I’ve got all my partners with me!

September 2011 saw the

start of a new era for St.

Faith’s. For the first time in

our school’s life an official

European partnership was

created with schools from

Poland, Italy, Spain and

Turkey. Even tough they

weren’t sure what to expect,

everyone in the school

community embraced the 1-2-

3 Health project with

excitement and anticipation.

Somehow, a year has almost

gone by. It went so quickly we

must have been having fun!!

There are plenty of success

stories to be proud of. The

Christmas cards that children

made to the partner

countries were done with

love, care and lots of

excitement. Healthy packed

lunches were re-introduced

to the school as a reminder to

the most “forgetful” parents and

children. A celebration of

European culture took place in all

classrooms, enjoyed by all

children in our school. An

increasingly mindful school

community has been discussing

environmental issues, thereby

becoming more responsible for

their “world”.

Just when we thought we’d

already achieved our best this

year, the Comenius UK Meeting

came along and proved us

completely wrong!

By welcoming new partners into

our community we became not

only more aware and tolerant of

other cultures, but crucially

much more united within our own

school. The UK Meeting gave us

the opportunity to showcase

what we do best at St. Faith’s,

which is to work closely and

respectfully together as a team.

Staff, children and parents

worked tirelessly to prepare a

fantastic experience for our

special visitors! Everyone was

extremely excited to finally

meet some of the people they

had been communicating with

throughout the year, maybe

even say a few things in their

languages. More parents started

asking about the project and

wanted to know more about it.

That’s when we knew the

project was officially a success

at St. Faith’s and that’s why we

chose this as our success story!

Our visitors, in return,

presented us with a world of

knowledge and ideas that we had

never thought of. They listened

to us and showed interest in our

Education system. They kindly

asked and answered any

questions children and adults

wanted to ask them. They

quickly became part of the St.

Faith’s community, helping with

Crown Competitions and even

tidying up after the Jubilee

party. It was Civic Health at its

best!

Our visitors became our family and it was brilliant to have them all with us!

Raquel Thomson .London

We are a big family! St. Faith’s School. United Kingdom

JUNIO 2012

COMENIUS NEWS 1-2-3 HEALTH !

‘’EUROPE IS MY HOME ’’‘’EUROPE IS MY HOME ’’‘’EUROPE IS MY HOME ’’‘’EUROPE IS MY HOME ’’ activities were our best implementation during the project year. Through these activities we aimed to make cultural exchange with our partners. Although we are a crowded school (1250 students) the variety of activities gave us a chance to involve almost everyone in that big organisation. Some of the teachers tried different recipe from Spain (Marzipan) , Italy (Bread Cake ) , Poland (Ginger bread

Cake ) and UK( Christmas Muffins) with their classses in February . We tasted those delicious recipes made by our students ‘ skillful hands. Another group performed sample folk dances of each partner country and We had fun during these activities and parties. Some of our colleagues played traditional games with their students as the weather was warm enough in the school garden. We recognised that

although our languages are different , the language of the games is the same everywhere . We also saw that some of our games are common. We prepared presentations about each partner school and their local area . Posters were displayed all over the school . By the help of these presentations our awernesses increased, and our knowledge developed. Thanks to our project “1-2-3 Health”, we had the opportunity to know each partner country more and we broadened our horizon. We already feel ourselves as a member of the European Union family now. Ahmet YILDIZER Mersin Turkey

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One of the most involving activities we organised during this school

year have been about healthy food : first a clil activity about food

and second A HEALTHY BREAKFAST AT SCHOOL organised by

parents.

The aim of the clil activity has been to understand why food is

important for a healthy life style and the difference between junk

and healthy food. The teaching unit took 4-5 hours long and in the

end children produced wall posters and a brochure for all families.

To finalise this work we put on the event “A HEALTHY BREAKFAST AT SCHOOL”.

All parents prepared a rich self service in the school canteen with every sort of healthy proper

food children can usually eat during the school break in the morning. Fruit, juices, milk, dairy

product, home made cakes, biscuits, jam, cheese have been delivered and consumed by children who

“A HEALTHY BREAKFAST AT SCHOOL”. Italy

appreciated the meal very much.

Throughout this event we could involve the

families not only in the activities

themselves, but in sharing the aims of the

work as well, nutrition being one of the

most important aspects of education

families have to take care of.

and characteristic for each

country, national costumes. The

students prepared lots of

information about all countries,

like: basic information about

geographical situation, spoken

language, number of population,

names of Queen(s) or

Since September 2012, as we

have been participating in an

international Comenius project

“1-2-3Health”our school

organised many exciting events

to help us understand our

countries, needs and feelings.

One of the most absorbing and

spectacular ventures, prepared

by our students during this

school year was “A European

Day”.

The main goal of this acivity

was to realize the differences

and the common qualities

between our countries. Each

class, at our school has chosen

one of the participating in this

Comenius project country. They

were all dressed in traditional

Presidents. They paid attention

to traditional dances, meals,

habits and believes in each

country. They also wanted to

teach us some new words in

each language, like: Buenas noches, Buon giorno, Merhaba, Good Morning.

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Throughout this event we could involve the families not only in the activities themselves, but in sharing the

aims of the work

C.P.Poeta Juan Ochoa. Asturias. Spain

St.faith’s church of England Primary School.

London UK.

Istituto Comprensivo Antonio Fogazzaro. Milan

Italy

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Kopernika Radziejów. Poland

Dr. Ismail tarhan primary School. Mersin

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at the same time: shared harmony.

At our school, one example of that especial moment was

last May 18th, when we decided to take part in the Big Dance 2012. there were two big aims for this activity: civic health and personal health.

This activity introduced the school to Britain’s Olympic games and to the imminent trip to London and thus, helped us to both introduce the British culture and to work on healthy habits through sports and dance.

Every single child took part as well as the teachers. The trainee teachers prepared the

When we decided to start a Comenius Project we were not really aware of all the implica-tions it had. We just had the need to share and demonstra-te that teachers are more than people who teach, but creative people willing to learn and de-velop as professionals and as citizens. We wanted to do of our job a career and of our life an adventure

Being Comenius means that the isolation of the teacher within a class full of students vanishes to give way to a broader world of

possibilities full of people like you that want to work in teams because this way bigger and nicer things can be done.

Being Comenius means feeling so full of pride whenever you and your partners arrange an activity or an event and magically everybody, no matter how different they are, seems to agree on something

choreography and showed it to the students. At two o’clock on 18 may the show started and somehow everything was simply perfect, everybody knew his/her part and performed perfectly well.

What is more, we all knew that in many other parts of the world there were people doing the same thing at the same time and that meant that we could enter the Guinness book of records!!! Every class got the School pledge certificate to prove their participation.

However, that was not important, because eventually, what really matters is the individual feeling of belonging and the important lesson that we all learnt was that together we can do many BIG DANCES in our life.

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BIG COMENIUS. Spain

That day brought a lot of happiness, joy and smiles on

pupils’ faces. That activity led them to share their

knowledge about European countries, improve their

creativity and it showed our students’ involvement in

Comenius project realization.