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Fasching in Hamburg

On shrove Tuesday we celebrate “Fasching“ in Hamburg and so at Iserbarg school. The real “German Carneval“ is not a tradition in northern Germany but the children like this one day when they can dress up in funny costumes for some hours.

We show you some pictures of class 1a. We eat really good, dance (sometimes on newspapers, that get smaller every time the music stops) and play funny games like “The journey to Jerusalem“.

Here are the game rules:You need one chair less than children. Place them in two rows back to back. While the music plays everybody walks around the chairs. When the music stops you must sit on a chair. The person without a chair is out! Then you take one chair out of game – and so on. At the end you have one winner!

Christmas Greetings from Finland

The Angels, Santas little helpers, pupils and staff in Jakku School
wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008 to everyone.

As you see some of the Comenius teachers have
already met Santa in Rovaniemi, Finland. Do you know who they are?

St. Martin´s Day

On November 11 in Slovakia we celebrate St. Martin´ s Day. In our language there is saying “ that Martin is coming on a white horse“ it means on this day it perhaps will be snowing.

Today is November 27 and the countryside is white and Martin really came on the white horse and we can have lot of fun on snow .                                                   

Maria                                                                         

                           Our playground, school, forest, houses.

Meeting in Yli-li - Finland

The schools participating in Comenius project "The Incredible Journey" had a wonderful time in Jakun koulu . The delegates from each school met at the project meeting We had opportunities to compare educational system in this country with ours. We were acquainted with the project of school of 21-th century. In Finland is very beautiful, quiet country with nice nature and people.

Our friends (hosts), especially Erkki and Helena  but also other collegues were perfect and showed us as most as possible in thie beautiful part of the north Europe. Special thanks to Anneli and Orvokki.

Thank you very much for unforgetable time in Haukipudas. Maria

                                                 

 

Birch Trees in May

Our Birch Trees in May.

Bratislava in Huddesfield

Twenty pupils from Bratislava  with their three teachers had a nice trip to Huddersfield in this June.

We travelled by bus. In Calais we stayed for one night in Formula 1. On the other we went on through the English Tunnel to Britain. First stopping in England was in Canterbury, a very nice old town.

Then we arrived to York where we stayed for five nights in the host families. In the mornings we gathered in our bus near the park and went to Huddersfield to met our friends in Almondbury Infant and Nursery School and in Almondbury Junior school (older pupils). We had a great  time with them. We learned and played  together, visited Coal Mining Museum.

                                                           

We enjoyed an interesting day in York - bus sightseeing  tour, visiting Railway Station Museum, Jorvik - museum if Vikings.                                                                                       

We booked tour in museum and stadion of Manchester United. Never-to-be-forgotten.               

On the way home we stopped in London for nine hours. We were in The National Natural Museum and saw wonderful places such as Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament, London Eye and we had a nice view on the cruise on the River Thames. 

Thank you very much dear Jane, pupils and teachers for the possibility to stay in your country and meet so many nice new friends. M+A+E

March birch trees

Our Birch tree observations for March.

Five Pupils from Hamburg visited Strengelvag skole in March for one week

In March five very brave pupils from Hamburg travelled far to the North to visit the partner school in Strengelvag without their parents. It was a long journey of one day with two flights and two different busses from the airport to Strengelvag.

When we arrived all host families gave us a very warm welcome with pizza at the school.
We enjoyed an interesting programme during our stay with visits of a fish factory in Sto and a farm, a trip with a dog sledge, skiing near the school and fish barbecue at the beach, time to play, to dance and to eat together. There were a lot of things to learn: about fish (especially the cod) and fishing with longlines, about life on the Vesteralen Islands (meals and spending the freetime) and of course about the school, the teaching and social life. We were surprised that the school is a real meeting place where a lot of pupils like to play. That is very much different to our school. A lot of things are almost the same as in Hamburg: the rules, the games … What people like is similar in Strengelvag and Hamburg although Strengelvag is very, very small compared to Hamburg. There are no street names and house numbers in Strengelvag!
We were lucky to have really much snow the first days and even sunshine, only one day it rained…
At the end we felt like “stars” because there was a big article in the newspaper about our visit, a whole page with a lot of photos and even one photo on the front page!

It was a great and wonderful experience! Thank you so much everyone in Strengelvag!

Nice dream in Huddersfield

Dear Jane and other friends in Huddersfield.

Thank you very much for your hospitality during our staying at your school.  We had a good time and and in our minds will be forever unforgettable memories.

Best wishes

                                                                 

Spring in Hamburg

Two weeks ago spring arrived in Hamburg - as you can see on the photos. The birch tree has big buds, the forsythia is blooming as well as the daffodils and tulips. Vilko from Bratislava found a nice place in our garden for enjoying the sun. We were happy to see one of the rabbits that live in front of our classrooms outside on the grass.

On Thursday before Easter class 4a prepared an Easter breakfast and invited class 1b to eat it together. Both classes are involved in the COMENIUS project. Home-made rolls and curd cheese with herbs, eggs, bacon, cucumbers, carrots and “nugatti” from Norway were served and made it a big meal. On the next Tuesday the young children hid chocolate animals for the others to say thank you. Actually this weekend (in the middle of April) we have temperatures like in summer. Everyone is in a good mood!

Easter Breakfast