12/23/2011

“Can You Hear the Earth Scream?!” – Comenius Green Flag Schools’ Poem Competition 2011 | Closing Date: 31-Dec-11

Details:
The theme is 'Eco-responsibility: Can You Hear the Earth Scream?!'. Entries must be written in English and returned to your English teacher who will then select the five best and write them as comments on the blog. The poems must include the name of the poet and his/her home country. The judges will be the Comenius teachers in each partner country. The prizewinning poems from each partner country will be published on our Comenius blog in January 2012 and as a prize for the competition the winners in each country will receive delicious chocolate.


Please join the contest and let us hear your artistic concern for the environment!

12/15/2011

Our Deepest Symphaties

Our dearest Comenius partners at Collège Saint-Barthélemy, Belgium,

The news of the shooting in Liège has been felt in your partner countries quite deeply, and all our schools, teachers and students in Finland, Greece, Portugal and Romania would like to express our sympathies to all Belgians. It is truly a tragic event that none should have to face.

People will ask “Why?” and “How?” and ponder, “When might this happen again?”

Unfortunately, this kind of tragedy is all too familiar to some of us in Finland, and yet, we have no real answers to the how’s and why’s of such violence. Nor have we arrived at any real and lasting solutions as to how to prevent such violence in the future.

Our deepest sympathies go out to your 17-year-old student Pierre Gerouville’s family, friends and the entire school community of Collège Saint-Barthélemy as you struggle through the grief and sadness.

Our thoughts are with you.

With heavy hearts,

Partners in Finland, Greece, Portugal and Romania

12/11/2011

Flower Planting in Thessaloniki, Greece

The Greek partner school in Thessaloniki devoted the 7th of December, to voluntary work.
Students, teachers and their principal took part in a flower planting in the central square of Thessaloniki (Aristotelous Square) with the support of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

Enjoy the video on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDmH0GaJr9U

11/30/2011

Our Eco School Partner in Uganda, Africa: St Aloysius Primary School

St Aloysius Primary School is a day and boarding mixed primary school found in Western Uganda, Mbarara District, Uganda, East Africa with a pupil enrolment of 1095 pupils.
The school got attracted to join the Eco schools programme. It applied to join the programme and it was taken on.
The Eco school committee has carried out an environmental review and as result the learners together have come up with the following Eco codes at school to influence behavior of the learners and the community towards environmental management of the resources within the school and the community.
The Eco codes are:
-Keep off the grass
-Always sort waste before disposal
-Turn off water tap after use
-Turn organic matter into manure
-Use litterbins to dispose waste
-Protect trees in the compound among others.
The school has done the following to protect the environment and planet earth:
-The learners have planted 45 trees within the school compound                                                         -Have covered bare ground in the compound with grass                                                                       -Learners in each school year sort waste before disposing it                                                                 -We are harvesting water into water storage tanks to avoid wastage and the Eco pupils’   parliament is encouraging learners to use it sparingly.                                                                          -The learners have fenced off the green belt on the school compound                                                  -Turning organic matter into manure


11/24/2011

FlashMob for the Global Education Week in Romania

Go and take a look at the Flashmob the students of
The School of Light Industry Group of Botosani,
Romania, carried out for their Global Education Week:

http://dlf.transfer.ro/SAM_7117-transfer_RO-23nov-2e3d91.AVI 

Cristina from Romania

11/21/2011

Recipe: Belgian GINGERBREAD

Ingredients (for 1 kg) : 1 coffee spoon of powdered green aniseed – 1 coffee spoon of powdered ginger – ¼ coffee spoon of cinnamon – 1 coffee spoon of salt – 2 coffee spoons of sodium bicarbonate – 250 gr caster sugar – 250 gr liquid honey – 250 gr wheat flour – 250 gr rye flour – 20 cl warm water – butter – 1 cake tin (1,5 to 2 l)
Put the spices, salt, sodium bicarbonate, sugar, honey in a big bowl, mix by slowly adding the warm water.
In another bowl: mix both flours, dig a well, add the other mixture. Mix well until the dough gets homogeneous. If too dry, add a bit of warm water (be careful, it gets liquid very quickly).
Preheat the oven (180°) for 10 minutes. Butter the cake tin, coat the bottom and inner sides with flour. Pour the dough, put in the oven for one hour. Check the cooking with a knife. Let rest for 5 minutes before turning out!


Francoise from Belgium

11/08/2011

“Can You Hear the Earth Scream?!” – Comenius Green Flag Schools’ Poem Competition 2011 | Closing Date: 31-Dec-11

Details:
The theme is 'Eco-responsibility: Can You Hear the Earth Scream?!'. Entries must be written in English and returned to your English teacher who will then select the five best and write them as comments on the blog. The poems must include the name of the poet and his/her home country. The judges will be the Comenius teachers in each partner country. The prizewinning poems from each partner country will be published on our Comenius blog in January 2012 and as a prize for the competition the winners in each country will receive delicious chocolate.


Please join the contest and let us hear your artistic concern for the environment!

11/07/2011

THE FLASH MOB AT THE GUILLEMINS STATION IN 2011


Dear Comenius partners,

Thanks to Céline, the flashmob is on YOUTUBE now: link =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVyZo6QVCTc

or research on Google with "flash mob gare des Guillemins 2011"...

Enjoy it!

Françoise

10/26/2011

Questionnaire on the first meeting in Liége.

Dear students participating in the Comenius eco-project in Liège,  


It is important for us to know your opinion about the meeting in Liège. Did the visit meet your expectations? Did you enjoy this experience?

Please fill in the online form on the following webpage:

https://db3prd0104.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=5X4Xcm8Vwk2qfdkccrJOWYSaYQ5fZ84Ij6-cGbtiqI_IVQpqWR5jZdzZ0c_is13QLxLBxqT5wNk.&URL=https%3a%2f%2fdocs.google.com%2fspreadsheet%2fviewform%3fformkey%3ddDhwbEZqWHNLNnVSUXJzTXlmNVA4N1E6MQ
Thanking you for your feedback! 

Isabel Barbosa                                                                                                                       


Comenius co-ordinator, Portugal 

10/09/2011

The first meeting at Collége Saint-Barthélemy in Liège, Belgium, from the 3rd to 8th of October, 2011

Day 1 Welcomes and Introductions
           OXFAM Exhibition
           OXFAM Concert
Day 2 Film HOME
           Rehearsal for Flash Mob
           Games
           "Eco-gestures" Country Presentations
Day 3 "Crunch Your Apple Action"
           Workshop 1: Baking
           Workshop 2: Scrap Art
           Workshop 3: City Herbarium
           Garden and bee hives at Gollège Saint-Barthélemy
           Film on Countryside Herve and its local specialities
           Nature walk
           Liège Aquarium
           Dinner at "Chez Lequet"
Day 4 Visit and voluntary work at Autre Terre recycling factory
Day 5 Rehearsal for Flash Mob
           Eco-test
           Flash Mob at Guillemins' Main Station
           Expo SOS Planet Earth Exhibition
           Lunch at "Taverne Piette"
Day 6 Farewells and Departures

                                                                         The Belgians
                                                                         The Finns
                                                                        The Greeks
                                                                    The Portuguese
                                                                    The Romanians

9/25/2011

8/10/2011

Introductions: Green Flag High Schools in Belgium, Finland, Greece, Portugal and Romania

The Collège Saint-Barthélemy, Liège, Belgium 
The Collège Saint-Barthélemy is situated in the city of Liège. It has about 1.500 students and 150 staff members. Anxious to address environmental and health concerns for many years, our school has followed the objective to obtain the "AGENDA 21" quality label. We already got a first quality label called "School for Tomorrow" in June 2008 and felt that we were on the right track to go on. In 2010 we got the "3 planets" label, the highest reward for eco-schools in Belgium.

Laanila High School, Oulu, Finland 
Laanilan Lukio is a high school of approximately 300 students and 25 teachers in the city of Oulu. Oulu is situated at the sea of Gulf Botnia in northern Finland.
Since spring 2009 our school has had the status of an Eco-school. We have an active green flag-group of students who plan and implement activities related to sustainable development tutored by teachers. Recently, our themes have been co-operation with the societies in the neighbourhood area and diminishing of waste recycling. During the ongoing school year, our main focus is to reduce energy consumption.

The 4th Lyceum of Thessaloniki, Greece
The 4th Lyceum of Thessaloniki is situated in the historical centre of the city near its coast. It is one of the oldest schools in the city (established in 1933). The number of students is 118. The staff consists of 20 teachers. The students and teachers of the 4th Lyceum of Thessaloniki think that their participation in this program will sensitize them more towards the environmental issues in Europe and develop their language skills as well.

Sà de Miranda School, Braga, Portugal 
Sà de Miranda School is situated in Braga, a city with a vast historical and cultural heritage in the North of Portugal. The total number of students who enrolled at the beginning of the present school year is around 1425, 825 of whom attending Scientific-Humanistic courses, and 500 attending Vocational courses. Trying to cope with the challenges of such a heterogeneous school population, it is the school's priority to foster the holistic development of all its members, by promoting personal and academic growth.

GRUPUL SCOLAR "ALEXANDRU CEL BUN, Botosani, Romania 
Founded in 1974, GRUPUL SCOLAR "ALEXANDRU CEL BUN operates with 53 classes. Among these classes, 20 are for general education (philology, computer and natural sciences), 7 classes for vocational education and 8 for professional education (technician in textile and clothing design)  Altogether, 1371 students are trained in our school, and there are about 100 teachers. Among the extracurricular activities, the students enjoy getting involved in educational projects. "Let's Do It, Romania!" is one of these actions carried out at national level. 300 students of our school participated in this program organised by the Environmental Care Agency in 2010.  For instance, they cleaned up some polluted sites. From October onwards, we have been organising the sorting of rubbish at our school.