The Republic of Finland 90 years - Hakarinne Celibrates

The republic of Finland celibrates its 90th year on the 6th of December. It was during the first world war (1917) that the Finnish senate declared independancy from Russia and decided that the country should be a republic. Since the 6th of December is a holiday and the school is closed, the pupils and the staff of Hakarinteen koulu had their celibration the day before. Here we have some photos of the event. There are pupils of many nationality in Hakarinteen koulu and they played a role of ambassidors, each representing their country, like it is done at presidential invitations. On the other photo we see pupils and teachers in the Finnish national costume.

Lýðveldið Finnland heldur uppá 90. ára afmælið sitt í dag, 6.desember. Þar sem 6. des. er almenn frídagur í Finnlandi héldu nemendur vinaskólans okkar, Hakarinteen koulu, uppá afmælið hátíðlega daginn áður. Okkur bárust þessar og fleiri myndir í dag ásamt lýsingu á hátiðinni.

Á efri myndinni sjáum við nemendur skólans af ólíkum þjóðernum leika "sendiherra" upprunaþjóða sinnar og á efri myndinni eru nemendur og kennarar í þjóðbúningi. Konan til hægri er Anneli Piirainen sem heimsótti okkur hér í Digranesskóla í júní s.l.

Tales of Europe kynning / presentation

Tales of Europe verkefnið var kynnt í sérstökum bás í tengslum við ráðstefnuna um nýja menntaáætlun EBS og EEC landanna sem haldin var í Kennaraháskóla Íslands 4. des.

Tales of Europe and its products were presented at a conference which was arranged on the 4th of December by the National Agency of Iceland. On the wall there were drawings by the pupils (cf. the photo) and on the table in front of it we had cd and dvd discs, books and the activity report with the goals.

Many of the visitors showed interest to our project and asked for more information.

Folk Melody for Yuletide Lads - Jólasveinasöngur

Tales Products at an Exhibition

The Icelandic National Agency will have a conference at the University of Education in Reykjavik next week, 4th December. They have asked Digranesskóli to have a stall there and show samples of products that the pupils have made within the Tales of Europe project. Especially they liked the books that we here in Digranesskóli made out of the tales that the partners produced last year. - Remember the laminated, colourful books that catch the eye? Such as The Seal's Skin (Iceland), The Story of Saint Encrácia (Portugal), Little Spiteful Riding-Hoods (Italy).

The coordinator will be there to answer the questions of the conference guests - and hopefully try to get more people interested in this kind of projects.

I hope this empowers you all - What we do seems to draw attention and admiration. I wish you all, both pupils and staff members of all partner schools a very good continuing Comenius and Tales year! The next step is to make the best of our Christmas portfolios visible!

Marjatta

Kópavogspósturinn - Local media in Kópavogur

Kópavogspósturinn hefur fylgt jólaballsfréttinni eftir og birti þessa mynd í tölublaði sínu 1.nóvember. Annars var blaðið aðallega helgað íþróttum. Gaman samt að blaðið veitir einnig okkur athygli þó að blöðin eins og Kópavogspósturinn hafa nóg efni frá auglýsendum.

This photo and some lines about how the project is going was published in our local paper the Kópavogspósturinn, on the first of November. It is nice that the local media remembers us, even if they need to give a lot of space to their sponsors.

Hello from Portugal!

Here we are, working on Tales.

Finland will soon receive our pictures and we hope they will enjoy it.

The Autumn arrives slowly... the leaves are begining to fall... the temperature too...

With the best greetings from all the portuguese Comenius Team.

Hrekkjavaka í Cordenons

Kennarar og nemendur skólans í Cordenons skrifa hér fyrir neðan um nýjan sið sem hefur rutt sér til rúms á Ítalíu (frá 1960-). Fólk hreinsar innan úr graskerum og býr til eftirlíkingar af hauskúpum svipað og gert er í Ameríku. Þessi siður er reyndar að breiðast út einnig hér á landi. Í greininni frá Cordenons er sagt að þessi siður eigi rætur að rekja til fornra Kelta sem gjarnan tóku hauskúpur óvinanna sem þeir höfðu drepið í orrustu og stilltu þær upp í glugga og víðar. Svolítið óhuggulegt, finnst ykkur ekki?

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