Project activities in the near future

Marjatta writes:
1. LOGO

I already mentioned that the next stage in the project is the logo competition. It was agreed that the logo should meet the following criteria: It should

be simple

be small so that it would be possible to use it in letters, etc.

• imply the idea og getting to know people in other European countries
  
• carry the meaning that tales can be told both in words, music and pictures
  

2. EVALUATION

In addition to this competition the partner schools will let their staff and students fill in the evaluations sheets in order to get the basic line. The final evaluation will be made at the end of the project and the basic line used as the parametre. Also annual evaluation, to be sure. this will be completed in November.

3. MUSIC:

Before Christmas each school will send the words and recording (sound files in digital form, disc or cia E-mail) of the well-known hymn "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" (in English Holy nigh silent night") in their own language to their partners. The students in each school will practise the four languages and present the hymn in connection of the Christmas celibration. Additionally the well-known children´s song "Head and shoulders". N. B. The Finns aldready presented head and shoulders for the representatives of the partners schools in connection of theTammisaari meeting.

4. LINKS

In order to be able to check what the other partners are doing it was decided to put links to the website of partner schools. For the time being this blogg will also serve as a medium for information.

These are the websites of the partner schools:

www.digranesskoli.kopavogur.is



www.deakdiak.hu

http://xoomer.alice.it/rodari.infanzia/index2.htm

http://www.ekenas.fi/hakarinn/index.html

(This is the site of the city of Tammisaari, the name of which in Swedish is Ekenäs. The majority of the city are Swedish speaking and therefore the first language is Swedish. The school has its own domain within the city site. You shall only have to find it!! Give a try.

Marjatta, project coordinator, Digranesskóli, Iceland

Project meeting in Tammisaari 1-3 Nov. 2006

Picture to the right:

Päivikki the Finnish coordinator (on the left) and Magnea the Digranesskóli principal enjoying the togetherness. Päivikki is holding the musical box she got from the Icelandic team. It plays the well-known Icelandic folksong "Krummi sat í klettagjá" (The raven sat in the frosty canyon with a frozen beak)

At the Tammisaari meeting there were, in addition to the hosts, three representatives of Digranesskóli (Magnea the school principal, Ingibjörg 2. grade teacher and Marjatta the coordinator), from Hungary there were Zsuzsa the school principal, Andrea, Éva and the coordinator Tamás. From Italy there were Sabina, their coordinator and Viviana. Päivikki, the coordinator of the Finnish school had done a lot of preparation and also Matti Piirainen, their school principal and Anneli who teachers teh 4th grade.

Many ideas were discussed at this meeting and plans for the next two years made.

In the nearest future the partner schools will arrange a competition about a suitable logo for the project. Actually, Tammisaari has already arranged theirs and they had some very good suggestions.

More about the project and the activities later.

Marjatta

Tales of Europe - Four country approach

The project "Tales of Europe" is a joint project of four schools in Italy, Iceland, Finnland and Hungary. We got a grant for this project from the European fund usually called "Comenius".

As the name (Tales) says, the aim of this project is to learn about tales in the partner countries and also to make the partners acquainted with our tales - not only the traditional tales, but also the tales that are told in music. The part of music is actually quite significant.

The schools that participate are Digranesskóli in Kópavogur town in Iceland and Hakarinteen koulu in Tammisaari, Finland, both of which are comprehensive schools with pupils of ages 6-16, then there is the Hungarian school from the city of Budapest, its name is Deák Diák Altalános Iskola, and the primary school and kindergarten from Cordenons city in North Italy, at the roots of the Alps.

The first project meeting with the representatives of al the participating schools was held in Tammisaari, Finland, on 1-5 November. From our school there were, in addition to me (who am the project coordinator - and Digranesskóli is the coordinating school) Magnea Einarsdóttir the school principal and Ingibjörg Jóhannesdóttir, class-teacher who has taken part in the preparation of the project and is a very able hand. She teaches our second grade, i.e. 7 years old pupils. More about this meeting and the project at a later stage.