POWER UP Newsletter 4

Comenius: Power up! Renewable energy in the primary school

MEETING IN GUADELOUPE MAY 2013

WITH OUR PARTENRS FROM BELGIUM ITALY AND GERMANY

It is always a real pleasure to host some visitors to our island because it’s a way for us to discover again all its amazing sites, to read again about it, to have new photos and enjoy all his natural beauties.

It’s also a real adventure for our pupils and teachers to share all these wonderful moments with our partners, teaching and telling about our country, practicing our English, dancing, singing together,asking questions about the European culture and education.

All these events help adults and children to remember that they belong to a huge educational community. Thanks to the European programs to give us this great opportunity.

The coordinator: Mrs Ambert

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Monday at « Anse à la Barque », on the way to « La Réserve Cousteau »

Program of the week

SUNDAY 19th MAY MONDAY 20th MAY TUESDAY 21th MAY WEDNESDAY 22th MAY

D : 9am for Plage de Malendure

10h30 Nautilus (bottom glass boat) snorkeling (turtles)

8H Les Roches Gravées

Le Bassin des Amours

D : 8 am Boat trip to « Les Saintes »

Fort Napoléon

12am : Bouillante, Chez Eddy’s

Pique- Nique Phare de Vieux Fort

Pique-Nique Au Fond Jardin

Arrival at airport :Anita and Luigi 2.20 pm to Hotel Saint Georges Saint-Claude

2.30pm Parc des Mamelles

Animals and flowers of Guadeloupe

2 pm: Visit of the classes: presentation done by pupils: global warming, renewable energy, …

Kayak on coral reef , snorkeling

Night on the island



Jutta, Sarah, Kristina, Ursula & Gisela at 5h45 Les Bananes Vertes

5 pm bath and Sunset at “Petite-Anse”

Meeting at school with partners

Pepijn’s arrival night at Saint Claude

Dinner Le Sens La Marina

Dinner La Petite Cuisine Dinner La Table Créole La Marina

Dinner : Resto on the island

THURSDAY 23th MAY FRIDAY 24th MAY SATURDAY 25th MAY SUNDAY 26th MAY

9h/12h Scuba diving

Snorkeling Plage de Pontpierre

8 am Welcome at the school

9 am Visit of Bologne rhum factory Songs and dances by pupils

Visit of Basse-Terre

Fish and vegetable market

Free time at Saint-Anne

Lunch on the beach

Lunch or Pic Nique on the beach

Lunch at the RU (university)

Lunch at Moulin Blanc Basse-terre

Looking for tresors on the beach « Grande Anse »

Songs and dances by pupils

Interim report: coordinators

German and Italian partners

Leaving for Gosier Hotel Karaibes

Dinner : La Table Créole La Marina

At Christine’s :Presentation of the activities done by the schools

MONDAY 20th MAY

After a delicious breakfast we went in the morning to the blue school in Saint- Claude to meet

Catherine and our new partners from Italy, Anita and Luigi. Together we went by car to Bouillante.

Christine was with us in the car to be our guide. We saw beautiful beaches, flowers and trees with

colourful blossoms.

Concerning to our project we came to know that France’s island territories and especially

Guadeloupe plays an important part in the renewable industry. These territories are



considered an integrated part of France, but for geographical reasons they cannot be

connected to the grid. The French Electricity Board (EDF) has always been keen to install

renewable energy sources in these places, where they are considered to be an alternative

to diesel generation. These places have proved a valuable training ground for the French

renewable industry.

Passing a small factory at the seaside we stopped to see a Geothermal plant, constructed and commissioned in 1986 by EDF. Located on the Basse-Terre island, the Bouillante geothermal plant is the only hightemperature geothermal plant in France. A 340-meter well at the foot of the Soufriere

volcano provides steam (20%) and 160o water(80%). In 1996, after several years of experimenting, the plant was connected to the electricity network. An availability rate of around 90% over the

first years makes this plant highly promising.

After this interesting stop we arrived at the beach and entered a glas bottom boat to watch fish on a

corall reef. It was amazing. We saw a lot of different fish and coralls. For a while the boat stopped

and we went scuba diving.

Teachers preparing themselves to explore the coral reef at Malendure, in the National Park



On the way back we enjoyed the sun and exotic juices. Our lunch at the seaside at L'Eddie' s

Papillon restaurant was delicious. We had wonderful fish. In the afternoon we went to the beach.

Some of us went scubadiving to watch turtoises swimming in the sea. Others stayed in the sun on

the beach, watching and enjoying the production of handmade icecream with exotic flavours. Back

in St. Claude we went in the evening to a small restaurant where we had a special kind of creolic

saussages und a lot of chilli con carne.

Afterwards we went very tired to bed. Thanks to our guide and hosts for a wonderful day!

MARDI 21th MAY

We had planned to climb la Soufrière but it was raining too much, so we decided to have a bath at « Bassin des Amours ».

Céline explained to the group the name of fruits and trees we can see on the path : breadfruit trees, mango trees ,plam trees, coconut trees,...

After a pleasant time in a water at 30 degrees, we had a pic-nic at the lighthouse, at Vieux Fort, which was in the past time a military place. It also gets a wonderful view on the islands « les Saintes » and it’s the point where the Ocean meets the Caribean sea.



In the afternoon, we went back to school to visit pupils and teachers.

After a welcoming time in the courtyard with songs and dances with all the classes, we followed the small grades in the cantine.

The youngest classes showed us their dictionnary and we tried to tell them all the words in our language : French, Dutch, German, Italian and English.They discovered the sounds of these words and tried to repeat them.

The grade CM1 presented all his work on global warming and its consequences on Guadeloupe. They also presented how they did to save energy in their daily life.



Pupils commentaries

“Nous avons fait un exposé sur le réchauffement climatique et ses impacts en Guadeloupe. Après l’exposé, ils nous ont demandé notre âge. La maîtresse a traduit en anglais et les partenaires ont dit que c’était super.”

The other class of CM1 presented the Rhum process at Bologne which is now known

as a clean factory.

Pupils commentaries

“Caroline et Kenny ont présenté l’usine de Bologne car les partenaires devaient la visiter le vendredi. Cette usine est propre car comme des panneaux solaires, elle n’utilise pas toute l’énergie qu’elle produit et l’usine recycle ses déchets.”

Les questions à nos partenaires :



Nathan a demandé l’origine de la pizza. Anita nous a répondu que les romains n’avaient pas d’assiette et qu’ils mettaient leur nourriture sur des galettes de pain. Ensuite, quand ils avaient encore faim, ils mangeaient l’assiette de pain.

Axelle leur a demandé de citer des gens connus de leur pays : pour l’Italie, ils nous ont cités surtout des peintres de la Renaissance + Leonard de Vinci. Pour l’Allemagne des joueurs de foot, Karl Marx et Einstein.

Kenny leur a demandé aussi s’ils avaient des costumes et des danses traditionnelles.

Grade CM2B explaining their presentation

Comme les 2 classes de CM2 ont visité la centrale géothermique de Bouillante, nous leur avons expliqué comment fonctionne la centrale, grâce à la chaleur de la terre.

Nous leur avons aussi posé des questions sur le fonctionnement de l’école dans leur pays : les horaires des cours-les vacances scolaires-les cours donnés : langues, maths, sciences, etc-sur la cantine-sur le nombre d’élèves par classe,…

CM2A

4 camarades ont expliqué qu’est-ce que c’est le réchauffement climatique. Nous leur avons demandé de parler de leur gastronomie et de leur culture (comment ils vivent, quels sont leurs loisirs).

WEDNESDAY 22nd May

En route for the beautiful and tiny island « les Saintes ». We visited the Fort Napoléon and then the coral reefs with a transparent kayak. We met 2 dolphins which were jumping between us. It was great.



THURSDAY 23rd May

We discovered beaches and the youngest and brave parters did their first scuba diving experience.

FRIDAY 24th May

Partners at the Bologne Factory

Songs and danses at school



Friday Meetings reports

Coordinator’s meeting

After a few pupils shows, all the coordinators met at school:

-Agreement of the newsletter III (meeting in Belgium)

-Planning of the activities 2013/2014

Catherine proposes as planned in the application: water energy (1st term), hot air (Christmas time) and wind energy (2nd term).

Charter to reduce consumption of electricity or water can be plan at any time of the year. A comparison of the real reductions done by families, school and children will be checked at the end of 2014.

Every school can change the planning and do the activities at another period.

-Meetings 2013/2014 : Tarento at the end of October (during All Saints holiday) to discover the school.

-Anita tells us that her school has applied for another project and will probably have to run 2 Comenius projects at the same time.

-Gisela asks Catherine if she intends to come to Grundschule Winterspueren with the pupils. Catherine and her colleagues still don’t have taken the decision.

Partnership meeting



A dinner has been organized by Christine. The appointment was early in the evening to have time to organize a short meeting and watch powerpoints presenting the work and activities done by our partners. Partners and colleagues of S B Jovien were there to share this moment.

Grundschule Winterspueren:

-Construction of a windmill using an old wheel rim Grade 4/ schoolyear 12/13Teacher: Jutta Knittel

-Manual for building a solar oven Outdoor education study group / schoolyear 12/13 Teachers: Jutta Knittel and Kristina Köhn

-Windenergy: connected with a merry-go-round in class 3

Teachers: Ursula, Sarah and class 3

To cook eggs by sunBoil your own egg with the help of the sun!

Outdoor education study group (grade 1-4) / schoolyear 12/13 (April)Teachers: Jutta Knittel and Kristina Köhn

Direzione Didattica XXIII Circolo Scuola Primaria:

Powerpoints realised by pupils:

-windpower (We have used wind power for thousands of years but during the past 250 years steam We have used wind power for thousands of years but during the past 250 years steam engines, petrol engines and electricity took over from wind.engines, petrol engines and electricity took over from wind.

-extinction (Recognize that some plants and animals that formerly inhabited the earth are no longer present on earth).

-matter (what the world’s made of) -plants (why do plants need to grow)

After a nice dinner organized by Christine at her home, we said hello to each other.

Catherine had to leave Guadeloupe the following day with a group of 16 pupils to our partner the school J Paul 2 in Belgium.



The partners went to “la Grande Terre”, Saint-Anne , Gosier to visit this other part of Guadeloupe.


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