Project activities we intend to carry out in the second part of school year 2009/2010

§ Final layout of the protocol: - handbook to be spread among the school and local community - upload it on the school and project websites (each country has to write down a paper in which it should list ten main ideas or knowledges, based on its own experience, about how to welcome a foreign student at school, and send it to the coordinator. The coordinating school collects all the ideas and write the final document.);
§ Production of a CD with all the activities carried during the two years;
§ Final layout of the shared language course published on each school website;
§ Final questionnaire for students to evaluate its impact and the level of satisfaction of the people involved, processes and feelings (the coordinating school send it to the other schools, each school gives to the children involved and collect the results starting from the first week of May; the coordinating school receives all the data the week before Slovenia);
§ Project meeting in Slovenia from 24th to 27th of May: final evaluation of the activities carried out, exchange of all the materials produced to record on a CD to be given all students and communities (the students will be shared into groups, each group will cook a traditional dish, build a toy, etc under the guide of a foreign teacher);
§ Final exhibition about the project - Comenius Inter-cool-ture Day : meeting of all the students involved in the project inside their own school to celebrate the importance of the topic. It will be held in cooperation with people belonging to different foreign communities of the area. Local press will be involved (Bulgaria will celebrate it on the 9th of May- European Day);
§ Project hymn: the two italian schools will write down the text and the music of an Inter-Cool-Ture song to learn and sing during the final meeting;
§ Project group on FaceBook: the Portuguese school subscribes a group on Facebook;
§ Project Blog at the following address: http://inter-cool-ture.blogspot.com.

Project activities we carried out in the first part of school year 2009/2010

§ Projects meeting in Turkey to monitor the project evaluating the activities carried out, to plan activities and share practices for the first part of this school year, to compare school systems;
§ Prosecution of the school correspondence: exchange of Christmas cards and of lots of information about Christmas traditions in each partner country;
§ First layout of a shared multimedia language course (drawings/photos, dialogues and audio recordings of lexicon and basic linguistic structures of each partner country) useful to reach two important aims: improve the knowledge of our cultures/languages and lay the foundations of an instrument to be used with our foreign students;
§ Plan “listening time activities”: parents/grandparents and/or people coming from other countries tell stories belonging to their own culture; compare, without discriminating, the different values found in the texts/stories read and listened;
§ Plan some teaching units about cinema: significant movies can let our children know each country’s way of living in a more real way and can let them better understand the relationships with others;
§ Activities/products about: traditional stories/ lullabies/ songs… traditional toys / games..;
§ Collect and exchange “materials” for the “inter-cool-tural boxes” (to exchange in Girona);
§ Projects meeting in Spain to compare / evaluate the activities developed and their impact, to plan activities and share practices for the second part of school year 2009/2010, to compare school systems.

Project Meeting in Girona- Spain

TIMETABLE
Monday, 8th March 2010
9.30. Meeting in front of the hotel Peninsular.
10h. Arrival at the school
Welcome in the hall
Headmistress speech
Students festival
11h. Breakfast
11.30h – 13.00h. Primary School visit
13.30h. Lunch at school
15h. 16h. Infant School visit
16h – 18h. Comenius meeting in the hotel.
18.30h – 20h. Free time
20h. Meeting in front of the hotel
21h. Dinner in Can Lloret Restaurant
Tuesday, 9th March 2010
9.30h. Meeting in front of the hotel
Visit to Sant Pere de Roda Monastery
Visit to the fishmen village of Port de la Selva (Costa Brava)
13h. Lunch in Restaurant Porto Cristo, Port de la Selva.
16.30h. Arriving at the hotel.
17h – 19.30h. Free time
20h. Dinner in Le Bistrot restaurant.
22h. Visit to the famous catalan “Castellers” human towers.
Wednesday, 10th March 2010
9.15h. Meeting in front of the hotel
10h. The Girona Legends “in situ”, guided visit to the ancient town.
13h. Lunch at Bronsoms Restaurant
15h. The Jewish Museum
16.30h. Comenius meeting in the hotel.
18h. Free time.
20h. Meeting in front of the hotel
21h. Final cocktail - dinner in Cynara Restaurant.
Thursday, 11th March
Leaving of all the guests.

Azur and Asmar-San Lorenzo-Italy

This is a big poster made by the children of the III A class of the primary school; they made drawings of the sequences of the story describing the scenery of the film. The children also built two puppets to put in our Inter- cool- tural box to bring to Spain.

Waiting for the boxes...- from Vratsa Bulgaria

The pupils from Vratsa, Bulgaria expressed their art skills making dolls as the ones their grandparents used to play with. The children used wooden spoons, rags, maize leaves and threads to create the dolls. Then they named them with nice Bulgarian names: Ralitsa, Albena, Todor, Gergana, etc. The children are also talented and good in painting. They prooved it by drawing and colouring funny bookmarks. They are now preparing another surprise - pictures on glass plates.
All these pieces of art will be placed in the travel culture boxes which are going to travel to Girona, Spain first and then to all the partner countries. The boxes already contain interesting objects which present Bulgaria, Vratsa and our school. Our foreign friends will be able to cook meals from our collection of traditional Bulgarian recipes and listen to the Bulgarian children's favourite songs.
Be patient, friends, and you will soon see all the surprises we are preparing for you!

" A bookbinding workshop" in Slovenj Gradec- Slovenia

The pupils of Druga osnovna scola Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, created aninteresting book with traditional chants and rhymes, also thoseincluding numbers, which is a part of the plan in our project. Theyworked on it in a workshop called " A bookbinding workshop". Pupilsthemselves collected the rhymes and chants, chose the suitable ones,wrote them down and bound a book.

Those rhymes are hard to translatebecause some of them don't even have a real meaning in Slovenelanguage but are used just for counting out and other games for children. There were some more workshops going on the same they where pupilsworked on toys. But these toys will be a surprise until the meeting inSpain.The pupils and teachers from the Slovenian team of ComeniusInter-Cool-Ture wish you a very happy and successful year 2010.