15th Primary School of Rethymno

Our school is located in an urban area, near the centre of the town of Rethymno. There are 245 students in six grades and 30 teachers of various specialties: primary education teachers who teach language, maths, science, history, geography/environmental studies, social studies and religious education, four teachers tutoring students with learning difficulties, two teachers of English as a foreign language, two teachers of Physical Education, a Drama class teacher, a Music teacher, an Art teacher, an ICT teacher and in the last two grades a German and French teacher. As a school, we are environmentally concerned, and the last few years we have been involved and awarded in environmentally -friendly projects. We have also been involved in projects concerning bulling and raising respect among students, teachers and parents.

We have been involved in a Comenius programme in years 2010-2012 with thirteen other European countries.

A picture of the school from the upper yard.

 

The students of our school get ready for the Treasure Hunt organized in the school as part of the Carnival festivities.

During the Sports Day the students formed anti-racist and anti-bulling messages with their bodies...

…and played a game called “the balloons of friendship”

And a few words about our town...

Rethymno is one of the four bigger towns on the island of Crete, located in the middle of the northern coastline of Crete. Its population is about 50.000 people. The University of Crete is in Rethymno and its campus inlcudes Schools such as the School of philosophy, the School of Education (Primary and Preschool) and the School of Social, Economic and Political Sciences...and it has a great circular building for a library. The people of Rethymno are mainly involved in the tourism business. Rethymno has a beautiful old town with architectural influences from the Venetian and Turkish occupation years. From the top of Fortezza, the Venetian fortress, the visitor can enjoy the view of the sea and the 15km long beach - one of the longest beaches in Europe and home of the endangered species of Caretta-Caretta sea turtle. Additionally, the visitor can visit many picturesque villages near the town of Rethymno, where one can taste the delicious Cretan food and wine.

This is an aerial view of the old town with Fortezza overseeing the Cretan Sea…

…and the old Venetian harbor.

We are all looking forward to meeting you.

Greetings from Rethymno and the 15^th Primary School

Ukmergės Užupio basic school in Lithuania

Uzupio basic school is in the town of Ukmerge which is 70 km from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Our school is one of the oldest schools in Ukmerge, near 400 pupils learn here.

Everyone is very friendly, helpful and supportive, so if you need any assistance you can definitely turn to them. Teachers are very professional and always eager to help their students acquire knowledge.

You can always find delicious and cheap meals in the canteen of our school.

The council of pupils is working to make sure the process of learning is not draining or mind-numbing, but fun too. There are unlimited possibilities to do sports and stay fit because we have a superb basketball court and football pitch and lots of various equipment.

There is also a wide range of after school activities and clubs to choose from, so you will never be bored. Besides, our school always celebrates different occasions and organizes various events or actions, so everyone is involved.

While carrying on the project only traditional ways of communication and learning would be used. There would be a try to communicate innovatively: using the language of acting, dance, part tools, organising video conferences and briges. It is planned to have a project diary which woulds be filled by countries - partners and which would be public for the others to use it in their future projects. ( the diary, would be public).

It's been 10 years since our dancing club is a constant participant in National Songs festival. We have participated in a project "The Impulses of high culture at schools(AKIM)" - the lessons were conducted by famous Lithuanian people: poets, painters, language experts, singers.

Interesting and useful projects are for raising of the career. The school is a member of national project "Why do we need it?"

The activity of prevention is increased in school. We take part in competitions "Temidė", " Non smoking class" regionaly and nationally. Various actions take place which are for the prevention of crime, drug usage and bullying. The school has been taking part in a continuaes project "Sportiad" for 5 years.

Festive concerts at school and otherwhere are not held without a joint team of songs and dances of the teachers and the students.

Last year we play "Bears cabin" was held where the parts were played not only by the students and the teachers but also their parents. This year play "The land of tales" has been held where the students, the teachers and the parents have taken part.

For the last few years we have taking part in competition "Clear mind - clear language" which is sponsored by the President of lithuanina Dalia Grybauskaitė.

Our school website: www.uzupys.ukmerge.lm.lt

More about our school: Užupietis

Poland, Primary School number 82, the city of Gdańsk

School 82 is located in Gdańsk – Klukowo, in the north of Poland, very close to the Baltic Sea.

There are 210 students (aged 5 till 12) in our school and 20 teachers.

There are only 11 classes in our school. Wee have only 7 classrooms, the library, one computer lab, the gym and the regional classroom (with some Kashubian objects).

Our lessons usually start at 8 o'clock in the morning and they finish at 3 p.m. Of course some children have less classes a day.

We always start the school year at the beginning of September (usually it is the 1^st Sep) and we finish school at the end of June (the last Friday of June).

We have two terms in our school. The 1^st term is till January and then we have 2 weeks winter break. We have Christmas break in December and Easter break in March or April.

We teach general subjects as: Polish, Maths, English, Art, PE, RE, Music, Science. After classes we play chess outside ;).

Our children like trips, so we try to take them to many interesting places:

Our school's website:

http://www.sp82.internetdsl.pl/

Our school's facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/sp82gdansk?ref=hl