European Quality Label

After French and Slovenian National Quality Label now our project was also awarded with an EUROPEAN QUALITY LABEL. It shows, we did a great job together. Congratulations to all!

Afternoon with social games

Since our first exchange we have been practicing an evening or an afternoon with social games as a kind of conclusion of our work throughout the school year.
This year we organised it on Friday, the 28th of May. It is also an opportunitiy to get to know each other better, to see what games are new or popular on the market, to talk and to have fun - teachers and pupils together.
The games we played were: Pictionary, Activity, Halli Galli and the Bedlam Cube.
Here are some photos.

HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT YEAR IN OUR CLUB!!!

The central school performance and the fair

This Saturday we opened the school doors and have invited all the parents and the families and also some local man of note. At the performance all our choirs sang a song or two and the theatre groups had to opportunity to present their hard work. Most of the younger classes also presented themselves with a song, dance or an act.

After the performance there was a fair of the products, that our pupils made in the past moths and other extra cullicular acctivities presented themselves. eTwinning club had the opportunity to set up a stand with products from Kenya (we were partners in the BEST project) and to tell the audience, what we have achived in this school year.

You can find a photo gallery here!

Video

Mr. Skinner did a great job of putting videos together. They are a nice remembrance for us all.

Happy Birthday eTwinning

Today we celebrated the fifth birthday of eTwinning. We made an eTwinning fruit cake, we decorated yellow and blue ballons and we had a small party at school. The balloons were released into the sky at the end of the party. You can catch a glimpse if you click HERE! Later on we will also post a movie of the preparations and the party. You can find and try out the recipe HERE.

Let's write a story together

I've got an idea. Let's write a story together. Everyone is asked to write one sentence in English in the comments. It isn't necessarily about our exchange. The sentences have to be in the logical order. If you want to write more than one, you have to wait until at least three other sentences appear. I am excited to read our story.

(Tell the others please, to contribute to the story.)

It has been almost a month since we met in Slovenia. The goodbye was hard for all of us and I would like to encourage you to tell us how you keep in touch. I assume, you do. How often? Who with? What tools/programmes/means of communication do you use? What is the main topic of your chat? Have you got any funny stories to share with us?

Looking forward to reading your stories in the comments of this post.

Evaluation

Evaluation of the week in Kamnik made by Slovene pupils on 24th March 2010. The Dutch and the French please add your opinions in the comments of this post. Thank you!

Happy Easter

The spirit of Easter

is all about Hope,

Love and Joyfull living.

Happy Easter!

Articles on the exchange

We wrote some articles for school and local newspapers. Here are the links:

school e-magazine by Zala and Katarina

Kamnican.si by Evelina and Lara

school Almanac by Maša and Hana

Kamniške novice by Jan and Mark

Kamniški občan by Anja and Lina

A week after

It has been almost a week since you headed back home. The Slovenes meat today and we were discussing about our week together. We all agree, we had a wonderful time together and we hope, we will keep in touch. Please use this post and describe your feelings, when you came back home, how was it to meet your family again and how did you schoolmates react to your stories about Slovenia. We are all anxious to read your comments. You can also do a short evaluation and tell us what you liked and what you disliked in the exchange week.
And here the friendship song just for you.

Goodbye moment

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
(Charles M. Schulz)

This morning we had to separate and say goodbye. Everybody was crying. We hope you had a nice journey back to your dearest families. Write about your day in the comments!

Be well, do good work and keep in touch.

Day 7 in Slovenia

In the morning we did two workshops: one in the ICT room comparing our Easter habits and the other in technology classroom making a tipical slovenia Easter egg.
After lunch the Dutch group is already heading home and the French group has a free afternoon to spend it with the family or to do last minute shoping.

Lidija's Photos

Easter traditions France, Slovenia, The Netherlands

Pupils involved in the project are going to discuss Easter traditions in groups and then they're going to write a comparison between our countries on the following topics:

Easter food and drinks (Tim and Jan, Chloe S. and Katarina, Charlotte and Evelina)

Easter decorations (Stephanie and Katarina, Patrick and Klemen, Joanna and Zala)

Easter music (Wouter and David Z., Margriet and Lina, Laura L. and Lara T.)

History of Easter (Janna and Maša, Alexandre and Mark, Laura H. and Lara S.)

Easter tradition (Michelle and Hana, David and Tim B., Jean and Tim, Chloe and Meta)

They are also going to focus on the characters around Easter:
Easter bunny (Sanne and Anja, Laurie and Petra, Nicholas and Timotej)

And finally they are going to make picture Easter dictionary (English - French - Slovene and English - Dutch - Slovene) (Maaike and Manca, Valentin and Jan)

Day 6 in Slovenia

Until 10 pupils and teachers followed the lesson of their partner, after snack we prepared questions for Mrs. Andreja Gomboc, who gave us an interesting lecture on Astronomy. Lunch and then a workshop with some games and folk dances. 2 hours of free time and a goodbye party at school. How do you feel now, when our time together is almost over?

Lidija's Photos