CHRISTMAS MAGAZINE

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The email topic

Hello everybody,
In order to start exchanging emails we have agreed with the project coordinator that we - the Polish group - will take the first turn. So our topic in the period 28th November - 15th December is as follows:

1) Let's gossip about our teachers

2) What's your favourite subject and why?

3) What's your most difficult subject and why?

PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES

This is the list of the programmed activities that we are going to develop during this school year.
It could be helpful for everyone to post it onto the blog to remind us of the activities planned in the Application Form and agreed on the meeting in Duisburg last February.

Students mail exchange

As we agreed at Duisburg meeting, each school will propose every fifteen days an open question as a topic to write about. Turns are established as follows:

- 2 November: Germany
- 16 November: United Kingdom
- 30 November: Greece
- 11 January: Poland
- 25 January: Portugal
- 8 February: Catalonia

Taking into account that this is a photographic Comenius, we would like to encourage students to include pictures in their e-mails.

Christmas magazine

Regarding the contents, we would like to include the following articles:

- Who brings the Christmas presents? (Extension 100-150 words + a couple of pictures)

- An autochthonous tradition, preferably rarely known around the world. (Extension 200-250 words + a couple of pictures)

- Brief explanation about Christmas meals (Which are the main parties: dinners, lunches? What kind of products or meals do you eat? (Extension 200-250 words + a couple of pictures)

- A recipe

- A music score of a traditional song.

- Information about the Christmas calendar. Holidays, school holidays

In order to have the magazine by Christmas, we need this information as soon as possible. Dateline should be the end of October.

Students mails grid

Dear all,
We're back!
It is time to start a new school year and we are ready to exhange our texts about new topics.
In order to do so, we need to update our mailing list. Please send us your new students mails by the 2nd October, following the model grid that you have already received.

As you will probably remember, last year each school proposed a topic to write on. We will follow the same system this year. We will post the list of turns to continue with this as soon as we have all the students mails.

Europhotography Contest Awards

Here you have the final results of the europhotography contest:

Escola El Cim email topic

Dear all,
Here is the next topic for the following email exchange: MUSIC!

What sort of music do you like?

What is your favourite singer or group of music?

Have you ever been to any of their concerts?

Do you collect posters, photos, tickets or rare CDs of any group of music?

Where can we listen to their songs?

Burnisde Comenius - Photography Winners

The Best Photographic Technique
Helen Scott
Bethay Harris

The Most Creative Picture
Amy Sutherland
Brooke Makin


The Best Reflection of Urban Atmosphere
Marc Girdlestone
Caitlin Brown

Architecture or Monuments
Scott Turner
Michael Hood

Landscape or Natural Environment
Christiana Garratt
Jess Eley

Escola El Cim - Photography Winners

The best photographic technique:

The Flower

The Limits of Barcelona

The most creative picture:

The paradise

Sun and Sea


The best reflection of urban atmosphere:

Sky, Earth and Water

Barcelona

Architecture or monuments:
Sant Jordi's Park

Alhambra

Landscape or natural environment:

Beach of Blanes

Sant Antoni de Calonge Beach

Escola Secundária/3 de Castro Daire - Photography Winners

The Best Photographic Technique

Architecture or Monuments

Landscape or Natural Environment

Creativity

The Best Reflection of Urban Atmosphere

Escola Secundária/3 de Castro Daire

Hy everyone!!!

Greetings from Portugal. Our question for the first couple of weeks of May is :

What do you usually do in your spare time?

Have fun! (divirtam-se!)

The best pictures from Poland

The best photographic technique:

"A little sweet flower" (author - Julita Bucław)

"Duchess Sułkowska's Park" (Jędrzej Waberski)



The most creative picture:

"A glade in night" (Jędrzej Kaczmarek)

"View from viaduct Łęcki" (Jędrzej Waberski)



Architecture or monuments:

"Gimnazjum imienia doktora Władysława Brzezińskiego w Krajence" (Jędrzej Waberski)

"Saint's Joseph church in Krajenka" (Jędrzej Waberski)


Landscape or natural environment:

"Mysterious bridge" (Michalina Witkowska)

"Głomia river" (Jędrzej Waberski)

The best reflection of urban atmosphere:

Unfortunately, there are no pictures that make such requirements.

Gimnazjum im. dr. Wladyslawa Brzezinskiego w Krajence

The topic for the period 15-30 April is the following:
"Holidays:
a) The best holidays I/you have ever had;
b) What are my / your plans for this year's summer holidays;
c) The holidays of my / your dreams."

ESCOLA EL CIM

EURO PHOTOGRAHY COMPETITION

CONTEST RULES

Theme: “My city, my region, my environment”.

• The competition is open to all students participating in the Comenius project.
• Deadline for receiving entries is 30th April 2009.
• The pictures must have been taken in the local area by the person participating in the competition.
• Pictures should be between 1MB and 4MB (1200x900 pixels to 2300x1700 pixels) and must be submitted as a file in JPEG format.
• Each picture must have a title and location and may include an optional description.
• Participants give permission to school to use the image on the Comenius blog and agree that it can be printed and used in a public exhibition.
• If you take pictures of children (aged under 16) you must have written permission from their parents. This written permission must then be sent in with the photographs.
• Students will act as judges to select the best 10 photos on the following categories (2 pictures for each category):

• The best photographic technique.
• The most creative picture.
• The best reflection of urban atmosphere.
• Architecture or monuments.
• Landscape or natural environment.

ORGANIZATIVE ASPECTS
• Deadline for receiving entries is 30th April 2009.
• Selected photos will be hanged onto the Comenius Blog (deadline, 15th May 2009).
• Each school will prepare an international exhibition including the best entries of each country (total 60 pictures). If possible, this exhibition will be shown out of the school (local library, town hall…).
• Students will act as judges to select the best pictures of the international exhibition. It is not allowed to vote for the pictures of the own country.
• The decision of judges from each country will be sent to the coordinating school and put together in order to know the first, second and third awards for each category (total 15 awards) (deadline, 5th June 2009).
• Awards will be posted onto the blog.
• Coordinating school will prepare diplomas and sent them to the winners (June 2009).
• Coordinating school will prepare the edition of an album including all the photos of the international exhibition (July 2009).

ESCOLA EL CIM

DUISBURG MEETING AGREEMENTS

1. Blog. We agree on creating a new common blog onto which the participating schools will post useful organizational information to improve the development of the project. El Cim school will be the responsible for creating such blog.

2. Emailing.
1.1 Everybody agrees on revising the grid of students mails, in order to improve communication among them.

1.2 The participating schools agree on exchanging new emails based on an open question which each school will propose every fifteen days, starting on 15 March with Burnside’s proposed topic/question.

- 15 March: United Kingdom
- 1 April: Greece
- 15 April: Poland
- 1 May: Portugal
- 15 May: Catalonia
- 1 June: Germany

3. Christmas magazine. Schools agree that Escola El Cim (Catalonia) will design the magazine and, in September 2009, information from the different participating countries will be exchanged and gathered in order to create an electronic Christmas magazine. Such magazine will be finished by Christmas.

4. Photography contest. We agree on the rules for the Europhotographic competition (see attached document).

5. Castro Daire meeting (Portugal). We establish the dates for the Comenius meeting to be held in Portugal: from 10 to 14 March 2010.

Burnside Business & Enterprise College

English:
Tell me some information about your school - your school routine and a typical school day.

Spanish:
Dime algo de información acerca de su escuela - la escuela de su rutina y un típico día de escuela.

Portuguese:
Diga-me alguma informação sobre a sua escola - a sua rotina escolar e de um típico dia escolar.

Polish:
Powiedz mi trochę informacji o swojej szkole - swoją szkołę rutynowych i typowych szkolnych dni.

Greek:
Πες μου μερικές πληροφορίες για το σχολείο σας - το σχολείο σας και την ρουτίνα μιας τυπικής σχολικής ημέρας.

German:
Sagen Sie mir einige Informationen über Ihre Schule - die Schule Routine und einer typischen Schultag.

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