1RST MEETING
REPORT: COORDINATOR SCHOOL
EUROPEAN PROJECT COMENIUS
“WATER: AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE IN THE LIFE OF EUROPEAN CITIZENS”
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
22 – 26 NOVIEMBRE,2010 - IES LAS HUESAS
Participating schools,countries and coordinators:
-HS/RS Heiligenkreuz am Waasen, Graz, Austria.(AT) Brigitte Slavec
-2 Epal Kavalas, Kavala,Greece. (GR) Aggeliki Karanasiou
-Istituto Secondario di Primo Grado “Piero Calamandrei”, Torino, Italy.
Maria De Caro (Rita) Elena Zanon
-IES Las Huesas, Canary Islands, Spain.(SP) Leonor González
The visited school: IES LAS HUESAS – Telde,Gran Canaria
Coordinators from all the partner institutions, principals and several teachers met in Las Palmas, Spain on the same period, arriving on November 21st and leaving on 27th. The coordinating institution planned and organized the meeting.
Before the meeting, the hostess school worked and sent to the partners provisional and final Planning, they sent useful information and prepared all about logistics: accomodation, meals, activities preparation as they asked from the participants to prepare all a presentation with information about each participating institutions and each country prepared a ppt in English which is the language of communication.
We started our work in this meeting in Las Huesas High School, where the pupils welcomed us with very nice traditional songs and dances. Then the headmaster introduced us the school, and each delegation gave a little welcome speech too. We visited the school and had
a coffee break in a comfortable atmosphere where we met the teachers of Las Huesas and shared some ideas, after that, there was an interesting presentation of the Spanish Educational System, followed by a first work session, in order to define our priorities in the project. Moreover, the coordinator showed us some useful materials from the Spanish National Agency meeting in Madrid. Then the project coordinator made a presentation about the program and the purpose which concerned the "Water an important source of life for European citizens" and the activities that could be lustrated by the participants during the program and everything was concerned with water, the topic of our project.
a coffee break in a comfortable atmosphere where we met the teachers of Las Huesas and shared some ideas, after that, there was an interesting presentation of the Spanish Educational System, followed by a first work session, in order to define our priorities in the project. Moreover, the coordinator showed us some useful materials from the Spanish National Agency meeting in Madrid. Then the project coordinator made a presentation about the program and the purpose which concerned the "Water an important source of life for European citizens" and the activities that could be lustrated by the participants during the program and everything was concerned with water, the topic of our project.
Also during the meeting there were some other socio-cultural activities because in the planning were included not only work sessions, there were meals and diners with the teachers and some visits to Town Hall and Local Government too, where the consuls from Austria and Italy came with us and here we were given an interesting speech about the problems with scarcity of water in the Canary Islands, and the strategies developed to solve them. In other hand because our project topic, we were shown around the island and saw various landscapes with dams, visited the Water Desalination Factory, the Canary Institute of Sea Sciences and the Special Natural Reserve of Maspalomas Dunes . The history and traditions of Canary Islands was related in walk by the Old Town, Vegueta or in the sightseeing in the bus therefore we visited some villages, the Archeological Cave and Columbus House, the last stop before Spanish sailors reached America.
The importance in this first meeting came because of Latvia, country that was the coordinator school, and Ireland weren’t in the project now, that’s the reason because we had to make a redefinition of the project without to change the main idea but reviewing : Design, Objectives and Activities, Results and Products , Involvement, Impact and Assessment so the project coordinator explained, from six schools we became four changing the coordinator centre LV for SP. The mobilities needed to be readjusted because those two countries could take a lot students and what happen now? (When? , Where?, Who?)
Thinking about two years of the project, would come agreements about the planned work, activities, products, monitoring etc, the Application Form should be reviewed by all, in that first meeting.
Therefore so important things like English Shared Treasury (EST): put up materials and products, e-Twinning or Europass and Student Mobility, we decided to work in them in our next meeting in Greece.
Following here are the changes and agreements in this meeting which should be informed in each National Agency in our medium report in next June because we have changed parts of the sections in the official Comenius Project Papers. (Aplication Form).
(D.4.) RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
Nº | Approx. date | Description |
1 | September 2010 | All partners discuss about how to work our project from all subjects. |
2 | October-November | Working the first steps in the project. |
3 | December 2010 | Christmas exhibitions in each partner school related with water, our common topic. |
4 | January 2011 | Implement in each partner school's web site about our Project. To create a specific place where we can put up presentations( ppt), questioneries, ect. |
5 | March 2011 | Water’s Day Celebration. |
6 | April 2011 | Summary and valuation of activities. Project diary. |
7 | May 2011 | Presentations from all partners. |
8 | June 2011 | Assessment of development. Common Glossary. |
9 | September 2011 | Motivating students-teachers. |
10 | Noviembre 2011 | Exchanging ideas and experiences second year. |
11 | December 2011 | Competition Christmas cards connected with our common topic: water. |
12 | February 2012 | Common dictionary/glossary. |
13 | March 2012 | Water mill decoration in each school . |
14 | April 2012 | Water sport and it's development . |
15 | May 2012 | Final report, diary for all project, students' note book . |
(F.2.) COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION
Only we changed the regular exchanging via skype because Latvia was the country really interested.
(F.3.) PARTICIPANTS’ INVOLVEMENT.
We decided to take out Drama from the document because we haven’t got specific lessons where students and teachers can develop a performance.
(F.6.) DISSEMINATION AND THE USE OF RESULTS.
There will not be performance for parents.
(G.2.) WORK PROGRAMME.
In this part we reflexted on our reality thinking that now we are less schools so we have distributed it as following:
Nº | Activity / mobility description | Dest | Approx. start date | Partners involved |
1 | All partners disseminate materials about our project, ideas from different subjects, ect. | Sept. 2010 | Project coordinator, administration, students and teachers of each school. | |
2 | Opening meeting. | ES | Nov.2010 | All partner schools. |
3 | Developing topic "water" in schools. | Oct/Nov 2010 | Project work group. | |
4 | Exhibition in each school. | Dec. 2010 | Project work group +teachers + students. | |
5 | Developing topic "water" for Water’s Day. | Jan/Mar 2011 | Students and teachers of each school. | |
6 | Water’s Day celebration and ex hibition . | March 2011 | All partner schools. | |
7 | Reporting and assessment. Student’s Diary and quetioneries . | April 2011 | Project work group. | |
8 | International Second Meeting . | GR | 9/13May 2011 | All partner schools . |
9 | Updating web site of the each school and scheduling. | May/Jun 2011 | Project work group +teachers. | |
10 | Intermedum reports and exchage products. | Jun/Jul 2011 | Project Coordinator in each school. | |
11 | Motivating students and teachers. | Septemb. 2011 | Project work group. | |
12 | International Meeting. Third. (7/11) | AT | Nov2011 | All partner schools . |
13 | Reporting and assessment. Preparation of products, materials. | Nov/Dec 2011 | Project work group +teachers + students. | |
14 | Developing topic through Christmas competition. | Decemb. 2011 | Students and teachers of each school. | |
15 | Products from subjects. | Jan2012 | All partner schools. | |
16 | Updating web site of the each school. Dictionary/glossary. | Feb/Mar 2012 | All schools. | |
17 | Fourth Meeting. 19/25 March | IT | Mar 2012 | All partner schools |
18 | Publishing a common dictionary where are words connected with water in each partner language .Water Mill. | March 2012 | Project work group +teachers + students. | |
19 | Practical activities and research about water sports. Student’s Diary | April 2012 | Project work group +teachers + students. | |
20 | Final visit to present final works. Assessment and feed back. | ES | May 2012 | All partner schools. |
21 | Preparing final report and financial statement. | June 2012 | Project Coordinators, all schools. |
MODIFICATION OF MOBILITIES
In this part we had a very hard work mainly because we couldn’t go to Ireland or Latvia with our students and they were where we had planed outgoing mobilities with a lot of pupils. We knew that Greek school is “evening school” so there are some problems with the ages of our students and of course with the mobilities because the Spanish, Austrian and Italian pupils are much younger than the Greek ones, and with very different needs for that reason they shouldn’t go to their vocational lessons or houses. All this and add that none student went to the first meeting, created the follow changes:
Nº | Participating organisation | Country | Nºof planned outgoing mobilities (pupils) | Nºof planned outgoing mobilities (teachers) | Total nº of planned outgoing mobilities | National Agency | Grant ( €) |
1 | IES Las Huesas | Spain | 6 | 8 | 14 | OAPEE | 20.000€ |
2 | HS/RS Heiligenkreuz am Waasen | Austria | 14 | 10 | 24 | OEAD | 20.000€ |
3 | 2 Epal Kavalas | Greece | 0 | 24 | 24 | IKY | 20.000€ |
4 | I.S.di Primo G. Statale Piero Calamandrei | Italy | 6 | 18 | 24 | COM-ERA | 20.000€ |
Agreements and conculisions from first transnational meeting.
Even though some of them have been written before, when we explain the redefinition, here we point the fact that from this meeting in Gran Canaria the Austrian, Italian and Greek partners have had a better knowledge about the historical problems with water like a resource for the life of citizens in Canary Islands so they can explain it in their schools. Also all partners school coordinators wrote a report after this meeting and in all of them, partners tell how positive was the event and how fine all participated actively, defined the work that need to be done, the cooperation and the communication between the participants for the next years so how interesting was the participation in the school lessons, the discussions about Spanish educational system, the visits, show the presentations, ect. In this days we discussed the programs aims that were related to the students, the teachers and the school community. Finally, we decided agreements, discussed goals and decided about dates for the next mobilities and defined the work need to be done between the participants in the project for the next years.
Focus on agreements:
*Products:
- Student Diary of the project.
- To create a Water Mill with the description of the project made by the students.
- Portfolio: of water-related problems in each partner country and their possible solutions.
- Glossary with ten words in each partner language regarding water.
- Web site. The creation of a section devoted to the Comenius project in the Website of each school with the presentation from each partner country.
- Common Logo at the top of the documents related to the project created by Spanish school as the logo for our project.
*Activities:
- To celebrate March 21st as a Water’s Day. Exhibition in schools of works that have been done from different subjects about water.
- A questionnaire about the development on each school of the celebration of Water Day on 21st of March 2011
- Ask to parents, be careful with putting photos of our students into the net, working in the Project.
- Discuss the national educational system of the host country at each meeting.
- Put up in a specific place PEE in our School Website or Platform at least two power point from the other partners, and each participant could publish information, comments, ect .
- Sending all kind of information between schools, working papers, or documents, questionaries, assessmet sheets, ect.)
- The creation of two groups of the coordinators’ e-mail to get in touch.
- To send a report after each meeting to the coordinator school.
*Mobilities:
Greece : from 7th to 12th May, 2011
Austria: from 7th to 12th November, 2011
Italy: from 19th to 25th March, 2012
Spain: May, 2012
*Proposals for the next meeting in Greece:
- Greek Educational System.
- Presentations. Experiences about Water’s Day in each school.
- Participate in any lesson to talk of our countries and schools.
- E-twinning and Europass.
- English Shared Treasury, ( What?, When?, Who? How?...)
- Discuss about to work on a rain gauge, a pluviometer in the school related to each local area.
- Words in the Glossary.
- New ideas, and proposals for the medium report and for the next meeting in Austria.
