Polish week at Torvmyrane Skule

Like last time with Iceland, we arranged our Poland-week as activity days where we mixed all classes and groups at school. Only 1-and 2years old children had separate activities, everyone else from 3- 12 took part in the same classes. This is something we do every year with different topics, but during the Comenius project, our topic is partner countries and their schools.

(photo borrowed from: local newspaper, Firdaposten)

 220 children at all ages are divided into groups named after cities in Poland: Warszawa, Krakow, Lublin and Swidnik. The groups rotates through 4 main activities: Polish school lesson. Arts and Crafts, PE and Maths.

Mathematics is fun when you can play it!

A popular post was Polish  school lesson, where headmaster Øivin  opened a kiosk in the 10-minute break.Normally candy is not welcome at school, but today was different!

  This is a part of Polish school the children appriciated! The childrens had 5 zloty each to spend, and only limited openinghours.

 Very happy pupils bought very expensive lollipops! "But it was worth it"- they said.

Also the teacher lined up to spend some zloty!

 We saw the movie "Track a child" made by Swidnik team in Poland. We compared what was similar and what was different.

 

Anita teaches the class historical facts and geography from Poland

 RE was taught by a nun, Sister Tove.

(photo borrowed from: local newspaper, Firdaposten)

Jan teaches the kids about foreign currency.

(photo borrowed from: local newspaper, Firdaposten)

A "pope" came and told us about Pope John Paul 2.

Monica tells the story about the trumpet player in St. Marys´church in Krakow.

In PE we tried out a lot of fun activities which we learned on the sports field in School no 5.

 (photo borrowed from: local newspaper, Firdaposten)

The teachers who had visited Swidnik got a lot of ideas to try out at school. We tried out many of them during Polish Week, and the results are now displayed in our halls.
Take a look at more pictures on Torvmyrane`s website!


The Poland arrangement was a success, and we had a local journalist following us a whole day,giving us lots of attention in the newspaper the following day.
We all enjoyed the days, thank you for the inspiration School no 5!

Icelandic exhibition down- Poland up!

First thing to do is to change focus from Iceland to Poland. These nice Friendship- chains were made on our Icelandic week last spring, and have decorated the halls for some months.  

 The chains consists of drawings and friendly words made by children from 3- 12 years old. This was an idea we got from Svalbardsskoli when visiting them in April.

Next up on display is Poland.

The team travelling in Poland bougt a lot of souvenirs from Poland,  these are now on display in our hallway. There should not be any doubt what country we are focusing on now!

The story about the origami-swans from Swidnik is making a deep impression on the children, and is the most popular object on display.

Comenius work in Norway - staff meeting

 On Wednesday  sept 7th, our full staff of almost 60 teachers, teaching assistants, kindergarden teachers, after school club leaders, deputies and headmaster- spent a full 3 hour eveningmeeting on Comenius.

 8 persons from staff had travelled to Poland and visited our partnerschool in Swidnik, and presented their impressions from Polish school life. Many ideas for further work with pupils and staff based on this trip, were presented. Further on, we planned the Polish Week for our organization, and the upcoming visit from our partners.

We now truly believe that the Comenius-project is a part of Torvmyrane School´s identity. Many from staff have over the last 3 years been able to travel , and the interest in taking part in the project at home has increased proportional. We dare to say our project is a success, and  it is a pity we are only months from the end.