Šiaulių Vijolių Vidurinė Mokykla

SIAULIAI

LITHUANIA

Coordinator : Mrs. Zulfija GUZIENE

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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