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This is the second project year for "Hands on Europe".

 COMENIUS 2005-2006   


The project activities which have taken place locally are as follows :

·        The Dowry Box , The IIIrd and the IVth  parts – the partnership program carried on by  pupils from Henri Coanda High School Craiova, Romania ( the fourth grade ) and pupils from the Primary schools from Draganu and Rusanesti -  Valcea County, two schools which offered voluntarily to work together with the school from Craiova .

·        Mewlana. This year the Turkish teachers team  took the students to Konya- Mewlana according to their  plan. Also the year  2007  is Mewlana year in the  world. They did many activities related to this topic.- the Turkish team, during the whole school year

·        During late November - early December 2005 all teachers of the Comenius project of Kamares Elementary School, Larnaka, Cyprus, with their respective classes worked on preparing Christmas messages to their respective partners.

·        “Autumn harmonies” – a school performance– Podari, Romania, 8 Nov. 2005

·        “Mine, Yours, Ours” – a workshop dedicated to The International Day of Tolerance – 16 Nov. 2005, Podari, Romania

·        Conciliating meeting with all the schools involved in Socrates programs (Romanian schools, Nov. 2005, Bucharest)

·        The Comenius week, a generous event in Dolj county organized in order to disseminate the work, activities, products and results of transnational projects ( Romanian schools, 5-10 Dec. 2005 )

·        “The magic of the show” – a folk masks contest – the second edition – Podari, Romania, Jan. 2005

·        “Who Knows, Wins” – a knowledge contest about the culture and traditions of the Comenius project countries – Podari, Romania, 17 Dec. 2005

·        All classes involved in the project studied the work sent by their respective partners (Italians-Romanians-Turks) on themes related to Christmas and religious celebrations – Larnaka, Cyprus, Dec. 2005 – Jan. 2006

·        Activities of study of Christmas Songs in Rumanian Language and small lullababies  that they have then recited and sung during the Christmas school activities  and in particular within the "Acceptance Project" – Dec. 2005 Castell Umberto, Italy

·        “Let`s Help Our  Poor Fellow ! – humanitarian campaign for pupils of disadvantaged families – Feb. – Apr. 2006 – Podari, Romania

·        Folk dances – the Turkish team, Feb. 2006

·        Teachers involved in the project worked on preparing material on three different issues to be studied by pupils. The themes were traditional music, traditional dancing, and an important socio-cultural event (carnival).

·        “Spring Day in Europe” an European program developed in “Henri Coanda” High School          ( Craiova ) and The Main School of Podari – Romania – including a complex series of activities dedicated to this European event   ( exhibitions, contests, workshops, artistic programs developed in partnership  with other schools from Craiova ) – Mar.-May 2006

·        A 10 minutes movie presenting Mewlana 's ideas. – the Turkish team - March 2006

·        “Let`s  Abolish The Racial Discrimination !” – a local symposium dedicated to The International Day for Abolishinmg the Racial Discrimination- 21 Mar. 2006

·        Classes involved in the programme visited the ethno-cultural museum in Avgorou where they studied relevant aspects of our cultural heritage – Cyprus, the second term

·        The folk traditional singer Mihalis Terlikkas gave a lecture about our traditional music to all pupils of the 6th class – Larnaka, the second term

·        The school choir and the school dancing club learned a Sicilian song (Vitti na grozza) and a Sicilian dance. In addition they practiced the ones that they performed during last year’s Comenius Day (Juri – Juri, Deschide fereastra)- Larnaka, the third term

·        Common meals . Students searched the common meals among the project partners. They prepared  and cooked the meals. They brought them to school and students, teachers tasted the partner countries' cuisines. The event was recorded on CDs / DVDs. – the Turkish team – Mar 2006

·        During 15-22 June 2006 the Turkish pupils paid a visit to Romania, at Henri Coanda High School, Craiova,  for cooperation and  to develop friendship between partner schools and pupils .

·        Activities that have been involved the scholastic communities of Castell' Umberto and Sinagra.  10 teachers of the several nations have been received with pantomimes and popular songs not only Sicilian but also of their countries of origin. – the second term, Castell Umberto, Italy

·        A representative group from the 6th class (8 children) took part in two different radio programmes where they spoke about our Comenius project and the activities that were carried out in Kamares Elementary School, Cyprus.

·        Promotion of the School activities and projects on the European Union web site “EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET” -  “MY EUROPE” – Podari, Romania – the second semester 2006

·        A special school magazine in Craiova, Rome and Isparta, made  to disseminate our Comenius activities

·        Clasa EUROPAtru – a contest for pupils of 4th grade on themes of European integration and knowledge about the European countries ; pupils from 10 schools of Dolj county took part to this competition – 9 May 2006, Craiova

·        A drama work of pupils of Sangallo school  in cooperation with a primary school of Ostia, Rome, about peace and tolerance  - the second edition – June, 2006

·           The program “Tolerance in different regions” – the second edition -  developed in Castell`Umberto, Italy. All the community has been involved with public meeting and discussions – at the end of the school year, June 2006

  The common project activities that have taken place in the school year 2005/06 are as follows :

·        Information, presentation of the first year project, and project products dissemination to the school community and to the local community, including show panels fitting out, exhibitions, articles in the local newspapers        

·        Teachers mobilities in Larnaka (Cyprus)  -  15-20 Nov. 2005 -  and in Castell Umberto (Italy) – 25-30 Apr. 2006. The main aims of the meetings were : to introduce our schools, our national school systems, our regions and our countries in order to know each other better ; to establish the most important values to be developed during the second year of the project ; to present a common booklet containing suggestions of optionals and extra-school activities inspired by the project work and products ; to evaluate the results of the second questionnaire and its relevance for the project purpose ;  to share the web page of the project in its second year working variant ; to evaluate the second year project activities and products.

·        A common work paper elaboration : the second questionnaire for pupils and teachers. The main aim of this questionnaire was to find out the opinion of the school pupils and teachers, of the Comenius team about the first / second year work, activities and project products – all the partner schools, Nov. 2005 and June 2006

·        Penfriendship, carried on between the participant pupils and teachers. The students and the teachers sent letters and Christmas / New Year cards and messages  (all the partner schools,  - Dec. 2005 )

·        Winter celebrations and school performances – all the participating schools – Dec. 2005

·        A documentation step : collecting and structuring different topics of the project content related to aspects of local cultural traditions and customs for Christmas, Ramadan , Carnival, Easter and Kurban. Each partner team suggested two or three topics for a common booklet with optionals and extra-school activities based on the project work during the first year (all the partner schools - Dec. 2005 -  Mar.06 )

·        Analysis of the results of the documentation step, by changing information about the chosen topics  between the participating schools, by e-mails, through CDs and DVDs sent by post (all the partner schools - Feb., Apr. 2006 )

·        Children designed Easter cards and wrote Easter messages to be given to their respective partner schools by the teachers taking part in the project meeting in Sicily (25 – 30 April 06)

·        A Comenius Day ( Romania, Italy  and Turkey ),  Europe’s Day” ( Cyprus ) - ( May and June 06 ) organised in order to share the project work and products with the school and local community.. Children of the involved  classes worked on presenting material about Europe and the Socrates programmes carried on in the partner schools. This activity was presented to all children and teachers of school, of other invited schools and to parents. Children, teachers and parents had also the opportunity to visit an exhibition about the partner-countries of the Comenius project

·        Some pupils of the project team were given a DVD with a compilation of the best activities and presentations produced by all partners (Cyprus, Turkey, Craiova, Podari, Sicily, Rome) over the last two years. The DVD included mainly aspects of each partner’s culture (dances, songs, religious activities, social activities etc) – June 2006

·        Report about the results of the first year project to the school community and National Agencies (all the partner schools – Jun.-Aug. 2006)

Separated products ( produced and shared by all the partners ) :

·        The DVDs of the Cyprus Comenius team about folk music, dance and painting

·        CDs and DVDs for sharing the teams` work

·        Written folders made during the documentation step

·        Local panels and exhibitions for promoting the project activities

·        PowerPoint presentations

·        Photo albums

·        A school performance containing :

-          A Christmas songs album

-          A Cypriot traditional song and music performed by Italian pupils

-          A collection of European songs and hymns of the foreign partners

-          Production of a DVD with some traditional Sicilian dances

·        A DVD containing some traditional Sicilian dances

DISSEMINATION AND VALORIZATION

These products have been disseminated through :

  • meetings with the school pupils, parents, local guests ;
  • exhibitions and sharing panels in schools ;
  • press conferences ;
  • articles in the local newspapers and in the school magazines.

They were received with a special interest, all the receiving people appreciating the quality of activities and of their dissemination, the team spirit of the partners developed in order to turn the project into a real success. We were quite happy finding out that many of our colleagues from other schools, also involved in Comenius projects, take us as an example of how an European project must be disseminated and known.


“Joint” products :

·        Reports

·        The common booklet containing suggestions of optionals and extra-school activities ( made by the Romanian team from Craiova, but using information proved by all the partners ) -  the common final product of the first year

·        The initial and final questionnaire, gathering suggestions from each partner

·        Hand-made objects

·        Video albums of the project meetings and activities made by the coordinators from Craiova ( Romania ) and Larnaka ( Cyprus )

·        A special school magazine made in order to disseminate the project activities ( Craiova, Rome and Isparta )

·        The web page of the project – the second year  variant -  made and administrated by the project coordinator, Mihaela Brumar, but using information given by all the partners



Hands on Europe - a positive, optimistic, encouraging state of mind !

The European dimension is an important pedagogical aspect in this project as it is related to bringing people from different parts of Europe together, making them feel closer, more communicative and more involved.

On the other hand, we also emphasised  the theme itself of the project, intercultural change. It has been a very enriching experience, as much for the pupils as for the teachers, as the traditions heritage  is inter-curricular link because the project demands, not only the reproduction of works of traditional art and knowledge about them, as all the connected work related to other subjects, the mother tongue, foreign languages, sciences, other art forms, history, geography or computer skills.

The resulting products from this year's work are witness to the great interest that the project created in the educational community. And as we are of the opinion that interested generates motivates and motivation generates success, we believe that we are contributing to a greater and better formation of the pupils from all the partner schools.

The partnership will continue , because this serious initiative has to reach its finalities and to accomplish itself in the team`s  needs and desires. Hands on Europe is for sure, as the initial logo of the project said, a positive, optimistic, encouraging state of mind !