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.

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

We take care of our environment.

La Encarnación school takes a very important step towards environmental sustainability with the implementation of a system of self-consumption solar panels installed to optimize the collection of solar energy. Aware of the importance of preserving the environment, AMPA La Encarnación has invested in a photovoltaic solar energy system that will generate clean and renewable electricity in order to supply the energy needs of all its facilities.

This investment maintains the path begun with the commitment to the adoption of renewable energy sources. In fact, La Encarnación has previously installed solar panels, which feed into the electrical grid, to which are now added the self-consumption panels.

Our objective with the environment has a double aspect by providing our students with the opportunity to learn about the science behind solar energy from a practical and experiential approach that not only enriches their academic understanding, but also inspires them to be agents of change in the fight against climate change.

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

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.

Our schools and our towns map

 

La Encarnación school

 

First aid training for students

Written by Byron

In December, the students were trained online by the humanitarian organization "Kids save lives" on the subject of first aid, i.e. CPR, resuscitation position, suffocation by a foreign body and drowning.

Gymnasio Soufliou - Introduction of our school

 

IC Sestri Levante introduction of school

 

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