Comenius meeting in Poland,
26th – 30th of March 2014.
1.
26th of March – all partners arriving to
Katowice, dinner at the hotel (the exact time of the dinner will be established
when we know your arrivals details, we will help you in the transport form the
airport to the hotel if we know your flights details.)
2.
27th of March – visiting our school,
watching some lessons provided for pupils with special educational needs, time
for discussing our Comenius programme.
Lunch and dinner
provided by school.
The time depends
on you – maybe you want to start in the morning and have free afternoon for
shopping, or you prefer to sleep longer, start at school about 12 30? - I am waiting for your opinions.
3.
28th of March – visiting salt mine in
Wieliczka and Krakow – all day long trip with lunch.
4.
29th of March – visiting mountainous region
of Poland with its culture and traditions – all day long trip with lunch.
Agenda for
2nd meeting, 26th-29th March 2014
Meeting held in Polish
School –
Zespół
Szkół Nr 2 Specjalnych w Rudzie Śląskiej- Gimnazjum Nr 16
Staff
in attendance:
Norway –
U.K. –
Denmark-
France-
Poland-
Germany-
Turkey –
Minutes
will be taken by the staff from the Turkish school at each meeting and
distributed to all partners within 1 week of return.
All partners would like to thank the Head and staff from the Polish
school for their early internal travel details and for the planned programme.
Review the how the plans for Year 1 have progressed so far. Discuss
work undertaken in schools so far.
Update on blog – reminder to post pictures and information
Reminder of updating school website and newsletters information to
parents / governors.
Skype / video conferencing – update on progress / sessions
completed.
6. Discuss work
to be undertaken before the next meeting in France.
·
European Day – 9th
May
·
Suggested programme of
activities
·
Agreed sharing of photos and
videos
·
Next project to be completed:
A2 poster of historical places. Ensure all partners understand the task
·
Anne to share any information
needed regarding our visit to Vannes
7. Exchange the tourist leaflets produced
(and any gifts brought).
8. All partners
will be issued with a certificate of attendance.
9. AOB - any
other business that partners would like to discuss.
Minutes from Comenius project meeting
Zespół Szkół Nr 2
Specjalnych w Rudzie Śląskiej- Gimnazjum Nr 16, Poland
Thursday 27th March 2014
Present
All
partner schools
·
Sian
introduced the meeting – purpose being to recap what has been done and what
still needs to be completed.
·
Sian
extended thanks to Joanna and her staff team for their hospitality during our
stay and visit to the school.
·
We
looked over the plan for Year 1 so far. All schools agreed that the tasks
undertaken have been ok and no excess work involved.
o
Wales
– Sian outlined that all pupils have been engaged in activities and have
benefited from the extra knowledge and experiences that the Comenius project
has brought.
o
Poland
– Joanna feels that the video conferencing has been really beneficial and of
most use to her pupils, with regards to learning English.
o
Norway
– Bente agreed that the Skyping has been of most use to her pupils, in
encouraging them to speak and hear English.
o
We
all agreed the materials we have produced and received have been great and
lovely for all pupils to see.
·
Sian
asked if all partner school could remember to regularly update info and photos
onto the shred blog. This does not have to be every week but please schedule in
a regular slot to do this. All National Agencies will be checking the blog for
input so it is in everyone’s best interest to do this. Any problems with blog
have been worked out. Sian thanked Thomas once again for his support in this.
·
The
discussion moved on to the sharing of work between schools. As there may be
issue with uploading documents and files onto the blogs, please feel free to
email out anything you feel would be of interest or use to the group. This
could be, for example, the mascot books, or photos that have been taken etc.
Please ensure these are in Word docs or PDF format for ease of access.
·
Parent
involvement – Please ensure this is happening. For example, sending home letters
to parents and have posting information on a Comenius page on the school
website. It appears that no other country than Wales have produced a parent
newsletter – please ensure you involve parents in some way, as National
Agencies may check this too.
·
Skype
sessions – as discussed, have been really successful. Some countries still to
fulfil this terms conference. All schools agreed there have been some
connection issues but in general, all have been successful in the end!
·
Sian
will message out information regarding video conferencing through the
e-twinning website as France are unable to download Skype.
·
Work to be completed:
o
All
schools to celebrate European Day on Friday 9th May. Wales have
started to plan the day at Ysgol Maes Dyfan. Once plans have been finalised,
Sian will email plans to all schools in case any ideas want to be used by other
partners. Please ensure any photograph
or videos produced during the celebration are shared (on the blog or via email)
and information is shared with parents and on your school website.
o
Task
for exchange – each school to make a poster,
size A2 on 4 historical locations in
your region / country. Posters should contain photographs / drawings, writing,
seasonal weather information and any information on tourism. Any questions, please email Sian – she will
send out detailed plans for the task when they are done.
o
Please
bring 6 posters for exchange in
France (don’t forget to keep one for youself!).
o
All
partners agreed the posters should be in dual languages.
o
Sian
suggested the best way to make these is by creating a design in A3 size and
getting them made into posters at a printing / reprographics company / shop.
·
Information
regarding France visit:
o
Anne
suggested that getting to Nantes can be expensive so it may be better to fly to
Paris and travel internally to Vannes.
o
If
anyone needs any help, please contact Anne direct.
§
0033
06-12-96-61-64 (Anne)
§
0033-02-97-43-76-00
(school)
§
sncf.fr
(for train travel)
§
Please
check out buses from airports for cheapest way.
o
Anne
is in the process of forming the plan for our visit and will forward details of
accommodation soon.
o
A
reminder we should arrive Wednesday 21st May and leave on Sunday 25th
May.
o
In
France, we will need to compile our interim report for our National Agencies.
Please think about the content of this before you come (you should receive
information on this from your agency soon). We will then discuss and Sian will
finalise the report for everyone to send.
·
All
partner schools exchanged tourist leaflets and gifts.
·
Certificates
of attendance were given out, along with invoices fro monies paid.
·
AOB
– Please ensure all classrooms involved in Comenius have their Comenius corners
/ display boards’ set up and a central display board for all visitors to see.
These need to be regularly updated.
·
AOB
– Anne asked about the next task – gardening. There may be an issue with this
due to European schools finishing earlier than some and there not being
personnel around to water plants.
·
AOB
- Sian confirmed that after Easter, schools should be holding a ‘flower’
growing competition within their classes / Comenius group. In Wales, we will be
growing sunflowers! All results should be posted on the blog and include photos
/ graphs / charts etc (whatever is appropriate to your pupils). Sian will send out activity reminders.
·
AOB
– Sian will re-look at the Summer growing activity and we can discuss this
further in France.
Thanks
all, we look forward to meeting up again in France soon!
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