First mobility in Vinkovci, Croatia - Day 4

Tuesday, 18/02: The day started with a solidary running race around the school. Each team had to contribute 5 Croatian Kunas for each contestant per 200m of race. The total sum of contributions were then offered to the Red Cross as a symbolic donation for its solidary and charity work around the globe...

For the rest of day, students and teachers were divided into two groups. One group would take part in a First Aid workshop with teacher Vedrana while the other would visit the Vinkovci City Museum on a guided tour, with a switch of activities between groups at approximately 13:30...

First mobility in Vinkovci, Croatia - Day 3

Monday, 17/02: In the morning, all trans-national teams were tranfered to OSNOVNA SKOLA "A. G. Matos" where they were given a school tour by resident students and attended the welcome ceremony prepared by the students and the faculty of the school especially for them...

After the ceremony all multinational students set off working on a bilingual dictionary project with teachers Vlatka and Sanja while their teachers held a meeting regarding work on the project...

At 15:30, all teams paid a formal visit to the Mayor of Vinkovci and after that they had the opportunity to wander around the town on a guided tour before calling it a day...

First mobility in Vinkovci, Croatia - Day 2

Sunday 16/02:  Next day we travelled to Vukovar, making stops at the city centre, the memorial cemetery and the memorial place of Ovcara , both memorial sites from the war of independence of Croatia in 1991.

Later on we visited the Vucedol cultural museum, in which we learnt about the archaelogical heritage of eastern Croatia and the Vucedol culture - there, we attended a workshop on how to make a typical Vucedol boot of the era.  

In the afternoon we drove to the village of Tordinci to visit a typical Slavonian estate of the place named Acin Salaš. 

There we watched a cultural show of  Hungarian dances and songs from the Hungarian minority and participated in the makings and how-to of traditional crafts. At the end of the day we had dinner in the estate grounds in which we were offered various traditional dishes and viands of Slavonia...

First mobility in Vinkovci, Croatia - Day 1

Saturday, 15/02: Having just arrived the day before, all three trans-national teams from Greece, Italy and Spain, along with their hosting counterpart, set off on the mobility schedule by visiting Nevkoš (waste management facility for Vinkovci) and their recycling center where they learned about waste management in Vinkovci and the recycling possibility of Vinkovci and Croatia...   

Later on that day, all students and escorting teachers attended a workshop about recycling with teacher Ozrenka and constructed a recreation of an emblematic building and an ORION calendar pot out of recycled material... 

"Have you ever been at the main city square in Vinkovci and looked the floor that you walking on? Whether you have or haven't now you have the opportunity to visit this square. The square floor is decorated with some symbols that may or may not look to you as one. They are actually forming an Orion calendar. In 1978, the oldest Indo-European calendar was dug out at Vinkovci. It is shown on a nice piece of ceramic dish of some kind. Picture attached below shows that ceramic piece with calendar symbols on it and its meanings. So this piece of history is here so come and take a walk down the city square and enjoy..."

Happy Valentine's Day

Inside the inclusive classroom we work with feelings, how to understand, accept and use them in times of need. What a better chance given than the famous Saint’s Valentine Day. By trying to be an inclusive school and work against prejudices and bias, we discussed how love comes in all forms and shapes and how happy we must be to meet it daily.

            We drew our own hearts and wore them proudly for the day. Our teachers were happy to wear them too. All we need is love, dear friends...

Greek team setting off soon to Vinkovci, Croatia

Six of our students, four 6th graders and two 5th graders along with three teachers, including our school principal, Mr Ioannis Christopoulos, are setting off in the early morning hours this Friday, February 14th, to Vinkovci, Croatia where the first mobility with students and teachers of all four project partners is going to take place this coming week. This is the first time students from our school are travelling abroad on their own, far from family and kin,  so amidst all preparations for departure, we would like to take the opportunity to wish them, and all fellow travellers from Spain and Italy alike, our heartfelt farewell and bon voyage in this new and exciting adventure far from home!

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