THE SEVEN WONDERS OF OUR REGION

The Seven Wonders of our Region is a Comenius eTwinning project involving 7 schools from Slovakia, The Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey, Greece, Scotland and Cyprus. The project will last two school years, 2013 2015. The project idea is to explore the seven wonders of a region 20 km around the place where our schools are situated. The seven wonders are: the highest place, the oldest historical place, the most tasteful traditional meal, the most important personality, the most interesting traditional handicraft, the healthiest place and the most attractive place. The project will motivate our pupils to explore and discover the beauties and interests of the closest surrounding where they live, be interested in the regions of the partner schools, perceive Europe as home without national borders and as the living space of own future for working and living opportunities. Working for the project the pupils will improve the use of English and ICT, develop the ability of working in teams as well as their ability to collect pieces of information in different forms, record them in various forms and present their discoveries to their classmates, partner schools and the public. Moreover, they will have the chance to communicate with the pupils of partner schools by participating in e conferences and in some cases in the nobilities for the project. The teachers will acquire professional and personal theory through exploring other school systems, traditions, school habits, educational programmes, improve their knowledge about European thinking and culture, acquire a closer and informal relationship to their pupils, be motivated to improve their skills on foreign languages and especially English and ICT. Finally, the participating schools will incorporate the European dimension into the school learning programmes and will be the good examples for other schools to show them that they are able to implement European projects and have international partnerships.

YEAR 1, VOLUME 1
DECEMBER 2013

CONTENTS
Page 2: Meeting in Slovakia Page 3: Meeting in the Czech Republic Page 4: The Slovakian school Page 5: the Czech school Page 6: The Polish school Page 8: The Turkish school Page 10: The Scottish school Page 12: The Cypriot school Page 13: The Greek school Page 14: Meeting in Poland

1ST & 2ND PROJECT MEETINGS

1st Comenius visit in Slovakia, 3-6/11/2013
16 teachers and 15 Polish and Turkish children came to visit to Slovakia. We missed just teachers from Scotland. Although the visit at us was short, just three days, we had not only the work and studying, but mainly fun. Children took a lot of experiences, because they visited Slovak families and they could best recognize how we live in Slovakia. In the morning our guests explored our school and puand short movies. The pupils asked searching questions and tasted sweet European candies. In remembrance of their visit we have the work of our guests at the presentation boards in the entrance of our school. Always when we enter the school we remember this great visit. In the afternoon we went to explore some of the wonders together and we found: the highest located place at Treniansky hrad in a tall tower, the attractive places near Omars well of love and near a water sprite at the square in Trenn. In the evening we tasted our traditional meals. On the other day we discovered fantastic, healthy place in Turkish spa Sina and a traditional craft in a pottery workshop.

by Denysa

pils and our pupils got to know your schools through the photos

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other day we discovered fantastic, healthy place in Turkish spa Sina and a traditional craft in a pottery workshop. There are many things in our area that we are proud of. If you follow up our wonders, we believe, you will get to know our area at least a little and you will understand why we love them. And hopefully you will hear somewhere at us: AHOJ (Hi) and DOVIDENIA (Goodbye).

Be sure to watch this: http://www.ttzs.sk/comenius/ navsteva/priebeh.pdf

2nd Comenius visit in Sivice, Czech Republic, 6 9/11/2013

We are very pleased that we were able to show our school and to host our friends from Comenius It was a friendly meeting that brought Czech children and teachers with much joy and experience. We talked about our country , schools and traditions. We taste traditional Czech food and made and decorated traditional Czech cookies. Children competed in the sport. In Sivice we visited the Mayor . After an afternoon visit to Brno, we shared dinner passed Comenius anthem. Last day of our meeting was our day trip to the capital city of Prague. Thank you all for your warm friendship and look forward to meeting you .

by Paul and Mila

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Zkladn kola Andreja Bagara, Trenianske Teplice, Slovakia The discovery of the first wonder at Slovak school
All the pupils of our school have participated in the discovery of the first wonder. The task of the explorers has been to search and visit the highest located place, which could become the first wonder, then to bring photos or a video and make a poster with all the important information about the first wonder. We have collected 32 posters all together, which have been presented around the school. All the pupils could see them and they could decide, which one is the best for them.

The exposed posters of our pupils the first wonder The winner has been chosen through a school vote it is a hill in the mountains Povask Inovec, 1042 meters high, with a beautiful view to its 2B. surrounding. This place is often visited by tourists.

Our highest located place: INOVEC, 1042 m high, has been discovered by siblings Sofia and Samuel R. from the class

by Denysa

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The Primary School With The Preschool Sivice, Sivice, The Czech Republic
Projekt Sedm div naeho kraje v esk republice N projekt odstartoval v jnu letonho roku. Zaali jsme v jnu 1. div: Nejvy msto naeho okol. Vyjeli jsme autobusem na znm turistick msto rozhledna Bab lom 561 m vysok. Museli jsme zdolat nelehkou skalnatou cestu. Na konci n ekal vhled do krsnho okol. Tento kol jsme plnili cel kola. Nejprve jsme vyhledali na map msto a potom jsme uskutenili vlet. Byl to krsn slunen den. Tme se na pokraovn projektu.

Project Seven Wonders of our region in the Czech Republic

Our project started in October this year. 1.wonder was The highest point of our surroundings . We took the bus to the famous tourist spot Indian quarry lookout tower 561 m high. We had to overcome the difficult rocky path . At the end of our expected view of the beautiful surroundings. This task we perform the entire school . First, we found the place on the map , and then we made the trip . It was a beautiful sunny day. We look forward to continuing the project.

by Pavel & Mila

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Zespl Szkolno-Przedszkolny Nr 2, Szkola Podstawowa Nr 2 Im. Polskich Olimpijczykow, Brodnica, Poland

From November 3rd to November 9th, we took part in the first mobility of the Comenius project The seven wonders of our region. The Polish group consisted of 14 participants 4 teachers and 10 pupils from classes IV VI. We visited two partner schools one in Trencianske Teplice in Slovakia and the other one in Sivice in The Czech Republic. During our stay, we visited Trencianske Teplice, Trencin with its castle, Brno and Prague. Polish pupils made friends with the Turkish children, who were also present, and with the Slovak and Czech host families. Children took part in different classes and activities. We also tasted the specialties of the regions. Everyone enjoyed their stay in both, Slovakia and the Czech Republic as it was a great opportunity to know other cultures and traditions. We all experienced hospitality and friendliness. We are all now looking forward to the meeting in Poland.

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As far as the project is concerned, we have assigned the tasks, made information

and poems about The construction of the Tower - we have organised a multimedia lesson The history of the Teutonic Tower in the town library - there has been a trip to visit the tower - we have organised an art competition (photos and pictures) The Brod-

nica Teutonic Tower for all the students of our school.

boards and prepared a film about our school. For the first wonder: - we have prepared a multimedia presentation about the Teutonic Knights Tower ( the highest building) - pupils have written stories

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Emek lkokulu, Ankara, Turkey

Our Comenius Project has aroused much interest since the declaration of the acceptance of the project. The project was presented to the teachers in the seminar period of the teachers. Teacher of English,Selin stek, informed the teachers about the project, partners and implementation process between 3rd and 9th September 2013. The students began to come to school on 16th September 2013 and for the first week the project was presented to each class. Teacher of English, Selin stek, prepared a written and oral exam for the pupils who would take part in the first mobility.

The exams were held on 18th September 2013.The results were declared on 19the

September 2013.The tickets were purchased on 20th September 2013. The headmistress and the vice manager had some talks with one of the biggest factories in the area for the sponsorship

of the project on 20th September 2013. A blog was prepared by the teacher of English on 21st September 2013. (letslookabroad.blogspot.com) A Comenius corner was created by the students of English and Comenius Project Club.It is updated each week.

Some info was shared on Twinspace on 5the october 2013. The Teacher of English and the headmistress attended a general meeting of the accepted Comenius Project in stanbul on 10the October. A banner was designed by an ICT teacher in the town. A big banner, 15 smaller ones and 2000 booklets were

prepared.The smaller banners were hung on the

official buildings.

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School video was recorded on 25th October 2013. Promotional and presentation materails were made ready

between 26th and 30th October 2013. A contest was held for the fisrt wonder, the highest

place. The first wonder was declared firstly and then the students made some guesses about its height. They wrote their predictions and kept into boxes. All predictions were read and the winners was declared. He guessed 1655. The real height is 1650 being the highest point: KARASENR MOUNT. The winner was given an award, a book.

We visited Local Governor on 1st November and said farewell.

The local newspaper came to our school and interviewed with the teachers and the students.Some students thought of a traditional ceremony to say farewell to us. They saw the going ones off. (In this ceremony, people pour some water while the others are going. This means go and come safely).

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After coming back to our town, we updated the Comenius Corner and put the materails which other countries gave us. A video was created by one of the teachers and presented to the all students between 18th and 25th November.

We put our photos taken abroad and this encouraged students to attend the exams which will be held to select the students on 3rd December.

Pupils in 2nd Grade were wanted to draw KARASENR MOUNT, the highest point. They were free to draw because we wanted them to use their own imaginative skills. These pictures were put on the corner on 27th November.

by Selin

Blackfriars Primary School, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Blackfriars primary announced the start of the Comenius project at their assembly in October.

Some Primary 6 children helped to make a video about our school to put on the Twinspace website. We have been using the internet to research our partner countries. Primary 6 made some posters about the 7 countries to display in our Comenius corner.

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Primary 1,2 and 3 made postcards of themselves to send to the children in the other countries. We sent them with Comenie Mouse. Comenie Mouse is going to visit all the countries and send some pictures back to us, we hope!

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Primary 5 have been researching the first wonder of our region, the highest points in Glasgow. We started off by doing some research as homework. We found that The Glasgow Tower at 127m is the tallest structure in the city (and in the whole of Scotland.)

It also holds the Guinness World Record for the tallest structure.

which can rotate 360 deWe made grees! models of tall buildings in class and also as a homework task.

by Seonaid

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1st Demotiko Scholeio Aradippou, Aradippou, Cyprus

6th Classes The highest and most important place of our region Lefkara village is famous for its traditional laces. They are very beautiful with many details. We saw old women sewing these laces. You can find laces in souvenir shops.

We visited Lefkara village, the highest and most important place of our region. It is a beautiful and small village with a population of 1000 people. It is called Lefkara from the color of the local white rocks which were used for building.

Lefkara is also famous for its silver jewelry made from local craftsmen. We visited a local craftsman who showed us how are these jewelry made. They are gorgeous. You can buy them in jewelry shops. We also visited Lefkaras church, dedicated to the Holy Cross. It is an old and

very beautiful church which has a real piece of the Jesus Christ Cross!

We walked through Lefkaras narrow streets. It was a great experience. The streets are made of the local white rock. The traditional houses are made of the local white rock too. We visited a traditional house and saw the items that were used by the locals. It was fascinating.

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We enjoyed our trip to Lefkara village very much. It was a life experience. We prepared a short video with our comments too. Please watch it at http://youtu.be/ dcoEuYXSjnI. You will adore Lefkara. Best regards The sixth classes and their teachers:

by Loukia, Adamos and Panikkos

5 Dimotiko Scholeio Neas Smyrnis, Athens, Hellas

We are very happy to be partners in the new Comenius eTwinning project The 7 wonders of our region. This is our 4th Comenius & eTwinning project and we believe the beginning of new friendships with pupils and teachers from countries we are In the beginning of our project, the pupils of the 6th grade searched for information about the participating countries and prepared PPTs. Then they answered the on line survey to check their knowledge about the partner countries and did rather well. They also wrote letters to the pupils of the partner schools. cooperating for the first time as Slovakia, the Czeck Republic, Poland, Turkey and Scotland and others that we cooperated in the past, Cyprus.

In the beginning of October, our pupils visited the two highest places in our region: Mountain Imitos, grade 2 and Mountain Parnitha, grades 5 and 6. They hiked and a guide informed them about the mountains, their fauna & flora, and carried our various activities.

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When coming back, they decided that Mountain Parnitha is the highest place and thus the winner. They made bookmarks, posters with photos and information about the mountains, the model of a mountain, drew pictures, wrote stories and we prepared a PPT with the outcome of the pupils works.

In the beginning of November, we participated in the 1st & 2nd Comenius meetings in the partner schools in Slovakia & the Czech Republic. It was a great experience and we were impressed with the work the pupils of both schools have done for the project and not only. After our return, we presented both schools to our pupils.

In December, we made our Christmas cards and mailed them to all schools. We also had a videoconference with the Cypriot school during which we sang Christmas songs to each other. The products of our work on the project as well as some of our partners work are periodically exhibited on the

project board in the entrance of our school. Our work is regularly uploaded in the school blog blogs.sch.gr/5dimnsmyrn/ as well as in the twinspace and the common project blog.

by Stavroula

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Next Comenius meeting

Zespl Szkolno-Przedszkolny Nr 2, Szkola Podstawowa Nr 2 Im. Polskich Olimpijczykow, Brodnica, Poland 6-12/4/2014