"Beauty of the area we live in" competition

In October 2013 class 5b of Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Leżajsku (Leżajsk Primary School No. 2) implementing one of the main objectives of the project ”Healthy kids – healthy school” – spreading the healthy lifestyle among young people – made a set of 10 pictures entitled “Co warto zobaczyć w Leżajsku” (“Places worth seeing in Leżajsk”) and submitted it to the photo competition “Nasza piękna okolica” (“Beauty of the area we live in”) organized as part of Poland’s nationwide campaign “Zachowaj Trzeźwy Umysł 2013” (”Keep a Sober Mind 2013”).

The pictures were taken by the pupils during some walking and biking tours around Leżajsk. The enterprise was for its attendants a great way of getting to know their home town better as well as going in for active tourism.

 

The photo set is available on slideshare.

Teachers' meeting in Lousada

The host of the fourth project teachers’ session, held in October 2013, was EB23 de Lousada – part of Agrupamento Vertical de Escolas Lousada Centro. During the meeting the representatives of the partner institutions gave feedback on trying out examples of “fair play practice” and the implementation of “Let’s get fit” programme. They also made specific arrangements on a new task - working out three recipes for healthy and tasty food, typical of each country involved in the project, and sending them to all other schools to try out.

Lousada - a general view

Lousada - the main square

EB23 de Lousada - the hall

EB23 de Lousada - the library

A workshop on the project activities

The participants of the session

While staying in Portugal the participants of the session had the opportunity to get to know what the Portuguese educational system is like (tours of pre-primary, primary and secondary schools, monitoring lessons, the pupils’ performances, a visit to the local teachers training centre, talks with the Mayor of Lousada) as well as broaden their knowledge about the geography, history and culture of Norte Region (guided tours around such places of interest as Oporto and Guimarães).

A visit to pre-primary classes

Guimarães - one of the main streets

Guimarães - the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza

Oporto - the old centre

Oporto - the city's main football stadium

 

"Fair play" practice

At the beginning of a new school year (2013/2014) the community of Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2 w Leżajsku (Leżajsk Primary School No. 2) tried out one of a dozen or so examples of “good practice” suggested by the representatives of the partner institutions at the Istanbul teachers’ meeting three months earlier. The pupils from Leżajsk chose one of  the Berlin school’s ideas to be implemented – 5 Rules. During English classes they first worked out some fundamental school environment rules in two languages – English and Polish, and then propagated them in the form of big posters (made during Art and Design lessons; placed on the school building walls) and a PowerPoint presentation (made during ICT lessons; put on the official school website). 

Preparing the set of the school rules and its artwork was a great opportunity for the pupils to express their opinions, get to know how to work in a group properly, as well as improve their language, design and ICT skills.

The “fair play” task, carried out almost entirely by the pupils themselves, and meant for themselves, brought about a considerable drop in young people’s misbehaviour in the school. 

Here are some of the posters: