Presentación de proyecto y visitas a rumanía, turquía, alemania y letonia

1. WHAT ARE COMENIUS PROJECTS?
The name “Comenius” has been taken
from the Czech teacher John Amos
Comenius (1592 – 1670),
considered the father of modern
education. He introduced such
revolutionary concepts at the time
as:
- Equal opportunity for poor children
- Opened doors to education for
women
- A departure from dull memorization
towards a more practical instruction.

2. Objectives of Comenius Projects
Comenius projects form part of the “Lifelong
Learning Programme” of the European
Commission. Their objectives are:
1- Reinforcing the European
dimension in the field of
education
2- Promoting mobility and
cooperation among schools
in Europe.

3. Objectives of Comenius Projects (ii)
3- Offering students and
teachers opportunities to
learn and work together
on topics relevant for
school education.
4- Supporting
transnational mobility,
partnership and projects,
as well as educational
networks and school
twinning.

4. Our Comenius Project: Culture and
Environment
Our school's project is
centered around the topic
of Environment and
Culture.
We are learning about the
problems and dangers
that threaten our heritage,
both the natural and the
historical one.

5. What we do.
- We have partner schools in six European
countries:
France,
Germany,
Latvia,
Romania,
Greece
Turkey.

6. What we do (ii)
- With these schools, and their teachers and students,
we perform activities related to the protection of
environmental and cultural heritage.

7. What we do (iii)
Some students
are having the
opportunity to
travel to those
countries, to
meet students
and teachers
and to do
activities
together.

8. What we do (iv)
- We have an
etwinning project,
a website where
we upload all the
activities we do
and where we can
meet students
from our partner
schools.

9. First Trip:
ROMANIA

10. First Trip: Romania
The first trip has been to Romania, in
November 2013.

11. Our trip day to day
On the first day, we visited Budapest.

12. We visited the city
for a few hours

13. Then we met our partners and we
got on the bus to travel to our
destination in Romania: Cîmpani

14. When we
arrived, the
Romanian
families had
prepared a
welcome
dinner.

15. On the second day, we went to school,
where the members presented their
countries

16. Then the Romanian students danced
and they did a theater play.

17. After that we chose the best logo and
poster for our project.

18. In the afternon we chose the best poster and
logo, and then each student went home with
his or her Romanian host
In this picture
Daniel is with his
Romanian host in
Timisoara.

19. On the third day, we spent all day visiting Timisoara, a beautiful
and historical city. We ate at a restaurant and we returned to
Cîmpani.

20. First we
visited the
Etnographic
museum

21. Then we went
for a tour of
the city

22. In this photo we are all students and all
teachers who went to Romania

23. On the fourth day,
we visited
the Bears' caves

24. And in the evening we enjoyed a
farewell dinner

25. Finally, on the fifth day, at 2 am we took the bus to Budapest.
In Budapest we got on a boat on the river Danube.

26. We enjoyed the trip to Romania because
we've met people from other countries.

28. SECOND TRIP
TURKEY

29. First day.
On the first day, we all met at school and went to Málaga by car
to catch the plane to go to Turkey, but before we got to Turkey
stopped in Rome.
We arrived in Turkey at midnight, but we didn't get to our hotel
until 01:30.

30. Second day
We got up early and before heading back to the airport to go to
Karamürsel with our Comenius partners we went to see the
square where the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia were.

31. At 12 am we were at the airport to go together on the bus and
when we arrived the people had made u s a welcome dinner.
After dinner we went home with our host families.

32. Third day.
The third day we were in school doing presentations and we ate at a
restaurant and when we ended the presentations we had a
European class where presentations of the traditional dances and
songs were made. After that we went with our hosts to their homes.

33. Fourth day
We got up early and took the bus to go to Istanbul. There we saw
the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Toscapi Palace and we ate at a
restaurant near the main square where the Blue Mosque and
Hagia Sofia are. We finished visiting everything about 18:30 and
took the bus back to Karamürsel.

34. Fifth day
We visited Yalova, near Karamürsel. Here, We
visited some monuments, The Moving House and a
big park.
In the afternoon, we visited Karamürsel´s centre.

35. This night ,we had a party with all countries and turkish people in the teacher´s hotel.

36. On Friday, we went to airport and the other countries took
their planes. The Spanish team went to Istambul alone.
We visited ‘The Cistern’, The Great Bazaar, The Bazaar of
Spices, The Galata Tower and other mosques.

37. THIRD
TRIP
GERMANY

38. FIRST DAY
We went by car to Málaga. When we arrived in Málaga we
waited for the plane for 3 hours. We took it at 7:00 AM and
we arrived in Hamburg at 10:30 AM and we took 6 trains
to go to the town of Jever. We met the French team in
Bremen, and when we arrived to our last train stop we met
the Greeks. Then we had a barbeque.

39. SECOND DAY
We woke up at 6 AM and we went to the school and we
showed our works. Later we went to the beer factory in
Jever. (The nearest city)

40. THIRD DAY
We went to the beach and we walked 8.8 km to Baltrum
Island, then we spent the afternoon there, we went to a
restaurant, and then to the beach. We went back to the
village by ferry.

41. FOURTH DAY
We went to Bremen, we visited it, we went to the
restaurant and we returned to the village we had 2 hours
free with the families and finally we went to the farewell
party.

42. FIFTH DAY
We said bye-bye to our host families. We went to
Hamburg Hotel by train, but we had a very big problem
with the reservation in the “hotel”, then we went to a new
and much better hotel and spent the night there. We
visited the port of Hamburg and a festival there.

43. FOURTH
TRIP:
LATVIA

44. FIRST DAY
• We took a flight to
Frankfurt and then
another flight to Riga.
• We spent the rest of
the day in Riga

45. SECOND DAY
• We arrived to Lîgatne,
a little village in
Latvia where our hosts
live.
• We spent the rest of
the day with our hosts.

46. THIRD DAY
• We met our comenius partners
and we showed them our
presentation.
• We went to their national park
«Gauja»

47. THIRD DAY
• In the afternoon we
went to a concert
where we recited some
poems and we saw
their typical dances.

48. FOURTH DAY
• In the morning, we
visited old Riga and a
tour guide explained
to us some legends
and stories about the
city.

49. FOURTH DAY
• In the afternoon, we
went to see the Baltic
Sea. We have never
been futher north than
that day.

50. FIFTH DAY
• It was the last day in
Ligatne. In the
morning we went to a
city nearby, Cesis,
where there was a very
popular medieval
castle.

51. FIFTH DAY

52. FIFTH DAY
• We also went to a typical
latvian house to made like
little cakes. After that we
had some free time.

53. FIFTH DAY
• In the evening, we had
a “goodbye party“
with all our comenius
partners. We had great
food for dinner and we
danced for a while.