A Green World - be a part, not apart

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Dying wool with natural colour made from oak tree nuts

Astakos was very famous for its oak tree forest. The whole town used to earn a living by collecting the oak tree nuts and selling it to produce colours for dying leather and cloth.

Last week we had a special visitor at school. A grandmother came to school, talked to us about these past times and showed us the traditional way of spinning wool. We then put oak nuts into boiling water and observed it taking a nice brown colour. We dyed our wool in it, let it dry and used it for weaving.

World Environment Day

On the 5th of June our school celebrated the World Environment Day. We all decided to take care of our beaches in Astakos. The students spent a whole morning collecting rubbish from the seashore. We were all very happy about our effort and very proud of our beautiful, clean coast!!!

Friday, June 7, 2013

A fantastic gift from our Latvian friends...

...in Elba schools: our friends from Jelgava school are on a european school trip: 5000km by coach to keep in touch with Europe, despite not having obtained the partnership fundings.
They came to Elba, 6 teachers and 39 students with a special gift: the "Bez Temata" music, songs and dance show. Our pupils felt in love with latvian dances and they soon learnt them.
Thanks Comenius,let's hope the partnership continues... anyway it has already become friendship ♥

the Healthy Nutrition show

The end of the year show in Porto Azzurro grade 3 this year is about healthy nutrition. Our friende Ase Kristine and Linda saw the performance: songs, poems and scenes written by the students during the schoolyear and performed with a live orchestra of children from different grades.
A huge work

And, later, they decided they enjoy the "italian diet".....☺

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

A "mini meeting" in Elba

Tonight a special dinner to celebrate the end of the school year, the end of a wonderful partnership but, more important, friendships that don't finish with the end of partnerships.
In Porto Azzurro there are two teachers from Gjerstad school, Linda and Ase Kristine, working in our classes and having a look at our celebrations of the end of the school years.
And there are our friends from Latvia, Aiga and Vita with four more teachers and 39 students on a school trip. They'll show us "Bez Temata": music and dances performed by the pupils.
Two big gifts from our friends for our pupils.
Let's hope this is a "good look" for our new project.... finger-crossed!!!!

Norwegian lesson in class 3

Linda and Ase Kristine look at grade 5 pupils that welcome the future grade 1

Aiga and Vita just arrived after 5.000 km by coach

grade 5 pupils: sad to leave their primary teachers...

...or happy to start a new adventure???

And some of the future (we hope) Comenius ambassadors!!!!

A great meeting

What can we (people from Elba) say about the meeting in Astakos?
Only a huge, enormous THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had a great time in Astakos, every second was perfect and exciting for teachers and pupils.
Wow!!!!!! We'll miss all of you so much....

Friday, May 17, 2013

A visit from our friends from Elba

We were very sad to say farwell to our friends from Elba. We had a fantastic time learning a lot from each other.

Hope you had a fantastic time with us. We had lots of fun making bruschetta with you during our Italian Day.

Our school was opened in 1976, a design/building project between the Department of Education and Science in London, The Welsh Office and Dyfed County Council.
Five small village schools were closed in order to provide a wide and rich opportunity for us children to learn and play together. In 1984, Ysgol Gynradd Gartheli in Llwynygroes closed and the children of the village started attending Ysgol y Dderi.
Our school is a community school with seven classes from Nursery to Year 6. We are a happy school with a capacity for 144 children.
The school building is very modern and beautiful and was designed especially for us. Most areas are open plan and on our level. We value the inclusiveness of the design.
The school hall is the heart of our school, where we meet twice a week for collective worship. It is also used for Physical Education and school dinners. We have playgrounds within the Foundation Phase and junior department which are lively and colourful, with many fun and stimulating activities for us. In addition we have a field, an activity area, and we are also very lucky to share the village play area with the community.
Our forest field is an important space, where we learn many new skills and apply many of those we have learnt in the classroom. A fenced area is our garden where we cultivate fruit and vegetables. We are also involved with the Long Wood Project, a local community forest where we have planted trees and participated in Forest School initiatives.

Our school is in Porto Azzuro, a village founded by the Spanish on the wonderful sea!! Our school's name is "Giuseppe Cerboni" in Marconi Street and it is in the heart of the village. It's very big, and a bit old, it's pink and it's got big windows so we have bright classrooms. There are very nice flowerbeds in the small garden with palm and holm trees. There's also a small but beautiful vegetable garden where we grow some kinds of vegetables. At ground floor there are the Secondary School, the staff offices and the head teacher's office. If you climb up the stairs you arrive at the first floor: There are primary school's classrooms. Some are small and some are very big. All of them are nice, bright and comfortable. There is also a school library with lots of books and a L.I.M. There's a gym with circles, balls, a basket and ninepins. In the gym the noise rumbles! I don't like it... If we shout the noise is terrible. My favourite place is the vegetable garden and the library. I would like a lab too. I hope you like our school.

Costanza, class 5

Our school is a large state school located in a rural area not far away from Florence.We have about 1650 students aged between 3 and 13. It consists of 8 separate buildings corresponding to 3 school grades: nursery, primary and lower secondary school.Each school has its own features corresponding to the age and the needs of students but they also have common characteristics such as a computer lab, a library and... of course a vegetable garden where we can grow flowers, plants, fruit and vegetables!!

Who was the Comenius Programme named after?

John Amos Comenius (28 March 1592 - 4 November 1670) was a Czech teacher, educator and writer. He served as the last bishop of Unity of the Brethren and became a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education, a concept eventually set forth in his book Didactica Magna. He is considered the father of modern education. He lived and worked in many different countries in Europe, including Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Transylvania, the Holy Roman Empire, England, the Netherlands and Royal Hungary.

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