The second project meeting in Germany

The second project meeting in Germany

GYMNASIUM UNTER DEN EICHEN UETZE

14-16 April 2016

All the coordinators and teachers involved directly in the project met in a school in Uetze.

They exchanged information and experiences, discussed the schedule of the project, talked about completed and planned activities and present the results of teams’ work from each partner school.

 

They talked about the completed actions and evaluation tools prepared and used by partner schools. Then a coordinator presented a timetable for the next project activities and teachers and students international workshops. They discussed the achieved results and their dissemination and impact on target groups.

 

Apart from that, Polish, Turkish and Dutch teachers with German teachers of Biology participated in a workshop done in the Schulbiologie Zentrum in Hannover.

 

 

The international group of teachers in Schulbiologie Zentrum in Hannover

 

 

                        Children are planting seeds. They are learning how to grow vegetables.

We are observing students, who are doing scientific research connected with water. They are checking water taken from the nearby ponds with using microscopes.

 

There are Polish, German, Turkish and Dutch teachers in the Schulbiology Zentrum’s garden
The picture made of colourful stones shows anatomy of a human being and there are different herbs are growing around. The task to be done is to find the suitable herbs for each organ in our body.

 

Mr. Jorg is coming by bike. He has been a wonderful host for us all and a very good guide of the tour of the Schulbiologie Zentrum in Hannover.

 

After the tour of the Schulbiologie Zentrum we went sightseeing to the city centre of Hannover. We saw there some interesting monuments and places.

                                               The view from the tower in Hannover

 

    

Link to Usak

A trip to Amsterdam and leaving for Poland

The seventh day-Friday-18^th March

We went to Amsterdam to do some sightseeing there. We took a canal bus and we stopped at the flower marker and Van Gogh Museum.

                                                

                                                              The canal in Amsterdam

 

                    There were parking lot for bikes in front of the railway station in Amsterdam

                                                             Amsterdam’s  architecture

 

The last day of our stay in Assen-19^th March

We left hotel at 9.30 and took and we were traveling by train and bus to the airport in Eindhoven.

We got to Katowice at 5.15.

 

 

The visit in our partner school in Holland was a wonderful adventure, which enriched our knowledge of the European country, gave us a lot of opportunity to speak English and  enabled us to get some important information and materials for our job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sixth day in Assen

                                                    The sixth day-Thursday-17^th March

                                   The presentation of “Do it” program  in a school given by Mr. Willem Borghuis.
                                     He suggested introduced some rules into schools:

                                                                           -during breaks, pupils first class go outside
                                                                           -no candy machines anymore
                                                                            -healthy school canteen
                                                                           -drinking tap water
                                                                           -no smoking

Mr.Willem is showing the energy balance

 

                                                            He said that the program of “Do It” resulted in:

                                                          -pupils are less overweight

                                                         -pupils drink less soft drinks

                                                         -pupils spend less time on watching TV and computer

                                                        -more boys take breakfast.

                                                               

 

 

 

 

                                                  

 

                                Practice: tests on pollution  in package materials with students

                                    In the afternoon we went to see the Presentation of Sustainabilty Centre

                                                                     and tour around the building

 

After visiting the Center we were having lunch there and discussing the topics connected with:

-student’s exchange to Turkey in May 2016,

-student’s activities September ’16 - May ’17,

-other activities, planning, use of eTwinning website.

 

 

The fifth day in Assen

The fifth day-Wednesday-16^th March

In the morning we were participating in the workshop done by Mrs. Huubs Hubbeling, who gave
a lecture about healthy school. Afterwards we discussed all the aspects of introducing healthy habits into our schools.

After the workshop we visited Drents Museum in Assen where we saw the exhibitions connected with history of the town and some exhibitions about Maya’s civilization.

 

 The Drents Museum building. There were a lot of  flowers(crocus) in front of it.

 

 

                                        The guide is giving us information about the museum.

In the late afternoon we were invited to the school restaurant for dinner prepared by students, who have been trained to be cooks, waitresses and waiters  in the future. All the dishes made by them were delicious and they behaved as real restaurant’s employees.

Workshops at the Dutch school

The fourth day-Tuesday-15^th March

We were taking part in the presentation on the healthy aspects of using a schoolyard  done by Dutch teacher, Mr. Onno Oord. Before the presentation, all participated teachers  went around the school building and checked the ground there, they drew their signs expressing their “likes” and “dislikes” after seeing the schoolyard. After coming back they put the cards with their opinions on the blackboard. The Dutch teacher read out their opinions and presented different ideas of students, teachers and architectures, who designed  a new  look of the schoolyard.

 
                                                     The workshop with Mr. Onno Oord

After lunch we went to the Veenhuizen Museum, where we took part in making homemade cheese workshop. Our guide and trainer involved us into making cheese. It was a very interesting experience. We spent there all the afternoon but we got the cheese which we had made.

Our trainer explained us what we should do

 

                                                         There is the cheese which we have made

                                             There were a lot of shelves with the ripen cheese

While we were travelling back we noticed that the canals are located along the roads and they are not fenced from them and you must drive carefully if you do not want to cross the narrow line of the grassed stripes and go into the canal.
There were old houses and each of them had its name written high on the front wall.

 

Dr Nassau College Penta School

                                             Classrooms and workshops in the Dutch school

                                                    The classroom for cooking lessons

 

A lesson of carpentry

 

                                                           A lock-smith workshop

                                                          A classroom for making bread

                            

                                                                 An Art lesson

 

                                                             Dance plates in the gym

 

                                                          One of the three gym

                                                               A karate lesson

 

                                   The international group of teachers in a teacher staff room

               The head teacher, Menno den Hollander is welcoming foreign teachers in his school

                                      There is a sentence written on the teachers room’s wall:

”In a healthy school we form a social community where everyone can develop his/her talents”.