What the teams did in November and December? ITALY We continued working on our project. I wrote a diary about the transnational meeting in Wavre that is uploaded in ETwinning.net After coming back Belgium, we wrote our opinions about the meeting,sent to Martine for the loading on the web site. We contacted the agency for the shuttle from and to Rosolini/Catania airport for welcoming our host in the best way. Meantime we booked the hotel in Rosolini The Terminal.We are looking forward to receiving you in Rosolini in January. Meeting with my students and their parents for the matching and the organization of the work. Each one has to fill the profile form and send it to their partners, it is a chance to know each other and break the ice. Sent the application for the permission to get into the CPA in Rosolini, HOTSPOTin Pozzallo,CARA in Mineo, no answer yet. Contacted different people:the leader of red cross in Pozzallo The leader of CPA in Rosolini The leader of albero della vita onlus in Pachino for intercultural museum As proposed by partners,we have the movie maker: He is going to help us acquire the skill of shotting a video-documentary. He is taking 4 hour lessons in Rosolini. Team activity at school with my 20 students working : find the definition in dictionary and in italian vocabulary about some words dealing with Migration. (I prepared the words list) Upload the definition in Etwinning.net where they all have been invited. I am having difficulty in the matching because more of my students are female so I have to ask my collegues partners their opinion about possible sex mix.
During the open day we presented our Erasmus+ Project in Rosolini and we decided to realize a CLIL about that topic with more classes. One of my student is collecting many newspapers because we are going to use them at school during the exchange week in Rosolini from 29th January to 5 th February 2017 My students still have problems in working with Etwinning and our web page, we are tying and trying Students creating the web page
GERMANY We continued working on our project. One-half of the group meets every Monday the other half every Thursday for 50 minutes. We are 26 students in the whole group now. I made the group for Sicily (3 boys 2 girls all 14 or 15 years old) 2 female English teacher will accompany the students to Sicily. On November 4 th we made a survey about Migration in Monchengladbach in the Hindenburg street (Main shopping street in Mönchengladbach) The results will be online soon. (Photos on etwinning) On November 5 th we presented our Erasmus+ Project during the open school day in Rheindahlen (Photos on Etwinning) A Camera was ordered for the Project group to make interviews and Films in Germany. We have not started our newspaper work yet. We will order the newspapers from beginning January. My students still have problems in working with our web page, so do I Hope to solve it during Christmas holidays.
POLAND This is the link to the school page: http://g2rybnik.eu/ We celebrated International Tolerance Day in our school on November 16th - the video is uploaded to the folder Data_Poland The author of the logo changed it according to the advice but it seems like it still need improvement. So logo is under construction. Poland (two teachers and 3 students) have participated in the 1st transnational meeting in Wavre (Sicily) We have chosen a team of 5 students (2 boys and 3 girls) and 2 teachers going to Sicily. Webpage team is working on the webpage - the info about our meeting in Belgium should be online soon. This week we are starting our work on newspaper articles. Christmas and New Year greetings to everybody! Hospitality day
SPAIN We presented the project to the 10th, 11th and 12th graders and school community. Selection of students and teachers to participate in the project was made: a group to work in the web page (3) and a group to participate and travel to Sicily. (6) A group of 10 th graders who study Arts and Crafts participated in the logo design competition. The project was presented to these students and, together with their teacher, learnt to do a logo. Some logos were produced and sent, although none of our logos was chosen. See Picture. In November-December 2016 we attended the 1st transnational Meeting in Wavre, Belgium. The web page started and users and logos were assigned. The project was oficcially started. 11th graders were presented the activity of translating articles (in our case, from Spanish and Catalan newspapers) related to the topic of migration and refugees. A group of students from 10th grade has started investigating the topic of the Spanish Southern border (and wall): Ceuta. A group of students from 10th grade has started investigating about the origins of their families, trying to prove that we all have moved from somewhere and been accepted somewhere else. Research has been started on Spanish brain drain (12th grade). A presentation could be made in Barcelona 2017 about this topic. Hospitality campain was started in the school, in relation to Christmas celebration. The students were asked what hospitality means to them and school was decorated with these sentences. See Picture. (1) 12th graders were given a conference/lecture by Jordi Martínez, a teacher of the school who was in Greece helping refugees last summer 2016. See Picture.(2) Preparations have started taking place for the 2nd transnational Meeting in Barcelona, May 2017.
BELGIUM What happened in Wavre? October Selection of the pupils who will become members of the cell "Migration Website Team" Organization of the logo contest Tuesday the 25 th : To start the project, special day "Refugees": 180 pupils aged 14 to 16 go to LLN, the student city close to Wavre, for a private screening at the cinema. The magnificent Italian documentary movie "Fuocoammare" allows us to become aware of what live the refugees who try to join Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. After the movie, by solidarity with the refugees, 180 pupils return on foot to school (12 km). On the route some concrete situations (simulations) allow the pupils to put themselves in the skin of a refugee (identity check, medical inspection, encounter with hostile people). November-December 28/11 2/12 : first transational meeting in Wavre 6 belgian students (Migration Website Team) and 12 students from Germany, Poland, Spain and Italy have a training for website management 10 teachers have their first coordination meeting for the project Last day : visit of Brussels December On the 6 th of December, a lecture took place at school. It was a first meeting and a first concrete confrontation with the problem of migration. The audience was composed of 110 pupils of 14, 15 years old. Among the contributors, there was first a Guinean man who explained the reasons why he had left his country, the various episodes of his migration via Greece and his life in Belgium. There was also a young Afghan man of 17 who had come to Belgium without his parents or family and who was taken care of by social services in the region; We could also listen to a Belgian teacher and photographer who had been a witness of the jungle of Calais and who gave us a description of what he had seen there, the people he had met and the consequences of the dismantling of this camp. Finally a woman, member of the association Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) gave us some details about the aims of this organisation and the concrete actions they carry out in refugees camps in Greece and other countries. 12-13 of December, 300 students (aged 12 to 13) made the flag of the country of which they are native (or their ascendants) and were photographed, two by two, to make a big mosaic of photos which will soon decorate the hall of the school.
Meeting in Wavre, Belgium. As usual, Belgian hospitality proved itself again. Thanks Martine and team for hosting us all. Students and teachers together in Wavre, Belgium Walking for refugees