France´s blog

The French team has set up their project blog. You can have a look at it by clicking here.

Prizes

Names of those who were asked to step forward

On our last school day in this first term certificates and sweet prizes were given to those 14 students who took part in "Well-known people" competition and 5 boys were acknowledged for their contribution in art lessons. 

Rain - student with the best results.

Marko - one of the students who helped to draw welcome signs

Kelly - student who manged to find famous people of all 5 nationalities

Two contests

1) Till March students are asked to take water-related photos. Be creative and look around  in the nature, at school, at home. Photos should be sent either to an email address: kurg.evelyn@gmail.com or brought to school on USB memory stick. File name should contain your first and last name. Best photos will compete  together with the photos taken in our partner schools and  the best of best will be published and distributed.

2) Till March also a contest for creating a logo takes place. The logo should contain the project's name in English "Water - The Spring of Life". It can be drawn by hand or on computer. Designs of your logo should be also sent on the following email address: kurg.evelyn@gmail.com or brought to school on paper or on USB key. Please provide your first and last name.

Posters

Although this afternoon was busy both for students and teachers (end of term), Maarja-Liis, Anu, Sten, Kenet and Marten found time to attend our weekly meeting. We started at 3pm and by 5.30pm the posters were on the walls.

Pizza night

As the saying goes "First work, then fun", we gathered tonight by 6 in the evening at Kehtna Youth Club to spend some time together. Students and teachers who had been involved in hosting our Comenius project partners last week were invited to the party. Following students were present: Sten, Marten, Kenet, Evita, Gladis, Liisbet, Kristina, Jordan, Johannes, Larsen, Hans-Martti, Gerda, Regina, Diana, Signe, Aivi, Kelly and Maarja-Liis, teacher Evelyn, Edda, Katre and Raigo. Each student could bake a pizza to his/her own liking. Meanwhile we played table tennis, air hockey, listened to music, watched what was going on at Facebook and also played the concert videos. Some students wrote a hand-written letter to Turkish students. We will post the letters on Friday and hopefully it will be the beginning of a nice correspondence. We also ate a cake.

Pitsaõhtu - make slideshow

Turkey's blog

Our Turkish friends have also started to do blogging about our mutual project. You can also VIEW IT in English.

Spain's blog

Our Spanish friends have set up their blog. You can view it HERE .

Recognising famous people of five nationalities

The contest is on till this Thursday, 20th October. The present results are as following:

1. Rain Form 6 - all 5 countries
2. Kristin Form 6 - Spain, Turkey, France
3. Helen Form 6 - Turkey, France, Spain
4. Ranner Form 8B - France
5. Jaagup and Ingomar Form 9B - Spain
6. Tauri Form 7 - France, Italy, Spain
7. Karol Form 8B - Italy
8. Mikk Form 8B - Spain
9. Johannes 8B - Italy, Spain
10. Evita 8B - Spain
11. Gladis 8B - France
12. Marten Form 7 - Estonia, Spain
13. Kelly 9B - Spain, France, Turkey (Italy - 2 names missing, Estonia - 3 names missing)

The photos of well-known people can be found in 29th Sept post.

Concert video

This week's meeting

Today at 3pm we got together in teacher Meeli's classroom to view photos and videos taken last week. We agreed to draw posters next Thursday to advertise the photo-hunt and logo-creation campaign. Logo can be made either by hand or computer. Photos  should be original, not edited. Students also learned about the Facebook group. The first day made quite a lot of students join in. 
Students who were present: Anu, Diana, Kaarel, Marten, Kenet, Sten, Johannes, Larsen, Liisbet, Gladis, Evita...
Teachers: Evelyn, Meeli, Edda ja Raigo.

Let's meet again next Thursday at 3pm. 

Facebook

Dear students from Comenius-team!
We have created a group at Facebook to be used by all students interested to participate in Comenius project. You are welcome to send an invitation to join  "Water - the Spring Life Students" group. 

Videos were taken and sent by Teo Ramirez.

Photos

Thank you Teo Ramirez for taking photos!

Kizoa slideshow: Kehtna 5.-9.okt - Slideshow

Day 4

An early start for everybody as we were heading to Tallinn. The weather was sunny, but chilly, in the afternoon with showers. Our history teacher Raigo showed us around the old town. First he took us to the Upper Town called Toompea. We saw the parliament house, Dome Church with lots of coats of arms, visited viewing platforms, tasted fried almonds made by medieval recipe. Later we walked down the narrow street called Lühike Jalg (Short Leg) and visited market square with the town hall and everybody could pop in to different souvenir shops. Later we had an excursion in underground bastions and after that our bus took us to the song festival ground, drove by the seaside and through residential area which represents the Soviet architectural style or more accurately the lack of it. We also walked in the park near the presidential house which still was full of flowers. In front of the figure of Neptune/Poseidon we had a group photo taken. After checking in the hotel, we went to a medieval restaurant to attend Merchant Guild's feast. We could taste and eat lots of different things, some of them perhaps not in the most expected way. (for example an appetiser onion jam or Crusader's lentils sauce etc). We couldn't expect to have electricity in such place, so it took time to get used to the dim atmosphere. Our table master Miguel made sure everybody had enough food and drinks. :-)

Saying good-bye is always difficult to such nice group of people, but we managed to do it by knowing that it is not the end, but the beginning of our friendship.
Photo: Gazi Özdemir

Day 3

Photo: Miguel Perez

Day 3 started with project work related discussions on the raft-house. We were productive and managed to agree on several important things. It was quite windy and we had to cancel the initial plan to go canoeing in the afternoon, but we could try riding on hydro-bikes. After the meeting we were floating along the river for several kilometres and the raft-house which had an engine took us eventually to an old wool mill where a family still produces woollen string with machines older than 100 years. Then we had some free time at Rapla until it was time to have dinner in the local culture house.
To sum up - our group knows how to work hard, but also is very fun-loving and gets along with each other well which makes it just great. :-)

Welcome concert

Today we held a welcome concert to our guests from project partner schools. Classes 1 and 5 to 9 were part of the audience. Kaare-Eerik and Sten helped to host the concert. First children choir performed a song of gratitude. In the background photos of Estonian nature and seasons from autumn to spring were displayed. Our headmaster made his speech next which was followed by another song sung by the choir. It was about the summer. The Spanish told later that its tune reminded them an old spanish folk song. Nine students from form 5 danced a folk dance wearing national costumes. After that form 9 students Regina and Gerda sang a song "Farewell to summer". The counsellor of education and culture from local government made a nice speech and then it was already time to scroll up the screen and make room for faster performances. Aivi, Gerda and Regina showed a modern dance. After that perhaps the hit of the concert - form eight students did an impression of songs in the languages of our partner schools. It caused excitement among our guests, students and teachers. the myth about Estonians who are modest, curbed and lack temperament was busted.

We welcome all the students who helped to organise this concert to take part in after-party on 14th October when we can eat pizza and watch the video of the concert.

Day 1

The first hosting day has gone to an end. Our bus driver Toomas Toome took us as always on time and in good mood to Tallinn Airport. First Spanish and Italian group arrived. Their journey had been smooth, but unfortunately one luggage had gone missing. We took the arrived guests to Ülemiste shopping centre while we drove to the port to meet the Turkish. Their journey to Estonia had taken 2 days, they were tired, but otherwise it had been without problems. They had some trouble finding the port in Helsinki, so they had to take a taxi. After that we headed back to the airport to greet the Italian group. They had taken 3 different flights. We received a phone call from the airport and were told that the lost luggage was on its way to Kehtna. By 22.30 everybody was in their hostel rooms. We are waiting for another day together tomorrow.

Materials for school

Today we finished off searching for information and photos about the towns and regions of our partner schools. Photos were chosen by Form 7 students.

Schedule of our first project meeting

Schedule in English

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