newsletter 4 ( with portugal)
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Šiaulių Vijolių Vidurinė Mokykla
SIAULIAI
LITHUANIA
Coordinator : Mrs. Zulfija GUZIENE
C O M E N I U S B I L A T E R A L P R O J E C T 2 0 1 2 - 2 0 1 4
Escola de Cuba
CUBA
PORTUGAL
Coordinator: Mr Antonio
Dear readers,
Our project promoted transnational cooperation between schools from two countries- Portugal and
Lithuania. It focused on the important role of physical education of young generations in Europe. Un-
healthy life style is one of the major problem of our age. Doing less sport causes some health problems
for today’s people. Creating consciousness among pupils was fundamental issue to lessen this growing
threat. Our project was aiming to inspire every young person to have healthy bodies by participating in
more sport on a regular basis. We wanted to create an energy and enthusiasm for sport through the ob-
servation of favourite local teams and through learning new sports and traditional sport games and to
encourage young people to do sport. In addition, it gave pupils and teachers from two participating
countries an opportunity to work together on a project, to learn about and experience traditional sports
and games of the partner country.
Through this we hope the children and teachers learned about their own and others’ sports, games and
cultures. The aim was to strengthen the European identity of each school by recognising and celebrating
the partners’ cultural similarities and our differences.
We believe that all generations have to work together in order to reach these goals. That is why we in-
vited students’ parents and representatives of local institutions to project activities too. This gave youth
the opportunity to share their knowledge with the older generations.
Zulfija Guzienė
Coordinator of the project
Newsletter Nr 4
June .2014
So, the last stage of the
project “Generational
link: playing and learning”
has almost finished. The
time has passed so quick-
ly... and the project has
given us so many happy
moments, so priceless
impressions, and the best
thing-new friends. And we
can say that we all know
now not only our coun-
tries‘ sports and games ,
traditions and sportsmen,
but we know each other
better. Our students and
teachers now really want
to know about European
countries more and want
to learn English better,
which will help them to
know more about other
cultures and traditions .
Also students of school,
their parents, as well as
teachers learnt more
about healthy lifestyle,
healthy eating and the
importance of sport in our
life.
The main aim of the last
stage was to learn more
Lithuanian and Portu-
guese traditional outdoor
games and to complete
the creation of the three-
language (Lithuanian-
English-Portuguese) dic-
tionary of expressions
and idioms, used in
sports competitions,
matches and playing out-
door games. It was very
interesting for students to
create this dictionary
now, when they already
knew a lot of Portuguese
words and expressions.
One more important
event which happened
during the last stage of
the project was additional
project meeting in Cuba.
Three teachers of our
school Lina Kaselienė,
Irena Tamošaitienė and
Zulfija Guzienė visited our
hospitable partners once
again to summarise pro-
ject results, to prepare
final report and, of
course, to take part in
sports festival . In addi-
tion, some sightseeing
tours were organised for
them, ancient ruins and
huge castles impressed
everybody very much...
But most of all Portu-
guese hospitality im-
pressed them. As Irena
Tamošaitienė said: “ Por-
tuguese hospitality was
warmer than hot Portu-
guese sun”
Every year in our school
summer camp for chidren
is organised. This year
the programme for this
camp was called “Let‘s
meet summer playing,
doing sport and meeting
new friends“ and it was
for children from socially
and economically disad-
vantaged families. That‘s
why the camp which
broadened children‘s
outlook was organised for
free. Children spent their
time at the camp partici-
pating in various activities
such as going on a picnic,
researching nature, visit-
ing museums, going on
excursions and learning a
lot of new things. Also
children played actively
traditional Portuguese
and Lithuanian games
they learned during the
school year according Co-
menius project
„Generational link: playing
and learning“. Also they
learned how to lead a
healthy lifestyle and what
healthy food is. One of the
most interesting activities
during this camp was a
picnic near the Pageluve
lake, which was organised
by the partners of the pro-
ject „ Saulės miesto atletik-
os klubas” ( The athletic
club of the Sun city”). It was
a nice place to do sport and
to play games and it was a
great day full of impres-
sions!
The last day of the camp
children summarize what
they learned and what they
did during this week and
exchanged their impres-
sions!
Jūratė Plungienė
Zulfija Guzienė
L I T H U A N I A ; Š I A U L I A I V I J O L I A I S E C O N D A R Y S C H O O L
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The project “Generational
Link: playing and learning”, a
Comenius Bilateral Project
between Portugal
(Agrupamento de Escolas de
Cuba) and Lithuanian
(Sauliu Vijoliu vidurine
mokykla) had the main goal
of opening a window of
awareness, knowledge and
respect among partner's cul-
tural differences, to expose a
wider path to tolerance, com-
munication, corporation work
and for students to get con-
scious of different European
languages, cultural history
and moral values.
The motivation for the project
was to address the theme of
sport in a new and more
creative way.
Although many children
know that they need to be
healthy and sporty some-
times this isn’t enough for
them to take action and
actually lead healthier life-
styles, so we hoped that by
working towards a common
theme, we could and would
promote the need for health
in another light, encourage
and educate the children
into how they can be
healthy citizens understand-
ing the importance of sport
in our life. Linked to this is
the concept of a healthy
environment, it was im-
portant that children learnt
to look after the world in
which they live and to pro-
tect it for future genera-
tions. This is an area that
we felt needed particular
emphasis within citizenship
education, given the world
we live in, at this particular
moment in time.
Thus we ensured that all our
activities had their goal
accomplished and that was
shown in the work pro-
duced by the partners
and by the new kind of
vision students correlated
to after the meetings /
mobilities.
Getting to be able to trav-
el to SIAULIAI and to Cuba
had such a profound
impact on our students
as the success in com-
pleting their tasks.
The partners were still
able to have a 3rd mobili-
ty (which shows a very
good rentabilization of
money resources and
perfect complement and
tight work competences
and willingness flanked
by school and communi-
ty).
During this 3rd short mo-
bility (teachers from SI-
AULIAI travelled to Cuba),
we organized a few lose
ends and prepared the
final report we also met in
order to evaluate the
project and find a clear
way to show it in the re-
port mentioned above.
As a final inference we
grasped that we were
very blissful with the out-
comes, goals achieved
and people relationships
that we were able to es-
tablish and consolidate,
through sport used as a
global language to under-
stand the world around
us, reminding students of
their inner and more per-
meant duty as European
citizens.
Needless to say that our
team of teachers, stu-
dents and community
(parents and educational
staff) operated as a sin-
gle organism, showing
solidarity, abnegation
and generosity, in all
activities undertaken.
Maria Jacinta
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P O R T U G A L : E B F I A L H O D E A L M E I D A – C U B A
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PHOTO GALLERY OF PROJECT ACITIVITIES
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A bet that after two years of meetings, exchanges and sharing in such fields as traditional sports,
outdoor games, famous sportsmen can be considered largely won. Won because in each
participating institution, a part of our cultures, our histories is now accessible to everybody in terms
of achievements . Won because hundreds of students, from 12 to 18 years old, met through their
active participation in such various achievements as a booklet of traditional sports and games,
three-language ( Lthuanian-English-Portuguese) dictionary and a website accessible far beyond the
circle of our partnership. Won because our individual wealth has become a collective wealth and
even more important because despite of our differences, we were able to find things that have
united us. Won because we all have now the feeling of belonging to a single community of Europe.
Thanks everyone for their participation and involvement.
Zulfija Guzienė. Coordinator of the project