Friday, April 20, 2012

4th Meeting Comenius 16-20 april 2012

Moments of great excitement and celebration at the Istituto Comprensivo Bocchi Parma: on days 16 to 20 April 2012 was held on the fourth and final meeting of the Comenius project "Footprints Through Europe" activated between Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic and Ireland. At the official opening ceremony was attended by five members of foreign representatives, the Vicar Professor Maristella Tassi IC Bocchi, the contact Federica Piedimonte, the teachers, school staff and students. During the visit, the pupils of all schools of the Institute have done some musical performances and theater: all this has been allowed to show the living reality of this school, whose goal is the educational success of all students, with the development of different abilities and cognitive styles.
The day continued with a visit to the schools and workshops during which our European partners have been able to observe the normal teaching activities in an Italian school. All of this has materialized in the best room of the Province of Parma when the delegations met for the project meetings during which everyone present exchanged their experiences and have established strategies for the continuation of the COMENIUS still provides the final phase and reworking of the project.

Finally, we can neglect the climate of friendship which shall be introduced in the group and that was reinforced by the social occasions that have seen these all teachers interested in the project and cultural exchange with a different reality from ours. Real opportunity for growth, this, to space beyond our narrow fields.
Thanks to all teachers and school staff who have contributed to the initiative. Finally, thanks to the students for their help, hope to repeat these experiences. Elisabetta


 



Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Article of the Gazette of Parma di Elisabetta Giannossi

Report 3rd mobility

FOOTPRINTS THROUGH EUROPE
Comenius Partnerships August 2010-July 2012
Vsetìn, CZ, 3rd mobility 17th October -  21st October 2011
Report Work Session, Vsetìn, thursday 20th October 2011  
On the forth day of the meeting in Vsetìn, after visiting the Kindergarten and the school, the partners evaluated the project and planned the activities for the next meeting. It has been decided that the language boxes should be sent to all partners by the end of January 2012. Each partner has to prepare 5 boxes containg language memory cards, and a CD with 3 different typical songs, one of the three songs must be translated into English. The coordinator will prepare the grid for the Language Dictionary that will be filled in by every partner. During the fourth mobility the partner’s diaries with the story of the mascots around Europe will be shown to the others, (five stories in  five languages  of five different puppets). Every partner should write something on the blog, http://footprintsthrougheurope.blogspot.com/
All partners decided that the fourth and last mobility will take place in Parma, Italy from Monday16th April 2012 to Friday 20th April 2010.
The atmosphere of the meeting has been warm and all participants were very interested in all the activities they had taken place. The partner organized everything perfectly. Everything has been planned in details. Everything was scheduled in time. All the participants were enthusiastic of visiting the kindergarten and the primary and secondary schools, sharing opinions about teaching to children in their own countries. The students prepared beautiful performances, dances and songs. The participants took part at the school opening cerimony of the new amphitheatre  where also local authorities were present. 
For all the events that had been taken place during the third mobility see the attached invitation prepared by coordinating partner.
Parma-Italy,  23 October 2011
The Deputy and Media Coordinator
                                                                                                              Federica Piedimonte

Saturday, April 2, 2011

2nd Comenius Project Meeting: Ireland

Ireland, the land of colours, sounds and wonderful people.
The second mobility group Comenius was held in Dublin in the Hole Family School in Monkstown.
Our irish colleagues had prepared everything to perfection!!!
We have visited their school and we were greeted by the principal Donal, an exceptional person.
During the meeting we exchanged our school experiences and educational activities have been carried out upon arrival of the box surprice.
We visited Dublin with Sean and he told us the story of making this city the most picturesque places to visit.
It was nice to see all the other colleagues known in Slovenia!!!
See you in next mobility!!!Elisabetta 
                                                                                        

Thursday, December 9, 2010

“Children eat love and produce intelligence”
“A teacher educates for what he is, more than for what he does”.
The teachers who took part to Comenius Project really believe it and they showed it by pupils from Zagreb and Ljubljana kindergarten . They offered us their heart-language and their spontaneity. School is the most important project, from it you start your trip for life, making friendship, learning, growing up, discovering values.
Thanks to all the “great” teachers who took part to this important project.

                                                                                            Maria