Project meeting in Poland.2
Project meeting in Poland.3
Project meeting in Poland.4
The objective
of the 6th meeting was to evaluate the activities and collaboration
within the partnership.
The programme
prepared by the Polish hosts for the last project meeting has been very rich
and interesting:
We were
officially welcomed at school by Mariola, the school headmistress, Joanna, the
project coordinator from the Polish school and their team of teachers and
students.
We visited the
school and we had the occasion to see a Sample
English lesson with SEN students - Form 1A (Asia & Monika). It was a very
interesting experience, an exchange of best practices in teaching English using
the materials created within the project. From the discussions we had with the
students after the activity, we realized that the participation in the
activities within the Comenius project has had a great and beneficial impact on
them. It has helped them improve their self-esteem and courage to express
themselves in English and mother tongue.
We have also had the
opportunity to learn some of the traditional Polish dances in the special
workshop organized for us by Monika.
We visited the city of Lodz and we were
told interesting facts about its history and the Poznanski Palace
We enjoyed the educational programs in Bolimowo
and in the open-air museum in Maurzyce (workshops on paper cutting, pottery,
basketry & blacksmith); the Folk wedding of the Łowicz region (in the same
open-air museum).
We were impressed by the documentary visit to the
Auschwitz Concentration Camp. And we admired the marvels of the Wieliczka Salt
Mine and the beautiful Wawel Castle – royal chambers, armory, treasury, courtyard;
The Mariacki Rynek; Sukiennice, Mariacki
Church
We had a very interesting dissemination activity and presented our
project and its results to the host school and local community, as well as to
the officials who honored our meeting.
During the technical meeting we discussed the issues connected to the
finishing of the last products to be made. On request from the Italian team, we
established that the sum of 60 euros that each team has to pay for the
copyright for the Book of traditions will be paid to them after each team
receives the difference of 20% of the grant for the project, using the invoice
given to us by the Italian team during this meeting.
We discussed about the evaluation of the activities and collaboration
within the partnership and the possibility to further our experiences in new
projects. Here is what each team has said:
The Bulgarian team: “The partnership in the Ethno treasure hunt project has been very
successful. It has been all the time characterized by mutual help and
understanding. The organization of all the project meetings so far has been
fluent and all the obstacles have been eliminated through excellent team work
and synchronized reaction of all partners towards one goal. Personal friendship
among all partners is the key to achieving a unique working atmosphere of
support and positivity. A great contribution to all this has the main coordinator
of the project, Daniela Buda. With her excellent team work organizational
skills, fair judgement and friendly personality, she has managed to make all
partners work as an intricate clock mechanism – synchronized and with ease,
precise and punctual”
The Italian team: “This Comenius project “Ethno treasure hunt” has been very positive
for our students, families and teachers. During these two years of work the
cooperation among all these people has been successful; students have been
involved in every proposal and they have been very active in producing fine
works – we’ve achieved the main aims planned at the beginning, comparing
different cultures and traditions belonging to our common European roots.
Actually, the project has been characterized by a mutual friendship among
partners, which was established since the first meeting, and this contributed
to the full achievement of the project, experiencing and sharing every single
activity. The teamwork has been well organized by the Romanian coordinator of the
project, Mrs. Daniela Buda, who helped and guided all of us in every step of
the project.”
The Lithuanian team: “This project was a challenge for us. We weren’t experienced in the
field of Comenius projects. However, we have to thank the fate for sending us
Daniela, our project coordinator. She is a very experienced and tolerant
coordinator. Furthermore, we are happy about our project partners. They are
devoted and hard-working people. We are a perfect team. Our project meetings
were full of useful activities and productive ideas. I suppose that it would be
great to continue our partnership within other projects.”
The Turkish team: “Before this project, I and my school had not been involved in
multilateral projects. So we didn’t know many things about the working styles
of the European schools and teachers. We, the Turkish partners, have observed and
learned many things form this project:
·
How partner schools teach foreign languages and
art
·
How they involve their staff into school
activities and international project work
·
The traditional lifestyles of other cultures, the
attractions and beauties of these countries
I think that Turkish people need to learn about
your institutional structures and lifestyles a lot, so that they can improve
their sympathy, understanding and tolerance to western world.
During the project we produced many excellent
end-products, which are unique, even more than we had planned in the
application form. We gave some spontaneous productions, such as the Ethno
treasure hunt story, which shows that our project group is an enthusiastic
hardworking and creative one.
All partners hosted us well; they did their best
to make us feel at home. They showed us the best shows of their schools and the
dignity of their culture.
When we took part in the dissemination activity
in Denizli, which was a “Project fair/ exhibition”, our Ethno treasure hunt
stand received a great attention and admiration from the citizens of Denizli.
This shows we have reached all of our aims and showed and disseminated what we
have been hunting for during our work in schools and during our project
meetings. They especially liked the Coloring book and the Ethno calendar.
So, at the end of the project, I can say that we
are more experienced now. The atmosphere in my school has already changed. We
added a European point of view to the administrative staff, to the teachers and
students. What we teach in school will be related with traditions, skills,
communication and intercultural competence. I hope we will go on cooperating
and exchanging best practices and ideas. Thanks for giving me this opportunity,
Daniela!”
The Polish team: “The Polish team has
been working hard for the two years of the “Ethno Treasure Hunt” project. We
have produced many end products, created a lot of interesting educational
activities at school and outside the school. Together with our Comenius
partners we made our teachers, students and parents involved with them actively
and with passion. We’ve learned how to cooperate and communicate at different
levels. We’ve “discovered traditions teaching positive reactions”, such as
tolerance, love, appreciation of the nation’s customs and traditions and
opening our hearts for new things, people, ideas and phenomena abroad. We have
learned new ICT techniques, management and creative skills. We have
disseminated and evaluated the products of our efforts. We have broadened our
minds and once again proved that if there is a will, there is a way. We are
already thinking of continuing our project and transforming it into a new one.
The ethno project will always stay in our hearts and minds. “We have searched,
we have found, we have won!”
The Romanian team: “I believe this has
been an extraordinary experience for all people involved. We have researched
for the treasures of our countries and found many of them: traditional clothes,
foods, customs, stories and legends, the way we have to behave when visiting
homes abroad. We have learned about the history, geography, literature of the
partner countries. We discovered the arts and crafts characteristic to the
regions we visited. We found a lot of human treasures, too, such as: tolerance,
accepting other people’s ideas, helping each other, but the best treasure we
have found is, in my opinion, FRIENDSHIP.
We have discovered that there are more
similarities than differences between our cultures.
By the end of the project we have achieved more
end-products than we had planned in the application form and they are all of
excellent quality and reflect the creativity and hard team work of the people
involved.
I believe this project has had a great impact on
all people involved. The students involved in the many activities of the
project have improved their creativity and self-esteem and their appreciation
of their own cultures. The student’s parents have got involved in different
activities within the project and this helped them broaden their minds and
opinions and better support their children and the institutions where their
children study. The teachers have exchanged best practices in teaching and
learned from each other. The institutions involved benefitted from their
headmaster’s exchanges of best practices in school management and improvement
in their image in the local community.
So, I believe our project has reached all its
objectives.”
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