C.        PROJECT ACTIVITIES

 

Please note that section C of the application form must be completed jointly by all institutions participating in this project. Please answer on a separate sheet and follow the order of the questions hereafter. The complete description should not exceed 2 pages of text.

1.       Which project activities have taken place so far in the school year 2004/05?

Approximate dates

Activity

Location

 (in the case of mobility : from / to)

08/2004

 

 

09/2004

“Joining Hands” for 5th graders (ongoing activity)

“Getting to know each other” –outing for freshmen (3 days)

Alternative studying holiday in Ireland based on exploring the countryside and the old celtic traditions besides focussing on the acquisition of the English language

Welcome week for Freshmen

KMK-Schwandorf

KMK-Schwandorf

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 

 

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

10/2004

Questionnaire regarding parents’ needs and contribution to project (further parents-centered activities may derive from the result of the questionnaire)

Workshop for 1 administrator, 1 teacher, 2 parents “Enhanced communication skills lead to better understanding”
Visit of African priests for adoption projects from students of Giotto Ulivi

Up-dating website

Teachers’ day activities

Started landscaping

Started creating web-site

School contest “What do you know about your school?”

KMK-Schwandorf

 

KMK-Schwandorf

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

Marijampole

Marijampole

Marijampole

Marijampole

11/2004

Workshop for parents and teachers regarding “Let’s join ideas and capabilities to improve our school!”
Let’s build stronger European links: visit to a high school in Romania for a common Leonardo project

Started “Joining hands”

Meeting with the poetess

KMK-Schwandorf

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 

Marijampole

Marijampole

12/2004

Christmas workshop with freshmen (leisure time tutors and parents) AND Christmas celebration (students for students, teachers, the public)
8 Australian girls on a 6-week visit to the school as an on going activity of exchange based on enhancing teaching and learning both of English in Italy and Italian in Australia

Advent and Christmas activities, New Year’s carnival, trip to Vilnius

KMK-Schwandorf


Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 

 

Marijampole

01/2005

Let’s build stronger European links: visit to a high school in England for a common Leonardo project
“Spend a night reading at school” with 6th graders (students, teachers, tutors)

Baking class (class offered by parent for parents, students and staff) Winter outing (8th graders and some teachers)
Open day: school stays open on Saturdays and Sundays to chaperone prospective students and their families into the premises and facilities
Annual visit to the concentration camps in Austria and Poland during the Remembrance days of late January as an ongoing project with other schools of Florence to keep alive a living memory of the errors of the past to build a better Europe for the future.

Started decorating school interior

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

KMK-Schwandorf

 

KMK-Schwandorf KMK-Schwandorf
Liceo Giotto Ulivi

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 

 

 

Marijampole

 

2.       Which activities are envisaged for the remaining part of the school year 2004/05?

Approximate dates

Activity

Place (mobility: going from … to)

02/2005

KMK-teachers visit Liceo scientifico Giotto Ulivi

Casual meeting parents-teachers in the evening

Basic digital picture editing for parents and students (class offered by principal of school in the evening)
Visit of a group of 27 students of the Czech Republic on a Comenius Language project working on past and present in both countries with a view to trace common grounds in traditions and values for shared responsibilities in a wider EU

Working on behalf of the local community: coordinating project for the empowerment of young immigrants of the area

Winter sports activities

Parents’ conference

“Job fair”

Creating the web-page (on-going activity)       

KMK-Schwandorf

KMK-Schwandorf

KMK-Schwandorf

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 



Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 

Marijampole

Marijampole

Marijampole

Marijampole

03/2005

Presentation of school’s drama club and music groups for school and local community (this may have to be cancelled due to the increased work-load)

KMK-teachers visit Marijampoles 5-0ji vidurine mokykla

Excursion week (students go on schooltrips within Italy and abroad)

More school interior activities (on-going activity)

Finishing “Joining hands”

KMK-Schwandorf

 

KMK-Schwandorf

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

Marijampole

Marijampole

04/2005

Parents, students and teachers construct wooden bank around prominent tree in schoolyard
Presentation of the last theatrical production to the school and the wider community of the school’s drama group. Drama group shows the play at the school theatre festival in Alicante (Spain)

More landscaping

KMK-Schwandorf

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 

 

Marijampole

05/2005

Second meeting with the poetess

School day

Marijampole

Marijampole

06/2005

Casual meeting parents-teachers in the evening
Farming fair in Borgo San Lorenzo. The Liceo Giotto Ulivi runs a stall with the productions of the horticulture section of the school and some class projects

KMK-Schwandorf

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

07/2005

Day of “open house” (postponed from May)

Photo-gallery of 2004/05 graduates

Transnational meeting (2nd half of July)

KMK-Schwandorf

KMK-Schwandorf

KMK-Schwandorf (all participating schools meet in Schwandorf, Germany)

 

3.       Which project activities do you intend to carry out in the course of the school year 2005/06 and what are the expected results thereof?

Konrad-Max-Kunz Realschule, Schwandorf, Germany

The project activities in 2005/06 will focus on slowly and carefully enhance the students’ and parents’ feeling of being bonded to our school. The idea of involving the alumni was too much for KMK in Schwandorf. In order not to overwhelm everybody we are trying to really play everything low-key in 2005/06 (“Quality before Quantity”). In 2005/06 we’ll implement Marijampole’s idea of having a poet/poetess come to our school and also of having members of the school community present their writings. We’re still thinking of implementing yet another project activity from one of the present partner schools, but have not decided yet. Members of the Comenius team at school are planning on participating in the final meeting of all the project partners at Liceo Giotto Ulivi in Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy. KMK would like to evaluate the progress that was made due to the Comenius project with a questionnaire. Apart from trying to get the result published in the local media and putting together a joint activity report on CD there are no other plans to disseminate the experience and end-products.

 

Liceo Giotto Ulivi, Borgo San Lorenzo, Italia
 Our project activities for 2005-2006 , as can be seen from the table below,  have acquired a definite international slant as the main aim of the project team is that of providing the school community with opportunities to broaden their views by meeting new colleagues and new fellow students and by getting acquainted with different school systems and areas related to different schools. This international effort should also benefit the local community by strengthening the bond and network of shared goals and tasks. This should also result in a cross-institutional international taskforce at the level of the Mugello Valley community (members of associations in the catering and tourist sector, local policy makers, teachers and students)  cooperating for the launching of a marketing and structural strategy aimed at enhancing quality tourism and agro-tourism in particular.

Marijampolė Jono Totoraičio Secondary School, Lithuania

The project team will continue landscaping and interior decoration at school and will update and further develop the school web page. Such activities as Teachers’ Day and Advent and Christmas activities were a success in the school year 2004/2005, so we will continue with them. We will also do the “Joining hands” with other classes involved. We will try to transform the German school’s experience while working with parents and will try to create the Teachers’ club, but in electronic version, and we will also use their idea of giving workshops at school for anybody from the school community interested in handicrafts while getting ready for the international symposium in Italy. Besides, we will try to involve the students’ grandparents by organising special days with/for grandparents. There will be drama events for the Fairy tales day and the big School Day.

Our school will organise the Italian language courses for the teachers in order to implement life-long learning and prepare for the international meeting in Borgo San Lorenzo.

There will be all the documentation in paper and digital form collected as well as the school web page with some of it prepared. We will continue updating the project stand at school. We are planning to spread the project experience through the local media. A questionnaire will be prepared and survey performed within the school for evaluation and impact of the project. As we will be preparing a collection of our local handicrafts by the members of the school community to be taken to the symposium, we will first organise a display at school, and it will be open for the school community and local community as well.

 

Scoala „Ion Simionescu“ , Iasi, Romania

By participating in this Comenius project the team of Scoala “Ion Simionescu” in Iasi, Romania, pursues the goal of providing life skills for their students. In order to broaden the students’ and staff’s horizon towards a greater Europe they would like to identify similarities and differences between the practical activities of the participating schools. Thus the school expects to improve the school community and the staff’s teaching experience. Scoala “Ion Simionescu” would like to have a documentation of all the projects put together in a catalogue. This catalogue could be used as reference by schools in our respective countries or even all over Europe. The activity report could be a practical guidebook for schools that are interested in the one or the other activity tried out at schools participating in this project.

 

 

 

 

 

4.       Project calendar.

Please summarise in the table below the project activities planned for the school year 2005/06 (which you have described in more detail in answer to question 3 above). The list should cover both the project activities which will take place locally within the various participating institutions and the transnational mobility of staff and pupils to be carried out between the participating institutions.

Approximate dates

Activity

Location

 (in the case of mobility : from / to)

09/ 2005

 
  • Saturday: Let’s get to know each other – workshop for parents of the new students
  • Landscaping
  • Let’s build stronger Eu links: European meeting among schools in Cologne DE to prepare activities using videoconference
  • “OPEN DAY” Presentation of local community school and scholar activities.

KMK-Schwandorf

 

Marijampole
 Liceo Giotto ULivi

 

Ion Simionescu School

10/ 2005

 
  • Teachers’ day activities
  • Creating “Joining hands” (on-going activity)
  • Interior decoration activities (on-going activity)
  • Getting to know you videoconference activities with Hato Paora college in New Zealand
  • Visit to our partner in Romania
  • “WHAT’S THE SPIRIT OF OUR SCHOOL?”  Workshop

Marijampole

Marijampole

Marijampole
Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

Ion Simionescu School

11/ 2005

 
  • Working on behalf of the local community: evaluating results of a regional project for the empowerment of young immigrants of the area started the year before
  • Poetry reading (poets, students, parents and/or teachers) for students, parents, teachers, public
  • Updating and developing school web-page
  • Getting ready for the symposium in Italy (on-going activity)

Liceo Giotto ULivi

 


KMK-Schwandorf

Marijampole
 Marijampole

12/ 2005

 
  • Australian girls on a 6-week visit to the school as an on going activity of exchange based on enhancing teaching and learning both of English in Italy and Italian in Australia
  • “THE CHRISMAS CLUB”  Party with the students and their families
  • Christmas bazaar
  • Creating electronic Parents’ Club
  • Advent and Christmas activities

Liceo Giotto ULivi

 

Ion Simionescu School

 

KMK-Schwandorf

Marijampole

Marijampole

01/ 2006

 
  • Open days school stays open on Saturdays and Sundays to chaperone prospective students and their families into the premises and facilities
  • “SCHOOL DAY” Reunion of former teachers and those who are still active in our school
  • Annual visit to the concentration camps in Austria and Poland during the Remembrance days of late January as an ongoing project with other schools of Florence to keep alive a living memory of the errors of the past to build a better Europe for the future.

Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 Ion Simionescu School

 Liceo Giotto ULivi

02/2006

 

 
  • The Italian language courses
  • “TEACHING IN GERMANY, LITHUANIA, ITALY, ROMANIA’” Types of classes from each country
  • Visit to our partner school in Lithuania

Marijampole
 Ion Simionescu School


 Liceo Giotto Ulivi

03/2006

 
  • Grandparents’ Day
  • School trips week . Several classes of the school start on educational trips chosen and prepared by the students and connected to the syllabus
  • “SPRING DAY”  Exposing images of School Spirit activities from last year

Marijampole
Liceo Giotto Ulivi

 

Ion Simionescu School

04/2006

 
  • Grandmothers’ Easter Eggs Day
  • Fairy Tales Day
  • Landscaping
  • KMK principal visits partner school in Lithuania
  • Presentation of the last theatrical production to the school and the wider community of the school’s drama group. Drama group shows the play at the school theatre festival in Calstelnaudary (FRA)

Marijampole

Marijampole

Marijampole

KMK-Schwandorf
 Liceo Giotto ULivi

 

05/2006

 
  • Landscaping
  • School Day
  • “9 MAY EUROPE DAY” Talking whit students about History of teaching in Europe.

Marijampole

Marijampole
 Ion Simionescu School

06/ 2006

 
  • Final Transnational meeting in Borgo San Lorenzo

     

 

  • Farming fair in Borgo San Lorenzo. The Liceo Giotto Ulivi runs a stall with the productions of the horticulture section of the school and some class projects

Representatives from each country meet in Borgo San Lorenzo ITA
Liceo Giotto ULivi

07/ 2006

 
  • “SUN TRIP”  Let’s recognize our talents!

From Ion Simionescu School  to the Carpatians mountains RO