Greetings from Poland

Dear friends, let me introduce our students who are going to Bad Ems. Please meet Ola (Aleksandra) and Bruno. They both just can't wait to meet other kids and teachers from all partner schools. Top secret: Ola's 16th birthday is on the 10th of March.:)

Please, meet the Polish team coming to Belgium

The Polish students, who are coming to Belgium, Marysia (Maria) and Magda, are looking forward to meeting you! Lots of greetings and Christmas wishes from Poland.

Getting ready for our meeting in Vitoria

Please, meet Lila and Mikołaj, the Polish students, who are going to participate in our EMB meeting in Vitoria. We are getting ready for the meeting, looking forward to project activities. Lots of greetings from sunny Lublin.

New school year, new beginnings :)

We've been back at school since September the 1st. The Polish team is ready for hard work, Erasmus Minus Bullying activities included. :)

In the photo you can see the opening of the new school year ceremony and our first graders, who are enthusiastic and eager to join EMB project activities.

We wish all partners a great and fruitful new school year. If anyone is still enjoying holidays, have fun  during the last days of summer. :)

 

Erasmus Minus Bullying update from Poland

Some activities we have done since the unforgettable meeting in Greece:

• Marta and Ola, the girls, who are taking part in the meeting in Helsinki, were often practising the song they will perform during EMB festival.

• We are very proud to inform you that we were invited to a special conferece for schools taking part in Erasmus+ projects this school year. The aim of the conference is to promote Erasmus +. We are going to display logos and posters, show other materials and presentations from the meetings. The conference is next week and we are working hard to present Erasmus Minus Bullying in a proper way. There will be many teachers and students not only from our city, Lublin but also from our region. We will do our best to be convincing Erasmus Minus Bullying ambassadors.

• A few weeks ago the Erasmus Minus Bullying writing competition was announced at our school. The students were supposed to write a play for the meeting in Helsinki. The task was pretty challenging, as the play should have been written in English. Our students submitted nine plays! The authors are first and second graders, 6 girls and 3 boys. We are satisfied with our young playwrights creativity and it was really difficult to choose the text which will be performed by partner school. We are happy to announce that it will be a play written by Ola Portka from class 2f. Well done!

• Erasmus Minus Bullying is an important part of a special celebration, which is being prepared by our school psychologist Anna Osemlak and a group of kids at the moment. The celebration is called "A Day Without Violence" and it will take place next week. It will be presented to students and teachers. The kids from our school, who won prizes for EMB logo, poster, song and play at our will be given prizes and diplomas. Nikola and Michał, the students, who participated in the meeting in Greece, will share their thoughts and impressions with our school community.

• We organised a special meeting for 30 class teachers at our school to show them the results of Erasmus Minus Bullying survey. The results were presented by English teacher, Michał Szewczyk. A discussion followed. Many conclusion were drawn from the analysis of results.

Class teachers' meetings - presenting the results of EMB survey.

Looking forward to the meeting in Finland! :)

Polish students are getting ready for the meeting in Helsinki. In the photo you can see Marta (on the left) and Ola (on the right) working on the application form this morning. Both girls are looking forward to meeting all students and teachers, who will participate. Warmest greetings from Lublin!

Our impressions from the great meeting in Athens

Just sharing our memories from the unforgettable meeting in Athens. According to our students it was the most wonderful time of their lives!

Huge thanks to the Greek coordinators Mania and Arianna, the headmistress, all teachers, kids and their parents for making our stay in your country so special and beautiful.

Lots of love from Polish students and teachers!

Erasmus Minus Bullying update from Poland

Hello from Lublin in Poland. Here are some of our Erasmus Minus Bullying activities in the last few weeks:

• Our school headmistress, Mrs Barbara Warda, delivered a short lecture via our school radio about our Erasmus Minus Bullying Project for our students’ parents, who attended the meeting with class teachers. She talked about the main objectives of the project and encouraged everyone to participate actively.

• We organized a meeting for all kids’ parents with a psychologist, who works for police. She talked about cyberbullying. More than 500 parents were present! It was a very interesting presentation and parents of kids from my class said they had found it inspiring and beneficial.

The audience during the presentation in our gym.

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  Kasia and Kuba, who attended the meeting in Varna, during the presentation.

• At the end of semester (in January) we had an assembly, repeated three times (for first, second and third graders). Katarzyna Tes and Jakub Wielgus, the students, who attended Erasmus Minus Bullying meeting in Varna, presented the main purpose of the meeting and the great activities we had plus their personal impressions. In the background there was a slideshow with photos from our meeting in Bulgaria. The presentation by Kasia and Kuba was very successful, both teachers and kids (about 800 altogether) enjoyed it.

• 125 students from our school took part in Erasmus Minus Bullying survey. We had some technical problems with the internet on that day but miracously the results didn’t disappear. The survey was always followed by a short explanation and instructions by a teacher. It was wonderful to see that kids were really very seriousabout the survey.

• Last week we organized two EMB school competitions: the poster competition and the song competition. As usual the jury consisted of students and teachers. Eight posters were chosen for the final. It was really difficult to decide which were the most interesting but finally three paintings were chosen. Nine girls performed one by one in the song competition. All singers did a great job and we are proud of them. Hopefully you will hear the two winners in Helsinki in May. The results of both competitions will be presented on our school website: https://g16-lublin.eu/

• Last Thursday all teachers had a training session with a professor of psychology, Mrs Wioletta Tuszyńska-Bogucka. It was devoted to cyber stalking and the menaces kids face while using the internet. My colleagues found it extremely helpful and I hope we will chance to see it when you come to Lublin in May 2016.

Speaking of which, here is my class in front of the Lublin castle yesterday, sending warmest greetings to teachers and students from all our partner schools. :)

Our first meeting in Varna - a collection of photo memories by the Polish team

Big thanks to Bulgarian teachers, students and their parents for making our meeting in Varna an unforgettable experience, both intelectually enriching and heart touching.

Our memories:
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