Comenius Day

On 27 April (during on Open Day event at our school) we organised a Comenius Day. We wanted to make the project more familiar to our school and local community.

We prepared colourful posters so that the people visiting our school could find out something  about our partner countries, the project itself and about the Comenius programme. To make the stand more visible we also decorated it with loads of balloons with the EU flag. Our stand was visited by many people - students and teachers of our school, prospective students and their parents. They all had the chance to watch films from our Norwegian, Spanish and Dutch experiences :-) We also exhibited scrapbook pages and items representing project countries and we prepared some sort of buffet. We had some German sausages and “Haribo bears” , Dutch Gouda cheese and stoopwafels, Norwegian sweets and cinnamon cakes, Spanish olives and rice pudding – a Portuguese dessert. A real “European food festival”! At the end of the day we decided to let most of the EU balloons into the sky. Just a simple thing but it evoked a lot of smiles on our faces – we had great fun!                                                                                                                                                              

We also decided to organize 2 contests: one was a competition about the EU and the VAGAB project and the other was a spelling competition (in English, of course).

Some photos below :-) 

Theme 6 (Healthy Lifestyle) - summary

Theme Six – Healthy Living and Lifestyle

summary

As we know, people all over the world have got different eating or exercising habits. Not all of us live a healthy lifestyle, no matter what age we are. There’s even a proverb ‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are’. During preparing theme six we had a chance to check the veracity of the saying and compare our lifestyle with our parents’ or friends’ lifestyles.

What we had to do was carry out some sort of physical experiment… ;) Polish Comenius students (and a teacher!) met one sunny but terribly cold day on the school’s pitch and did the Cooper test. All of them wrote down their results and then they compared them with each other. The scores were also posted on the blogs to be commented by the  students from partner countries. It was the first part of the task. The second thing to do was to note everything they ate during three days. It was called ‘Three day diet history’. It was probably the most demanding task they’ve ever had. All the students and their families were recording the food which was eaten by them during a period of three days! Every breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, snack… even every single crisp! Nothing was hidden ;) What is more, everything was published on the Internet on their blogs! Students posted their eating habits notes and added a few pictures of (scrumptiously looking ;) )food.

When this part of the task was completed the students were made to fill in a survey. They had to answer a basic general knowledge test on healthy living. It wasn’t a piece of cake because they had to be honest. And some of the questions might have been quite awkward to sweet teeth or couch potatoes… ;)

At the end the Comenius people and their parents prepared their own ‘health reports’. That way they could compare their Cooper test results, their physical condition or their eating habits with their parents, friends and other members of the family. The comparison may have been surprising  for some  and pretty obvious for the rest of them. But one thing is common for everyone. We definitely had lots of fun and expanded our knowledge about ourselves. Even if it required more than just a little effort ;) 

This summary has been written by Ania Nieckarz :-) Thanks a lot, Ania!

Theme 6 by Group 1: fitness test 
Theme 6 by Group 1: diet diary 
Theme 6 by Group 1: healthy lifestyle survey 
Theme 6 by Group 3
Theme 6 by Group 4: fitness test
Theme 6 by Group 4: diet diary
Theme 6 by Group 4: healthy lifestyle survey
Theme 6 by Group 5