From France - a scrapbokk of mobilities

- Comenius - Green Business

We are making progress!

Hi! How are you?

After a long time, finally, all groups from Portugal decided to start working seriously.

And you?

For the third week, we met on a Wednesday afternoon to work on our projects. 

We’re very tired, but, we did several things and we shared so many ideas!

We organized action plans, and decided what we wanted to do.

For example, my group (Green Magazine) has set goals.

We spent an afternoon thinking about the content (news and interviews) of the magazine. We created the index (available below) and we also though it could be nice to have puzzles, quizzes…

We used the concept of “interesting magazine”. Something attractive, that doesn’t make the reader feel bored while reading.

Now, we need a layout. 

Anyone has any suggestions?

(Index for Green Magazine):

	Our school	Each country
Opening	Teacher Ana Guedes	Text of each responsible
The project “Green Business”	·      Presentation of the overall project; ·      The countries involved; ·      Logo; ·      Expectations.	Expectations
The different areas or subprojects	Introduction about each of the following subprojects: -Gardening -Eco Food -Recycling -Public Transport -Green Magazine	Work prepared; Involvement of the school; Results. (Attach photos that show the requested above).
scrapbook	·      Cover of scrapbook	Cover
Motilities to other countries	·      Photo of each group; ·      Work/Tasks that them developed; ·      Presentation of the host school: type of teaching, curricular offerings, number of students and teachers, etc… ·      Characterization of the region where the school is located.	Photos of all groups/countries participating in mobility; Photos of activities.
“Green News”	·      Snippets related to projects, innovations, etc… In the area of our project.	Snippets related to projects, innovations, etc… In the area of our project.
“Green Enterprise” in the region	·      Select a company with environmental certification. Interview the businessman, in order to get the evidence that they use environmentally friendly products.	Select a company with environmental certification. Interview the businessman, in order to get the evidence that they use environmentally friendly products.
Final result/ Final outcome	·      Products developed by each subproject; ·      Testimonials from students and teachers for each area.	Products developed by each subproject; Testimonials from students and teachers for each area.
“Hobbies”	Playful part with crossword puzzles, quiz (like eco footprint…). Calculated to what extent the people involved in the project have become “green people”.	Playful part with crossword puzzles, quiz (like eco footprint…). Calculated to what extent the people involved in the project have become “green people”.

While working in our project, we also had a look to what other groups were doing.

They’re really striving!

And you? 

I’m sure you’re also doing your work. Won’t you share any photos/information?

--Sara Alexandra Silva, Green Magazine, Portugal.

Second chance?

Hello everyone! I’m Inês and I am working with my friends on the gardening Project (by the way, we’re from Portugal).

So, basically, we decided we were going to spend our vacation at school (if you can call it “vacation”, of course), and we are really happy with the way we’re working.

We found this lovely chest of drawers (with no drawers at all) ready to go to the trash, so we thought: why not give it a second chance?

We colected ideas, made our plans and looked for the flowers we want to use. 

And here we are, wishing our plans work the way we want to, and working the way we have to.

Wish us good luck.

--Inês Silva, Portugal--

Our city, our country...

This video was made by Inês Silva (gardening) and Soraia Ferreira (recycling). The idea was taken from the youtube tag “Draw my life” and we thought it would be a good way to show our city to our colleagues from other countries.

We had a great time doing it, because we wanted the final result to be fun and enjoyable for its viewers.

We hope people get the idea of how many awesome things our culture, country and city have to offer so, sit back… and enjoy it!

-- Inês Silva and Soraia Ferreira

Expectations...Ana, Cláudia, Ricardo And Rita

Our expectations are to get to know new cultures that we do not know and share a good communication experience with foreign countries. We hope to help the environment creating different projects with reusable material and we still hope to have great team spirit with our foreign colleagues and with those who go to our school. We want our projects to be models of future.

-- Ana Costa, Cláudia Silva, Ricardo Silva and Rita Freitas -- 

Expectations...Rita Araújo.

Eco food

It is always important to participate in projects like this because it helps us enriching our knowledge at various levels, by extending our horizons. It gives us the opportunity of being in touch with people from other countries and develop ideas.

A project is a group activity designed to develop ideas using different strategies with an aim: to create something new (an object, service or result). It is possible to have knowledge of the viability and success of this project by the feedback we have had from previous years. It is an interesting project because it focuses on sustainability and business success worrying about the environmental issues.

-- Rita Araújo (Portugal) -- 

Expectations...Sara Alexandra

Green Magazine

In this project, I would like to develop new skills related to my area (I am in the project Green Magazine), meet new people with different cultures and improve my English. In addition, I also hope to develop an interesting project, improve my social skills interacting with the others and above all, contribute for such a project in the secondary school of Caldas das Taipas.

-- Sara Alexandra (Portugal) --

Expectations...Inês Paredes.

Gardening...

I  hope this project is a good strategy to connect foreign countries and also a vehicle of developing creativity what will certainly help us the in near future.

But more important, I hope we can have a bit of fun.

-- Inês Paredes (Portugal) --

Expectations from Norway...

Public Transport...

We expect much fun, inspiration and creativity from this project. We also expect the people involved to act polite and tidy, so that it will be easy cooperating with them.

Reusing and Recycling...

We first sent an e-mail to the girls from Portugal with a gesture saying "hi". We opened a group on Facebook called "Green Business Recycling Group". We have had some contact with the others, and they all seem very nice. We look forward working with you guys, and hopefully make some new friends as well. This is a great project, lets get to work!

Gardening...

We expect to learn more about gardening, and how it can help businesses. And we are looking forward to meet the students from the other countries, and experience other cultures.

First contact, we sent a mail and made a facebook group, where we invited students from the other countries. After this we started to talk to each other :- )

-- From Norway --

Expectations...Inês Silva.

Gardening...
I hope that this Project will really matter in terms of our knowledge improvement in different areas, such as different cultures, ecology and how to organize, create and work in a project.

I also think it will also be really good to be able to interact with people that, in other ways, we wouldn’t and therefore develop friendship.

-- Inês Silva (Portugal) --

Logo: Participating in this Project …

We were asked to join a Comenius project at our school, and we decided to accept because it was an interesting idea that would appeal to our imagination and give us the possibility to create something that could be known and used by several countries, the project participants.

        We started by facing the challenge of making a logo, we didn´t expect to win but we enjoyed doing it very much. It was a big surprise and we think our class did very well because the logo that got the second place was also from our class.

 -- Juliana Gonçalves / Sara  Gonçalves -- 

Visiting Riga...

During the winter, Riga is so cold and the wind is so harsh that we must wear gloves, hats; and so on … Walking through Riga with this weather is a real adventure.

This monument symbolizes freedom 

and the end of the Russian power

House of the Blackheads, originally called 

the New House, was built in 1334.

It was destroyed during the war and 

rebuilt in the XX century.

S. Jacobo Cathedral dates from the 12th century,

it is the largest medieval church in the Baltic. 

It’s reddish color draws our attention.

Riga has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site thanks to the collection of art nouveau buildings.

The students were our tourist guides and they played their role very well. 

Riga is an amazing city, and Latvian people are very proud of their past...

--Manuela Calheiros--

We went to Latvia

Last November, between 16^th and 19^th, responsible teachers from each school participated in the first mobility of our Green Business project. We met at Riga 22 Secondary School, in Riga, the lovely capital of Latvia. Marina, our host, was excellent in organizing everything so we could, in a very short period of time, do all the things we had to and also experience something of Latvian culture.

It was great, apart from the cooold weather!

-- Ana Guedes --

First things first …

The “Green Business” Comenius project, a multilateral partnership, involving schools in France, Latvia, Norway, Portugal and Slovakia, consists of developing 5 small projects within the issues of environment.

In the first mobility that took place Latvia, last November (16^th -19^th) some teachers and coordinators met to plan, discuss and decide about some strategies and / or activities we should carry out during the next 2 years.

We agreed on the areas (projects) students should work on – A Garden; Eco food; A Green Magazine; Public transport and Reusing/recycling. International teams will develop these projects, based on a collaborative strategy. Knowledge should be shared, in different situations, either involving students or teachers. It is also one of the aims of our project Green Business that teachers share information and know how about the educational systems within this context of the European Union.

-- Ana Guedes --