Comenius School Partnership

Partnership involves schools in:• Murcia, Spain, the lead school• Thuin, Belgium, • Varna, Bugaria• Kiiminki, Finland• Szczchen, Poland• Birmingham, United Kingdom

“…be greener!”

“As a European, I’d Like to Teach the World to....”

“As a European, I’d Like to Teach the World to....”

Szczecin, Poland

Varna, Bulgaria

Kiiminki, Finland

Murcia, Spain

Thuin, Belgium

Birmingham,United Kingdom

Aliens are coming to

Earth!They come in

peace!But where will theylive?

Meet our new alien neighbours!

What will theybring?

It is your job to sell your area to our new neighbours.

Your advert must include:3 things that make the natural environment of

your city/region great.2 things that you do at school to look after the

environment.2 things you do at home to look after the

environment.1 thing/technology you would like the aliens to

provide!

Instituto de Educacion Secundaria, Ramon y Cajal, Murcia, Spain

1076 pupils – 102 staff

Capital City of Spain – Madrid

Population of Spain – 40.5 million

Currency of Spain – euros

POSTER Nº 1POSTER Nº 1

SUMMARY POSTER 1SUMMARY POSTER 1Dear aliens, Dear aliens,

We invite you to visit us at our small but great region, We invite you to visit us at our small but great region,

as we are helping the environment to recycle waste. as we are helping the environment to recycle waste.

Our students have recycled their bikes, because they do Our students have recycled their bikes, because they do not used them just for fun, but to come to school. not used them just for fun, but to come to school.

We also invite you to see our beautiful beaches, our We also invite you to see our beautiful beaches, our mountains and our art reflected in the baroque facade mountains and our art reflected in the baroque facade of our cathedral. of our cathedral.

Thus, we ask you to bring us a machine that converts Thus, we ask you to bring us a machine that converts the waste into pure oxygen.the waste into pure oxygen.

We are waiting for your visit an answerWe are waiting for your visit an answer GREETINGSGREETINGS

POSTER Nº 2POSTER Nº 2

SUMMARY POSTER 2SUMMARY POSTER 2 We invite you to come to our city because we think We invite you to come to our city because we think

we have good atmosphere here, and there is a we have good atmosphere here, and there is a variety of woods, gardens, animals, beaches, and so variety of woods, gardens, animals, beaches, and so on..on..

In our school, we save water by using drip irrigation In our school, we save water by using drip irrigation systems, by reusing the old hoses, and we also systems, by reusing the old hoses, and we also recycle trash in recycling bins.recycle trash in recycling bins.

In our house we use different bins to help recycling In our house we use different bins to help recycling and spend just enough water.and spend just enough water.

After this, if you decide to come to Murcia, we would After this, if you decide to come to Murcia, we would like you to bring us the machine “Emiligreen like you to bring us the machine “Emiligreen machine”. In this machine trash of any kind is machine”. In this machine trash of any kind is introduced and it becomes an acid that returns introduced and it becomes an acid that returns nutrients and minerals to the soil making it suitable nutrients and minerals to the soil making it suitable for cultivation. Its dimensions are: 2 metres long, 1 for cultivation. Its dimensions are: 2 metres long, 1 metre high and 1.5 metres wide.metre high and 1.5 metres wide.

POSTER Nº 3POSTER Nº 3

SUMMARY POSTER 3SUMMARY POSTER 3 Dear Mrs. AliensDear Mrs. Aliens

We would like you to come to visit our region to see We would like you to come to visit our region to see the beautiful places that nature offers us, like our the beautiful places that nature offers us, like our beaches and the forests. We recycle at home and at beaches and the forests. We recycle at home and at school.school.

We turn the tap off when we are cleaning our teeth We turn the tap off when we are cleaning our teeth or washing our hands. We recycle paper at school, or washing our hands. We recycle paper at school, we save the used oil to make soap and we use cloth we save the used oil to make soap and we use cloth bags instead of plastic bags to do the shopping.bags instead of plastic bags to do the shopping.

If you decide to live with us in our city, we would like If you decide to live with us in our city, we would like you to give us a machine that converts rubbish into you to give us a machine that converts rubbish into T-shirts.T-shirts.

We look forward to your visit.We look forward to your visit.

Institut Notre-Dame, Thuin, Belgium487 pupils –46 staff

Capital city of Belgium – Brussels

Population – 10.4 million

Currency - euros

Our poster isn’t quite finished yet – but here are our ideas…

• a tree= nature• trunk in recycled paper• branches and leaves= hands of everyone because everyone

is responsible (stressed again by the chain of people around the trunk)

• on the 'grass': sentences from songs in different languages to show it's everyone's concern again

• Leaves have to be added/ pasted, you can see them around the poster, and create a 3D effect. On these leaves, pictures with what we (can) do to improve our environment. As they will be pasted these leaves/hands also mean that we have to put forward this aspect of protecting our environment.

“Petko Ratchev Slaveykov” SchoolVarna, Bulgaria

58 staff, 888 pupils

Capital City of Bulgaria - Sofia (Sófiya)

Population of Bulgaria - 7,750,000

Currency of Bulgaria - 1 lev = 100 stótinki

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1.1.The poster is created by Kristian Kalov,11

years old. Varna is beautiful with its sea, fish and nice

weather. At school we do sports and plant flowers and

trees.At home we look after the gardens and use

solar and wind energy. We need a machine to be provided(in the

water)to clean the sea and refresh the air.

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22. Kristina Kazakova,11 years old. At home it is nice to take care of the plants

and to live a life close to nature . At school we look after the school yard and

plant trees and flowers .On the beach if you see any rubbish throw it

in the rubbish bin.Aliens will provide a machine for recycling to

protect the environment because we don’t have such in Varna.

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33.Todor Todorov,11 years old.The best things in Varna are the sea, the beach

and the sea garden. Without them our lifewill be miserable. We do a lot of things to look

after natural environment-at home-we do gardening and we collect the rubbish separately. At school we clean the school yard

and plant trees. Aliens will give us a machine like an enormous vacuum cleaner to collect the dangerous gas in the atmosphere and to pull the rubbish.

Kiimingin Lukio, Kiiminki, Finland

260 students 25 teachers

Capital city of Finland – Helsinki

Population of Finland – 5.3 million

Currency of Finland - euros

To Be Greener-poster My poster is made of recyclable materials. The box is cardboard and the alien hand is made of gypsum. Three fascinating things in the environment are lakes, forests and organic food on forests. In our school we take care of our environment by recycling paper and we have power-saving lights with motion detector. At home, we recycle all waste and we also have energy-saving lights. Glass and plastic bottles and metal cans we take on trade for re-use. We pick mushrooms and berries in the forests and in this way we use natural gifts. Aliens could translate NiksiPirkka- magazine for all the world’s languages, because the magazine contains a lot of different recycling tips.

We made our recycling poster from materials which had already been used once. We used old newspapers, magazines and an old artwork, which we found in our art classroom. There is lots of pictures in our poster. They all represent things we think will help to protect environment.

In Finland many people keep their homes warm by burning wood in the fireplaces. That saves energy. Fin ns also go hunting and we pick berries in autumn. In summer we farm potatoes, carrots, etc.

And we buy local food. We have many activities, we can do without hurting

nature. In winter we can go skiing and do other winter sports. In summer we cycle, go hiking, and so on.

In our school we have lights in toilet, which switch on and off automatically. We also recycle our waste.

My project for Comenius In my project the bottom is made at two pages of old newspaper and I glued

surplus paper on the coating. Top of all is glued pictures (what is taken from different magazines too) and everything else more or less interesting things. The hand of alien was made at gypsum and my own hand was a mould.

I emphasized four seasons of Finland. There can be also found some celebrities like Moomin or Mr. Lordi. There can see also beautiful nature of Finland. Forests take a lot of Finland’s area, so I wanted to emphasize that thing too. You can find lot of trees and leaf in my project.

I knitted little piece of fabric which is placed near the picture of piled mufflers. It’s nice little detail. That’s how grannys keep their grandchild warm here in winters.

What I would like to take from aliens was that they would do some kind of “magic spell” or something crazy thing like that and make people UNDERSTAND this situation where we are now and where that will end if we continue like this. I hope you can see it in that weird green hand…..

There was so little time to do this project so it was pretty challenging. In the end I’m happy with the result.

To be greener…  My poster is made of size A3 paper and every single photo in it are from

old magazines and newspapers. Photos are mostly about finnish nature because nature is the best thing I know about Finland. These nature pictures are about animals, lakes and forests and those are three best things in nature. I added there also a picture about old fishing huts (from 18th century) because those describe that how people of Finland have lived with nature for a hundreds and hundreds of years.

  Pictures about carrots, cycling woman, electric wires and compost are

having different meaning. The meaning is that how me and people in our school try to be greener.

  Compost and electric wires are for both, me and people in our school.

Compost is a symbol for all kind of recycling and reusing. For example recycling paper and organic waste. Instead electric wires symbolize energy saving. In both, my home and our school, people are switching off the lights to save electricity.

  Carrots and cycling pictures are my personal acts for trying to be

greener. I have a little vegetable garden in my home. I’m growing there potatoes, onions, strawberries and of course carrots. That’s the meaning of carrot picture. Cycling picture means that my main transportation is bike. I cycle to school, store, gym and almost every where I go. I think it’s good way to reduce stress and to increase physical wellness. 

IV Liceum Ogolnokszta, Szczecin, Poland

250 pupils

Capital city of Poland – Warsaw

Population of Poland – 38.5 million

Currency of Poland - zloty

Join us here !Join us here !

We live in a very friendly environment, close to nature.We live in a very friendly environment, close to nature.We take care of it all the time.We take care of it all the time.

Szczecin, our city is surrounded by green forests- our Szczecin, our city is surrounded by green forests- our green lungs.green lungs.

There are wind turbines and bio-fuel power stations There are wind turbines and bio-fuel power stations in our region.in our region.

At home and school we select rubbish, save water At home and school we select rubbish, save water and energy and use reusable bags.and energy and use reusable bags.

Bookcrossing is our tradition in our school. Bookcrossing is our tradition in our school. We have been doing it for a few years.We have been doing it for a few years.

Next to our school there is a school garden full of trees and Next to our school there is a school garden full of trees and bushes. bushes.

In Spring and Autumn it`s wonderful.In Spring and Autumn it`s wonderful.

You are very welcome here!You are very welcome here!

Welcome to our region, Western Pomerania.

  We would like to invite You to our region, Western Pomerania.  We have lots of parks and forests, lakes and rivers here. You can see a lot of nature monuments and rare animals like White Eagles, a European Bison and Beavers. At the beautiful seaside You can go swimming, surfing and kitesurfing. We have biofuel power stations and sewage farms and wind turbines. You can ride a bike on a bike paths. We protect the environment: select rubbish, save water, copy paper, energy, use paper bags.   Come and visit us! And we are waiting for You!

Hello !

We are friendly to the environment and visitors!

Come and stay with us in Szczecin

and our region Western Pomerania !

Archbishop Ilsley Technology College, Birmingham, UK

1265 pupils – 91 staff

Capital City of the – London

Population of the UK - 61.1 million

Currency of the UK– pound sterling

Our task was to form a group of 6-8 people and make a poster about our environment in Birmingham. It was a little competition and every poster got presented to the class.

It was a great experience and I really had fun we had to explain things like how we recycle, what we do to help recycling and other eco-friendly things. Plus we had to make the poster out of things that have been recycled like bottles, cartons etc. We also got to explore some of the true beauty of Birmingham which I have never seen before.

The best part was just working with your group of friends and having fun and co-operating together.

It was a great experience and the Comenius seems very interesting I would like to do something like this again.

By Jack Knight, 9A1

We had to get into groups and make a poster showing Birmingham’s environment to an alien and come up with an invention that the alien could help us make. We picked the groups and did the research. My group decided it would be fun to make a robot called ‘herb’ that would help clean up Birmingham’s environment. He had the poster and the information stuck on him. We had 3 lessons to make him out of recycled household things, like boxes and old bottles. After we made the posters and ‘herb’ we picked our favourite poster from another class to be shown to the Comenius project. I really enjoyed it and would like to do more work like that with my friends, because we produced something creative that no one else thought of, we worked together and we had fun making it. by Hollie Walters

As a group, we all contributed to the poster. We added leaves to show our appreciation to the environment. We used recycled cardboard instead of fresh paper to save the trees. Trees are people too, they breathe in what we breathe out! They are very important to us and our earth because without them, we wouldn’t be able to survive.

We decided to show everyone else that they can also recycle and help the environment.

By Aileen & Amy

Selly Park Technolgy College for Girls, Birmingham, UK

745pupils – 55 staff

Capital City of the – London

Population of the UK - 61.1 million

Currency of the UK– pound sterling

Dear Aliens',Welcome to our neighbourhood in

Birmingham, we hope you find all the environmentally friendly things that go on here.

We use energy saving light bulbs, use public transport, re-use our carrier bags and some even grow their own vegetables.

We would like you to bring us a machine that turns our rubbish into heat and light for our houses.

Thanks!

Dear Aliens,We would like to to come to Birmingham. It is

a city full of fascinating things to do – like recycling. At home we recycle clothes by giving them to people who need them.

We also recycle glass and plastic bottles. At home we recycle by turning off the taps and showers when we aren’t using them.

At school we recycle paper and plastic bottles.We would love it if you brought machine that

turned old sticks and bits of wood into paper so we didn’t have to use new trees.

Bye-bye

Dear AliensBirmingham is the second biggest city in the UK

and it has some great features like spectacular buildings.

There are lots of trees and plants which help attract wildlife like birds, squirrels and hedgehogs. There are plenty of bins which helps reduce litter. Everybody has at least two recycling bins, one for paper and one for plastic.

We want a machine that turns rubbish into oxygen to help us and carbon dioxide to help the plants.