Comenius project day in Sõmeru Põhikool

Today we celebrated Comenius project day in Sõmeru Põhikool. Project book presentation for whole school took place. We also showed video of Lithuanian play about little Jonukas and his seven friends and our students read text of play in English.

Our last Project meeting was held in Balikesir in Turkey between the 19th and 24th April. Unfortunately not all of our partners (Estonia, Iceland and Lithuania) were able to participate due to the ash cloud. Their trip was delayed and they will be in Balikesir in May.
The meeting was held by video conference with the Project Coordinator and with the Turkish, Italian and Portuguese partners. We talked about the project and evaluated all the activities done during the project.
We had the opportunity to visit three Turkish schools ranging from Pre School to secondary school. We learnt all about the Turkish culture and the educational system. All the partners learnt, shared and exchanged knowledge about the teaching methods and school function. We also paid a short visit to the Department of Education in Balikesir where we learnt more about Turkish educational system.
Our stay in Balikesir was wonderful. The Ozel Balikesir Firat Ilkogretim Okulu school and all its teachers, staff and students were magnificent. They did their best to make us feel welcomed and at home. The air was filled with happiness, joy and friendship which touched our hearts.
We attended classes from different levels and some open air school activities related to Children’s Day, teachers did some art work and talked to students. There was also a lovely school concert where students sang and danced their traditional songs and dances.Our project meeting in Turkey enriched our souls and knowledge. It was wonderful

Project book is ready

At last hugh work is finished - our project book is ready and printed!!!
Thank everybody for your effort - interesting dramas, nice pictionary drawings and interesting photos!

I WISH MY DEAR COLLEAGUES MERRY CHRISTMAS

Portugal - Exhibition

During the 23rd to the 27th of November at our Middle shool there was an exhibition of all the puppets made with recycling material within our Johnny's Seven Friends project. This project involved 28 teachers and several classes and schools ranging from kindergarten to Middle school. Some of the schools are located in the main town but others are in small villages near by. There are about 60 lovely puppets. In the middle school the puppets were made by the students as they are older while in kindergarten and primary schools teachers and parents helped the young children make the puppets. All the students enjoyed themselves and had great fun making the puppets and playing out the different plays.


There was also photo exhibition about the project meeting in Reykjavik in Iceland. Everyone within the school community had the opportunity to see Korpuskóli Primary School and learn more about Iceland.

Project Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland

Our third Project meeting was held in Reykjavik in Iceland during the first week of November. All the partners from the different countries got together at Korpuskóli Primary school which is a lovely, modern and very comfortable school. We must congratulate all the Icelandic teachers involved in our project. They were all so very kind and had everything so well planned and organized. They made us feel so comfortable and at home. The students were also very nice and they even tried to communicate with us in English. They were just lovely and their behaviour was excellent. They played out their Johnny’s Seven Friends’ play very well with all the puppets they made. It was very interesting and we all learnt more about Iceland.
It was very interesting to learn all about the Icelandic Educational system which is quite different from Portugal.
Our project meeting was also great. We worked on the picture dictionary, Portugal presented some of their puppets and a story rug, we exchanged information and we talked about our project and future project work.

Johnny on Baltic EXPRO+

Sõmeru Põhikool was very popular on international Lifelong Learning Program exhibition Baltic EXPRO+ in Šiauliai, Lithuania.
Jussike and Tiina gave interview to local TV.
Jussike and Jonukas met each other in our project box. All the other Johnnies were also with us - sitting on our suitcases. We had lot of photo materials from our project meetings. We demonstrated our puppet shows from DVD-s. We got many positive evaluations from visitors and we are very pleased to thank all our partners for the great job, what we have done together!