COMENIUS WEEK

The week (from 2-9 May) celebrates and acknowledges the work of schools taking part in the Comenius Programme.It`s the time to show and promote our project.We invited our pupils and parents to visit our blog and prepared a new Comenius board to present our last meeting in Laporje.The teachers and pupils who were in Slovenia were talking about their experiences.Some classes were watching films which were made by our partners.

DO YOU KNOW?

Comenius Programme
• Comenius provides opportunities for schools and colleges to introduce or strengthen the European dimension in their curriculum.
• It aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the diversity and value of European cultures and languages, and help young people gain skills for personal development, future employment and active European citizenship.
• Comenius supports partnerships between schools, colleges and local authorities in 32 countries across Europe, professional development for educational staff and trainee teacher placements across Europe.
• Comenius is part of the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme, which supports education and training across Europe.
“International school partnerships help to build trust and understanding between different cultures, broaden pupils’ horizons, bring languages and other subjects to life in the classroom, and equip young people with the skills and understanding they need to become global citizens.”

We feel SLOVENIA

We had a Comenius meeting in Laporje from April 12th to 16th. The meeting was wonderful.
Jānis Gailītis, Jānis Zariņš, Antra Brammane and Dārta Brammane wants to say thanks to their host families. They felt like kings and princess in Laporje homes. They have got new friends in Laporje School. The school was small and very lovely.

Thanks Tina and Metka for organization, headmistress and all teachers for taking us in your school. Everything was excellent.

We saw wonderful mountains and we were under them (with a little train). We were in Laporje castle and in other interesting places.

Osnovna Šola Gustava Šiliha Laporje hosted a comenius meeting in Laporje. It was very nice to see some familiar faces and to meet some new ones.

On Tuesday we visited Ptujska gora and Ptuj with it's beautiful castle.

Ptuj is the oldest town in Slovenia located in lower Podravje region.

It is well known for it's traditional carnival (Pust) and unique carnival masks Kurenti.

On Wednesday we went on a trip to Koroška region. It lies on the border with Austria. You can find some unspoilt mountains, forests, rivers and picturesque villages there.

We have visited the underground of mount Peca.There is a zink and led mine which is no longer operating. We took a ride with a small mining train.

We walked through the obendoned mining shafts and experinced where the miners used to work. We even looked like them!

After a typical Slovenian lunch we visited a small village Šentanjel, where there are only 300 inhabitants and 30 turistic farms.

On our way back to school we stopped at the Ivercko lake where the pupils had some tome to relax and socialize.

The next day we wisited the deputy mayor of Slovenska Bistrica. He welcomed us and wished us good coopeartion in the future.
After that we took a tour of our school. Our pupils prepared a short cultural event to welcome our guests.

The coordinators have been busy the rest of the afternoon, others strolled around Slovenska Bistrica.

On the last day we visited a castle in Slovenska Bistrica.


There we were told to listen carefully to hear the White lady, a nice ghost who still haunts the chambers. Unfortunatelly she wasn't around, but in a workshop we have created a symbol in her tribute.

That day it was Cvetna nedelja (Palm Sunday) and there was a fair of typical slovenian products.

I hope you had nice with us. We have enyojed your company and it was a pleasure to have you here!

Meeting in Slovenia - dziękujemy!

Today we had a conference and teachers Ewa Ląg and Rafał Chromiak and pupils who visited Laporje told us all about the meeting in Slovenia.They showed us some pictures and shared their experiences and findings. We put some photos and leaflets about Slovenia on Comenius board. There are some photos from the meeting in photos section, too. Thank you very much to a headteacher Margareta Voglar, language teachers Tina and Metka and all other teachers, parents and pupils who made this meeting unforgetable.HVALA!

You can visit Latvian school website to see some pictures from Laporje
http://www.ramuluskola.lv/article.php?id=54