there is no life without water
call 2020 round 1 ka2 cooperation for inovation and the exchange of good practices
ka229 school exchange partnership
About the project
We want them to become active promoters and defenders of responsible water usage, to initiate local campaigns
“Save the water for your future”, to analyse people’s behaviours towards water and water sources in their local communities and share them with
their partners. Also, throughout the project, we want to investigate and come up with a plan to turn our schools into water-friendly and eco-friendly
schools and make local authorities implement this common plan on several institutions in our areas, so that we can make a real difference in the
end.
Irresponsible consumption of clean water may easily lead to a crisis and chaos that would affect billions of people in the near future. Bearing this
reality in mind, we have set on a mission to change how people deal with water and we would like to change these patterns/habits, inoculating
proper attitude into the minds of today’s young generations: we want our students to turn the topic upside down and inside out, to learn about
water usage as it used to be regarded by our ancestors, and the way in which we consume it nowadays and the effects of illogical consumption
for the future of human beings.
1. to expand knowledge on water from various perspectives – scientific, literary, cultural or artistic – minimum 60 per
cent of the students
2. to raise pupils’ awareness on the importance of water for mankind
3. to help students identifying the main problems on water shortage and to set them at local context
4. to foster pupils’ civic engagement in solving community problems that are related to ecology and to strengthen the function of the schools in their local communities
5. to develop our students’ soft skills, such as creativity or cultural awareness
6. to improve the students’ linguistic competences
7. to start create a network of schools that are Water-friendly and to expand it in collaboration to the local authorities
Project's activities
Students will have an active part during the project. At the beginning, they will answer questionnaires about water use and its importance in their lives and do initial tests to assess the pre-existing scientific knowledge they have
about water and other related problems. They work on water in arts and literature. Attending lessons concerning water’s importance for our ancestors. Analyzing habits on water drinking. Creating posters encouraging people to drink water. Making a survey about the water consumption. Doing water experiments. Organizing a Water Day in their own school.
Teachers will meet to present their plans. The host will invite representatives of the local authorities to whom to present the final plan which will eventually be turned into local policy.
WATER IN THE PAST
Water often appears in literature, as a background and place of action, and sometimes as a hero.
Students from our schools tried their hand at creating poetry and here in the following presentation PPT are collected works from Italy, Polish, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey. As well as presented legends and traditions related to water.
Water and health in POLAND
WATER AND HEALTH
With this issue, the students could learn
- why proper hydration is a prerequisite for staying healthy.
- the importance of water in human life, plants and soil.
- forming the habit of economical use of water.
- making children aware that water is a treasure, without which life on earth could not exist and therefore it should be taken care of.
We celebrated
WORLD WATER DAY, 22 March
WATER AND HEALTH
Water and health in BULGARIA
RESULTS OF SURVEY DRINKING HABITS
Water as an element of education.
Water and the subject of water can be used in every lesson. Thanks to using water, we can get acquainted with nature, geography, chemistry, physics, we can use it for mathematical calculations. Water has endless possibilities, it all depends on our creativity...
LTTA ITALY
C5 MAKING OUR SCHOOL SUSTAINABLE WATER CONSUMER
Kupno is a small village in south-east of Poland. This is a beautiful region , very natural, where there is beautiful nature. Visiting this region, you can be close to the nature and spend active time cycling, walking in woods or meadows.
We are the Primary School in Kupno named John Paul II for students age 6-14. There are 140 students and 22 teachers. The school building is quite big and new.
We would like to join the project because it gives opportunities to learn English better in the most natural way. Our pupils can improve their communication skills and there is no doubt strong motivation to learn foreign languages.
We want to cooperate with other schools in projects because it gives our students possibility to show Polish customs and traditions that are very interesting on the other hand, they can learn cultures from different countries that help them better to understand other people, be more tolerant and open-minded and no doubt make new friends what is very important in today’s digital world. As I said, we live in a small village, so many of our students do not have the chance to meet more peers, there is also no possibility to see other countries.
The people in charge of running the project in our school are: Elżbieta Chmielowiec- the head teacher well organized and open minded. Anna Marek – English teacher, responsible for the entire project, organization and financial side. She has experience in conducting classes with drama techniques, learning poems and TPR techniques. Bozena Salach – English and French teacher, very active and creative. She also has experience in using drama techniques as teaching language by theatre and music. Elżbieta Stadnicka- French teacher, she has a great talent of teaching and obtains very good teaching results. She knows how to motivate students and how to arouse their enthusiasm. Many of her students were successful at French competitions. Mariusz Szamraj- English teacher and pedagogue – he is good at preparing presentations, making films and videos. He is also the Scout leader at our school. We as a teachers want to develope our students in many ways . The other teachers at our school support us.
In our opinion one of the best way to learn foreign language and tolerance for other culture for young people is working in international projects.
In our school students develop a variety of their interests. We have a dance team where children learn traditional Polish dances and songs. There is also the Scouts team. Students are interested in ecology, photography and sport. We often implement projects in the presentation of a little theatre, for example, fairy tales for younger or disabled children.
Scoala Gimnaziala Piscolt is located in the village of Piscolt, Satu Mare county, in the northwest of Romania.
Our school is a public organisation. The institution's general scope is to offer high quality education to young learners, with ages between three and fifteen years old. It offers education on the level of kindergarden, primary school and gymnasium. Kindergarden is optional under the age of six. Then, pupils enter the primary school which begins at age seven and lasts four years. After graduating the primary school, pupils enter gymnasium which again lasts four years.
In addition to the formal education that pupils receive in our school, we also support them in everything they need and we encourage them to follow their dreams and aspirations and we challenge them to get outside the classroom but also to think outside the box by organizing different kinds of activities (winter competitions, outdoor activities, projects, extracurricular activities).
Our students are guided by highly trained teachers who help them to achieve educational performance. The school has 34 teachers and 375 students.
Our school has four years experience in the field of European Union granted projects, by participating in two projects of this kind (Erasmus+ and Campionii Incluziunii).
We have announced a competition for the best logo for our project. Here are the suggestions for the project logo.
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