants could learn a lot about it. Pupils and teachers could see what the life of miner was like in the past, how they worked and dug for gold and copper.

End of activities.

Pupils go to host families, teachers go to hotel.

19:00 

 Diner in Banska Bystrica for teachers.

Thursday, January 30, 2020 (07:45 – 22:00)

 7:40  Arrival to school.

Programme of today:

 7:45 – 8:45

Workshop – MY IDEAL CITY, MY IDEAL FREE TIME, MY IDEAL SCHOOL

Discussion on given topics, creating images, posters and descriptions of school, town and free time. Presentation of the group work for the other pupils and teachers.

9:00 – 11:00

Excursion to airbase in Sliač. Interactive presentation of work of pilots and other airbase staff. Pupil and teachers could try to be pilots for a while in flight simuator and they enjoyed it a lot.

Lunch break

After lunch each school presented videos about “One day in liffe of a pupil”. Participants could see similarities and differences of each country everyday routine of students.

Excursion to Historic school, Špania Dolina - Pupils and teachers visited the historic school in the mining Village of Špania Dolina, 4 kms from Banská Bystrica. There they could see what it was like to be a pupil in the past. They used a stone board and a chalk and an old ink pen. The lecturer showed them different school supplies used in the past. They could see the visualisation of the Ludovika shaft, then they had a disscussion   about the life of miners, they could see which stones and semi-precious stones were mined in that area.

Return to Sliač- pupils go to families to have dinner.

Teachers have dinner in the city of Banska Bystrica

19:30

Goodbye party and Slovak cuisine tasting Pupils and teachers from project schools, Slovak host families and some members of school staff met in the school to have a goodbye party. Henk, the coordinator of the project thanked Slovak team for preparing the meeting and he also appreciated the hospitability of host falmilies. Pupils gave a small present to each host family. Ms. Martina Kuzmova, the leader of parents board in our school thanked all participants for great week and appreciated the idea of Erasmus + projects and its wonderful influence to each participants – pupils, teachers parents and the community itself. The families prepared typical meals which were served to all guests. A cake with Erasmus logo was prepared for all guests by one of our mothers. All pupils danced until 22:00.

Friday, January 31, 2020 (07:00 – 10:00)

Departure day

Teachers and pupils gathered in school and the summary of the week was made.

1. The certificate of attendance was signed by every member of the project meeting, the photocopy was collected by each school coordinator.
2. Certificates  were given to each participant.
3. The disscussion took place about the meeting in Slovakia – the feedback, the pictures, reports and other documnets must be uploaded to Twinspace,
4. Pupils who took part in the 2nd meeting will write a short feedback of the activities.
5. Each project team has fullfilled the tasks - outputs of the meeting –video of dances, school videos were made, postcards were sent and displayed, Erasmus corners were created.
6. Henk sent via email some reading material about jenaplan, about classroom building to create a good atmosphere in the class. Each partner can read the document and use the ideas the classroom.
7. Each partner must fill the information about the meeting in Mobility tool.   

In relation to the students that participated in the project, we can say that there was:

- a growth in the motivation and satisfaction in their work;

- a bigger open mind to the difference and to the social and cultural diversity;

- a rise in the competences and in the motivation to do some European and international work, with a bigger European conscience;

- bigger knowledge of the characteristics of the culture of our partner countries (language, religion, food, traditions, education…);

- a bigger use of active methodologies, using the ICT (by doing some works or in the communication with their partners);

- a better using of the English language, even if it written or spoken;

- a bigger capacity of doing some research, selection and treatment of the information, which will have a great impact in their school results.

The short term learning mobility of our young people in formation was a very big challenge and, at the same time, a unique opportunity for all of them. The fact of leaving their country, of having the opportunity of contacting with other people of the same age, in a different sociocultural context, has permitted them setting practical knowledge in relation to competences, in terms of the linguistic point and also in the cultural aspect. This experience will be a valuable aspect to their growth as citizens.

In relation to the teachers

- it was a way of promoting the formation of teachers, in relation to the project work methods, collaborative work and specific methodologies of each subject;

- there was a bigger use of the ICT and, particularly, of the online platforms;

- there was a better use of the foreign language competences, in particular of the English language;

- the contact with other different education practices, their importance, advantages and disadvantages of their use was another important competence for a teacher, nowadays;

- The implementation of innovative activities for the class curricular project were promoted, as also as the promotion of different clubs. These were important to elaborate other projects in the national and European levels.

During this meeting:

- Exhibitions were organized about the most important characteristics of each partner country;

- Debate moments were created about some of the topics treated in this project, for example, the topic of refugees;

- In our E-twinning page, all the information about this project and its implementation steps have been published;

- The information about the project was also published in the media - newspaper

Next project meeting in Portugal – short term schooling activity

Dates: May 11-15, 2020; 2/3 teachers and 4 pupils

Flight  to Porto, then 2,5 hours by bus to Moimenta da Beira; Portuguese coordinator, Aida, will arrange the transport from Porto airport, the time of transport will be set according to the last group to come to Porto. All project partners should make a pre-survey in the next weeks to look for the most convenient flight times.

When the pupils are chosen, they should get in touch before the meeting, so that they can know each other better and cooperate from the beginning of the project meeting. The ice-breaking activities will be prepared for the first days. International groups will be created for different activities to help pupils to use English language as often as possible, to get to know each other, to break the prejudice etc.

Timetable for the next project meetings will be completed during the next meetings.

Henk closed the meeting and all participants departed to airport or home by bus. Turkish team went to Bratislava capital city to visit the Turkish Embassy.

Attachement: the photos and documents from the 2nd project meeting can be seen at:

https://zssliac.edupage.org/album/#photos:album:680

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/88063/home 

Minutes prepared: Mgr. Alžbeta Krúpová, headteacher of the school