Comenius Meeting
Grosspetersdorf, Austria
April 13 to 19 2008
The Host School
Musikhautschule
The second Comenius meeting took place in Grosspetersdorf, Austria from April 13 to April 19, 2008.
The host school was the local Musikhauptschule. For this meeting each Comenius partner brought along a group of students.
The host partner welcoming the Comenius teams
The school Headmaster greeting the partnership
Comenius Teachers
Students and teachers stayed in GIP Hotel and the Portuguese students lived with the Austrian host families.
Since the last meeting all the teams had worked on the activities decided in the Project Meeting in Nuremberg in last November. A number of classes in each school filled in questionnaires about their interests and attitudes at school and in their spare time, as well as their talents and abilities. This data was collected, analysed, compared and processed in graphic programmes by students and teachers. Afterwards they prepared presentations about their own countries and also their educational systems.
The students' Presentations
Austrian Team
German Team
Czech Team
Estonian Team
Portuguese Team
Turkish Team
On Monday morning 15 teachers and 32 students from Austria, The Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Portugal and Turkey were welcomed by the headmaster, the teachers and the pupils of the host school. The Comenius teams introduced themselves and the European anthem was played by the school orchestra.
Teachers met the school staff, were shown the school building and the classrooms and got an overview about Austrian history by one of the teachers while the students got to know each other by playing social interactive games. In the afternoon we started a scenic bus tour through the south of Burgenland which should give the first impression of the area.
Burgenland sighseing tour
During the week the group got the chance to visit the capital city of Austria, Vienna, and its main inner city attractions as well as the Hundertwasser House and Schloss Schoenbrunn.
Hundertwasser House
Comenius Teachers
On Wednesday the students were invited to visit BFI (Berufsfoerdungsinstitut), a job training center. They got the chance to find out more about their talents by training their handicraft skills. In the afternoon the students spent a couple of hours preparing themselves for the presentations of the country and the education system. The school staff, host families and all the participants of the project were the interested audience of all the team performances.
The Comenius Team
One of the aims of the week was to have the opportunity to see a lot of the landscape, to get in contact with the culture and traditions of the region which had to cope with the situation of living at the edge of the Western Europe very close to the iron curtain.
Another very important aim was the interaction of the students and teachers from the different countries to train and improve their social and language skills.
The invitation of the local community for dinner was another opportunity for communication and social contacts.
At the end the teachers prepared the seven months activities and the next Comenius meeting that will take place in Tartu, Estonia from November 15 to November 22, 2008.
Comenius Team
