Join Hands And Hug Europe: July 2012

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Art Exhibition : Religion in Our Lives / Poland

Bozena Gobcewicz, English Teacher of Szkoła Podstawowa nr 47 im. J.K. Branickiego/Poland

Monday, 2 July 2012

Mediation: The Play Three Little Pigs/Croatia

7th grade pupils have prepared the play -modified version of The three little pigs

assisted by German teacher Vesna Horvat Kovacec and social pedagogue Ana Vasiljev.

The conflict between the characters is solved in a non-violent way through mediation.

This version is in Croatian. Maybe next year we'll make an English version as well.

Sunday, 1 July 2012

The World Day of Muslim Culture/ Croatia

Primary School Zitnjak is multicultural and multireligious. Besides Catholic religious classes the school also provides classes of Islam for its pupils. The school was the first school in Zagreb which introduced classes of Islam.
Every year the Day of Religious Freedom is celebrated when religious teachers and their pupils prepare presentations and make posters.
Our pupils and teachers visit the mosque in Zagreb.

3rd Partnership Meeting in Zagreb: The Programme/Croatia

Comenius multilateral school partnership

Join hands and hug Europe

3rd meeting: Zagreb, May 21-25

Title: Let's join hands and be creative
Monday 21/05/2012 Opening session
19:00 – 20:00	Concert
20:00 – 21:30	Welcome dinner
Tuesday 22/05/2012
	Programme for teachers *Creative methodology in ELT*	Programme for pupils *Let's join hands and be creative*
08:30 – 09:15	Ivana Čale *Pronunciation games and activities (*workshop)	Ana Vasiljev and Vesna Horvat Kovačec *Ice-breakers*
09:15 – 09:30	Break
09:30 – 10:15	Paula Vranković *Beyond the language frame*	Sandra Maglov *Arts and crafts*
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30	Margita Madunić, *Croatian culture* (25 mins) *Quiz about Croatia* (20 mins) Moderator: Drago Čavlović Hosts: pupils Kristina Jagić, Patrik Lukanović
11:30 – 12:30	Lunch
Afternoon	Sightseeing: Zagreb, Samobor Dinner in school 20.00-21.00
Wednesday 23/05/2012
08:20 – 09:05	Michella Chiappini Translation as a bridge among cultures	Margareta Milačić, Frane Rogić *Workshop (Art)*
10.00 – 11.00 Meeting the Mayor of Zagreb Mr. Bandic
11:45 – 12:45	Lunch
Afternoon	Sightseeing: Trakošćan, Varaždin Dinner: 19:30-20:30
Thursday 24/05/2012 Excursion to the island of Krk Departure at 05:30

3rd partnership meeting in Zagreb: Report /Croatia

3rd Comenius partnership meeting Join hands and be creative in Zagreb

The third Comenius meeting Let's join hands and be creative took place in Zagreb, May 21-25, 2012. There were 48 participants including pupils, teachers, headteachers from the partner schools:the Czech Republic, Italy, Lithuania, Poland and Turkey.

The host of the meeting was Primary School Zitnjak, the coordinator of the project Join hands and hug Europe (multilateral Comenius partnership).

On May 21, two teachers welcomed the guests from Poland, Turkey and Lithuania at the airport. The teams from Czech Republic and Italy arrived at the hotel by van and bus.

The guests from Turkey visited the mosque in Zagreb accompanied by the headmaster of the host school, German teacher and Alen Kotoric, the religious teacher of Islam.

All the guests were staying at Hotel Meridijan 16 except 12 pupils who were staying with the families of the Croatian pupils.

The official programme started at 7 p.m. Introductory welcoming speeches were given by the headteacher of Primary School Zitnjak Mr Barun and Ms Milkovic, representative of City Office for Education, Culture and Sports, who greeted the guests wishing them an enjoyable stay in Croatia. The pupils from Primary School Zitnjak showed their singing and dancing skills performing in the school choir, folklore and rock'n'roll club, etc.

On Tuesday and Wednesday the workshops were held in Primary school Zitnjak from 8.30 to 11.30 a.m. The workshops for pupils commenced with the warm-up activities ice breakers the aim of which was allowing pupils to familiarize themselves with their peers-to introduce themselves and learn about their peers. The introductory activities ice breakers were run by social pedagogue Ana Vasiljev and German teacher Vesna Horvat Kovačec. German teacher Sandra Maglov was running a craft workshop. Art teacher Margareta Milačić and painter Frane Rogić, from the neigbouring atelier Zitnjak , were running an art workshop for the pupils. On Wednesday art teacher from Ankara Ms Özlem Şenyüz and her pupils demonstrated Ebru, the Turkish technique of painting, which impressed all the participants.

A few participants tried out Ebru technique and made their own paintings.

The topic of the workshops for teachers was Creative methods in ELT. Since all the coordinators are English teachers the aim was exchanging teaching tips and resources, sharing good practice. The workshops were run by English teachers Michela Chiappini (Italy), Paula Vrankovic and Ivana Cale from Zagreb.

After the concise outline of Croatian history and culture presented by history teacher Margita Madunić Kaniski, the general knowledge of Croatian culture was checked in the quiz hosted by the 7th graders Kristina Jagic and Patrik Lukanovic.

During the breaks the participants observed some lessons. While visiting the classrooms during the lessons, the guests gave the pupils typical sweets from their country and some souvenirs for the classrooms.

After the workshops two half day excursions were organized: Zagreb andSamobor (22/05), Trakoscan Castle and Varaždin (23/05) .On May 24 a full day excursion to the island of Krk was organized during which the guests, accompanied by the tourist guide and a few Croatian teachers ,visited the town of Krk, Punat, small island Košljun, Vrbnik, Jurandvor and Baska. Thanks to the sunny weather some guests-teachers and pupils were swimming and the pupils were playing volleyball on the beach.

On May 23 the Deputy of the Mayor of Zagreb Ms Pavičić Vukičević held a reception for the participants of the Comenius partnership and wished them a pleasant stay in Croatia.