Posting our favourite songs as good-bye gifts for our project partners. Worksheets to be used in the future by teachers and their students during English classes

Our final task was to post our beloved songs as farewell presents for our project partners. Below there are some of them :)

 

 

 

And here it the link to the worksheets which can be used during English classes to develop students' speaking skills:

Worksheets

 

Project manifesto

Here is the text of the agreed project manifesto:

"We love our families, friends, homelands, their traditions and culture.
We believe in universal values such as love, peace, tolerance, solidarity and co-operation. We can't think only about ourselves, we want to be opened for others. We are convinced that all young people should take care of other humans and the environment.
We are committed to all the values we believe in and the goals we want to achieve in life.
Let's begin the new age of international collaboration and peaceful co-existance! Let's make the world a bit better!"

Project evaluation - results

Here are the results of the project evaluation

Online magazines - The Philippines, Greece and Italy

Here are the three magazines about the Philippines, Greece and Italy :)

 

"Our passions" magazine

Here is the online magazine putting together all the materials from

 "Our passions" task. 

Enjoy reading!

Let's play a Kahoot quiz about our project :)

We created a Kahoot quiz and played it with several groups.

Now the quiz is available and other teams and individual students

can play it as well. It's a great fun! :)

And the students from other countries also played the quiz :)

Project evaluation survey

Create your own user feedback survey

Our passions

Dozens of entries about the participants' passions have appeared on our FB site recently. It was so interesting to read about all your interests, hobbies and things that make your life more colourful :)

"What matters in your life?" popularised on the website of the Copernicus Upper-Secondary School in Tarnobrzeg, Poland

Today a short article covering the issues we've been working on

and a photo gallery has appeared on the website of the school.

The article about the project

The photo gallery

Manifesto of our project

We have just started working on the project manifesto.

The participants learnt what should be included in such a composition.

Interview with the finalist of the Global Teacher Prize - Jolanta Okuniewska

Jolanta grew up and trained to be a teacher in communist Poland. At that time there were few chances to collaborate with other teachers internationally, so when the Iron Curtain fell in 1990 she eagerly embraced the new opportunities available. She began to learn English to work with other schools in Europe and explore new teaching styles.
Her major innovation has been to implement tablets in her primary school classes to enhance learning through online puzzles, games and posters that she developed with a colleague, in addition to using free Polish and English e-learning resources. She used ICT to allow a chronically ill pupil to follow lessons and stay in touch with her class despite having to spend a lot of time in hospital. Jolanta makes extensive use of eTwinning projects so that her students develop a broad range of collaborative, linguistic, intercultural and technical competencies.
Last year her class occupied first place in the school ranking of educational achievements and won several prizes. Jolanta herself has received several awards, including the Commission of National Education Medal and the 2012 Award of the Minister of Education.
She shares lessons with other teachers throughout Europe, and trains Polish teachers at conferences, online and in publications on integrating ICT into lessons and setting up eTwinning projects.

1. What matters in your life? 

Most of all, agreement with myself and peaceful co-existence. I appreciate peace and taking actions which are in accord with my conscience and don’t harm others, and I am able to help them.
I like inspiring others, giving people clues and observing how they develop. I don’t like imposing or being in the centre of attention. The most important values for me are my family, love and friendship.

2. What mattered to you when you were a teenager?
When I was a teenager I loved learning. I was lucky to meet teachers who carried out interesting classes or were people with a great personality. And thanks to that even Physics, which wasn’t my favourite, became more interesting.
I used to read a lot. Brand new books from the district library were always my first choice. That was my privilege. 

3. What are your passions? 
Teaching is my passion. I feel best in the classroom. Little children give me a lot of energy and love and they are devoted friends. We treat each other with respect, trust each other and these are the basis I’ve been building my school relations on. Butterflies are also my passion. Observing and taking pictures of these colourful insects is an absorbing activity on holidays. I collect notebooks from all over the world. I have got over eighty now.

Some other ISSUU magazines

Some other ISSUU magazines devoted to the other participating countries have just appeared on our FB site. 

Here they are :)

Our passians matter for us

We've just kicked off our next project task. This time we talk about our passions and why they are so important for us. The first person who shared was Akansha from New Delhi :)

Helping others is the thing important for many of us

Between 16th and 21st May many students participated in a sports event in Tarnobrzeg,

our hometown. Everybody could take part in a run and each kilometre was exchanged

by the sponsors for a small amount of money (50 groszy) and donated to Patryk - a little boy

 who needs a hand prothesis to live normally.

ISSUU magazine - "What matters in your life?"

Krystian Furman gathered together all our responses from the "What matters in your life?" discussion. Here is the ISSUU magazine:

First interviews have just appeared on our FB project group

Creating project dictionary

Our next project task was to create a multilingual dictionary with all the things

 that matter for us. 

Below you can see the link to this dictionary.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p_dtPWOcxa4_fldR_t_acrmbAfEXviOGZu6MT8xB0cA/edit#gid=0

Peace and tolerance matter for us

On Friday, 6th May the students from Poland took part in the unveiling of a commemorative plaque devoted to Marian Ruzamski, a local painter who died in a death camp during the Second World War. The celebrations were the final part of a project with a school from Wurzburg, Germany on the relations between Poland and Germany in the 20th century entitled "Two neighbours - one perspective". 

We all believe that living in peace and having good relations with neighbouring countries is what matters to all of us.

Mother's Day

In some countries Mother's Day is celebrated on 8th May,

 in other ones on 26th May.

But we all agree that our mothers matter a lot for us :)

THE WEEK OF POLAND

Today, i.e. on 26th April we started the WEEK OF POLAND. 

The participants had a chance to exchange information about this European country.