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Comenius - Bridges of digital content between nations

Zespół Szkół im. gen. Sylwestra Kaliskiego w Górze

Comenius meeting POLAND 2011 JS©




Comenius meeting in Góra

Between 6 - 10th of April 2011 in gen. Sylwester Kaliski Secondary School in Góra we hosted teachers and students from Turkey, Romania, Slovenia and Bulgaria executing a project which slogan was: “Bridges of digital content between nations".

The project is targeted primarily to students of Information Technical Schools. In its executing Zespół Szkół in Góra has been involved as well as the following secondary schools: English Secondary School "Thomas Jefferson" from Bulgaria, Scoala de Arte Si Meserii Sipotez from Roma-nia, Özel Büyükkoyuncu fen Lissie from Turkey and Marina Anton Zavod Slomska from Slovenia. The project’s coordinator is a school from Turkey.

During two-year period of the project’s execution the mobility of stu-dents and teachers is anticipated. Within the project the following themes will be realized: the fight against racism, prejudice and xeno-

phobia and changing of stereotypical percep-tions of partners.

The project objective is to exchange experi-ences with teachers from other European countries, the development of language skills among teachers and students and enhancing of ICT competencies among students.

Within the project meetings of the partner schools will be held, during which some top-ics will be discussed and the way of executing them.

TURKEY

The first meeting took place in January this year in Turkey.

During the meeting prin-ciples of cooperation, the way of specific themes’ executing and the leading tasks’ realization place were specified.

The first meeting con-cerned the fight against cigarette smoking.

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MRS. TERESA FRĄCZKIEWICZ ADDRESSED A FEW WORDS TO GREAT GUESTS She pointed out that ,,our school ‘s motto is to in-vest in the young genera-tion, therefore the partici-pation in international projects has become a permanent part of the vocational school pro-gram, and contributed to raising the qualifications of our graduates.

Zespół Szkół in Góra since the 2002 carries out international projects.

Within the Leonardo da Vinci program our stu-dents had the opportunity to have practice in Italy, vocational trainings in England and Germany and owing to them they gained the skills and vo-cational competences.

For many years, we have been also cooperating with schools from Ger-many, Italy and France, as well as within the framework of the Na-tional Cultural Centre - our young people has partnered with a school in Odessa, Ukraine”.

CEREMONY

On April the 7th, during a ceremony that began with the anthem of Po-land and the European Union, a headmistress of Zespół Szkół - Teresa Frączkiewicz welcomed all the guests from abroad invited: Adnan Ba-rut, Hakan Gencol, Mehmed Erosy (Turkey), Barbara Fużir, Jani Duźevec (Slovenia), Cosnita Emilia Felicia, Floretyn Futur-Sorin Marian Paraleste, Michael Chiscareanu, Viorica Puiu (Romania) and Maria Netodieva Genova (Bulgaria) as well as their students.

The ceremony was also

honored by representa-

tives of local authorities,

including educational

authorities and the local

environment representa-

tives: a Governor of Góra

district - Mr. Piotr

Wołowicz, District Coun-

cil Chairman - Mr. Zbig-

niew Józefiak, Mr. Marek Biernacki - a member of the District Board,

Councilors: Mrs. Danuta Rzepiela, Mr. Piotr Iskra, Mr. Grzegorz Alex-

ander Trojanek, Mr. Jan Kalinowski, Mr. Marek Zagrobelny, Mrs.

Katarzyna Antolak – a representative of the Department of Education,

Culture and Sport in the Góra County, representatives of the Various

Handicrafts: Senior Guild Mr. Eugeniusz Stankiewicz, Guild - Mr. Fran-

ciszek Tomaszewski and Mr. Andrzej Mrajski, The Chairman of DEMI

Dairy Cooperative in Góra - Mr. Dariusz Dąsal, the Commander of the

Troop Unit - Zofia Świerszcz, Mr Wieslaw Lisowski – the Deputy Com-

mander of the Police District in Góra, Captain Maciej Liśkiewicz –

a representative of the District Fire Brigade in Góra, Mr. Maciej Kołata

– a Forestry worker of Góra District, a representative of the Trade Un-

ion “Solidarity "Mr. Julian Kospiczewicz, the vicar priest of the parish

church of St. Catherine of Alexandria - Leszek Bajorski, Mr. Bernard

Bazylewicz - District Director of the Centre for Teacher Development

and Psychological Counseling - Teaching in Góra, Mrs. Małgorzata

Patrzykąt - Director of High School in Góra, Mrs. Krystyna Durkowska -

secretary of the Center for Practical Trainings in Góra.

On this joyful day we were also accompanied by the local media’s repre-

sentatives.

Mr. Artur Małecki has read a letter sent by the Provincial School Super-

intendent - Mrs. Beata Pawłowicz, who picked up a lot of work done by

students and teachers of our school. Through the organization of such

meetings, as she wrote, we give an example for teenagers in today's

world to shape and maintain good relationships with others.

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The program of stay of groups from the partner schools in Zespół Szkół in Góra was very rich

The Headmistress gave the floor to students and teachers from our school who prepared the artistic program. Mr. Artur Małecki presented Polish history, illustrating it with an animated film by T. Bagiński. Mr. Bartłomiej Hebel presented a multimedia Polish geography.

Great applause received grade students-leaving for the traditional Pol-ish dance - the Polonez. And the biggest applause and standing ovations received preschool children, who performed in the traditional polish folk dances and foreign.

At the end of our talented students sang some of the most famous Pol-ish hits.

The whole ceremony was carried on both Polish and English languages. All speeches were translated by Mrs. Beata Barna - Dimitriu - teacher of English language.

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„Flowerbed of friendship”

Outside the school

“a flowerbed of

friendship“

was designed, to

which the partici-

pants of the project

jointly planted a tree

symbolizing the un-

derstanding between

the people of the

partner schools.

A similar trees rise in

Turkey, which had

been planted during

After the ceremony, stu-dents from partner schools in the company of the hosts, visited our school, and participated in the classes.

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TOUR OF AROUND

GÓRA

After lunch we went with

our foreign guests for

a walking tour of around

Góra, prepared and led by

a famous expert of the

region Mr. Grzegorz Al.

Trojanek.

We visited the Water

Tower, St. Catherine of

Alexandria Church, the

Parish Cemetery Church

of Christ’s Corpus, we

also pasted the buildings

of local authorities, the

hospital, the remnants

of defensive walls,

”Solidarity” park, market,

parting by the Głogowska

Tower.

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WORKING…

After the walk we started working on the project.

The leading subject of the meeting in Poland was to fight drug addic-tion among youth.

Working groups from different countries have presented the effect of their activities, including: films made by students of Zespół Szkół in Góra, and a young Romanian, post-ers and pamphlets made by the Turkish and Ro-manian, and a survey made by the students of the partner school in Slo-venia.

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All these works are available on specially created for the project website: www.digitalbridgest.tk, which administrator is our school In addition, Zespół Szkół in Góra is a creator of the logo of the project.

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a tour of the area

WRONÓW

In Wronów we were treated by a local band “Wronowianki.”

Members of the band per-formed a recital of folk songs from their reper-toire and invited us for special refreshments.

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SICINY

On Friday morning we

went on a tour of the

area.

We visited the Church of

St. Martin in Siciny,

which story was delivered

us by priest Tadeusz Śli-

wka.

We also heard a mini or-

gan concert prepared by

the teacher of our school

Henryk Antonicki.

The students could try

playing the church organ

as well.




GÓRA

Later on we visited the new headquarters of the District Headquarters Fire Department in Góra.

We had the opportunity to learn how the firemen work. We were amazed seeing special fire trucks equipment.

At the end of the visit the firemen have done a show going for the rescuing –fire fighting action at the time of alert. Luckily it was only a simulation.

In Góra we also visited the Centre for Teacher Development and Psy-chological Counseling - Teaching, at the invita-tion of the director Mr. Bernard Bazylewicz.

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WORKING…

After dinner, we contin-ued working on the pro-ject; we detailed princi-ples of further coopera-tion, and decided how to implement the following topics.

We have all decided that the next theme would be tolerance and stereotypes and their negative conse-quences for society, and the meeting would be held in June 2011 in Slo-venia.

In the afternoon the stu-

dents from partner

schools took part in rec-

reational sports activities

organized in the sports

hall “Arcadia "in Góra.

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Certificates

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OWLS

In the evening the stu-dents from partner schools took part in a na-tional campaign of owls’ counting, and although the weather was very windy, and they weren’t able to see any owls, they came back very satisfied.

PLANS

Meanwhile, the teachers discussed the plans for the next meeting and they agreed the scope of the preparations and organi-zation of the next meet-ing.

The project participants received certificates and also exchanged souvenirs.




Wrocław

We were “accompanied” by dwarfs which are sym-bol of Wrocław nowa-days.

We were also able to do some shopping at the Market Hall on our way and later on in the Grun-wald Arcade.

Late in the evening we watched a musical specta-cle “Hair” at the Impart Art Centre.

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The last day of the visit was a tour of Wroclaw.

The walk around the city, which was carried on in English by a city guide, we started with the Pano-rama Racławicka, then a trail of churches, Osso-lińskich library straight to the city market square.




Tired, but full of impres-sion we came back to Góra.

Our guests were leaving the next day early morn-ing and therefore we said goodbye on the way back.

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FOR THE GOOD MEMORIES...

Our friends from the partner schools many times during their visit pointed at the importance of local communities’ support in the imple-mentation of such projects.

They were impressed by the commitment not only the students and teachers of our school, but also representatives of local institutions.

We want to thank everyone for their help in organizing the visit and for the common experience of those extraordinary moments. All this un-doubtedly was the real value of the project and it will contribute to the dissemination of the results of our operations not only in the local area but also internationally.

We believe that the meeting ran in a great atmosphere, we had the op-portunity to learn about the diversity of cultures and customs of other countries and religions and to understand the importance of tolerance for maintaining good international relations.

Our students are very pleased to participate in the project and they all agree that the effort made in organizing the visit of representatives of the partner schools has paid off.

A strong commitment and cooperation made the agenda of the visit was filled up, not only with the official meetings and work, but also a num-ber of entertainments. New friendships were also established. This type of meeting brings together the different nationalities and makes inter-national cooperation. The more such meetings, the less will be the world's conflicts (student’s speech).

We do hope that the stay in our country will be saved with sweet memo-ries of all participants of the project, while the invited guests had left the walls of our school with reflection and a smile on their faces. Zespół Szkół

im. gen. Sylwestra Kaliskiego w Górze

ul. Armii Polskiej 15a 56 - 200 Góra Śląska

tel.: (+48) 65 543 26 60 fax: (+48) 65 544 20 70

[email protected]

http://zszgoras.pol.pl

Author:

Joanna Czyż (Asia)

[email protected]

based on texts of:

Inga Ozdoba - Stanek

Katarzyna Staniszewska

Andrzej Bakacz

Mariusz Nowakowski

Translated by:

Beata Barna - Dimitriu

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