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TURKEY MEETİNG MİNUTES

1 st Procject Meeting- Ayşegül ARSOY İlköğretim Okulu

Report of the Erasmus+ Meeting in Afyonkarahisar

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TOUCH THE MAGIC OF FAIRY TALES Teachers taking part:

Poland – Marta Wolinska and Elzbieta

Spain – Rosalia De La Cinta Verges Leandro and Maria Elvira Gonzalo Abad

Czech Republic – Martina Bryjova

Greece –Tsioutsiou MARİANA and Felekidis GEORGİOS

Portugal – Maria Fatima Mota Pinto, Teresa Maria Xará Dantas Leite

Romania – Livia Valentina Madalina Romanosky

Latvia – İnara Klavina and Oksana Riekstina

Turkey – İsmail Emre KEÇELİ and Necmettin AVCI

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Sunday, 9th

November Arrival of all participants

Monday, 10th

November

• We decide that it will be more

practical to have 3 separate bills:

for the accommodation

for the transfers from airport/hotel and

hotel/airport

for the excursions, …

• İsmail presented the new program of

the week. A printed version will be

given to us soon…

• Presentation of each school

• Madalina said that it’s possible to modify the number of teachers and pupils involved in

the project, even if it’s different from the number in the original application .

• Meeting in Latvia - From Monday March 10th to Friday March 15nd.

As soon as possible, every country must inform home country about the reservation for the

hotel rooms!

• discussion about eTwinning platform and the website: parents in some countries must

agree to the publication and/or posting of children's pictures or videos.

• calendar 2014: it will be ready by the beginning of December to be offered as a

Christmas present to families

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Thuesday, 11th November, 8:30:

- The Comenius team gathered at the entrance of the

hotel and İsmail accompanied us to the primary

school of Ayşegül ARSOY İ.Ö.O.

- Their principal welcomed the Comenius team and

wished us a good stay in Turkey

- İsmail introduced the educational system in the

school (powerpoint) and showed pictures of the school

(location, classrooms, children’s activities). After

İsmail’s presentation the team asked some questions in

order to understand the Turkish educational system.

At about 10:00 we had a short break for coffee, tea or refreshments.

Following the break, the English teacher introduced the school administration.

(Timetable for tests - timetable for parent-teacher meetings).

11:00: we attended the meeting about our project Martina gave us more details about the creation of the calendar in Turkey. She showed us a ready-made calendar page to

give an idea of how our new calendar is going to

be created (each country one month-4 seasons)

We exchanged e-mails and agreed to send our photos by the 25th of October, marking

our national and school holidays through June 2014. Our meeting finished at 12:00

16:00 Another meeting was held to clear up a few details.

İsmail showed us a video of a previous final celebration, in order to provide some ideas on how to plan our project.

We discussed meeting dates for the first year and decided

Latvia: 10-15 March, Greece: 22-27 May

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Wednesday, 12th

November

In the morning, 9 a.m., we went to school again. Firstly, we had breakfast together. And all

of the participants took some materials when they come Turkey to open exhibitions in the

school. From morning to afternoon, we all prepared something to hang on the wall.

Then İsmail introduced the doll EUdoll, the mascot of our project. Every partner must

put one clothe of their country and take this doll to the other visit in this way. It will

pass from school to school. At the end of the project. The doll will be condition of the

united countries with the special clothes

At 9:30 AM, under the supervision of teacher, we continued learning:

How to send very large files through "sendspace"

How to access, work and invite partners to the platform eTwinning

How to access the project site in Twinspace

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After the break (11 a.m. - 2 p.m.) we went to the conference room. The main subjects

discussed were:

• Certificates of attendance at the 1st meeting of the project - each country said that each

of their national agencies asked about this subject.

• doll's clothing - Turkey will now take it to Latvia and the children will decide which

garment should be given to it.

• The English language project abstract for the calendar should be as short as possible, in

order to provide space for the 8 different languages of the partner countries.

The questionnaire about fairy tales - it was decided that the partners meet in

small groups to make question proposals.

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Here are the proposed questions:

A - Questionnaire for pupils:

1. Do you like fairy tales?

□ yes □ no □ I don't know any fairy tales

2. Did your parents/grand-parents tell you fairy tales?

□ often □ sometimes □ never

3. Did your parents/grand-parents read fairy tales to you?

□ often □ sometimes □ never

4. What do you prefer?

□ listening to fairy tales □ reading fairy tales

□ watching fairy tales (on television, cinema)

5. Which is your favorite fairy tale?

6. Which is your favorite character? Why? _______________

7. Which character are you afraid of?

8. Do you know any fairy tales? □ Yes □ No

9. Who tells you fairy tales?

10. Have you learned anything from a fairy tale?

□ Yes □ No □ Sometimes

11. Would you want to be a character in a tale?

□ Yes □ No □ Sometimes

12. If you were a character in a tale, would you want to go to another country?

□ Yes □ No □ Sometimes

13. Would you want to write a fairytale?

□ Yes □ No □ Sometimes

14. Would you want to learn another country's tale?

□ Yes □ No □Sometimes

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B - Questionnaire for parents and grandparents:

1. Did/do you tell fairy tales to your children/grand-children?

□ often □ sometimes □ never

2. Did your parents/grand-parents tell you fairy tales?

□ often □ sometimes □ never

3. Did/do you read fairy tales to your children/grand-children?

□ often □ sometimes □ never

4. How often do you tell fairy tales to your children?

5. Did your parents/grand-parents read fairy tales to you?

□ often □ sometimes □ never

6. Do you think that telling/reading fairy tales is important?

□yes □ partly □ not at all

7. Which three fairy tales can you mention immediately?

8. When you heard fairy tales, what did you think about?

9. Did your parents believe in the old stories/legends?

□yes □ partly □ not at all

10. Did any stories scare you? □yes □ partly □ not at all

If yes, which one?

11. What is your best memory connected to a fairy tale?

12. Have you learned anything from any fairy tale?

□yes □ partly □ not at all

13. Which fairytale was your favorite when you were a child?

14. Do you tell fairy tales from another country to your children?

□ Yes □ No □ Sometimes

15. Do your children like fairy tales?

□ Yes □ No □ Sometimes

16. When you tell a fairytale to your children, is it from your childhood memories?

□ Yes □ No □ Sometimes

17. Which fairytale does your child prefer?

Tomorrow at 5 p.m., in the workshop, we will choose the questions.

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At 5 p.m., we had a short break to prepare ourselves for Dinner in the Hotel (7

p.m.)

Thursday, 13th

November

The group was picked up at 9 a.m. by a

lovely, small bus that seemed to be made

especially for the 18 of us. We drove towards the

city and got to see the nice coast towns along the

way in daylight.

We had really good times together by

doing shopping, wandering around city and

learnt a lot of interesting knowledge about

the places which we visited. We bought

some presents from Turkey to give our

friends when we returned our hometown. İsmail showed us the most important places

and then we had some 40 minutes to walk

around on our own before we started our

journey back to Hotel at 3.30 p.m.

We arrived at the hotel at 5.15 p.m. and

started our workshop shortly after. During the

workshop, we first discussed the program for

the coming days and that

it is difficult to make changes according to the

wishes of all participants. We agreed to follow the program as much as possible, to avoid

extra costs and a lot of extra work for the host

countries. We also talked about the definition of

a fairy tale, which can differ between countries.

The third detail we discussed was how to

compose and use the fairy tale questionnaire to

children and parents/grandparents. The results

of the questionnaire should be used as a base

for the coming work in our respective

countries. We do not have to report the

results. One of our partners will mail us the list

and each country will then choose five

questions for the children and five questions

for the parents/grandparents.

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The workshop finished by something similar to “Christmas Eve” – with presents from and

for everybody. Now we all longed for some dinner, and some of us agreed to meet in the

reception at 8 o’clock to go out and eat together.

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Friday, 14th

November

This last day before our departure from Turkey

After breakfast together at hotel, we had a final workshop in the school. At that time we

decided on the final version of the questionnaire (questions for children and questions for

parents/grandparents), talked about the meeting in Portugal, different questions /answers,

etc.

Finally, in a festive ceremony, we received our certificates of attendance and we enjoyed

taking photos with the doll. Later, we said, “goodbye” to each-other at the dinner, dreaming

of the next meeting when we will all be together again for the Erasmus+ project.