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.