ActivitiesSeptember 2011 – March 2012

Integracyjna Szkoła Podstawowa nr 67im. Janusza Korczaka w Łodzi

More often than ever we are being called an ecological school among

pupils and in the local community as well. This results from an

enormous commitment of our school in the activities for the benefit of

protecting the environment and sustainability. Taking part in the

international project Eco School Links is an additional strong booster

that motivates everyone to work.

The official ceremony

inaugurating the activities of our

school within LLP Comenius Eco

School Links took place on 18th

November 2011. We were

honored with the presence of

some eminent guests: a member

of a Polish Senate Maciej

Grubski,

the Headmistress of Education

Support Department in Łodź’s

School Inspectorate Irena

Przybyłek, the Inspector of

Education Department Elżbieta

Kukuła as well as Mrs Ewa

Koźbiał the representative of

Popularizing and Exploitation of

LLP Foundation Program Results.

One of the major points of the program was an official act of

passing the international “Green Flag” certificate by our Headmistress

Barbara Celmerowska to the representatives of the Students Council.

This document honors the school’s commitment into introducing

model patterns of solutions within ecological education. Such a

distinction was given only to three institutions in the Voivodeship of

Łódź in 2011.

The artistic part of the celebration was prepared by the second-grade pupils under the guidance of Mrs. Alicja Tomalak and Mr. Krzysztof Ostaszewski. “The Green Riding Hood”, which the children have performed, together with song “Eco eco ecology” ultimately persuaded all the gathered viewers that caring for the environment is a special passion of the Integrational Primary School no 67 in Łódź.

Pupils from our school take part in yearlong waste sorting, collecting plastic caps for recycling, collecting used batteries and waste paper.It is gradually becoming their habit.

September 2011 – March 2012

Systematically twice a year the

pupils from our school pick up

litter around the school areas.

To celebrate World Car Free Day pupils from

our school handed in informational fliers that

encouraged city dwellers to limit motor

transport on the favor of a bicycle or public

transport.

The pupils under the supervision of Art teacher and English teacher have prepared informational posters as well.

One of our goals is to promote healthy

lifestyle and environment-

friendly means of transport. Then, in

connection with the Car Free Day our students took

part in an excursion on bikes

to one of the biggest urban

parks in Europe.

Students involved in the project

collected, dried and described

leaves from the most typical polish

trees. After that, we sent them to all schools taking part

in the project. Some of the leaves

will be soon displayed on our European Tree on

the European Tree.

Pupils from our school created mascots, which were entirely made of secondary materials. As you can see it’s Pinocchio. As an “eco –school” we decided to name it PINECO. Two mascots were given to students from Italy and Portugal during the trilateral meeting on Procida island in Italy.

It was a great fun and pleasure for our students to

make ecological X-mas cards. This task required a

lot of work and creativity from them, but the final

effect was incredible.

Last year there an unusual Christmas tree in our school, namely all the

decorations were handmade by the students and the

teachers. As if that were not enough, they were ecological, for instance: dried slices of oranges, useless CD’s together with

various patters cut out from paper, chains

from the cardboard, pasta and styrofoam…

Four students from the fifth grade (5b) together with the teachers had an opportunity to get an eyeful of Italian culture during polish-italian-portuguesemeeting on a charming island nearby Naples. The weather on Procida was perfect. The inhabitants of this island were extremely hospitable for us. Ala, Julia, Oliwia and Andrzej took part in various ecological workshops as well as integrative games with the hosts and the Portuguese students. Despite the language barriers, everything went ahead in the atmosphere of mutual understanding and flourishing international frienships.

When the end of the carnival is

coming, there is a tradition in our country

and school to organise dress parties. This

year, since we participate in the

Comenius project, the last day of the

carnival looked completely different. We

organised a contest called ECO FASHION.

Volunteers’ task from the whole school

was to create costumes or jewellery. The

only condition was that all these things

had to be made from secondary

materials. That day, the students

presented their costumes on a catwalk.

The jury, including our headmistress

Barbara Celmerowska and other teachers,

were delighted. After uproarious

consultations, the jury announced the

winners and handed in the prizes. It was

a day full of excitement – beautiful

costumes, great atmosphere…

With the help of the teachers, students

from the third grade prepared an ecological culinary feast – sandwiches from bread baked

on their own, salads and various tastes of juice from fresh

fruit and vegetables.

Second gradestudents keep and lookafter such spieces as: African mantis, red-eared slider and stickinsect calledPeruphasma schultei

They also donatemoney for the North American racoonnamed „Globus” thatlives in the ZoologicalGarden in Łódź.

Our students preparedseveral birdfeeders out of recycled materials. We placed them near schooland feed birds with grainand lard.

Just before spring studentstook part in preparation of several nesting boxes for birds. They got to knowthat a type of box dependson the spieces of birds.

Thanks to thecommitement of engineers from DalkiaHeat and Power Plant our students had a chance to observe theproccess of generatingmass amount of heat. They also learned aboutthe importance of saving energy duringwinter and useful tipshow to do it.

Eco School Links Forever