The Greek Comenius Corners

From the beginning of the project we created the Greek Comenius Corners in 2 parts of our school. The first one is in the teachers' office that always receive many visitors.

The second one is in the "Comenius Classroom". We used to have this place to gather there to discuss, organize and compose the various comenius workshops. Just after the beginning of the project our principle Mr. Ioannis Tzikas arranged to have a place with wifi internet connection where we could group to work and exhibit our products. Some times we used to bring the students to have lessons in that classroom when the subject was relevant to the products of our Comenius workshops. 

Evaluation: Izmir – students

The students evaluated their visit to Izmir using a questionnaire. After visiting Izmir, the Polish team counted the students answers to the questionnaire. The results are below:

4th visit to Izmir, Turkey

4th Meeting 

29 September - 3 October 2014 

IZMIR, TURKEY

8 Greek studnets and 4 teachers visited Turkey for the 4th Comenius meeting

Environment

Environment is very essential in every aspect of life. All the living beings are depended upon the environment. We have to protect it by recycling, reusing and reducing. One of the greatest problems that the world is facing today is that of environmental pollution, increasing with every passing year and causing grave and irreparable damage to the earth. Environmental pollution consists of five basic types of pollution, namely, air, water, soil, noise and light. We did a project about this. Our workshop is the following:

YouTube video: Planet cries for help!!!!!

My dream job

One of the most important concerns of the modern teenagers is to choose the right job for them. They consider mainly three criteria to find their preferable future job. The first one is the jobs they like to do, the second one is in which fields they are talented and the third one is which jobs can ensure a future professional success. According to the above three criteria each teen prefer a different job. So, we can't say that every job is suitable for every teen.  Thanks to our opinion that professional issues are very important for our future, we decided to write down our points of view about our dream job! 

You can see some of them in our projects below:

Modern teens and their interests

Teenagers are each country's future. So, the future of each state will be influenced by the personality of the next generation, which is developed based on their interests.
The interests of the teenagers can be seen, looking at the way they spend their free time. The Greek students took part in an investigation on that issue where numerous students from all particpant schools were participating . The investigation took place via 'pupils' area' in Twin Space:

1st question is about "How they spend their free time" 

Panel discussion on different values of the European youth

The students of the 11th High School of Larissa created a theme diary on common interests / values / experiences aiming the promotion of intercultural cooperation.

Τhey also prepared presentations in ppt format and posters about values and virtues such as cooperation, team spirit, etc. They presented their work at our school and hung the poster in Izmir, Turkey

The story of Comenix

After visiting Bulgaria, Comenix arrives at Greece. He meets Helladix and the adventure continues in our country.
Let's see the story...

Greek Signpost Tree

Our idea was to create a "human tree" signpost: 

The adventures of Comenix

All year round the students created the figures of Comenix and his friends fron the othe countries. The mision of Comenix is to start an intercultural dialong and have various "international adventures". He starts from Bulgaria and goes on to Greece, Germany, Turkey, Poland, Finland, Romania and Spain. Bulgaria has already started the story and Greece continues it.

TABU game

During our meetings, the students play Tabu, so they practice language, game and cooperation.

Scarves

We produced scarves with the logo of our project for all students. The Turkish team worked on producing our scurves.

3rd visit to Larissa, Greece

The 11th Gymnasium of Larissa welcomed teachers and students coming from 6 European countries visiting from 5-5-2014 to 9-5-2014. The countries that visited us are Bulgaria, Finland, Poland, Romania, Spain and Turkey. We hosted 43 students and 20 educators from the countries above.

Some videos of the  activities in Larissa, Greece appear below:

Best moments of the visit in Greece

Comenvision Presentation

Watching Ancient Greek comedy (by Aristofanis) in one of the two ancient theaters in Larissa -  Part 2

A presentation of Greek traditional dances turns on a Greek feast

Our friends are learning the Greek dance "Hassapiko"

Comenvision

The music performance (Comenvision) was held in the Amphitheatre of the Municipal Water Company in Larissa. Water Company officials, teachers and students from all participant countries, all the students and teachers of the 11th Gymnasium and many parents participated in the event.

Each country presented its own song:

Finland -> Cup song

Poland -> Valerie

Spain -> Happy

Romania -> Insieme

Bulgaria -> Calling All The Monsters  at Halloween 

Turkey -> Domino

Greece -> Fragosiriani - Hassapiko dance

The whole presentation was very successful and everybody enjoyed and apllauded the students' presentation.

At the end of the music performances each country was given a cup to remember being part of the Comenvision in Greece.

Greek Traditions and festivals

During the Comenius week in Larissa the teachers and the students enjoyed the Greek hospitality.

The first day at school the Greek teachers helped the students learn how to dance Greek traditional dances.

At the Water Company the greek students danced traditional dances with the participation of all the students and teachers. They also tasted Greek traditional food which was made by the good will of the Greek families. They also experienced Greek music and dance at a Greek tavern.

Next day they visited st. Nicolas church and the monasteries at Meteora and they got in touch with our religions tradition and whorship.

A team of Greek students presented an ancient greek comedy (by Aristofnis) in one of the two ancient theatres of our city. So everybody experienced a performance they had never seen before.

The whole week gave them the chance to see things totally different for their culture but also interesting that will help them have a memorable time during their visit here.

Questionnaire - E.U.

All the partners answered a questionnaire about what they know on issues regarding the E.U.

The Polish team worked on all the questionnaires. We present the final resaults below:

Evaluation: Larissa – students

After visiting Larissa the Polish team counted the students answers to the questionnaire. Although the students were different the results are similar. The students think more or less in the same way. What’s interesting, they have added more comments and it’is good especially that in this way they have opportunity to say whatever they like.

Evaluation: Bucharest - students

This is the evaluation after the meeting in Bucharest:

Evaluation questionnaire

This is the questionaire for the students, that the Polish team gave us. We give it to our students  after each mobility and we collect their answers. The Polish team counts the results and gives the evaluation to all the partners.

Greek Brochure

The Greek team presents its brochure about the main features of E.U. This brochure includes some info about our project, our partners and our school.

 

"Comenvision" Event: 11th Gymnasium of Larissa sings and dances Chassapiko

Chassapiko is the most famous Greek dance. It has quite a lot of figures. So, every group of people dances a different version of Chassapiko. 
In this video, Jenny -a student- teaches us "her Chassapiko". We'll show you how to dance Chassapiko in Greece ;-))
Are you ready to dance with us?

You can see the preparation of our presentation below:

The initial rehearsal for the presentation of the Greek song in Comenvision

...our official presentation in the Comenius-event "Comenvision" below:

Fragosyriani - Hassapiko dance: The Greek song

...and some photos are posted below:

2nd visit to Bucharest, Romania

2nd meeting

23 - 28 March 2014

Bucharest, Romania

6 Greek studnets and 5 teachers visited Romania for the 2nd Comenius meeting

Video: The Greek Presence in Romania

Preparation for the trip to Romania

We have been preparing for our trip to Romania for a longtime. Some photos of our preparations are shown below:

First Aid Courses

Fundamental Principles of the European Union

The Students of the Greek team answered a questionnaire about what they know on issues regarding the E.U. The results showed that our students don't know enough things about E.U. So, we decided to make an exercise about E.U. to help them to know E.U. better. 

What do European Teenagers know about the E.U. - Questionnaire

The questionnaire below is proposed by the Polish partners. The content, the results, the statistics and the conclusions of the questionnaire appear below:

11th Gymnasium of Larissa. New Year's cake.

Yesterday the teachers of 11th Gymnasium of Larissa had a Greek traditional party, where we cut the New Year's cake. 

We put a coin in the cake and we cut it in pieces. The person who finds the coin will be lucky for the rest of the year.

An x-student makes our school proud

Alexandros Avranas, an x-student of 11th Gymnasium of Larissa, who is one of the most famous, talented and hopeful young Greek film directors, visited our school and talked to the students about his job, his experiences, his awards and generally about art.

A short biography of the artist and some photos of his visit to our school are shown below:

See all partners' Comenix drawings here...

COMENIX:

Less than 3 months till the partners visit us! See the Greek Preparation

We have to keep the tradition of the "Greek Hospitality": When the Greeks wait for visitors they have to prepare everything in perfection and do their best to welcome and host them!

We are waiting eagerly for our partners' visit in Larissa! It's been a long time since the Greek teachers and students have been discussing about it, how to organize our activities, what places to visit with our friends, how to involve them in Greek culture, to taste Greek food etc. There are meetings with parents and teachers at school very often, where we are discussing the preparations for our guests. It is an absolutely enjoyable period for us!

Last week we sent an email to invite our partners to our city and give them some information on the visit.

This week, we sent the Programme and we started the dialogue about the "Comenvision" event.

But, there are many things which have to be done...

During the Holy Week of the Orthodox Easter Holidays students along with volunteer parents and teachers cleaned, painted and decorated the school in order to be able to receive our visitors. 

You can see some photos and videos with the Greek preparations below:

Greek "Youth Involvement Club"

Questionnaire on the motivation of the Project

The questionnaire below is proposed by the Bulgarian partners. The content and the results-statistics of the questionnaire appear below:

Helladix

This is "Helladix" who is a real hero and his identity is revealed by the initial letter "H" which is engraved on his belt.