Celebration of the Westphalian Peace

At the project meeting from 9th to 16th of october in Osnabrück we celebrated the Westphalian Peace. We build our own wooden peace horses, created peace-shirts and discovered the city of Osnabrück on a GPS-sightseeing-tour. The final was the official celebration of the Westphalian Peace with the mayor on a march through the city on our horses. The video is from OS1tv, thank you!
See you next year in Norway and Poland!!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Schule an der Rolandsmauer wish you all a pleasant and Merry Christmas!!!

We hope to see you again soon, Happy New Year 2016 !!!

More therapeutic games from Ostrava

Hi,

we did two more therapeutic games. They are indoor too, since it is cold outside.

First one is Margareta - you need a pen and a paper for that and it was OK.

and the second one is Changing Places - some of us liked it a lot, some found it embarassing and a bit unfair.

Files with what to do and how it feels are on Google Drive.

On est tous pareils, On est tous différents

During our week Erasmus, while some of us were in Germany in Osnabrück, we thought about Tolerancy. We are the same, we are different.

Some pupils wrote down some thinkings about it, while others prefered to perform on a movie.

We are very happy to share our work:

Tous pareils, tous différents

Les caribous et les humains, c’est différent. Les caribous sont noirs mais il y a des humains noirs. On est noir ou blanc, on est différent. On peut avoir les yeux de couleurs différentes, les cheveux de couleurs différentes. On n’a pas la même taille, on peut être grand ou petit. On n’a pas le même âge.  On peut aimer, avoir des goûts différents. On peut avoir le même caractère, on peut être pareil. On peut avoir peur comme tout le monde. Au début on est toujours timide. Comme on est toujours un peu timide, on observe et on peut se dire : << Celle qui est à côté de moi a les cheveux noirs et j’ai les cheveux blonds>>.  Pourtant on est pareil, on a deux mains, deux yeux, deux pieds, deux oreilles, un nez, une bouche…  A l’école, on est tous pareils parce qu’on apprend à lire, à écrire mais on est tous différents parce qu’on n’a pas le même caractère. Au fond on est tous pareils, on est tous vivants et un jour, on mourra tous.

Lilou M., Lilou D., Marina, Mathis, Sloane, Arwen

Movie made by : Anthony, Eva, Lina, Youry, Eugénie and Lili-Rose

On est tous pareils, on est tous différents

On n’est pas tous pareils, on n’a pas les mêmes problèmes. On est tous pareils, deux yeux, deux oreilles, un nez, une bouche. Tout le monde pleure, tout le monde rit. A l’école, on est pareil, on est là pour travailler.

Quelque fois, on est timide, on ne se sent pas pareils que les autres. On peut être maladroit.

On est tous différents, on n’a pas la même peau, on n’a pas la même voix, les mêmes cheveux, les mêmes familles. On n’a pas le même nom, on ne marche pas de la même façon. Mais il ne faut pas se comparer aux autres, car ça n’apporte rien. On n’a pas le même caractère. Quelque fois, on se dispute mais on finit par se réconcilier.

Il y a des hommes, des femmes, blancs ou noirs, riches ou pauvres.

Gaby, Maëlys, Chadia, Candice, Clémence, Waïley



Movie made by : Marie, Lilian, Mathéo, Chloé, Joshua, Clément

Therapeutic games in Ostrava

We finally decided on one game we would like to show you (we did it before during an anti-bullying project day) and the other game was a surprise from our teachers.

We chose the Ship activity, that helps us understand we need to cooperate in life.


And the surprise was the Classroom Cake activity: it was fine also, a bit different, we had to think about that.


We did also the activity files and we wrote feedback - it is on the Google Drive.

Election

This week there have been local elections in Norway. We worked a lot with democracy in practice. We learned about the politicians, what electoral system is and looked on the results. Pupils have seen a real election office and how the election is going on there.

We also arranged and carried out a school election. Here the pupils even try how it is to vote. Election results at school were surprisingly similar to the real result.

A good democracy with free elections is an important factor to preserve and promote peace.

The real ballotbox

What to choose...

The choice is made

We are the world - Ecole Lamourous

Presentation of our school in Le Pian Medoc

Ecole Lamourous - Le Pian Medoc

Semaine spéciale Erasmus à l'école

Nous avons vécu une semaine spéciale Erasmus pendant que la délégation de notre école était partie en Suède.
Au programme différents ateliers que nous allons vous présenter.
 Découverte de la légende du cheval rouge de Suède

Découverte des différents paysages des pays de nos partenaires avec fabrications de boîtes

Grand projet d'habillage du mur de notre préau avec la carte de l'Europe et ses drapeaux.

Une année de rencontres merveilleuses et d'expériences!

Cranes II.

We visited the Opava Museum for an educational programme about people persecuted by Nazi and then by communists. We learned how they felt about that and what they do with their lives later. Some were avesome - they managed to be happy still, they didn´t live in hate. The lady said that the best revenge is to live well. It must be hard to really live by this quote.

We have planned to fold some cranes in the square ourside  and to put them at the soldiers memorial but it was raining - so we folded them inside. Small ones for the memorial and big one for the school.

Sweden visited Wasa

We have visited the, for some of you, well known ship Wasa in the Wasa museum with our pupils from grade four.

The ship was i warship which sank on its first trip outside Stockholm in 1628. 1961 the ship was brought up from the sea. It´s now the only ship from the 1600s in the world that stands on the ground. The thing that strikes you when you visit the museum is how huge the ship was. It is also full of symbols in the form of Roman Emperor , mythical creatures and laughing , contemptuous faces. Anything to put themselves in respect of the enemies . The museum also displays a variety of objects that have been salvaged from the ship. You really learn a lot about how life could be on board a 1600 - century ship . You also understand how the pursuit of status and honor ran kings and others to anything at this time , even to build ships that didn´t even survived their first trip . It was an exciting and learning visit to the Wasa Museum !

Our younger students like the museum a lot, it was a fantastic day. They have also made some works about this historical period but we didn´t manage to put them on the blog before the holiday suddenly come, we´ll share it with you in august! 

We wish you all a long and nice summer-holiday!

Sweden visited museum

We´ve visited the Royal Armoury in Stockholm with pupils from grade six. The Armoury has a large collection of objects from the Swedish kings and queens from the 1500s onwards. It was very exciting but a little scary to see king Gustav II Adolf bloody shirts that he wore when he was killed at the battle of Lutzen. It felt like the madness of war came a little closer. We also took the opportunity to go for a walk in the old town of Stockholm and look for the example at the site of the Stockholm Bloodbath, 1520. An interesting day full of history!

COMENIUS - QUOTES

We really like to use meme generator - we did some Comenius quotes memes. Enjoy!

History workshops and school history contest.


Some of us attended after lesson history workshops with our history teachers and science teacher.

On the workshops we concentrated on the Thirty Year's War and our national history.

One of the activities was to make a folder related to the Thirty Year's War:

Addtionaly, on 10th June 2015 there was a historian contest  in our school for the students from 4th-6th grade classes.

The school history experts were announced and the prizes were awarded.

Cranes, war, dance and folding

A teacher from Västerängsskolan in Bålsta, Cathrine Persson Frohm, has been to Hiroshima this winter. She showed us her pictures from the memory place of Sadako and told us about the amazing journey. We have learned about Hiroshima and the atomic bomb, we have made paper cranes with nearly blood, sweat and tears, we have been dancing and we have made this trailer about some of our work. Hope you will enjoy it!

NEWS FROM THE DRAMA CLASS IN MOLDE

It will soon be summer and June 19 is the last day at school for all students in Norway. At our school there is a tradition of having a party for all students, staff and parents. This years drama class will perform a drama about two cowboys who are arguing about the same woman and where one cowboy challenge to a duel. As the challenging cowboy is preparing to shoot, something happens that makes them resolve the conflict in a peaceful way.

The drama class are looking forward to preform this show for the rest of the school.

Drama Class

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

These words come from Malala Yousafzai, the girl who faced violence and intimidation with a peaceful message.  

Students from four classes at our school have learned about the 15 year old girl from Pakistan that were shot by the Taliban for her fight for girls' right to education. Who is Malala, how could an ordinary girl find the courage to fight for freedom Taliban took from her people? How are her parents, what was it like growing up as a girl in Pakistan, how was life after the critical incident that nearly killed her? These questions we tried to find answers to, in order to understand the story of Malala.  

When we were at Erasmus + meeting in Ostrava, we tried to solve a task where every stone had a letter. By putting together the letters in the right way, we received a sentence. This we did in our classroom with the text: Give your opinion, yes to freedom of expression.