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.

Presentation of the jigsaw about human rights

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

Yesterday, 27th May 2024, we organized an event to commemorate the convention UN about the rights of children and adolescents where each class of the school prepared a jigsaw about the rights: 1. Right to physical and psychological upbringing 2. Right to protection from violence, exploitment, abuse 3. Right to education 4. Right to family 5. Right to opinion 6. Right to freedom of thinking and religion 7. Right to nationality 8. Right to protection from war, macis, discrimination 9. Right to free time, playing A small group from each class presented the jigsaw on the basketball court. As you can see in the photos we created a frame joining our hands and we listened to “All together” song and “We are the world”. We presented the jigsaw on the 27th May because we commemorate the event of the signature of the convention in Italy which happened on 27th May 1991.

Rosa e Beige Moderno Trucco Elegante Bellezza Outro di YouTube

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. 

Awarding of the creative storytelling set in schools, partner in the project

 Today, 10th May, we awarded the winners who wrote the three stories set in the schools partner in the project.

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

Lesson concert held by Ms Nastasi and Pietro Piva

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

On the 27th of March we went to a ex Church to assist a concert lesson held by Pietro Piva, an ex student at our school and Elena Nastasi, a music teacher at IC Sestri Levante. In this lesson we learned about trumpets and the varius types of them. To attend this lesson were a lot of different classes, and of each class 1 student could try to play it. Pietro Piva explained the different components of a trumpet. They also played some songs. This lesson help us further under stand this instrument.

International Women's Day

Concert lesson about string instruments

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

On 4th March Davide Mocini, a guitarist and lutenist, came to an ex monastery in Sestri Levante to tell the students of our school the history of string instruments and to explain the evolution and development in the last four centuries. 

The musician explained the various differences and how the technique of approaching the performance has changed, the different ways of plucking the strings, proposing, for each of them, some pieces and also exposing very particular curiosities, such as the different writing of the notes on the scores . “It is clear that the instrument that attracts  most of the attention” – he added – "is the electric guitar, which is nowadays language  and it is a completely different instrument from the other three on which we are carrying out important work to revive them. Getting into these repertoires is very difficult for a person who has never heard them before. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of listening education to enter this type of world."

Davide Mocini has a diploma in classical guitar and lute, plays in a Renaissance trio and continues further in his studies on the baroque lute. He composes songs with the Renaissance lute which he often combines with the electric guitar, contaminating, without altering, the original atmosphere of that distant world.

Astronomy at school

Written by Daniel, Ikhlase, Alessandro S., Lorenzo S., 

Another activity we have done is that of the astronomer who is passionate about taking photos of celestial bodies.He brought us several images and knowledge to us, helping us better understand how our galaxy is formed.We have conducted ulterior studies on the history of the moon, on the stars, how they are classified, on our galaxy and on nebulae. If another galaxy existed that is ten million years ago and if people went there, they would see how are planet would end.

First attempts with Scratch

Written by Gregorio, Gabriele and Asia.

Our science project: scratch

A few weeks ago, our science teacher proposed a new programming project. The goal of this project is to end up being able to create our own videogame about celiac diseases.

We started by pasting a pre-made flowchart into our very first script. Our teacher explained that we needed to add a background to our “videogame“. She also explained to us that we needed to create a new character and modify the project to our liking. We went to the IT lab so many times to perfect it. Our classmate, Angelica is so good at it. 

In the next science lesson we will eventually finish this project and the teacher will give us a grade.

This will be part of our civic education program. 

You can play with the videogame we created and shared. The character is celiac so it mustn’t eat gluten!

Bancarellino literary award

 BANCARELLINO 2024

Written by Sebastiano and Angelica, with the collaboration of our schoolmate, Janko.

The “Bancarellino” is a competition to encourage the kids to read books.

The goal of this competition is to read 3 books in 3 months. Students become literary critics and vote the best one.

In our class 8 students  took part because we like reading, then 2 teachers came to our class with 8 class books and distributed them. 

Each class has a number of books based on the number of participating students. On 25th of May we’re going to Pontremoli in Tuscany to rate the best book, which will be awarded.

Progetto di Elena Piazze

Geogebra

Written by Lorenzo S., Alessandro S., Domenico G., Ikhlase L.

In our school there were various activities that impressed us, for example a work with geogebra that really impressed us. Geogebra is a virtual platform in which you create geometric figures, our Maths teacher gave us an outline (we had to make a kite exactly). A few days before carrying out this work we attended a short lesson where they told us how to use the platform. The same day we attended a short lesson where he said that mathematics is not created but discovered therefore it existed before we existed in nature. The majority of the class managed to do the exercise successfully. It made us more aware of the world of geometry and competent. The organisers congratulated us.

Safer Internet Day

 In our school we are celebrating Safer Internet Day and we are talking about cyber bullying and the consequences and implications on teenagers’ minds. Unluckily it is still a too common phenomenon among young people.

We produced a short video and a presentation that we will publish here.

Regional athletics championship in Imperia

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

On the 6th of February we went to Imperia. Our bus arrived 1 hour late. The journey was tow hours long, but pleasently quiet. When we arrived we started immediatly our warm-up routine.

The course was quite interesting: you would start on the straight and do 3/4 of a lap and then cut into the grass, do some zig zag in the middle and then go on to the track, and behind towards the lockers on the gravel to then get back on to the front straight and do another lap.

The course was well planed and gave our team a third place with a first, a 14th, and two other unknown placements. The return journey was almost better than the first because we were al in a good mood and happy to get back home.

Flavio A. won a gold medal, Anna won a silver one and the team composed of Flavio A., Daniel C., Francesco S., Alessandro B, and Domenico G. got  a third placement

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Thanks to our P.E. teacher, Ms Alessandra Tinè. 🇮🇹🏅

Yellow and Black Vintage Outdoor Adventure Trip Video di Elena Piazze