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Turkish visit - March 2015 + minutes


ISTANBUL MEETING
18th March – Wednesday
Arrival
20:00 Dinner Çiya Restaurant http://www.ciya.com.tr/
19th March - Thursday
09:00 Meet at hotel
09:30 Meeting Mediha ve Turhan Tansel Ö.E.U.M
School Presentation
10:25 School tour
11:20 Project meeting
12:30 Lunch (provided by school)
13:10 Participating acitivities in Our Lessons
14:00 Participating acitivities in Our Lessons
15:00 İstanbul  Toy Musuem
16:00 Free Time
18:30 Meet at hotel
19:00 Dinner at Kolcuoğlu Kebap (meter kebap) (to be paid by ourselves) http://www.muazzezersoysenolkolcuoglu.com
20th March - Friday
09:00 Meet at hotel
09:30 Visit Education Manager of Kadıköy City
10:30-11:30 Visit  to Şöhret Kurşunoğlu  İş okulu  (Vocational Collage for Special Needs Children
12:30 Lunch at Mediha ve Turhan Tansel Ö.E.U.M (provided by school)
13:10 Visit to Hamit İbrahimiye Autistic  School
15:00 Çamlıca Hill Panoramic of İstanbul
16:00 Free Time
18:30 Meet at hotel
19:00 Dinner provided by school
21st March - Saturday
09:00 Meet at hotel
All day:              Visit Old İstanbul
Topkapı Palace
Sultanahmet Mosque  (Blue mosque)
Yerebatan  Sarnıcı (Basilica)
Aya Sofya
Lunch:  Free choice
19:00 Dinner at Neyzade Restaurant (to be paid for ourselves)    http://www.neyzaderestaurant.com/tr/
22nd March - Sunday
Departure


Agenda for 5th meeting, 18th – 22nd March 2015

Meeting held in Turkish School – Mediha ve Turhan Tansel Ö.E.U.M

Staff in attendance:
Norway –
Wales –
Denmark-
France-
Poland-
Germany-
Turkey –

Minutes will be taken at each meeting and distributed to all partners within 1 week of return.

1.   All partners would like to thank Zafar and staff from the Turkish school for their early internal travel details and for the planned programme / hospitality during the stay.

2.   Review the how the plans for Year 2 have progressed so far. Discuss work undertaken in schools so far since November.

3.   Update on Skype / blog / websites etc.

4.   Distribution and discussion around recipe book.
·         An enterprise project will take place in each school. Pupils will learn the skills of marketing, publishing and selling the joint recipe book with a view to understanding the need to cover outgoings.
·         Pupils will plan to produce sufficient copies to match orders received. Members of local businesses will be encouraged to support the pupils in achieving their aims. We want to equip the pupils in their understanding of the world of business.
·         The pupils involved in the enterprise project will decide where any profits will be sent. Results to be detailed on the blog.

5.   Discuss any issues surrounding visit arrangements for final meeting in Denmark.

6. Next activities to be completed:
·         Sporting event to be photographed and displayed on shared blog
·         Each partner will electronically send a national emblem in photographic form to the Polish school. These will be made into a unified photo to be sent to each school by the end of May. This photograph will be made into a jigsaw by each school for use by the pupils to link our title with cultural diversity.
·         End of project questionnaires will be given to all pupils and staff. These will be compared to the original questionnaires in order to analyse the impact and benefit of the project in each school.
·         Set new date / discuss ideas for celebrating European Day 2015

7. Exchange the CDs / DVDs produced (and any gifts brought).

8. All partners will be issued with a certificate of attendance by the Turkish school.

9. AOB - any other business that partners would like to discuss.


Minutes from Comenius project meeting
Mediha ve Turhan Tansel Ö.E.U.M
Thursday 19th March 2015

Present
Wales, Germany, Denmark, France, Turkey, Poland, Norway

·         Siân introduced the meeting – purpose being to recap what has been done and what still needs to be completed.
·         Siân extended thanks to Zafer and and all his colleagues for their fabulous hospitality during our stay and visit to the school. All parties agreed we have had a fabulous start to our visit, the concert and welcome were great and the school should be very proud.
·         With regards to the Comenius project, everything is going well this term and looking forward to next term.
·         Siân asked if there were any problems since our last meeting.
o   Still issues with being unable to Skype - continued issues with France and some technical issues with other countries. If possible, please try and do one more Skype before the end of the project. Siân will re-send Skype rota.
o   Bente has had issues logging onto the blog and adding posts. Please can Thomas H look at this and contact Bente if there is a problem?
·         Well done to everyone for continuing to use the blog to update photographs and activities, it’s lovely to see what is going on in each school.
·         RE: recipe book. Huge thanks to Bente and her staff for producing the fabulous recipe book. The idea of the book is to sell to staff and parents where possible so pupils can experience an enterprise project / running a business. Siân acknowledged that some school will have difficulty with this so please do what you can with it.
·         The idea is not to make money / profits from the sale of the book but if you do, each school can decide what to do with the money.
·         John asked about translating the book. Please feel free to do this if you wish.
·         Siân sent a foreword for the book to Bente but this did not arrive. Siân will send to all school for inclusion in the recipe book before printing. It outlines the purpose of the book.
·         Work to complete between now and end of project:
o   Sporting activity to be placed on blog
o   Update on recipe book
o   Re-distribute questionnaires completed by staff and pupils at the beginning of the project. Siân will re-send these to all.
o   All to collect information prior to Denmark visit in order to contribute to final report.
o   Each country to send photograph to Poland to make into a collage. Idea being that each country makes a jigsaw of the collage to reinforce the title of our project. New date to be set for this due to France finishing school at the end of May.
o   Siân will send activity programme to each school with deadline dates and outline of what needs to be completed.
·         European Day: Due to the fact we will be in Denmark, we discussed moving European Day celebrations.
o   Norway and Denmark celebrations will go ahead despite the visit.
o   Some schools will celebrate during the week after.
o   Group decided that all schools will celebrate on a date convenient to their school. Please post details and photographs on the blog.
o   Please let Siân know when you will be celebrating.
·         All countries exchanged CDs made. All exchanged gifts we had brought for our Turkish hosts.
·         Denmark dates confirmed as 6th – 10th May 2015.
o   John said that hotel details are provisionally booked so please inform as soon as possible how many people will be attending.
o   Thomas will keep all informed via email.
·         Siân distributed the certificates of attendance to all.

Teşekkür, until next time!

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