Polish National Award for the project!

With a greatest pleasure we share a great news with project participants, coordinators, teachers and parents!
Our "Celebrating International days..." project is a runner-up in a Polish eTwinning competition in a category of linguistic projects.
The award is given for the achievements in gaining multilingual skills.
As it is a common work of all of us, everyone wherever in our partner` schools can feel as if he or she is among the winners too.
Look at the cetrificate we are very proud of:

Awards ceremony was held in Warsaw - the capital of Poland - on 11-12 of June. Nothing else - but to thank you all!

So exceptional meeting...

We tried Flashmeeting for the first time in our class. Some of you can say that there were just few words and a song, but we had a great fun and excitement because of being online with our European friends. Our web cam turned out to be low in quality (do not worry, next time we will have a better one!), but we took some nice pictures instead.
Here you can see a Polish team of kids singing an eTwinning birthday song:

There was also Twinny Bear sitting and attending the meeting with us!

Farewell Flashmeeting

Today Greece, Poland and England met on Flashmeeting to say goodbye. Wales joined us for a time - we are sorry Wales that you had trouble with your sound, but it was nice to see you for a while.

At the end of school..

Dear Friends in every countries,

we, Hungarian children and teachers would like to thank you for being with us in this school year. It was great to collaborate together, make friendship, and celebrate the International Days.

We enjoyed a lot to be together with all of you. :-)

Today we can't to meet you on Flashmeeting, because our school at the and of school year have a trip. We go together in a cinema, and we will play in a childrens' centre. But, we think about you, and we would like to send you our greetings.

Hope, we will keep in touch, and wish you all the best.

As a surprise we send you one of our pictures...hope, you like it.

Have great holiday)

Hwyl Fawr FFrindiau- Goodbye to our Friends!

The staff and Pupils at Ysgol Heulfan would like to say a big Diolch yn fawr- Thank you very much for including us in this project. We have enjoyed all the lovely projects we have done together. It has been nice sharing our work with our European friends. Hwyl Fawr Pawb! x x x

ebook is ready!!!

Here you can see the ebook we all created for the book's day and is connected with the environmental day as well:
http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view.php?op=view&book=30284&page=1
Hope you enjoy it!

Looking after our Forests!

We hope you enjoy our video about Looking after our Forests. We have our own Forest School at Ysgol Heulfan, so we have been learning all about how to have fun in our Forests whilst making sure we look after the trees, plants and animals that live there. Forests are important habitats, where lots of different species often make thier homes. Please look after them, like we do so that the animals and plants can keep thier homes.

Environment's Day - recycling rules

Recycling rules

World Environment Day - Poster for Water Saving

We can drink only 3% of the water on Earth! so we have to be very careful how we use it!!! Here, the children from Greece give you some advice for water saving!

World Environment Day - Energy Saving Rules

At Southwater Infant School we worked together to decide the best rules for saving energy. We drew our own pictures for each rule and used them to make our poster. We then made a video to share our rules with everyone.

eTwinning competition in Hungary

I would like to write about a nice thing: we went to the Hungarian eTwinning competition with my small pupils to have a presentation, and after we won the 1st prize. We were so happy:-)

But, of course, this is our common success, so thank you for all your help and job this school year.

We enjoyed to work and make friendship together.

Hope, you like the photos).

Save the Nature!

I would like you to see the drawings what my pupils drawed about the correct and not correct behaviour in the nature.

Hope, you like them.) Mónika

Making Our Bags!

We have begun to make our bags that we will sell to raise money for UNICEF! We began by designing the picture for our bag.Then we coloured it in. Here are a few of our designs.
Then we scanned our designs and printed them out onto special paper. We will use an iron to transfer our design onto the bag. Look - our designs have to be printed backwards!! This is so they come out the right way when we iron them!
We have lots of bags ready! We will send a bag to each of you as a gift to our friends. We hope you like them!

Making Kites for World Environment Day

At Southwater we made kites to fly on World Environment Day next week. We made them out of recycled plastic bags to make a new use out of something old. We will fly them next week on World Environment Day!

Poland celebrates eTwinning birthday too!

Obviously, the Polish eTwinning team celebrated 5th eTwinning birthday as well! Here you can see how we prepaired to that exceptional day and how it went:

Let`s sing the Polish Twinning song together now:


500 years, eTwinning!

Happy 5th Birthday eTwinning!

Our school celebrated the 5 years of e-Twinning. Happy Birthday e-Twinning!

E-twinning 5 Heddiw

At Ysgol Heulfan we decorated cakes and then organised our party. We made birthday cards and had great fun celebrating E-twinnings 5th Birthday.Penblywdd Hapus Pawb!!!

Happy 5th Birthday eTwinning!

Southwater Infant School celebrated the 5 Years of eTwinning. We had a party with balloons and music, and we made posters, bag designs, biscuits and much more. Have a look at the fun we had!

Celebrating the 5 years of eTwinning in Greece!

We had a great time...made drawings...composed a song with our partners...made a birthday cake...had balloons....Happy Birthday eTwinning!We all love you!!!

5 years eTwinning!!!!Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday eTwinning from Greece-UK-Poland-Romania-Hungary-Wales-Italy!!!

International Theatre Day (27/3/2010)1st part

As International day of Theatre was the same day with Earth hour, we decided to write an environmental script!
Greece started the story:

"MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE"

Narrator: Once upon a time there was a fish, which was called Aris!
Aris: I’m a small small fish with many many colors and have many loving friends! Let them introduce themselves!
Hippocampus: My name is Goulielmos and I like seaweed and hide myself among them!
Octapus: I am Thrasybulus and I am usually hiding in the rocks. I like eating candies with shrimp and swordfish flavor!
Crab: My name is Mitsos and I like tap dancing!
Sea turtle: I’m Ophelia and I adore eating jelly-fish! Yummy!!!
Cuttlefish: Hi guys! I’m Hermione and imagine how much I like lollypops with fish flavor!!
Seal: My name is Aglaia and I like to swim in the blue sea and sit on the rocks the sunny days!
Dolphin: Hello, I’m Lilika and I like diving so much!!
Shark: Hello to all I’m Fontas , don’t be afraid of me I’m kind-hearted and like so much watch cartoons and eat pop-corn!!
Altogether: But we all have something, we all like playing hide and seek!!!
(They decide by abebablom, (do you know what is this game?) who is going to tell the numbers until the others will go and hide themselves. Fontas, the shark is going to do it!
Aris is hiding behind some rubbish, cans and banana leaves; Ophelia is hiding in a plastic bag and all the others behind shells and rocks.
Fondas opens his eyes and starts searching . He finds Goulielmos, Thrasyvoulos, Mitsos, Hermione, Aglaia, Lilika . While he is trying to find the other two he listens a scream. It’s Ophelia who can’t breathe in the plastic bag.
Ophelia: Help!!!Help!!!I can’t breathe, please help me!!!
Fondas: Don’t move I will cut the bag with my strong teeth!
Ophelia: Thank you Fondas, you saved my life!!!
Before having time to tell anything else, another scream interrupts them.
Aris: Help me I can’t swim…I’m bleeding! My tail was cut by an aluminum can!!
Seal: Let me help you my dear. I will put you a water-proof bandage!!Now you are ok!
All sea creatures didn’t like what happened!
Dolphin: We have to do something…Our sea is not as blue and clean as it was!
Crab: People throw all kind of rubbish..so dangerous for us!!
Hippocampus: Our life is miserable here nowadays!!!A solution should be found and make people understand that we can’t live any more in a dirty sea!
Octapus: We can write a message to the people tell them what’s going on…
Cuttlefish: I can help you with that!
Aris the fish: So let’s write this:
Stop throwing rubbish at the sea
Fix your ships so you don’t have petrol leaks
Come and clean the sea, if you don’t come soon
We will all die!!!
What do you think ?Is that ok?
Altogether: Yeeees, it’s great!!!
Shark: Let’s put it in this empty bottle…nice! Who is going to take it to the people?
Crab: I will do it, don’t worry people will take the message soon!!
So the crab went to the seaside to give the message in the bottle …..


Poland cintinued the story:
He left the bottle by the sea shore among a pile of stones and went back into the ocean depths.
There came a day when John and Judy, a couple of 7 year-old twins, went to the beach. They wanted to find something exceptional what could be called a sea treasure, as it was their homework task at school.
John: Imagine, Judy, what would happen if we found a pirate crate with a treasure map and full of gold coins! we would have not only got the best mark, but we could also be very rich!
Judy: Oh, John! Don`t be silly! Pirates are in fairy tales only! Let`s better search for pearl among these shells. It would be great to have some for a necklace…
John: Pearls? That could say a woman only, ha ha!
N: John and Judy were arguing with each other about the treasure they could find, when suddenly they saw something shining among stones.
John: Gold!
N: shouted John
Judy: Pearls!
N: squealed Judy
John and Judy: It`s mine!
N: They run quickly towards the place but… there was only a bottle lying in a sand
John: Oh, no! It`s only rubbish!
N: And John kicked the bottle with anger
Judy: Look, John! But there is a message inside!
N: That was the way Judy and John found an SOS message from sea creatures.
they read it slowly and carefully:
“Stop throwing rubbish at the sea
Fix your ships so you don’t have petrol leaks
Come and clean the sea, if you don’t come soon
We will all die!!!”

Judy: Sea creatures need our help, John! Let`s inform others!
N: An hour later a family meeting was announced and rescue plan was formed. firstly, the family decided to immediately clean rubbish from the beach. there came Mum and Dad, all possible uncles, aunties and cousins. Everyone did one`s best, but they couldn’t do everything…
John: I`m exhausted! So many rubbish to clean! Is that a beach or a rubbish bin for some people?
Judy: It`s not enough what we did, John. I think we should tee the message to our friends at school. They can send it forward to others and so forth…
John: Sure, we will!
N: The next day at school twins showed a bottle message to the teacher and friends. They came up with many great ideas:
Student 1: Let`s make a poster for fishermen and sailors. They have to fix their ships to avoid petrol leaks!
Student2: We can write letter to sailors to help them understand that sea creatures die cause of rubbish they throw to the sea!
Student3: What about going to the radio or a newspaper agency? We can announce a Day of Beach for cleaning!
Teacher: Let`s do all of this together! at least the sea and its creations are the most important treasure we all search for!
N: Imagine that everything was possible to be done when children, parents, families, teachers and friends were working together! They moved almost the whole world for the sea world!
One evening, straight before a sleep, John and Judy were lying in their beds and discussing:
Judy: Do you think that our sea friends feel better nowadays?
John: I hope so, Judy! I am sleepy! Sleep well!
Judy: Good night, John! Have a nice dreams!

N: Indeed, both Judy and John had a beautiful dream that night. They dreamed sea creatures – fish, crabs, seahorses, octopuses and seals – playing hide and seek among multi-coloured anthozoans. There came a shark even, whispered” thank you”and waved with his flipper…
but… Was it a dream only? How do YOU think?

THE END

...it continues

International Theatre Day (27/3/2010) 2nd part

After we finished the script with the children from Greece and Poland, children from Wales decided to make the animals mask for all:










Now, children from all partner schools will have the opportunity to play the story at their schools!!

Happy Easter! Καλό Πάσχα!!

Χριστός Ανέστη! Christ is Risen! (this is a wish we say in Greece) Hope you all have a great Easter!!!

(Epitaphios: Great Friday, the day that Christ died, we decorate the place where Chist's body was put and we go around the church with this and the cross chanting the dirge)



Happy Easter with our easter bunnies!!

Happy Easter!

The very best wishes to all for Easter time!

May you have joyful hearts, good thoughts and lots of happiness
ever, not only while Easter:)

Hugs from us and Easter rabbit!

Earth Hour

On Saturday 27th March 2010, people all over the world switched off their lights for one hour to protest about climate change. This is our presentation of our Earth Hour with photos from Greece, Poland and the UK.

"5 years of eTwinning" celebrations

The whole Europe celebrate 5 years of eTwinning anniversary these days.
Whenever there is a question given: "Why do we use eTwinning in our schools?" there is nothing else but to answer:
Projects give us a lot of joy. Enjoyment brings kids about to remember what they brace, for ever! Good partnerships make us good friends. The world is closer to all of us if we experience a world collaboration and power of communication tools.
At least - we are all the same, as twins are - kids, parents, teachers. With our needs, desires, life aims...
Let`s see the official eTwinning video created for the celebration time. Twin schools dance there!

Enjoy eTwinning!

Fairtrade Fortnight

At Southwater we celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight. We did lots of different activities to find out more about Fairtrade. We have learned that Fairtrade gives farmers and workers a better price for their products so that they can have a better standard of living.

"Good morning" dialogue in partners` languages

As a part of the collaborative task for International Mothers Language day, all partner schools decided which dialogues they want to learn from each other in partners` languages. We recorded those dialogues in our languages and created four common videos to present them. Here you can see the "Good morning" dialogue. Enjoy learning!

"What is your name?" dialogue

If you want to know how to ask about a name of your friend from partner school, you simply have to see this video:

"Can I help you?" dialogue

Whenever you need to ask some of us for help:

"Happy birthday" dialogue and song

When it is your birthday you can sing in these ways:

Online Dictionary for Mother Language Day

The International Mother Language Day, proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1999, has been observed yearly since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and
multilingualism.In our project, the children decided which words and expressions they would like to learn in other languages. Then they drew the words and made this online oral dictionary as well
as a printed one. Let’s share the opportunity to learn words in: English-Greek-Polish-Hungarian-Welsh-Romanian and Italian!!!
To watch it in full size: http://voicethread.com/#u278580.b927742

Mother languages - international quiz

The International Day of Mother Languages is coming! Before the celebration of a day in our schools, we invite you to do the quiz connected with our languages, countries and flags! Have fun!

MOTHER LANGUAGES on PhotoPeach

The Carnival is a better holiday for children. They had the time of their life!

"The Arlequin"

In Carnival we get dressed to whatever we wish to be...This year we read a nice fairytale and decided to play it..so we picked up our roles, learnt how to dance, chose our costumes and we travelled with our play in the Venetian carnival!!Arlequins, Colombines, Marquises, Marquesses, Pierrots,Dancers, Kings and Jesters were our heroes!!


Hope you like it all, especially our Italian friends!!!
Hugs!!!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar in England!

We have been working hard in England to prepare our presentation for International day of Disabilities. We already knew the story of the Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, but it took us a long time to learn the title in all the languages of our partners. It was hard work! We have used the text from the book, read the story out loud and made our own items to help to tell the story. We have had a lot of fun making this presentation and we had to all work together. Thankyou to our partners for helping us with the title translantions. We hope you enjoy it!

Bardzo głodna gąsienica - Caterpillar in Polish animation

We had a great fun with animation of Eric Carle`s book. "The very hungry caterpillar" is titled as "Bardzo głodna gąsienica" in Poland. The story is whole the same, cause children are the same wherever in this world. Even if children have special needs, they love and play in the same way! We all love books! Caterpillar story was exeptional to animate. This time we also enjoyed learning titles in partners` languages! It was so funny to try those tongue twisters! Come and see how we did the task:

International Day of Disabled people-Ημέρα ατόμων με ειδικές ικανότητες

On 3rd of December we celebrated the International Day of Disabled people. We thought what we can do that day apart from feeling very lucky and thankful that we can all see-listen-speak and walk around. We decided to make a gift to all the children that cannot hear or see. We played the very famous storybook "The very hungry caterpillar"by Eric Carle by making sounds, so children who can't see will hear it. We also made signs with words and drawings so children who cannot hear could see our story!!Hope they will enjoy it!!




Here you can see a photo of children preparing the play:

Just to have fun!!

Michael wanted to share his drawing with you...so we decided to make it a puzzle so you can enjoy making it!!


In the same way, we send a drawing of Danai for the girls!Hope you like it too!Kisses