Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Comenius Minutes - Italy - October 2011


Minutes of Comenius Project Meeting.  Tuesday 18th October 2011.  Montecarotto, Italy.
In attendance:


Chris Aldridge (UK)
Manoli Barroso(Spain)
Pachu Herrera (Spain)
Veronica Benitez (Spain)
Marina Chatzikosti (Greece)
Iliana Ververi (Greece)
Anna Afeutougilou (Greece)
Amanda Guidi (Italy)
Elena Carnali (Italy)
Carina Lund (Sweden)
Monika Flink (Sweden)
Laura Resek (Slovenia)
Sabina Mattersdorfer (Slovenia)
Jenny Knill (UK)
Suzanne Hefford (UK)


1.    Opening Remarks:
Introductions by each visitor.  Thanks to the Italian staff for all their organisation and hospitality during this visit.

2.    Evaluation of activities:
All agreed that the activities were really enjoyed by the children. 
Sweden: Have displayed posters in their lunch room
Italy: Work currently displayed in classrooms and there is to be more work completed weith the chdilren.
Slovenia: Made a film showing the work completed and is on their school website and Blog.  They use it for learning English words.
Spain: Will make a display of all the work after this visit.
Greece: Work is on their Comenius board and the children know where all the work has come from.
UK: Work is on display in the hall on the Comenius board.

Ideas for how parents can be more involved in the projects:
Slovenia:  each class had a meeting with parents and they were given questionnaires to find out habits and opinions related to healthy eating.  They felt it was important to educate the parents.
UK: Chris shared an idea about holding a healthy lunchbox morning where the school provide healthy food choice for the children,  Children ad parent s come in before school starts and choose items for their lunch together.
Italy: One day a week the children have to have a healthy snack.
Sweden: Involved the school nurse and used her to educate both the parents and their children.  They also hold a breakfast morning in school twice a year.
Slovenia: Children have their snack at 9.00.  they are part of a European project that involves the children receiving free fruit.
Italy: Children have a class chart and keep a record of what the children have for their snack. They fell this encourages the children to bring something healthy.  Some of the parents have reported that this encourages their children to ask for healthy snacks.
Spain: Breakfast morning in school.  Trying traditional recipes - Grandparents brought in traditional recipes and they were cooked and eaten together.

3.    Planning of next activity:
Joint book
Each county will contribute to a joint book.  Each book will contain 5 categories:
Fruit
Vegetables
Drinks
Rice, pastas and breads
Meat and Fish
Each country will produce pages for each section of the book in their own language and then send a copy of each page to the other countries.  Every country should then receive pages for each of the 5 categories in every language.
The book can be completed once a country receives the pages from all the other countries.
Draw pictures or use photos for each of the categories.  Each picture must be labelled.

Each page should have a small flag on the bottom, right hand corner of each page so the children reading the book will know which country each page is from.
Each school will make their own front cover for the book.
*Please use good quality thick paper or thin card for each page.
**Completed pages need to be received in each country by Friday 27th January**

4.    Final Report:
The British Council required more information for last year’s report.  Chris Aldridge sent off the additional information and circulated a copy so everyone could see what was sent. Chris will also email everyone a copy.

5.    Final activity of the project:
Cookery:  Each country to decide on a traditional recipe to be cooked by the others.  Before the next meeting, this needs to be emailed to each of the other countries so that the ingredients can be checked. Any unusual items can then be bought to the next meeting and given to those countries that need them.

6.    Date for next meeting:
The week beginning 12th March provisionally booked. To be held in Spain  Please let Spain know how  long you are likely to stay so they can book excursions accordingly.

7.    AOB:
Italy’s school website is changing.  They will send the new address out.
There will be a small amount of money available for another project starting  in September 2012.
Spain, Slovenia, Sweden, UK, and Italy have confirmed they would still like to be involved
Chris will look into applying for another project as no other volunteers were forthcoming.
UK To remind Adam about setting us up on Skype.
Meeting closed at 1.00pm.

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