Let's discover hidden talents

   Let’s Discover Hidden Talents

MINUTES OF THE THIRD MEETING IN TURKEY

18th -25th MAY 2014

 

 

18th May (Sunday)

Project partners from Poland,Catalonia-Spain, Lithuania and Greece arrived at the airport in İzmir and Levent Yıldız and Neşe Çelikel welcomed them. Guest children were met Turkish children and parents at  the reception and left with their host families.

 

19th May (Monday)

The project partners have taken from the hotel and joined the ceremony on 19th May Youth and Sports National Day at Balçova Square.

Children were brought to the school by the host families. Project partners met at the School Conference Hall for a welcoming performance. The school was especially decorated with national flags of all partners and posters presented all participating countries.

At  the beginning of the meeting Turkish partner greeted the guests and all partners presented their teams . Turkish Comenius students and guest students sang the project anthem.

Since it was the bank holiday in Turkey ,the school was off and  a sightseeing tour was organized around Balçova for the guests.

 

20th May  (Tuesday)

In the morning all Comenius team gathered in the school garden and  departed for the trip to Ephesus, The House of Virgin Mary  and Şirince (small touristic and historical village famous for its wines.)

 

21st May (Wednesday)

 

The students and teachers took part in workshops. They created own perfumes. After workshop Turkish team’s Art and Design Exhibition was held in conference saloon. There were The Major of  Educational Department of Balçova, headmasters of other institutions, teachers, parents and  all participant countries in the exhibition ceremony.

Turkish parents prepared coffee break with snacks for guests.

The Turkish Talent Show was held and the most talented students performed in different categories such as dancing, sculpturing,painting,decorating...On the other hand Nursery school children danced for the guests and 1st class students performed a simple wedding ceremony . Everyone admired the performances of students who prepared a very interesting artistic program showing the Turkish culture and traditions.

**The meeting for the tasks was very useful to clarify the details for the following activities. We also evaluated the first year responsibilities. The Lithuanian and Greek team presented their countries,cities,cultures and their educational system.

 

22nd May  (Thursday)

 

The fourth day was full of experience for teacher and  students to distinguish the educational processes.They spent at school to know better Turkish teacher’s and children’s work .All participants participated in the classes of mathematics in secondary school  and they also joined a primary class .

 After the coffee break they participated in art workshops, where they created a picture made ​​with a traditional Turkish art of "marble water", they painted on stones.

   All teams participated in the competition for  Turkish vocabularies and they learned a Turkish dance ‘Damat Halayı’.

Wanda, the coordinator: ‘Very touching accent was a common dancing "Damat Halayı", danced by all children and common singing the anthem of our project. We felt that we were a really great Comenius team.’

 The certificates of attendance for all activities were given to all members.Then all participants of the project went to the Balçova Town Hall to visit the District Governor ,Mehmet Ali Çalkaya.He welcomed the guests in our city,thanked for honoring the National Day on Monday and he stressed how important for the people , the residents of Balçova was the participation of our guests at the ceremony.She also pointed out how important for the development of a young person to  contact with other people and cultures.

 

 

23rdth May ( Friday)

 

 The last day of the project meeting started with the working meeting again.Participants analyzed the tasks,which will be completed till the Lithuanian Meeting in October.Talent shows videos of the partner schools were watched together.

**The turkish team had the responsibility to gather them in a video under the title of ‘Talents’.

**We talked about the progress reports and it was decided that each team was going to fill in the report individually.

**The other point was about the ‘ Newsletter’. A summary document of all activities in the first year was going to completed by Turkish team and was going to be sent to Polish team to upload the web page.

**Greek team was responsible for giving the instructions for the activity of ‘City Model’ .

**Till October 15th, the models were going to be finished at schools and all countries were going to send the photos of the models’ building processes.

**The dates of the following meetings were clarified.

*The fourth meeting in Lithuania : 18-26 October 2014

*The fifth meeting in Spain :  19-25 April 2015

*The final meeting in Greece : 31 May - 06 June 2015

   The guests evaluated the performance of the Turkish meeting filling an evaluation form given by Turkish team .The attendance certificates of the meeting were given to all participants in the final ceremony of Turkish team. The farewell ceremony was prepared by the Turkish teachers and especially Turkish students. At the end of the ceremony there was a special lunch showing the traditional style of one of the famous Turkish cuisine, Gözleme.

The last night, the Turkish team organized a social dinner full of Turkish cuisine,traditional music and dances.

 

The participants experienced the warmth by means of the Turkish traditional food, drinks,

music and dances, Turkish hospitality and joy in receiving guests. We made new

friends and renewed our  friendships.

Everybody in Comenius team satisfied with the organization of the project meeting and we are sure we will have an excellent collaboration with the partner schools throughout the Project development.

Written today,  28th May,2014

Neşe,

Turkey.