Emergency therapeutic game

We did another climbing therapeutic game, but we weren´t climbing - we pretended someone got a broken leg and we have to carry him to the safety. It took a lot of time and efforts. Many pupils behaved much differently than in classroom: some did much better, some panicked, with some I would not want to go on a trip alone. Then we talked about it a lot.

In the picture, the injured is not visible - he is somewhere higher. We didn´t take many pictures, we concentrated on the game.

Š + D.

Our mobilities this school year

Travelling to Germany and to Poland, it was a year full of emotions and sharing during our mobilities.

How to solve your conflicts at school

At Schule an der Rolandsmauer we have different concepts for students to solve their problems they have in the lessons or with other students at school.
One possibilitiy is our special room for social training, where students were send by the teachers if they couldn´t follow the lessons because of social behavior problems. There they have to reflect their behavior by thinking and writing down some reasons why they could not or don´t want to follow the lessons. Together with a social worker the students talk about the problems and try to solve it or at least to find a way to deal with at school. Then they were send back to the lesson.

Another possiblitiy for our students to deal with a conflict at school is to go to the so called "student mediators", where the mediators try to deal with a conflict two students have with each other. First they talk to one of the students and ask what the conflict is in his opinion, then they talk to the other student to hear the other side of the medal. Afterwards they try to mediate the conversation between the two students themselves. That is not easy! But sometimes it works better than if a social worker or teacher deals with it. And the mediators themselves get a lot of experiences, too!

A special method our social workers tried for a student who has massiv behavior problems is the "supporter team". This student always tries to get in contact to other students during the recreation breaks by behaving not well. So one social worker who deals with this student build a group of students to help him to find the right way to get in contact to other students. That is not easy because some supporters had been in conflict with him earlier. So they need to do hard work to stay calm and help him! But it works a little;-))

Exciting lecturers and partners in our project

We met Marcus Torgeby, 

an inspiring person, who made a Skype-conference with us. We have been reading his book, "Löparens hjärta" (The runners hart) this spring. Marcus is a person who decided to leave a normal life to live in the nature for four yeras when he was 20 years old. Thats because of his tough childhood with a sick mother and a feeling of exclusion. His life was running, but when he competed it allways went wrong. 

 Mark was very inspiring and open. He told about his own difficulties and how he has to find his way in life by adversity and successes.

Some of his important messages: It is ok to be afraid, accept it and then you can work on the fears.

Water the grass where you stand - life is as it is and is not always possible to change but develop and work on what you can and take care of what you have.

Obsessions and Eating Disorders - sometimes you have an idea that will get stuck, you know that it's wrong to do what you do. When you know it, you have to find his way - by finding that they themselves enjoy. It may be running, painting, music or loneliness more.

Finding their thing and not listen to others - it is important!

Marcus was great and happy and honest with everything and gave us hope and inspiration. Fantastic that Marcus wanted to talk to oss😄

We also met Anneli Pompe, another adventurer and inspired person

We have been reading her book, "Otroligt högt och extremt djupt" (Unbelievable high and extrem deep) and red her blog this spring.  We`ve discussed her book and the blog and went so happy when she wanted to make a Skype-conference with us. It was an exciting moment where we got some wise words of advice:

Be curious about life. Try new things. When you feel insecure and afraid of anything, so look at it with new eyes and discover and try.

Be kind to yourself.

Praise yourself and do not be your own biggest critic.

Control your thoughts to positive thinking and encourage yourself.

Dare to believe that you can and do not let anyone else tell you what you can or can not do. Anything is possible only you decide and set a goal.

Be kind to yourself and you will almost automatically kind to others and they in turn are kind to you.

Live simply and minimalistic.

Respect all life and nature.

https://annelieadventures.com/

Thanks for all the joy and experiences! 

 For the very last time, our memories from this project, but 

we´ll meet again, for sure!

The Swedish crew!

Norway

Learning about the refugee crisis

In the last couple of weeks, pupils at Tøndergård school Molde have learned about the refugee crisis in Europe. Aimee Winsjansen, a nurse who works as a volunteer among refugees in Serbia and Greece visited us and shared her experience. Students got to see pictures and hear her tell about families who have lost their children on the dangerous ocean crossings, people who were hungry, wet, cold and needed help. Aimee works in an organization and she`s hoping to return again in the autumn. We wish her good luck.

Exciting lecturers and partners in our project

We met Marcus Torgeby, 

an inspiring person, who made a Skype-conference with us. We have been reading his book, "Löparens hjärta" (The runners hart) this spring. Marcus is a person who decided to leave a normal life to live in the nature for four yeras when he was 20 years old. Thats because of his tough childhood with a sick mother and a feeling of exclusion. His life was running, but when he competed it allways went wrong. 

 Mark was very inspiring and open. He told about his own difficulties and how he has to find his way in life by adversity and successes.

Some of his important messages: It is ok to be afraid, accept it and then you can work on the fears.

Water the grass where you stand - life is as it is and is not always possible to change but develop and work on what you can and take care of what you have.

Obsessions and Eating Disorders - sometimes you have an idea that will get stuck, you know that it's wrong to do what you do. When you know it, you have to find his way - by finding that they themselves enjoy. It may be running, painting, music or loneliness more.

Finding their thing and not listen to others - it is important!

Marcus was great and happy and honest with everything and gave us hope and inspiration. Fantastic that Marcus wanted to talk to oss😄

We also met Anneli Pompe, another adventurer and inspired person

We have been reading her book, "Otroligt högt och extremt djupt" (Unbelievable high and extrem deep) and red her blog this spring.  We`ve discussed her book and the blog and went so happy when she wanted to make a Skype-conference with us. It was an exciting moment where we got some wise words of advice:

Be curious about life. Try new things. When you feel insecure and afraid of anything, so look at it with new eyes and discover and try.

Be kind to yourself.

Praise yourself and do not be your own biggest critic.

Control your thoughts to positive thinking and encourage yourself.

Dare to believe that you can and do not let anyone else tell you what you can or can not do. Anything is possible only you decide and set a goal.

Be kind to yourself and you will almost automatically kind to others and they in turn are kind to you.

Live simply and minimalistic.

Respect all life and nature.

https://annelieadventures.com/

European Spring Day in SOS-W!

For our friends from the kindergarten (near our school) we organised a board therapeutic              game titled "Friends from European fairy tales".

 

In the gym we set mega cubes and they were train stations in the game. On every cube were few printable copies of characters from fairy tales. Pupils created a train and to the rhythm of  Polish song “Jedzie pociąg z daleka” go on a trip around Europe. The “train” stoped at each  cube station and new passengers from fairy tales were invited to join the trip. We travelled as long as every child got his/her own illustration. Afterwards, children found good place to sit (in a circle), got crayons and coloured their  tale characters. When they finished they  put their coloured pictures face-down on the ground.  Then, one of the pupils threw a big dice and started the game (standard board game).  All children did funny activities (related to the pictures and read by teachers) following the board game instructions.

We spent a great time with our small friends!

 

 

 

 

Hurra på Dagen, Norge!

and thank you for a wonderful week in Molde! We got a lot of inspiration and happiness from our visit at your school, we´re sure about what things we want to change at our school after this trip. The Norwegian way to do things...

See you all soon!

Rapelling - therapeutic game

Rapelling means going down from a rock or an artificial clmbing wall by yourself - on a rope. It´s not falling. It looks cool from the ground but it is quite scary when you are on the wall and ready to go down on your own. It´s a big thing when you manage to do it.

We managed all - we tried first several times in the gym on a ladder, and today on a climbing wall. Everyone cheered, not just your best friends. It´s our favourite climbing activity now.

T + Š (7.A)

Terrible news in these news- papers!

We had the opportunity to read this old newspapers. A terrible thing to read about. We discussed it and also compared the difference of old newspapers and new newspapers. It seems to be such a long time ago, but still there are people who remember those days. 

Creating Peace Osnabrück Erasmus+

Here you are - some memories from Osnabrück!

The project  is approaching its end and we look in this film back to experiences in Osnabrück 2015

Sören Kjellkvist 

Sweden

Adventurer, lecturer and ambassador for outdoor activities.

Sören went to our school today, talking about his life and his mission. He gave us a lot to think of about how to choose to live our lives, how to take care of our relationships and how our behavior affects other people and our lives.  He talked about if you choose to bully someone in your childhood, it will give imprint later in life, in some way. 

Sören has chosen to live on to realize his life dreams instead of living a common life with work nine to five, a lot of gadgets and a lot of money. You doesn´t need a lot of money in life, you just need to realize your dreams. You have to do good for others, you need goals to strive for in life. He say´s that to help other people without getting something back is the best in life. If you have good karma good things happen in life. It was an inspiring lecture and we will take with us many ideas and thoughts from this day. Read more about Sören at FaceBook and http://meningenmedlivet.nu/ and www.aventyrligadagen.se/

Outdoor therapeutic games

It was a surprise.
We do climbing at school, but we didn´t know dome of the things we do are therapeutic gams. So here you are:

Rope Games - this is easy, you need just a rope and you can do it even in a classroom. We did in on the grass while waiting for climbing. It was fun.


Snow Blindness - we did that on the wall and the new ones on the ground. It was more difficult than it looked. The worst was not to start arguing with your partner.

Love Peace and understanding

During the autumn we´ve been working to Creat Peace at school, with our friends at school, in our classes and in our familys. We´ve lessons at school at least one hour/week working with different questions and we get homeworks to try the different things we discuss. Together with the whole school we´ve been seeing some performances with actors who works with this subjects.

We met Eric Donell, an actor with diagnosis NPF, and he let us get an insight into his upbringing and the benefits his NPF has given him in life. Thanks to his NPF, he has got to try on many professions, actor, broker, lecturer, businessman and a singer. HE has been in the Swedish drama series "Friends and Enemies" in 650 episodes frpm 1996-1999. He has played the lead part in the film "Outside ypur door", a romantic drama dealing with Tourettes Syndrome, that won film price for best youth film in Sweden 2003.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI2ldpkvN4w
Adterwards we had discussions at school about his life and his ability to give hope and courage.


We´ve also met the theater group with the strange name "Young without Pouch".

"Some of us already know at the age of 5 that we are different. We fight on as heck to fit in, be like everyone else and not feel guilt or shame that we feel differently. Disturbed, slightly crazy or a little ADHD. Yes, dear child has many names.

Mental illness is one of our fastest growing social problems and falls farther and farther down the ages. What consequences will be for a student and all around when the student climbing the walls or breaking every conceivable social codes?

In the show "Now it was recorded"! mixed comic situations and tragic misunderstanding in a drastic and entertaining way. Based on the concept of inclusion, we take the audience on a journey into a world where the expression "You can jump up and put you on the" actually means that you should jump up and sit on something. To feel different is one thing, to be treated differently to another, not to fit in a third".

We saw the performance with mixed feelings. The actors were using irony and sarcasm to describe and explain that different is not necessarily wrong. But we felt it was wrong, we thought they made the students at our school laugh at us and think we are strange. We tried to discuss this with the actors after but they would not listen. They told us to work with some questions at school. which we already had, and that their play was okey because one of the actors had asperger. We left the play with a very bad feeling. This was not a good way to make peace and understanding.

An inspiration day with an Olympic athlete

We have had a cooperation with Petter Menning during this project. He has been at our school several times. He started with a lecture about his tough childhood. He talked about the important thing with good friends to provide from violence, and the importance of good adults and role models. And to accept all friends around.

He also came to our school and made training lessons with us and was a starter to our big running competition. He made a blog, https://kanotpetter.wordpress.com/

just for our school where we have had the opportunity to chat with him this spring. 

HE gave us a lot of thoughts and advices for life. 

And hope it will be GOLD at the Olympic Games this summer!!!

Visit at the concentration camp KZ Bergen-Belsen

As part of a project about Nazism our classes 9c, 10a and 10b went to the KZ Bergen-Belsen to visit the concentration camp memorial, where nearly 20.000 people were killed about 70 years ago.

We visited the memorial and documentation centre, where we learned under which cruel circumstances the people lived, suffered and were killed in the concentration camp. We saw original pictures and films from the liberation of the KZ by british soldiers.
Then we visited the ground, the memorial stone and former mass graves. We looked for the memorial to Anne Frank. At last we lit candles in a chapell and laid down flowers for the victims of Nazi crimes.

 

Interschool contest in SOS-W!

On 19th November 2015 a big event -"Autumn voyages around Europe" took place in our school.

 

Students from different schools visited us and presented information on Sweden, Czech Republic and Germany. We were French people on that day! Unfortunatelly, the team which was chosen to present Norway didn't come :( 

We had a great time - we learned a lot about countries you come from, had delicious food, sang songs, watch funny films, etc.

 

                          
 

 

 

After those presentations all of us took a big European quiz!

Our guests were very interested in our projects and Erasmus plus programme :)