Already a few weeks students have had a chance to drink quality bottled water (as it is not recommended to drink tab water at our school too often). The water stand was provided by school board without the initiative from Comenius team although we had planned to get it by spring. However we will continue working on to get water onto our lunch tables.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
First fish photos
Today form 6 student Rain Laanemets sent 3 fish photos to compete with the other water-themed photos.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
First snow
It snowed little bit at Kehtna this Monday around 10am. Relatively warm late autumn weather melted it quickly.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
An article in the local newspaper
You can have a look at the article about Comenius project in the local newspaper Valla Vaatleja.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Photos of clouds
The youngest in our school, form 1 students took photos of clouds. Teacher Katre gathered the photo-files together and in our Comenius meeting we gave points to each of them to select out the most favourite ones. The top three are these.
1. place: Sten-Oskar Meister
2. place: Markus Habo
3. place: Iris Kaljura
Many thanks to all the other participants as well:
Adele Zubov
Dominik Ian Morozov
Sander Lillmann
Tanel Glük
Enely Kangrumägi
Kenert Markus Linder
Karolina Schults
Rasmus Reispass
and to their parents and teacher Katre.
1. place: Sten-Oskar Meister
2. place: Markus Habo
3. place: Iris Kaljura
Many thanks to all the other participants as well:
Adele Zubov
Dominik Ian Morozov
Sander Lillmann
Tanel Glük
Enely Kangrumägi
Kenert Markus Linder
Karolina Schults
Rasmus Reispass
and to their parents and teacher Katre.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Weekly meeting
At the beginning of our meeting we gave a glimpse at the activities our partner schools have organized. We noticed that French have created nice logos, Spanish surprised us with their "Famous people" contest and we found the drawings at Turkish blog being beautiful.
Today we continued creating the water-dictionary. Teacher Meeli introduced us a method to define things by using key words. As the project activities are aimed to make us learn new things, we used world maps and Internet. Diana, Signe, Anu, Maarja-Liisi, Johannese, Gladise, Keneti, Hans-Martty and teachers Raigo and Edda managed to define quite a lot of words.
Kaarel-Eerik, Sten and Marten were assisted by teacher Katre to study the water sample taken from the local water reservoir.
Students also gave feedback about our last trip to Tallinn. Such positive feedback makes us organize another social event in December. Teacher Raigo and Meeli will help to create another contest for all students. This time on the topic of geography and history in our partner countries. Of course questions will be concerning water.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Water dictionary
Today following students attended the meeting: Signe, Diana, Anu, Evita, Gladis, Liisbet, Johannes, Larsen, Hans-Martty, Kenet, Marten, Sten and Kaarel-Eerik, teachers Meeli, Katre, Raigo and Evelyn were supporting them.
First we watched three different videos. Water is very important and useful, but it can also be dangerous or frightening. We could see it from Storm video, recommended by Spanish project leader Miguel. Then we viewed a video about Turkey's capital Istanbul, recommended by Turkey's leader Gazi and one about Spanish town Ferrol.
Next we became the members of a jury to select the best cloud-photos taken by the youngest students in our school. More about the results in the nearest future.
Hans-Martty, Kenet and Sten rearranged our information board in the hall. We try to add more water-photo printouts soon.
We started creating water dictionary. In several groups students had a brainstorm and suggested different words which are more or less related to water. Then they tried to define them. We shall continue next Thursday.
Tomorrow we are going on an excursion to Tallinn.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
This Thursday's meeting
Four groups are creating a water-questionnaire
A bit of posing in the middle of serious discussions
The gestures tell it all!
Our senior students working hard
Today 17 of our students and teachers Edda, Liivi, Katre, Raigo, Lea and Evelyn spent valuable 2 hours for discussing Comenius matters.
1) We talked about the planned excursion to Tallinn next Friday. Everybody leaves after 4th lesson by 12.19 train. Students will be taken to Rapla railway station by car, by teachers and parents. Our excursion starts at 3pm. We will be back by 7pm.
2) As there are quite a many students who have joined the Comenius group, we had to discuss how to select out those who can participate in project meetings abroad. Everybody agreed that this year we need to give a priority to senior form 9 students. Students should have no major problems with grades or behaviour to be accepted on a trip. It's good to know some English, but we won't reject students with little English skills. After all such trips are meant to make us speak more and better. We try to find an agreement who is going to Spain by the end of November. Teacher Raigo and Katre will participate for sure, hopefully teacher Lea and Meeli as well.
3) We spoke about penpals (sending paper letter by post). We can expect some letters from Spanish students and there were 15 among our students willing to start a correspondence via letters.
4) We formed 4 groups and each group had to make questions about water consumption at homes, about families' attitudes towards water, about ways how to consume less. Each group managed to create 8-10 questions, most of them will be used in our water-questionnaire. We shall finish the task next Thursday.
5) We were reminded about the photo-shooting and logo creating events at our school. The first students have already sent their water photos and some logos have been handed in too.
2) As there are quite a many students who have joined the Comenius group, we had to discuss how to select out those who can participate in project meetings abroad. Everybody agreed that this year we need to give a priority to senior form 9 students. Students should have no major problems with grades or behaviour to be accepted on a trip. It's good to know some English, but we won't reject students with little English skills. After all such trips are meant to make us speak more and better. We try to find an agreement who is going to Spain by the end of November. Teacher Raigo and Katre will participate for sure, hopefully teacher Lea and Meeli as well.
3) We spoke about penpals (sending paper letter by post). We can expect some letters from Spanish students and there were 15 among our students willing to start a correspondence via letters.
4) We formed 4 groups and each group had to make questions about water consumption at homes, about families' attitudes towards water, about ways how to consume less. Each group managed to create 8-10 questions, most of them will be used in our water-questionnaire. We shall finish the task next Thursday.
5) We were reminded about the photo-shooting and logo creating events at our school. The first students have already sent their water photos and some logos have been handed in too.
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Partner schools
ESTONIA: Kehtna Primary School is situated in the village of 1,200. There are no big towns nearby, although the capital Tallinn is just 60km to the north. We are surrounded by forests, bogs, farmland and therefore paying extra attention to nature studies and the environment is important to us. We are a school of the Green Flag and a Health-Concious school. There are 155 students and 20 teachers in our school. Students are aged 7-17.
ITALY: Liceo Classico "Megara" con sezione scientifica annessa is a secondary school for students aged 14-19. It mainly offers three different courses for classical, scientific and social science studies. The school mainly serves students from Augusta. Our school is located in a very important area for its nature, history, archaeology and tourism. Our suburban town of Augusta is very near to Siracusa, one of the oldest and most important Greek colonies in Sicily. Our students are all members of "Legambiente" which is a national leading environmental organization which offers educational programs in schools. We live by the sea and our area is very rich in waterways, rivers and ponds.
FRANCE: College Claude Bernard is in a suburban city (Grand-Quevilly) with about 30,000 inhabitants. A town with 400,000 people called Rouen is near to us. The area has little industry nowadays following the closure of the chemical factories and the Renault car plant.
TURKEY: Tepeköy Ilkögretim Okulu is a public school serving children aged 7-15, starting from pre-school till the 8th grade. It is a rural school and caters for 226 students and 18 teachers. Our school is in Nevsehir (Cappadocia Region), being situated in agricultural region. Our region does not have sufficient water resources and we need to focus on environmentally-friendly options.
SPAIN: IES Concepcion Arenal is a secondary education centre located in Ferrol, a town with 70,000 inhabitants in the region of Galicia (north-west of Spain). There are 85 teachers and 700 students in compulsory (12-16 years old), post-compulsory (16-18 years) part and in vocational training.
ITALY: Liceo Classico "Megara" con sezione scientifica annessa is a secondary school for students aged 14-19. It mainly offers three different courses for classical, scientific and social science studies. The school mainly serves students from Augusta. Our school is located in a very important area for its nature, history, archaeology and tourism. Our suburban town of Augusta is very near to Siracusa, one of the oldest and most important Greek colonies in Sicily. Our students are all members of "Legambiente" which is a national leading environmental organization which offers educational programs in schools. We live by the sea and our area is very rich in waterways, rivers and ponds.
FRANCE: College Claude Bernard is in a suburban city (Grand-Quevilly) with about 30,000 inhabitants. A town with 400,000 people called Rouen is near to us. The area has little industry nowadays following the closure of the chemical factories and the Renault car plant.
TURKEY: Tepeköy Ilkögretim Okulu is a public school serving children aged 7-15, starting from pre-school till the 8th grade. It is a rural school and caters for 226 students and 18 teachers. Our school is in Nevsehir (Cappadocia Region), being situated in agricultural region. Our region does not have sufficient water resources and we need to focus on environmentally-friendly options.
SPAIN: IES Concepcion Arenal is a secondary education centre located in Ferrol, a town with 70,000 inhabitants in the region of Galicia (north-west of Spain). There are 85 teachers and 700 students in compulsory (12-16 years old), post-compulsory (16-18 years) part and in vocational training.