Comenius School Partnership

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Comenius School Partnership

• As a European, Id Like to Teach the World
  to....

be greener!

• Partnership involves schools in
• Murcia, Spain, the lead school
• Thuin, Belgium,
• Varna, Bugaria
• Kiiminki, Finland
• Szczchen, Poland
• Birmingham, United Kingdom

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As a European, Id Like to Teach the World
to....
Kiiminki, Finland
Szczecin, Poland
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Varna, Bulgaria
Thuin, Belgium
Murcia, Spain
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What do I do to help the environment?
At home?
At school?
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Aliens are coming to Earth!They come in peace!

• But where will they
• live?
• Meet our new alien
• neighbours!
• What will they
• bring?

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They are coming

• It is your job to sell your area to our
• new neighbours.

Your advert must include 3 things that make the
natural environment of your city/region great. 2
things that you do at school to look after the
environment. 2 things you do at home to look
after the environment. 1 thing/technology you
would like the aliens to provide!
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Instituto de Educacion Secundaria, Ramon y Cajal,
Murcia, Spain 1076 pupils 102 staff
Capital City of Spain Madrid Population of
Spain 40.5 million Currency of Spain euros
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POSTER Nº 1
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SUMMARY POSTER 1

• Dear aliens,
• We invite you to visit us at our small but
  great region, as we are helping the environment
  to recycle waste.
• Our students have recycled their bikes,
  because they do not used them just for fun, but
  to come to school.
• We also invite you to see our beautiful
  beaches, our mountains and our art reflected in
  the baroque facade of our cathedral.
• Thus, we ask you to bring us a machine that
  converts the waste into pure oxygen.
• We are waiting for your visit an answer
• GREETINGS

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POSTER Nº 2
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SUMMARY POSTER 2

• We invite you to come to our city because we
  think we have good atmosphere here, and there is
  a variety of woods, gardens, animals, beaches,
  and so on..
• In our school, we save water by using drip
  irrigation systems, by reusing the old hoses, and
  we also recycle trash in recycling bins.
• In our house we use different bins to help
  recycling and spend just enough water.
• After this, if you decide to come to Murcia, we
  would like you to bring us the machine
  Emiligreen machine. In this machine trash of
  any kind is introduced and it becomes an acid
  that returns nutrients and minerals to the soil
  making it suitable for cultivation. Its
  dimensions are 2 metres long, 1 metre high and
  1.5 metres wide.

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POSTER Nº 3
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SUMMARY POSTER 3

• Dear Mrs. Aliens
• We would like you to come to visit our region to
  see the beautiful places that nature offers us,
  like our beaches and the forests. We recycle at
  home and at school.
• We turn the tap off when we are cleaning our
  teeth or washing our hands. We recycle paper at
  school, we save the used oil to make soap and we
  use cloth bags instead of plastic bags to do the
  shopping.
• If you decide to live with us in our city, we
  would like you to give us a machine that converts
  rubbish into T-shirts.
• We look forward to your visit.

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Institut Notre-Dame, Thuin, Belgium 487 pupils
46 staff
Capital city of Belgium Brussels Population
10.4 million Currency - euros
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Our poster isnt quite finished yet but here
are our ideas

• a tree nature
• trunk in recycled paper
• branches and leaves hands of everyone because
  everyone is responsible (stressed again by the
  chain of people around the trunk)
• on the 'grass' sentences from songs in different
  languages to show it's everyone's concern again
• Leaves have to be added/ pasted, you can see them
  around the poster, and create a 3D effect. On
  these leaves, pictures with what we (can) do to
  improve our environment. As they will be pasted
  these leaves/hands also mean that we have to put
  forward this aspect of protecting our environment.

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Petko Ratchev Slaveykov SchoolVarna,
Bulgaria58 staff, 888 pupils
Capital City of Bulgaria - Sofia (Sófiya)
Population of Bulgaria - 7,750,000 Currency
of Bulgaria - 1 lev 100 stótinki
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• The poster is created by Kristian Kalov,11 years
  old.
• Varna is beautiful with its sea, fish and nice
  weather.
• At school we do sports and plant flowers and
  trees.
• At home we look after the gardens and use solar
  and wind energy.
• We need a machine to be provided(in the water)to
  clean the sea and refresh the air.

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• 2. Kristina Kazakova,11 years old.
• At home it is nice to take care of the plants and
  to live a life close to nature .
• At school we look after the school yard and
  plant trees and flowers .
• On the beach if you see any rubbish throw it in
  the rubbish bin.
• Aliens will provide a machine for recycling to
  protect the environment because we dont have
  such in Varna.

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• 3.Todor Todorov,11 years old.
• The best things in Varna are the sea, the beach
  and the sea garden. Without them our life
• will be miserable. We do a lot of things to look
  after natural environment-at home-we do gardening
  and we collect the rubbish separately. At school
  we clean the school yard
• and plant trees. Aliens will give us a machine
  like an enormous vacuum cleaner to collect the
  dangerous gas in the atmosphere and to pull the
  rubbish.

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Kiimingin Lukio, Kiiminki, Finland260 students
25 teachers
Capital city of Finland Helsinki Population of
Finland 5.3 million Currency of Finland - euros
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To Be Greener by Emmi
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To Be Greener by Niina, Janika and Marika

• We made our recycling poster from materials
  which had already been used once. We used old
  newspapers, magazines and an old artwork, which
  we found in our art classroom. There is lots of
  pictures in our poster. They all represent things
  we think will help to protect environment.
• In Finland many people keep their homes warm
  by burning wood in the fireplaces. That saves
  energy. Fin ns also go hunting and we pick
  berries in autumn. In summer we farm potatoes,
  carrots, etc.
• And we buy local food.
• We have many activities, we can do without
  hurting nature. In winter we can go skiing and do
  other winter sports. In summer we cycle, go
  hiking, and so on.
• In our school we have lights in toilet,
  which switch on and off automatically. We also
  recycle our waste.

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To Be Greener by Hanna

• My project for Comenius
• In my project the bottom is made at two
  pages of old newspaper and I glued surplus paper
  on the coating. Top of all is glued pictures
  (what is taken from different magazines too) and
  everything else more or less interesting things.
  The hand of alien was made at gypsum and my own
  hand was a mould.
• I emphasized four seasons of Finland.
  There can be also found some celebrities like
  Moomin or Mr. Lordi. There can see also beautiful
  nature of Finland. Forests take a lot of
  Finlands area, so I wanted to emphasize that
  thing too. You can find lot of trees and leaf in
  my project.
• I knitted little piece of fabric which is
  placed near the picture of piled mufflers. Its
  nice little detail. Thats how grannys keep their
  grandchild warm here in winters.
• What I would like to take from aliens was
  that they would do some kind of magic spell or
  something crazy thing like that and make people
  UNDERSTAND this situation where we are now and
  where that will end if we continue like this. I
  hope you can see it in that weird green hand..
• There was so little time to do this
  project so it was pretty challenging. In the end
  Im happy with the result.

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To be Greener by Matti

• To be greener
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• My poster is made of size A3 paper and
  every single photo in it are from old magazines
  and newspapers. Photos are mostly about finnish
  nature because nature is the best thing I know
  about Finland. These nature pictures are about
  animals, lakes and forests and those are three
  best things in nature. I added there also a
  picture about old fishing huts (from 18th
  century) because those describe that how people
  of Finland have lived with nature for a hundreds
  and hundreds of years.
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• Pictures about carrots, cycling woman,
  electric wires and compost are having different
  meaning. The meaning is that how me and people in
  our school try to be greener.
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• Compost and electric wires are for both,
  me and people in our school. Compost is a symbol
  for all kind of recycling and reusing. For
  example recycling paper and organic waste.
  Instead electric wires symbolize energy saving.
  In both, my home and our school, people are
  switching off the lights to save electricity.
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• Carrots and cycling pictures are my
  personal acts for trying to be greener. I have a
  little vegetable garden in my home. Im growing
  there potatoes, onions, strawberries and of
  course carrots. Thats the meaning of carrot
  picture. Cycling picture means that my main
  transportation is bike. I cycle to school, store,
  gym and almost every where I go. I think its
  good way to reduce stress and to increase
  physical wellness. 

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IV Liceum Ogolnokszta, Szczecin, Poland 250
pupils
Capital city of Poland Warsaw Population of
Poland 38.5 million Currency of Poland - zloty
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Join us here !We live in a very friendly
environment, close to nature.We take care of it
all the time.Szczecin, our city is surrounded by
green forests- our green lungs.There are wind
turbines and bio-fuel power stations in our
region.At home and school we select rubbish,
save water and energy and use reusable
bags.Bookcrossing is our tradition in our
school. We have been doing it for a few
years.Next to our school there is a school
garden full of trees and bushes. In Spring and
Autumn its wonderful.You are very welcome
here!
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Welcome to our region, Western
Pomerania.  We would like to invite You to our
region, Western Pomerania.  We have lots of
parks and forests, lakes and rivers here. You
can see a lot of
nature monuments and rare animals like
White Eagles, a
European Bison
and Beavers. At the
beautiful seaside You can go
swimming,
surfing and
kitesurfing. We have biofuel power
stations and sewage farms and wind turbines.
You can ride a bike on a bike paths. We protect
the environment
select rubbish, save water, copy paper, energy,
use paper bags.   Come and visit us!
And we are waiting for You!
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Hello ! We are friendly to the environment and
visitors! Come and stay with us in Szczecin
and our region Western Pomerania !
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Archbishop Ilsley Technology College, Birmingham,
UK 1265 pupils 91 staff
Capital City of the London
Population of the UK - 61.1 million Currency of
the UK pound sterling
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• Our task was to form a group of 6-8 people and
  make a poster about our environment in
  Birmingham. It was a little competition and every
  poster got presented to the class.
• It was a great experience and I really had fun we
  had to explain things like how we recycle, what
  we do to help recycling and other eco-friendly
  things. Plus we had to make the poster out of
  things that have been recycled like bottles,
  cartons etc. We also got to explore some of the
  true beauty of Birmingham which I have never seen
  before.
• The best part was just working with your group of
  friends and having fun and co-operating together.
• It was a great experience and the Comenius seems
  very interesting I would like to do something
  like this again.
• By Jack Knight, 9A1

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• We had to get into groups and make a poster
  showing Birminghams environment to an alien and
  come up with an invention that the alien could
  help us make. We picked the groups and did the
  research. My group decided it would be fun to
  make a robot called herb that would help clean
  up Birminghams environment. He had the poster
  and the information stuck on him. We had 3
  lessons to make him out of recycled household
  things, like boxes and old bottles. After we made
  the posters and herb we picked our favourite
  poster from another class to be shown to the
  Comenius project. I really enjoyed it and would
  like to do more work like that with my friends,
  because we produced something creative that no
  one else thought of, we worked together and we
  had fun making it. by Hollie Walters

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• As a group, we all contributed to the poster. We
  added leaves to show our appreciation to the
  environment. We used recycled cardboard instead
  of fresh paper to save the trees. Trees are
  people too, they breathe in what we breathe out!
  They are very important to us and our earth
  because without them, we wouldnt be able to
  survive.
• We decided to show everyone else that they can
  also recycle and help the environment.
• By Aileen Amy

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Selly Park Technolgy College for Girls,
Birmingham, UK 745pupils 55 staff
Capital City of the London
Population of the UK - 61.1 million Currency of
the UK pound sterling
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Selly Park 1

• Dear Aliens',
• Welcome to our neighbourhood in Birmingham, we
  hope you find all the environmentally friendly
  things that go on here.
• We use energy saving light bulbs, use public
  transport, re-use our carrier bags and some even
  grow their own vegetables.
• We would like you to bring us a machine that
  turns our rubbish into heat and light for our
  houses.
• Thanks!

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Selly Park 2

• Dear Aliens,
• We would like to to come to Birmingham. It is a
  city full of fascinating things to do like
  recycling. At home we recycle clothes by giving
  them to people who need them.
• We also recycle glass and plastic bottles. At
  home we recycle by turning off the taps and
  showers when we arent using them.
• At school we recycle paper and plastic bottles.
• We would love it if you brought machine that
  turned old sticks and bits of wood into paper so
  we didnt have to use new trees.
• Bye-bye

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Selly Park 3

• Dear Aliens
• Birmingham is the second biggest city in the UK
  and it has some great features like spectacular
  buildings.
• There are lots of trees and plants which help
  attract wildlife like birds, squirrels and
  hedgehogs. There are plenty of bins which helps
  reduce litter. Everybody has at least two
  recycling bins, one for paper and one for
  plastic.
• We want a machine that turns rubbish into oxygen
  to help us and carbon dioxide to help the plants.