Newsletter no: 3 – October 2015, Denmark
XPLICIT Newsletter – September/October 2015 Finally it was our turn to be the hosts of the second meeting between students in the XPLICITproject. The days from September 27th to October the 2nd the young people from Rauma, Moelndal and London worked together with our student from Kjellerup. We had 18 students visiting us. The preparations for the Danish mobility started already in spring where we made plans for the content of the mobility. The work in Denmark should involve Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Crafts. It was our intention to work with something that is special for our area. We made a contact to Museum Jorn in Silkeborg. The museum is founded on the works of the famous Danish artist Asger Jorn, who lived a greater part of his life in Silkeborg. He was one of the initiaters of the Cobra-art group. Together with the art museum we created a project where we should work with Innovation, Entrepreneurship and so on so forth. The idea was that the students should help the museum to develop an idea that could attract more young people to visit the museum. It was an interesting topic and the students worked really well with the project. We had an excellent cooperation with the museum.
Mette Hanghøj from Museum Jorn teaches the students
The museum also took part in the final evaluation of the project.
Hands-on work for the students
The presentation of the project
Accommodation We had more students visiting us than we have students involved in the project. Therefore we had to ask more families to be hosts. It turned out not to be a problem. And we actually now have more students involved in the project than we had before the week in Denmark. The 2 Danish teachers involved in the project Ms. Birgitte Rugholm and Ms. Line Andersen had done a brilliant job in planning the week. We all look forward to continue the work with the project. Next meeting will be in Moelndal late April.
Our Students have also made a Newsletter.
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XPLICIT PROJECT
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The reunion of friendship
The project that put us all together. An innovation sensation of making friendship.
27/9 Sunday- The meeting. We were all excited for this day, cause for today was the BIG meeting with our new friends! The swedish persons came at 9 pm and went home with those hostess. The english persons came around 8 pm and went home to those hostess. And the Finnish persons came 10 pm and went home to those hostess. For someone it went out great right in the moment they meet , For someone else It was hard to break the Awkwardness but suddenly after some time it went out great and everybody had a great experience.
28/9 Monday- The museum Monday we met at 8 am and had an introduction in the cinema. Then we had star run to learn how to behave in the school area and make up some friendships. Then at 9am we took the bus to Silkeborg to visit asger jorn museum. When we finally arrived to the museum , we got an introduction and got a presentation of all Asger jorn's art. After the introduction we visited Aqua and had a lot of fun.
29/9 Tuesday- The introduction. We met at the school around 8am , and for somebody it was very hard to get up so early after the jest today's experiences. We got told to go to the cinema. The introduction was about the yesterday's experience and what the day program was. We got set out to our peer groups and we had to make a brainstorm about “ what does this museum need?� Then we wrote all our ideas down on some small posters, and then all our creativity thoughts should come out as one innovative theme. After school in the afternoon we all went home and some body stayed at the school and had fun. Then in the evening we had an arrangement were people could meet up at the school and do some fun activities.
30/9 Wednesday - The Hard Cosy Day. Wednesday we arrived at the school at the normal time 8:15 am and we just worked and worked on the project and had some activities. When we came home to our families we had an evening out where we could go together with someone else from the project and do something with them or be together in the families and do something together
1/10 Thursday-The Presentation day. Thursday we arrived at the school at 8:15 am and we went to the Rutunde to get an idea of what was gonna happen today and what were gonna do, then we went on to work on our projects for some time and after a few hours the lady who was gonna be the judge of the projects came and judge all of the projects, and when that was done she needed some time to figure out who was the winner so everyone went out to their working places and cleaned it all up, when we were done with that we all got called in to the Rutunde where the winner was gonna be announced, then the winner was announced and they got a little price. Then we went back to the families and had some time together and get ready for the party the same evening were we all ate together and got Rød Grød Med Fløde, after we ate we went to the Skoletorv to do an activity where we had a flyswatter and we had to run down to a picture or a word on a different language and then the people from the corresponding team had to help the person who and to run and smack the word. When we were done at the school we went home to Julie K and had a small after party where we ate some cake and had some fun. Then we went home and the persons from the other countries packed their baggage and got ready to leave for tommorow
2/10 Friday-The goodbye day. We met at the school at 8-8:15 am where everyone said goodbye to each other where a lot of crying and hugging went on, then the people who had students from England and Finland went to Silkeborg (Not the second largest city in Denmark) to drop off the students there were we said the very last goodbye, then most of us went home and had a normal day without school.