We met in Drobin-Poland from 4-8 June 2012
COMENIUS 2ND MEETING IN POLAND 4TH – 8TH JUNE
The second meeting of the Project
“Culture; Indicator of the Nations Assets” took place in Poland, in the town of
Drobin, from 4th to 8th June 2012.
In the meeting partner schools were
represented as following:
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Turkey – 4 teachers: İsmet Erdal, Fadime Hilal Sevim, Hacer Ipekoglu,
Kenan Akdemir; and 4 students: Merve Çiragoz,
Sadık Emre Kesler, Enes Şenbagci, Müzeyyen Seren Bayulken.
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Bulgaria – 3 teachers: Zonka
Ivanova Dabizheva, Milena Ivanova Pashova, Valeria Georgieva Petrova, and 6
students: Iliyana Stefanova Hrishcheva, Krasimira Georgieva Todorova,
Eleonora Dimitrova Pezheva, Nergis Nafi Chalieva, Mariana Georgieva Bambalova,
Nina Iordanova Pepechkova.
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Czech Republic – 4 teachers: Daniela Köllnerová, Richard Moldrzyk,
Dagmar Nogová, Jaromír Dümler, and 12 students: Sebastian
Legerski, Petr Koštur, Dominika Šmídová, Lenka Mitrengová, Adéla Hladká,
Barbora Bruková, Daniel Siwek, Nicole Follnerová, Michaela Sikorová, David
Svoboda, Robin Zoň, Soňa Alexová.
On the 3rd June the
representation of host school met the partners at the airport and at the
Central Station in Warsaw. Firstly, we welcomed groups of participants from
Bulgaria and Czech Republic and having two free hours before the arrival of
Turkish group, Bulgarian and Czech partners were sightseeing the old town of
Warsaw. In the evening, we picked up our Turkish partners. Students were taken
home by the hosting families in Drobin and teachers went to the hotel in Płock
– the nearest city.
The first day - 4th June in the host school: Publiczne Gimnazjum
im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego the meeting programme started with the
opening ceremony. The headmaster Miss. Bożena Woźniak welcomed the guests and
after that the group of children was singing, dancing in folk clothes and
playing the instruments especially for our partners.
At nearly 10 o’clock, after inauguration,
all the participants gathered in the meeting room where coffee, tea and some
snacks were prepared for the guests. We started conducting tasks resulting from
the project. Students from each country showed and discussed presentations
about disabled people’s education and after that there was a panel discussion
about discrimination between genders. Czech students took the floor the most.
After working session we went to lunch and
later there was a meeting with local authorities - the Mayor of Drobin Mr. Sławomir
Wiśniewski. Mr. Wisniewski welcomed the project partners and gave a speech
about local society and town.
The last point of that opening day was a
visit in The Scout Song And Dance Ensemble
called “Dzieci Płocka” http://www.dzieciplocka.pl/english. Students and teachers had the possibility to
listen about Polish folk dances and songs and also practice some dances. It was
a great fun especially for students.
The second day – 5th June – We went to the city Toruń, the place
where Nicolaus Copernicus was born. We were sightseeing the Medieval monuments
of old town and we visited the Gingerbread Museum where students baked their
own gingerbreads. After museum we had a cruise on the river Vistula.
In the late afternoon we returned to the
area of Drobin and on the beautiful farm where disabled people work, an
exhibition of Polish cuisine was prepared. The local authorities, teachers,
parents and students were waiting for the guests coming back from Toruń. Everybody
could try specials of Polish cuisine,
popular salads and desserts.
In the evening all participants went to
the school in Drobin to see the show of “Harry Potter” performed in English by
school theatre group. Some special effects took place in the performance in
which chemistry teacher helped to conduct.
The third day – 6th June – The whole group of participants
together with Polish students and teachers went to visit Auschwitz – Birkenau
Museum. Thanks to museum guide, guests had a chance to get to know the cruelty
of Nazism during World War II that took
place in Poland.
The fourth day – 7th June – We visited one of the most beautiful
and rich of monumental sights cities: Cracow. The group walked along the
historic center of Cracow with a tour-guide, who explained in details the
history of the city and of the surroundings. After dinner in a restaurant,
teachers had a short meeting which was a summary of the project visit in
Poland. All the teams talked about their satisfaction
with the attention they get during visit .Also they added that Poland did their
best in being host.The lenght of he
distances among the locations which were visited was found some irritating.The students were
very satisfied with their family and friends and there weren’t any problems
during the visit.
It was emphasized by Turkey that on the first day of the visiting ,there
would be an introductory meeting which was aimed to give infos about the
visiting program.
It was also emphasized that all the activities were found very
successfull,everybody had at least an impression or widely had a broaden
knowledge about the themes - special education and relationship and
discrimination between boys and girls-which was found very useful. For the
purpose of the project new places, new people, new cultures, were seen and it helped as a major contributor to the
students get to know about the
World.Polish cousine ‘s presentation which was all prepared by the disabled
people were found very meaningfull.
The products or outputs of the presentation
about the special education and the panel about the relationship and
discrimination between boys and girls will be sent to Poland until at the end
of the June 2012.
The
infos about the national cousines will be sent to the cordinator till the end
of the July 2012 and the cordinator will load the infos to the web page.
A writing included the national folk music
and fok dances information will be sent to the cordinator before the Czech
Republic visiting .
Opinions of teachers and students about the
Poland visiting will be sent to the cordinator till the end of June 2012.
Photos and videos about the Poland visiting
will be loaded to the wep page by Poland.(www.cultureina.org)
The
third visiting will be held on 8-12 October 2012 in Czeh Republic, and a play
about the related theem will be performed . By the way every country will
inform the Chezch Republic about the duration of their plays.
more photos https://picasaweb.google.com/101378350365222353413
