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No. 7 December 2018
Digitally & Socially Yours eTwinning & Erasmus+ project 2017-1-CZ01-KA219-035484
December activities in our schools Our School’s Anniversary Special points of interest: December activities Charity actions Holiday season celebrations
Inside this issue: Papa school’s anniversary
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Milos’s story
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December in Lugoj
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December activities in Pulawy
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December in Hebel-Gymnasium
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Our fingerprint in our school
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November and December were really busy in Türr school. This year we are celebrating the 380th anniversary of our school which was founded by the Pauline Order in 1638. At the end of the 18th century it was taken over by the Benedictines. Since 1948 it has been a state school. At the end of November, a whole week was devoted to commemoration. Our class was in charge of organising one day – 29 November. It was a special day without lessons. In the morning we had 36 presentations. We invited 18 former students of our school – university professors, a secretary of state, a librarian, a doctor, a Benedictine monk, a dog trainer etc. to deliver lectures on various topics, such as psychology, art, economics, politics, medicine, media, forestry, archaeology, mathematics etc. We organised about 30 presentations in the morning. Students could sign up for them. Our task was to assist the guests. In addition, we organised a general knowledge quiz. A month earlier we formed 6 work-groups in our class spe-
cialising in various topics: art, science, history, environment, sport and even gastronomy, and created task sheets for classes. The week was full of events: we had and art exhibition, our school almanac was introduced, we had various competitions. Also, we spent a whole day at the town sports hall playing games and having fun. 1 December was a career day. While some classes visited local companies we attended lectures of students from universities. The highlight of the project week was a gala performance in the town’s theatre on Thursday. Some students of our class performed on stage plying the trumpet or drums or singing in the choir. In addition, we had a charity event during the week. A girl in our school suffers from leukaemia and needs special care. We could raise about half a million forints for her family. Mógor Bence, Nagy Luca, 11.A Türr School Pápa HU
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Miloš´s Story We´d like to share with you a story of our classmate, Miloš. A story with a happy ending. Miloš was born without a left arm, but he does all things that others do with only some exceptions. He´s an enthusiastic sportsman and nowadays he plays as a goalkeeper in floorball team. If he had a bionic arm, he could do everything like all of us. To help Miloš to get it, there was a large national fundraising held at the end of 2018. The sum needed for his bionic arm was over CZK 700,000 (€ 27, 300). Now you can learn more about I am very happy Miloš. The first prosthesis which Miloš that the fundraising got was at the age of 7 months so that he would be able to was successful and crawl like other chilthanks to that I can dren and not to delay his motoric developlive a new life, it is ment. The doctors like a dream which encouraged the family and worries slowly has come true declined. The shock changed into the belief that even with one arm, he can live a happy life. „Nobody will ever come to terms with such a situation, I should not be his mother, but over some time, we realized that disability could be worse. It's just one arm, no illness, otherwise Miloš is in a perfect shape," says his mum, who has always been able to help herself and Miloš too because she works as a nurse. Miloš has said since his young age that it would be perfect if he had both arms. He knew that a bionic arm is over his family budget. He wanted to win in a lottery, but it failed… „Miloš is really social, energetic, smiling, cheerful and active, often stubborn as
well. In our team (floorball) it is Miloš who leads the team and everyone in it,“ says his coach. When he was little, he went to an ordinary school without bigger problems. Now when the fundraising campaign has finished, Miloš will get a chance to live as an ordinary young man. „I don’t know if it's all a dream. Within a week, from 22 to 28 December 2018, happened so much. I guess I know how a person feels winning a big prize. Even now, I cannot believe it. The sum has been raised We are sitting here and have no words," says Miloš's mother, Petra, who didn´t even hope that her son would meet his great dream a month ago. Miloš wishes all people who have physical disabilities to be strong and believe in a happy ending because it is possible as we can see. “Of course, I would like to thank all of you for your nice messages, support, it is really incredible,” says his mum. Miloš says: “I am very happy that the fundraising was successful and thanks to that I can live a new life, it is like a dream which has come true.” Of course, his trainer explains that results in floorball will be better and better now. We wish Miloš good luck and hope that he will fulfill his further dream which is driving a car. Jiří and Matouš with the help of Miloš, Tábor Team Online article and video: http://bit.ly/ MilosFundraising
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December in Lugoj In our school, December is a month full of activities. Artistic, voluntary, charity actions, plus decorating our classes and school for Christmas, we are always very busy and involved in many and various quests. This year was a special one, since we celebrated, on December the 1st, our national day, a hundred years of united Romania. We dressed up in national blouses and danced our traditional unity dance. Then we started to decorate the classes and the school halls to welcome the holiday season.
We participated in a charity fair, together with other students from Lugoj. Each school produced as many Christmas decorations as they could and sold them in the hall of the European University Dragan, during the fair called “Be better, be Santa!” The money raised were donated for charity purposes. We had a talent show where we sang traditional and international Christmas carols. Our talented colleagues were on stage and the rest of us watching the show, we all gathered donations for other charity purposes.
A group of students and teachers from our school went to Orleans, France, for an exchange project with another school, Lycee Pothier. They were accommodated in French families and they are going to receive and accommodate their peers in March, when they come to visit Lugoj. … it was a busy Outside the school, our students December, with and teachers got involved in other specific charity actions: “Today you give” cam- plenty of actions to paign gathered donated food from one get involved in, […] supermarket in our town to be distributed with joy, laughter, to people in need. Another special event are the “Story taste evenings”, where we energy, good vibes like to volunteer, creating fairy tale at- and time spent with mosphere for small children. Not to menfriends for good tion caroling our teachers on Christmas causes eve. All in all, it was a busy December, with plenty of actions to get involved in, with lots of concerts, charity events and fairs, with joy, laughter, energy, good vibes and time spent with friends for good causes. Romanian team
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December Activities in Our School The beginning of winter is always time when people in Poland work hard, prepare to Christmas time and help one another. Like we do in our school. There were some new charity events this year. At the begining of December we organised The International Day of Volunteering. On 5’th December we took part in the workshop on how to help people moving on wheelchairs. It was also a good opportunity to thank the volunteers for The beginning of their good heart, hard work and dedication. We could learn how to help winter is always people with disabilities and how to use time when people wheelchairs. The 6th of December is the day in Poland work when all children are looking forward too. hard, prepare to It’s when Santa Claus brings teenagers Christmas time and and children presents. In our school the youngest students had the chance not only help one another. to get a gift, but also to meet, talk and take a photo with Santa Claus. And it turned out that everyone was polite and could receive a unique present. We also visited Daily Adaptation Center to spend some pre-Christmas moments with our friends. There were some wishes,traditional Polish food, and carroll singing. It was very emotional time for them, for us as well. In the same month we also preaperd carnaval masks for Hungarian children for the Erasmus+ Project Training Event. The last week before Christmas is always a little bit different than usual. In the classrooms we can see Christmas decorations, Christmas trees and fairy lights. And on Friday we celebrate
Christmas Eve with our classmates and teachers. It is a magical day, which we spend with our friends from school. We eat delicious, traditional Christmas dishes, sing carols and share wafer while exchanging Christmas greetings. On the same day, after the Christmas Eve, a nativity play was also celebrated. All students, teachers and parents took part in this official meeting in the gym. The students presented an artistic performanc referring to the upcoming holidays. Singing carols brought everyone into a reflective mood. We were impressed by the performance of the youngest students of our school, who beefed up them with beautiful costumes and dancing.
As always in December each class prepared some big boxes with gifts for the poorest families in our school. They contained everyday objects like food, cleaning supplies or even clothes. There were also some sweets or toys. It is one of the most important things to remember about needy people at Christmas time. So as you can see December in our school was really exhausting, but it was worth it because we could see that everybody got closer to one another and feel the atmosphere of Christmas. Antoni Sarba, Jędrzej Batyra Polish team
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December 2018, Hebel-Gymnasium, Schwetzingen Christmas time is always an ex-
On 20th December, a Christmas
tremely busy time for our charity club service was organized by teachers and members – but also filled with lots of students of our school. In order to supjoyful and memorable activities!
port the work of our charity club, the of-
At the beginning of December, fertory of the church service was devoted most students of the charity club collect- to the women’s café, too. ed food for a food bank in Schwetzingen, which they have supported for years. The students concentrated on the same four local supermarkets they chose during our
Christmas time is
project meeting in February.
always an extremely busy
Finally, as last year, our project group organized a Christmas party for refugee children. The party took place at our school on 21
st
activities!.
dren while their mothers either participated in meetings of a women’s café. Our pupils divided the refugee children into groups and played and talked with them, thus offering them an opportunity
their experiences.
of joyful and
turned out to be a joyful afternoon filled
continued to take care of refugee chil-
knowledge of German and exchange
also filled with lots memorable
school year, some members of our group
abling their mothers to improve their
club members – but
December, and it
On Wednesday afternoons, as on with playing games, doing handicraft, all Wednesday afternoons during the making and enjoying cookies.
to get into contact with Germans and en-
time for our charity
German team
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Our Fingerprint in Our School For taking part in the competition named "My fingerprint in our school" we had the chance to paint the students’ council room. We were supported by our school principal and teachers. So, we proved that, together, everything is possible when each member takes part and fulfils the tasks they were given, when we know how to respect and help each other. It is wonderful what just some ordinary people can do, when they work together in a team without any preconceived ideas. A cold place, that had no spot of color, that both students and teachers found unappealing, is now a
gloomy room for all who appreciate creativity and originality, but also for those who want to relax in a warm and happy room. It now shows our joyful, colorful fingerprint, because student’s council represents us all Iasmina Petcu Romanian team
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