Good Bye from Dublin

España! Polska! Italia! Suomi!

Goodbye!! :( It has been fun learning about your countries. The videos look really well.

España, Murcia looks like a beautiful place and the Medieval Party looks like a lot of fun!!

Polska, your pastries look really tasty! Our teachers wish we celebrated Teacher’s Day in Ireland.

Italia, underwater rugby looks hard but fun! The piggy was really cool (: and your teachers told us loads about your school. I think you would very much enjoy Transition Year in Ireland.

Suomi, Finland is so beautiful! I am very jealous that we don’t have ski centres in Ireland. Do you often see the northern lights?

I enjoyed meeting all the teachers from your schools, they were all lovely and gave us a great chat!

I learned loads about film making over the last few months.

I love Ireland and I hope you all visit sometime!! :) You are all welcome Céad Míle Fáilte Roimhe!! We’ll show you around! (:

From Lauren

Hello to the students that we are partnered with,

I thought the project was fun and interesting. The DVD was fun to make, I found some interesting facts about my own country too!

I enjoyed watching your videos too. They were fun to watch and I learned a lot about your countries.

We got to talk to a bunch of your teachers too, they were fun to talk to.

I learned more about editing the video than I had previously known.

I like being a young Irish person. Out relationship with Europe, in my eyes is good.

"not backwards in coming forwards" – means a person is not shy.

"no flies on him" – means a person is not easily deceived.

"she has a tongue that would clip a hedge" - means a person who gossips.

"come for a day and stay for a week" – means someone outstaying their welcome.

Just a few facts to ponder over

Thanks,

Jennifer

Hello everyone involved in the Comenius project 2011.

I am one of the Irish students who got to see the finished projects from each of the participating countries. I.really enjoyed the free time video from Spain with the music from naruto. Also the free time video from Finland was awesome. All the skiing you guys get to do must be awesome would love to go skiing but we don't get much snow here in Ireland.

Bye

Stephen

WORK IN PROGRESS

This was part of the work in progress for the project.

Here are some of the pictures taken during a sightseeing tour in Florence with the guide.

with love

the Italian S.O.S. team

Easter Season 2011

Marta Corsinovi

Ireland, we are arriving!!!

Our dearest friends from Ireland! We are very happy that we will meet You and spend time in Dublin. It seems to be very interesting plan of our visit. We regret that it will be the last meeting of our Comenius group… See you soon! Thomas, Sylvia, Kathy and Ted.

Cultural Heritage Workshops in Rovaniemi

On March 14th the students involved in the SOS Comenius project participated in a series of workshops in Arts, Drama, Handicrafts and Ice fishing/Woodcraft skills.

In the Drama workshop the students created scenes for their multimedia presentation, the topic of which is the Finnish Sauna. For earlier generations the Sauna was not only a place for bathing but also a place for women to give birth and bodies to be stored before burial.




The students of the Arts workshop explored topics such as Reindeer, Torne River Valley, the Lapland War in Finnish cultural heritage.













In the Handicrafts workshop the students visited a local feltmaker Helvi Juujärvi. She is an artisan, who is specialized in handmade felting and traditional sheep pelt blankets. In Helvi's workshop the students learnt the basic techniques of wet felting.














The students and teachers in the Ice Fishing / Woodcraft skills workshop spent the day by the river ice fishing, glowfrying salmon and learning the skills needed when hiking in the wilderness.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

and

a Happy New Year

Marta Corsinovi

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas from a snowed in Dublin!

Merry Christmas Everybody!

I can’t wait! It has been snowing here for 2 – 3 weeks which is very unusual for Ireland!

I hope you have a great Christmas and open lots of presents!

From Martina xxx

Merry Christmas to everyone, I hope you have a good one.

From Alice

Merry Christmas.

I hope all of you will have a great Christmas and lots of presents under your Christmas Tree.

I will celebrate Christmas with my mom and dad. We will communicate with my family in Poland through Skype.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Wesołych Świąt.

Angelina

Merry Christmas to all of you involved in the Comenius project. I hope you enjoy the holidays and have a very happy Christmas and a happy new year.

This is our second Christmas in Ireland an we are hoping to do a lot of fun stuff like skating, cinema as well as receiving a lot of presents!

Best wishes to you from Evelina & Danutis.

I am counting down the days until it is Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Katie Downes