The wonderful times in Greece

The teaching-learning visit in Greece this May was filled with sunshine, working together as one big team on the project topics, lot's of conversations and new friends!

HERE you can view beautiful pictures and videos from the week we spent together!

Our origins- then and now

During our journey through the origins of our students’ families we learned many interesting 

things about ourselves. 

It turned out that the ancestors of many of us had to move to Poland 

for many reasons - economic, political, wars, and there were also those who just fell in love:)

The most numerous group in our school has Polish of forefathers, but there are also people 

of Ukrainian, Russian or French nationality. Immigration is a difficult experience - a new place, 

a new culture, new people. However, because of the fact that they are with us, we could learn 

a lot about different culture-even simple things like cuisine, songs, dances and more.

The Ukrainian minority introduced us into their culture, traditions and customs on March.

We could watch  traditional clothes, listen to Ukrainian Music, 

be part of interactive lesson of geography and history.

The Ukrainian consul in Poland Mr. Łew Zacharczyszyn and his family also visited the school 

on that day.

It was great journey:) We could get to know each other better.

Latvia - making our family trees

Latvian students have made their family trees and learnt a lot about their parents and grandparents. To no surprise, most of our ancestors come from different Latvian cities, but some of the parents, siblings and grandparents were born in Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Ireland. It was so much fun to learn a little bit more about ourselves!

Observing our past...

Children of ESCOLA SANT DOMÈNEC in Spain have drawn their family trees with the flags of the countries where their ancestors were born. We have observed that most of them also moved at some point because they needed to find a job, a better life or new opportunities.

We have concluded that all of us can be refugees or immigrants at some point of our lives, so we have to take care of people and put ourselves in their shoes to understand them better.

Looking back

As the end of the school year is approaching we are looking back at the work we have done
during the project. We, Tirza primary school students, prepared a short video sharing our work and views. The video is only
a tip of the iceberg. The hard work and preparation behind it hasn’t been included. Right
now we continue to research our ancestors and where we come from.
Patīkamu skatīšanos!*
*Enjoy the video!

Latvian students get to know Greece

Kalimera!

With such a greeting, teacher Ligita began the presentation on the morning of March 28th.

Tirza Primary School students Rota, Elīza and Monta together with teachers Ligita and Līna are eagerly preparing for a study visit to Greece in mid-May. We got acquainted with a small part of the Greek culture. The 7th grade student Monta writes: "I really enjoyed listening to the presentation about Greece. I learned a lot and these things were all new to me, for example, i learnt what exactly is siesta. I can not wait for the trip to see, feel and graze everything that was mentioned in the presentation."

STORYTELLING AT SANT DOMÈNEC SCHOOL

Last April the 9th, Marta Fos, a teacher who works in a village close to our school, came to tell the  children of P-5 and 1st grade a beautiful story about saharian refugees.

She wrote two “solidary books” a long time ago when she first  visited diferent camps in Africa. 

Marta has been doing a great task in order to help  people who suffer the experience of being a refugee . Her life  experience  allows her to transmit a special way to see the situation.