Bye bye our favorite project

Our project is finished. We are very happy to have worked with you and we wish you all the best... "Bye bye Journalists!" we're looking forward to working with you again! 

We're happy and we know we love eTwinning!😊

Our experience from the teleconference - written by Byron

During the teleconference in which our newspaper group participated, along with other countries from Europe, we started by asking some questions that each country had assigned to some of the participants. After we answered the questions, we sang "If You’re Happy and You Know It." We sang it in English all together, but also each country sang it separately in their own language. It was fun, but at the same time, we learned information about the school systems of the other program members. In conclusion, this program helps us learn various information, even about our own country! I would recommend you to participate next year because, in addition to gaining knowledge, you will also make friends.

Our experience from Our eTwinning Project - written by Konstantinos

This year we had the chance to participate in a programme called e-twinning with the school newspaper. In this programme we could collaborate with other children from other countries and thats why a lot of children wanted to take place in the school newspaper. In e-twinning we could gather with my classmates and do many things such communicate with the other schools. I didnt have heard anything about e-twinning but now i think that e-twinning is a good programme for many activities you need to do. Also the programme helped us to develop such a variety of things. For example be more socialised because we were answering eachothers questions and we were discovering how its school has an opinion different or same . We 've had a great time with e-twinning and i hope that we will continue using it next year also.

Documentation and assessment

 The project is going to end soon. We have been happy and eager to collaborate.

Students filled in a questionnaire to give an anonymous feedback about the project

IC Sestri Levante published the news of the end on the project on the Facebook page and in the website of the school

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/MjpnzixyttNxF84E/

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/UXkJXPjKMSWYjXvt/

Here we show you a virtual exhibition through an infographic of the most important steps of the project. 

Journalist for my school di Elena Piazze

Positive and negative aspects of school systems

Italy

Written by Flavio A., Alessandro S., Lorenzo S., Ikhlase L., Domenico G., Daniel C.

A positive aspect of our school is the timetable from Monday to Friday from 7.50 to 1.50 p.m. because when lessons finish we have time to do sport, to relax and do homework. 

A system where students are appreciated when they behave positively.

Written by Gregorio U., Gabriele T., Asia M., Angelica P., Sebastiano V.

We think that the IT lab is the best part of our school because it is useful, it is entertaining since all the world is based on technology, but in Italy we have still to deepen our knowledge in this sector. Now we are using “sketch up” which programs in 3D (like Scratch) in a course financed by a resilience national plan which has the aim to help female students to cope better with Technology, Science, Maths, Art.

In the Italian school system they must add more entertaining projects: for example by playing and learning together. If I were a teacher, I would give 20 minutes of relax and play together and then another 20 minutes where you have to repeat the topics and then let the kids play with Wordwall. This way the kids will learn more than normal.

Greece

Written by Dimos Z.

At the Greek educational system we have a lot of holidays. Also, we finish school in early June.

On the other, hand we have a lot of homework and a lot of exams.

SPAIN

Written by Dani, Daniela, Adrián, Veronica and Pablo.

Talking about the educational system in Spain we have to say that there aren't many holidays during the school year.

Students usually stay in the same school from 3 to 16 but also, there are a lot of school in which students finish at the age of 18. Then, they go to universtity. Student use ICT during their classes in order to improve their learning.

Students must study a lot of subjects and do lots of exams and projects, as well.

In mosts schools students start their lessons at 8 o'clock in the morning and finish around 2 pm. During the day they have two breaks. they love playing football, basketball or talking to their friends. 

Green country in the project

We asked each other questions on the forum to introduce ourselves and our schools at the beginning of the project. We created a poll on the question "How do you get to school?". We had the idea to elect the "greenest country". 

 Italy

We are not very green since most of us (9 people out of 11) come to school by car. Sestri Levante is a quite big town near the sea, but we all live far from school and our homes are on the hills surrounding the town. In some cases the school bus doesn't arrive there. Since these areas are not very inhabited the public service of means of transport doesn't operate here very much: there are only 5/6 public busses arriving there during all the day. Italy is not so green, but maybe in the future we hope to do better.

Maybe the areas where you live have better services. 

Spain

In our case we are generally green. Our school is two kilometres from the city center. Most people live in that area. 29 students out of 50 boys and girls get to school on foot everyday. There is a special path so that pupils come complete safely to school. They love walking and talking to their partners on the way to school. Most teacher walk to school as well and it's a fantastic opportunity to talk to them about their hobbies. Only one student out of 50 go to school on bike. Some of them (18 out of 50) come to school by car. They usually live outside our town, 20 or 30 kilometres far away from the school. And finally only two students get to school using public buses.

Spain, step by step, is trying to be a little greener. Let's go ahead!

(Written by Lucía, Macarena, Alejandro, Alfredo and Lola)

Greece

Here, in Greece we usually go to school on foot. Some students live quite far from the school, so they have a number of different ways to go to school like by school bus or by car. The problem with the bus is that you need to wake up really early otherwise you will miss it. Another way is by car where the kids get driven to school by their parents, this way is quite beneficial as kids can wake up whenever they want but it is not always the most practical way, because parents can not always do it. 

Almost all of our teachers go to school by car and many middle aged people use car in our area. Our case here in Greece is quite unique because as we get older we prefer more and more to go to work by car, not even by public transportation.

In my opinion the best way to go to school is on foot. Me and my friends care a lot about the enviroment so even kids who live far away from school would prefer going to school by bike because it is way more environmentally friendly so that  we can live in a better place and become greener step by step!!!

Written by Christos K.

eTwinning live conference

Written by Gregorio U., Sebastiano V., Asia M., Angelica P., Sebastiano V., Flavio A., Daniel C., Lorenzo S., Alessandro S.

 Yesterday, 27th May, we met on the Twinspace at 12 p.m. to discuss about school systems, differences, and finally we sang a song in all the 5 languages of the project: Greek, Spanish, Slovakian, Italian and French. It has been a unique opportunity to know how school works abroad. We took notes about other school systems to compare them and find out what is good in our school system and what we would like to introduce. 

The song that we sang together enhance the differences among countries and multilingualism. We used English to communicate throughout the project but the differences in our mothertongues should be highlighted too and we respect them since we understood that it is the base of being part of a united Europe

Listen to our fantastic song:

Everyone was very excited and we enjoyed this time together.

Progetto

Here you can see a schema where we took notes during the conference about the questions we had previously shared on the forum of the Twinspace 

JOURNALIST FOR MY SCHOOL di MARI CARMEN SERRANO YAÑEZ

Collaborative Photo of students and teachers involved in the eTwinning project : "Journalist for my school"

 These are two different results of the photo of all the protagonists  of this eTwinning project that we created all together. In one version we are in graduation outfit and in the other one we chose our look. 

Thanks to you all for this wonderful recollection. 

Educational systems mind map

 

Safer Internet Day and Netiquette

 In February and March we dealt with online safety because we commemorated the "Safer Internet Day" and we were divided into 5 different collaborative groups which created different presentations about 5 different topics related to Internet.

The five topics were:

cyberbullying

Presentation about cyberbullying 

IT: Domenico G., Alessandro S

SP: Eric, Alejandro, Víctor

 

social networking and fake profiles

Presentation about social networking and fake profiles

IT: Asia M., Angelica P.

Hacking and data protection

Presentation about hacking and data protection

IT: Ikhlase, Flavio A.

SP: Aitor, Marco, Alfredo, Adrián, Daniel, Rubén

 

pedophilia and pornography protection

Presentation about pedophilia and pornography protection

IT: Daniel C., Lorenzo S.

SP: Lola, Javier, Pablo, Manuel Ángel

 

fake news detection

Presentation about fake news detection

IT: Sebastiano V., Gregorio U., Gabriele T.

At the end of this activity we created a common questionnaire where each school added some questions to ask their pairs and then all the students answered them. We will publish the results soon in a common article.

We also created a common infographic about the netiquette which we all must respect in this project and online: All the students added some tips.

Netiquette di Elena Piazze "

The italian students also created a video set in their school where they invented a plot of a story about cyberbullying.

Here you can have a look at it.! Enjoy!!!

Collaborative stories set in the school partner in the project

 In January after having introduced our school through photos, videos,and presentations we used those settings to create five different narrative stories which took place in the schools partner in the project. We were divided in five different groups: one for each school where the story took place and we have to create as many characters as we needed to accomplish the task.
All the groups did the best to create the most involving story.

Group 1 sets a thriller story in the Italian school. This group is composed of:
Italy: Asia M., Angelica P.
Greece: Nikolas, Thomas, Byron
France: Sacha, Marley, Milan, Camille, Marine, Manon
Slovakia: Ivana, Nina, Veronika

Group 2 sets a horror story in the Spanish school.Group 2 is composed of:
Italy: Gregorio U., Gabriele T., Sebastiano V.
Greece: Chris, Anastasis
Spain: Javier, Marco, Lucía, Alejandro, Manuel M., Aitana, Lola
Slovakia: Ivana, Nina, Veronika

Group 3 sets a mithological story in the Greek school. 
Italy: Flavio A., Lorenzo S.
Greece: Xrysa-Anna, Aimilios
Spain: Aitor , Adrián, Carmen, Javi, Pablo, Dayenú, Alfredo
France: Ange, Théo, Angélina, Willian. Mayana, Lola, Mathias
Slovakia: Natália  

Group 4 sets a romantic story in the French school and it is composed of:

Italy: Ikhlase L., Daniel C.
Greece: Giannis, Dimitra, Marios
Spain: Daniel, Mario H., Mario L.,Mauro,Lara, Nayra, Sara.
France: Kéliana, Mathilde, Constance, Louane, Raphaël, Axel,Noham, Julien, Nathan C ,Angel
Slovakia: Natalia, Karolina, Nela

Group 5 sets a thriller story in the Slovakian school and it is composed of:
Italy: Domenico G., Alessandro S.
Greece: Dimos, Konstantinos
Spain: Sandra, Sara, Leo,Ainhoa, Santiago, Evan, Verónica.
France: Léna, Juliette,Mahé,Gabriel, Noémie, Eva,Baptiste, Loani, Erika

The following is an ebook including all the stories:

Short Stories di Isabelle Gubert

And here you are the shared documents where we worked to create the collaborative stories.

IC Sestri Levante di Elena Piazze Group 2 sets a horror story in the Spanish school and students can add as many characters as they need to create the story. Group 2 is composed of: It: Ulivi, Traversi, Villa Gr: Chris, Anastasis Sp: Javier, Marco, Lucía, Alejandro, Manuel M., Aitana, di Elena Piazze Gymnasio Soufliou di Tech Souf Group 4 sets a romantic story in the French school. Students can create as many characters as they need to develop the story. The group is composed of: It: Ikhlase L., Daniel C. Gr: Giannis, Dimitra, Marios Sp: Daniel, Mario H., Mario L.,Mauro,Lara, di Elena Piazze Group 5 sets a thriller story in the Slovakian school. Students can add as many characters as they need to develop their story. Group 5 is composed of It: Gaviglio, Simonini Alessandro Gr: Dimos, Konstantinos Sp: Sandra, Sara, Leo,Ainhoa, Santiago, Evan di Elena Piazze

Our vacations

March 25th National Day

 Written by Byron

In Greece March the 25th is national day when we commemorate the beginning of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. We celebrated this event on 22nd of March at our municipal theater and on 25th of March we had our parade.

Kyra Sarakosti or Lady Lent

 

"Sarakosti" is a period before Easter in the Greek Orthodox Lenten Tradition.

 

Kyra Sarakosti or Lady Lent is an old Greek custom.

It is a type of calendar that people had in older times to count the weeks from Clean (Ash) Monday to Easter Sunday!

 Lady Lent has seven feet. They represent the seven weeks of Lent. Each passing week, on each Saturday, children get to break off one foot. This is a great visual way to count down the weeks until Easter.

She is in a praying position and she hasn't got a mouth because she does not talk and eat during this period, she hasn't got any ears because she doesn't hear during this time.

 After the last foot is cut off, it is tradition to place this foot in a bowl with fruits and nuts and whoever finds it receives a special blessing.

 

Ingredients of Kyra Sarakosti

2-2 1/2 cups flour

1/2 cup salt

2-2 1/2 tsp. cinnamon                            

water (as much as needed)        

decorations as you wish

* Not to be eaten! *

Written by Nikolas

International Women's day at Gymnasio Soufliou

The Junior High School of Soufli, in collaboration with High School of Soufli and the network of School Mediation Schools of the Pedagogical Department of the university of Ioannina as well as with schools of all levels from all around over the country and municipalities, implemented an action against school violence and bullying entitled  "Break the silence - unite the voices against school violence“ on March 6 in the central square in Soufli.

Written by Ioannis.

International Women's Day

Professional orientation & work areas in the pharmaceutical industry

Written by Dimos

The students of the 3rd grade of the Soufli High School participated in the activity "Professional orientation & work areas in the pharmaceutical industry". The activity was implemented by the non-profit organization The Tipping Point for the school year 2023/24, with the aim of the students interacting with each other through live group sessions with professionals of different specialties in order to discover professional paths of their interest, as well as with scientists and executives of the pharmaceutical industry Pharmathen.

Chado: Tea Ceremony

Written by Chrysa - Anna

In February students of Junior High School of Soufli visited the Silk Museum of the Piraeus Group Cultural Foundation at Soufli to visit the exhibition "As silk", which included selected authentic objects from the collections of the Asian Art Museum of Corfu.

In the context of learning about Japanese culture, the 1st grade students took part in the "Chado: Tea Ceremony" activity. It is a reenactment of the tea ceremony, which is combined with a memory card game and has been the main Japanese entertainment since the Heian period.

Back to school after Christmas holidays

"Like a fairytale" 

It is a Christmas village in Soufli, where many pupils participate. It took place between 23rd and 30th December. This is a video and here is how our students experienced it! 

Chris: "In the village of Soufli, the greatest attraction is a park that’s like a fairy tale. In it there are a lot of places you can go but one that stands out the most is the school of Harry Potter. This house is the one that always has the longest line due to it’s great popularity. In the house there were 4 trials to be completed which change every year. When you complete the 4 trials you can go to the back to find a different thing, this year it was the prison of Azkaban." 

John: "In the Christmas eve in Soufli in Evros, I took part in the Christmas village "Like a Fairytale" and I was in the house of Santa Claus! The Santa Claus house has 2 rooms: The first room had some activities for the children, for instance writing letter to Santa, and in the second room it was Santa! The most important you could take a photo with him with the help of an elf." 

Nikolas: "The park of Asterix and Ovelix took place “like a fairytale” too and many people visited it. It consisted of the small houses of Asterix's village and the magic cave."

Documentary for Dadia Forest

Written by Konstantinos K.

Last year we had the chance to make a documentary for the fire in a nearby forest, one of the most well know, the forest in Dadia. We made this documentary with the help of many of 20 of my classmates at school and one professional director, Anagnostopoulos Nikos from Neaniko Plano institution. We made this documentary titled "The riders of the fire" in one week. 

Christmas carols of our Journalists

Wishes from Gymnasio Soufliou