2ND COMENIUS MEETING IN POLAND

From 8th till 15th of December 2013 Poland has been the host for the 2nd Comenius meeting of the “Warm at Home” project. This time we have been hosting 8 students and 15 teachers from partner countries such as: Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Turkey and Spain.

During the visit the Polish team has presented everyone with the new project anthem. The music has been composed by Mrs Monika Rzepecka-Tranda and lyrics have been the collective work of a student: Ms Weronika Zmysłowska and teachers: Mrs Joanna Wilczyńska and Mr Dimitar Dimitrov.

We have also conducted a photography competition called „Warm at Home”. The first prize went to the Bulgarian team. The common second place was won by teams from Turkey and Hungary. Our winners received ecological lamps and all our partner school were given memory cushions with the logo of the project. The author of the crocheting work is Mrs Elżbieta Ołubek. In addition, each country presented their own system of education.

 

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The meeting comprised of very interesting events and activities among them:

-         The meeting with the Vice-President of Łódź, Mr Krzysztof Piątkowski, from the City of Lodz Office;

-         The trip to Warsaw and a visit in the Museum of Technology, where we learned about old and new technologies and ecological sources of energy to heat up the house together with a lecture about the economy of the human body;

-         The trip to the salt mine in Kłodawa;

-         The trip to a medieval castle in Łęczyca with a lesson about the life in the Middle Ages and a knight training of archery;

-         The tour trip around Łódź along the pathways of old factory owners including the visit in The White Factory and the Herbst Palace in the historical Księży Młyn district, where we learned about how people used to sew materials and live in the 18^th and 19^th century;

-         The visit at the combined heat and power plant EC 4 in Widzew district, where the Polish school is situated;

-         The physics lesson on warmth and alternative sources of using energy.

 

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The meeting was filled with a warm, friendly atmosphere. We managed to achieve all the goals. Our partners from Europe were under a great impression of the professionalism, organization, high quality of the educational program and Polish hospitality. Children made friends and communicated surprisingly well with each other irrespective of cultural differences and initial language blockade. In spite of the cold weather outside, the visit was highly marked by all the participants, and warmth, friendliness and understanding were prevailing.

Some of the partners have already been to Poland before. However, as they have observed: “there is always something surprisingly interesting we discover here in Łódź”! This time it was the history of  our city and the so-called icing on the cake was the visit at the Herbst Palace and the salt mine in Kłodawa from which everyone came back with lots of huge lumps of salt.

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The next meeting is going to take place on 23^rd – 30^th  March in Hungary. We look forward to this visit.