Sweden went to Stockholm for a rare day.

Dare to be You!

January 10 some students and three teachers from Aspen went to Stockholm visiting the "Dare to be you" day. It´s an organisation combating exclusion of young people through good examples and positive activities (http://www.vagavadigsjalv.se/) It was an afternoon with good music, a lot of speaches and a lot of thoughts about what is important in life. This organisation organizes camps in summertime on an island on the west coast in Sweden. Some of us really want to go on this camp!

Commitment Courage Care

Looking for Peace - grade 7 - George of Podebrady

We studied the life and work of one of Czech kings, Jiří z Poděbrad - George of Podebrady.

He was elected to be a king after death of Ladislav Habsbursky - some thought  Jiri poisoned the young king, but in was proven that Ladislav had leukaemia.

Jiří tried to create something like European Union - a treaty among all Christian states.
- The member states would promise to settle all differences by peaceful means.
- There was to be a common parliament and other common institutions and supranational insignia.

He sent his courtiers to other kings to promote this idea. The plane didn´t work out then in 15th century.

From pupils´worksheets:

- He doesn´t look like a cool guy, because he is fat, but he was cool. He managed to give to Czech a period of peace and to the Europe a good idea.

- I like that he wasn´t whining about hard life - his parents weren´t married and it was a problem then and some people made fun of him. He didn´t mind and did his best, and ended as the only elected Czech king from Czećh nobility.

- He had to be really good at talking to people, since he managed to keep both catholics and hussites happy.

He proposed peace first to Czech warlords and then to whole Europe. I wonder how he did it that Czech people listened to him and accepted him.

Je suis Charlie

We are shocked and grieving

(Europa-AG Schule an der Rolandsmauer)

Conflicts in Europe - Sweden

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

The last weeks the swedish students have been studying some conflicts in history lessons. We have been reading about the world wars, more about that later on, and about some swedish conflicts. Here is a text from two of our students about their thoughts about this conflict.

Ådalen, Sweden, 1931

Conflicts in Swedish history. 

Ådalen 1931, there were a peaceful demonstration. Military ruined it, five killed and five hurt. 

  Today we talked about Swedish history, specifically the topic about Ådalen. There was a rescission and the companies lowered the salary. The workers thought that was unfair and demonstrated. The 14 of may 1931 there was a big demonstration and military had been called in to say that the way was shut down. The soldiers threw smoke-grenades some of the demonstrators got burn marks. 

   When the military noticed that that didn’t work they sent in the cavalry. The cavalry said "Stop in the name of the law". Even if they wanted to stop they couldn’t because the one behind pushed them forward. This caused that the military tried to scare them back but only ended scaring the horses. Because of that they started shooting. 

   Four of the demonstrators got killed and one woman who was just watching. Another five demonstrators got hurt. This  

   This conflict could have resulted in a revolution. A lot of people were angry with the government. But it was solved in a peaceful way. The Swedish model, which includes talking with your opponents and try to find a solution instead of battling each other began to take form.  We will study more conflicts in swedish history, for example the midsummer crisis during the second world war, and see if we can find a pattern of how conflicts can be solved in a peaceful way. 

Hi again!

Remember us? We're primary school  students from the SOS-W (special education care centre) in

Rybnik. We hope you liked our school last time when you visited us in January 2013 thanks to our

Comenius project "Diversity and inclusion in sporting activities". To tell you the truth, nothing much

has changed in our school since then. Still there are around 100 children  and 40 teachers who work

at the SOS-W in Rybnik. As you know, the SOS-W consists of school dormitory and  four education

units: a kindergarten, a primary school and a secondary school. But, in the near future the secondary

school is going to be joined to different school of higher education for students with special needs in

the outskirts of Rybnik.

Below there are photos presenting our Christmas gift "Let us introduce by means of

photoblocks"  made by the youngest students in the SOS-W and which will be sent to our young

friends in France .....

 

 

 

WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO PROJECT ACTIVITIES IN THE ERASMUS + PROJECT CREATING PEACE!

Moravian Brethern Museum visit

We visited two museums in Suchdol nad Odrou. We went by train there.

The first museum was in an old house. It was about history of Moravian Brethern (Brothers) in Suchdol, how they didn´t want to change their faith and to fight, so they left the country and went into all the world, from Greenland to Nepal...

The second museum was about aircraft archeology - it means that people dig our crashed planed. It was in the cellar. It was cool but also scary - they displayed things they found in planes, including personal  items like family photos, letters pilots had on them - they were so young, not much older then some of our friends from 9. grade. We wondered if they wanted to participate in this war.

The coolest and scariest thing was the reconstructed plane - it is not safe like modern cars for exemple, it´s thin like tuna can.

Sadako´s Cranes

We learned about Sadako Sasaki and her desire for peace, and we also learned how to make a paper crane. We made some, put them in box and will hang them one by one as we study peace solutions. More pictures in our Picasa gallery.