News from Lithuania

We are busy with film making. We meet every Tuesday after lessons to review the results.
We decided that we'll use the legend about the monster that lives in Daugava in film about Latvia . Film about Kaunas is going to be a retro love story. And film about Amsterdam is going to be half documentary.
Our details about trip to Hungary. We are coming 2 teachers and 6 students - 3 girls and 3 boys. We are coming by bus on 04,25 and leaving on 04,30. We are also busy with preparations for our meeting with guests from Italy on 03,03 - 03,06.
Regards
Edita

Presentation Belgian school

Sint-Vincentius- en Vrij Handelsinstituut (SVVHI) is a secondary school in Deinze, educating approx 520 students in technical and vocational training. Deinze is a town situated in the province of East-Flanders (North side of Belgium), with an interesting economic growth. In the last decade Deinze could attract many international production and trading companies, so there is a need for all kinds of skilled students.
The main courses in our school are business training, computer science and languages.

Our school objectives are to work on a European bases to allow us to learn from students and teachers abroad and we will use this project to create further links with the local businesses, community and the parents of our students.

The website of our school: http://www.sintvincentiusdeinze.be/

Presentation of the 4th EPAL of Kavala(Greece)

Kavala(Greek: Καβάλα),is the second largest city in northern Greece, the main port of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala prefecture. It is situated on the bay of Kavala, opposite the island of Thasos.Kavala is built amphitheatrically, with most residents enjoying superb views of the coast and sea.


The 4th EPAL(vocational senior high school) of Kavala is located on a hill above the town with a panoramic view.

The aim of our school is to combine general education with the specialized vocational knowledge, young people need, to take their place in the labour market, ready to respond to continually changing economic and social conditions. There are forty teachers forty and two hundred pupils. The pupils’ age is from 15-17
Graduates have certified occupational skills that provide specific vocational rights as well as the possibility of further education.
The first year of their studies (the total is three) the pupils of our school have to decide which of the two cycles will attend: 1) The Technological Cycle, or 2) The Cycle of Services.

The second year, each cycle is divided in different fields.
The Technological Cycle provides the field of arts.
The Cycle of Services provides the following fields:
1) The field of health and welfare,2)The field of economics and administration.
Finally the third year, pupils choose one of the provided specializations regarding the chosen field which are:1)Graphic Design,2)Nurse Assistants,3)Nursery Nurse Assistants,4)Assistants of Medical and Biological Labors 5)Office Clerks.
The labors of the 4th EPAL of Kavala are well equipped.

News from Poland

Hello everyone,
We also have a lot to do at school. We have already
organised the Lisbon strategy seminar in our school.
The students have taken part in the filmmaking
workshops and have collected the info about
the cities and the rivers. We have decided to make
movies about Warta (a river in Poland),
Rhine(Cologne, Germany)and Goeteborg Sweden.
The students are working on the scripts now
and I hope we will start filming before our winter
holidays (16February).We are coming on the 25th
by train from Leszno and we will give you
the details of the arrival soon.
We are taking 4 girls and 1 boy and we are going
to stay in the hostel with our students.

Dominika and Ania

The latest from sunny Glasgow

We have booked our flights - so we will definitely be in Hungary. We arrive at 1740 on Saturday 25th April and we will leave on a 1330 fight on Thursday 30th April. Now all we need it some where to stay!
Our group will have 4 girls, all 14 years old - Samantha, Zoe, Chloe and Kayleigh. We hoped to bring another, but Demi is unable to come. Margaret and I will be the 2 teachers.
At the minute we are still doing a lot of editing for the Glasgow/ Clyde movie. The girls will be recording their voice overs this week - if only we could get them to stop giggling! Also, the script for the Dublin/ Liffey film is completed. Including the 4 girls coming to Hungary, there will be about 12 pupils involved in making it. It should be fun! Still working on ideas for Helsinki/ Vantaa - but we are getting there!
Hope all is going well with the other projects - I will post some photos soon.
Regards,
Paula.

With regards from Belgium: How is the project going on in our school?

How is the project going on in our school:

All students working on the project (84 students) are devided into groups from 4-6 students. They will all make a movy of one country (Malta or Luxemburg, or Tsjechie or Belgium). This means we will have 4 movies of each of these countries. The week before we come to Budapest all students of the whole school will select which film is coming with us. The students had a workshop of a young filmmaker (that won an international price with a short movy) of how to make a script. Now they are working on a script. In the meantime they have some lessons of movymaker. Next week the young movymaker comes to school again and will give us a workshop how to film. After that we will start filming. So a lot of work to do in Belgium!! Do we need to put this information on the blog as well?

All seems to be going well!

We are on schedule, I hope! The first movie is a short documentary style film about the Clyde in Glasgow. All filming is over - and we have edited it down... however still a lot of fine tuning to be done!
We are diligently working on a script for a short story set in Dublin about a divided love across the river Liffey. I took some footage of the Liffey when I was in Ireland for Christmas (which I will try to upload - but I am not very good with these things.)
The Finland film is taking a while. We contacted the Finnish embassy who could give us nothing in English, so we are going to use whatever resources we can scramble together from Youtube type sites. We have a lot of ideas, but they are all ideas at the minute.
The girls are very excited about showing the films in Budapest, and they are very enthused about the whole project. Once we get confirmation of accommodation we will book our flights. I think 25th is cheaper for us at the minute, so we may not arrive until the Saturday - anyone else thinking of arriving Saturday?
Anyway. I will upload some video footage (not of the actual films of course!!) and some photos within a week so you can all see hoe we are getting on.
Paula

Vialonga CATRi WIP (work in progress...)

Here you can see one of the groups working. If you pay attention you notice they are working with a compact digital camera instead of a miniDV (we have 2) because they prefer working with the mpeg format instead of avi... We'll see what happens...

EV 2,3 de Vialonga | Here we are...

Vialonga Group of Schools – EB 2,3

This group of schools (AEV) consists of three nursery schools (children from 3 to 5 years old), six primary schools (children from 6 to 10 years old) and a secondary school (young people from 11 to 16 years old).

The main school of this cluster – EB 2,3 - has almost 1000 pupils - 130 teachers, and was built in the late 80’s, and, by that time, welcomed many pupils coming from former Portuguese colonies (most of them in Africa). Currently, with the new European reality, this school has been also receiving many pupils from Western Europe countries like Ukraine, Romania, Moldavia or Russia (with complete families coming to Portugal). It's a regular peripheral school.

The school is located 15 km north from Lisbon, Portuguese capital city, in a special social and economic environment with several problems related to that. Some of these problems are school abandon and unfruitful learning. Considering that, school has been challenged by the creation of diversified professional courses which may prepare young people with little or no interest in school to be active citizens.

The needs of these pupils’ families and the necessity of their total integration led, in 1996, the Ministry of Education to establish that our schools formed a Território Educativo de Intervenção Prioritária - TEIP, which means a group of schools with special needs due to social, economic and cultural problems of the local resident population.

The involvement in European Projects started six years ago and nowadays is an excellent opportunity to change students' perspective of school, showing different (European) horizons, helping them to grow and be more interested in knowledge and learning.

At the present time AEV - EB 2,3 is involved in two LLP European partnerships – Comenius : CATRi (MLP - 2008.2010) and ARS LONGA, FILM BREVIS (MLP - 2007.2009). Both related to ICT and video learning.

The CHIEF guidelines, as far as we understood them, offer a whole lot of learning opportunities for students and teachers. We are willing to participate! The idea of having another school from Portugal involved is also very interesting and... new!

http://projectos.ese.ips.pt/vialonga/
http://cityandtheriver.blogspot.com/
http://www1.pshg.edu.ee/film/

Season's Greetings

We wish you a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Buon natale e un felice anno nuovo!
Priecigus Ziemassvetkus!
Linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu!
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego Nowego Roku!
Feliz Natal e Próspero Ano Novo!
Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!

And the winner is...

This is the winner logo. Congratulations to Jonathan! Good work!

Why vote?...

Voting is a citizenship right. The right to choose according to our beliefs. Use it fairly...
We have 66 contestants and 8 schools directly involved. It's easy to see if something's wrong!
May the best logo win!

PS - There won't be a third run...

Logo Competition

CATRi - Logo competition

This post will have, within a week, all the candidates for the partnership logo contest. Stay tuned...
PS: We will use electronic vote for the election and the final day will be 31st of December. The results will be published on January, 1st.

CATRi - Regulation for the European partner school competition

Logo for the European project - City and the River - CATRi

Regulation

1.

The contest is for all students of the nine school partners participating in the European project - CITY AND THE RIVER, from now on identified as CATRi.

2.

a) All projects presented must be originals of the participating students;

b) Teachers may apply if associated with students;

c) Logo copies of existing projects will be disqualified.

3.

a) Projects must be published, by their own schools, until the end of November 2008, in the CATRi blog. They will be numbered, sequentially, by order of publication in the blog, for later voting;

b) Author’s names must be omitted until the final election.

4.

The following criteria will be considered while selecting the winner logo:

. Creativity/Originality;

. Identification with the name (CATRi)|concept of the project;

. Colours used: in spite of being allowed the use of other colours, in an appellative way, preference should be given to logos using European colours (blue and yellow);

. The logo must be used in reduced and enlarged sizes.

5.

a) The election will take place online, on the blog’s project, and will be confirmed by the nine partner school coordinators of the project;

b) The election will take place in the first week of December 2008;

c) The results will be published, using the blog, on the second week of December 2008.

6.

The prize for the winner logo will be a compact digital camera, delivered during the first year movie project presentation in Budapest (April | May 2009).

CATRi at work...

Hello, here are some pictures of the partners in the last Sicilian meeting. Work, work, work... (and a little rest) :)

Meeting in Brolo

These are the final dates for the meeting in Brolo:

September 29 to October 3.

CATRi - calendar

Here's the CATRi calendar. Not to add any stress to our lives. Just to keep in mind... :)

CATRi - The two year Strategy... Wellcome!

Here's the complete partnership summary. Let's start! :)
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A wandering look over the European cities makes us aware of the river within. There's a wealthy relation going on between the two elements, not always peaceful, not always in harmony, but perpetual and long lasting.
This project shall be that "close look" and will show the pupils how to understand the historic, political, social and cultural elements that determined the birth and development of the European capitals. The partners will decide if the city to work on each country will be the city capital or some other city with a much more relevant relation with a river.
The 27 capitals of the European Union will be distributed between the partner schools (no more than 3 for each school), and the pupils will work in research activities, selection and analysis/organization of all information available developing the common European skills agreed by the partners, representing for all the subjects in school and life. If the partnership will get final approval, Ankara or a Turkish city, though not a EC capital, will appear as the 28th city.
By studying the relation that cities have had during the past centuries with their rivers, working on several different perspectives (geography, history, economy or culture), pupils will produce and direct a documentary movie for each capital.
Using the knowledge gathered during almost one year, the pupils will work afterwards on an emancipation project: they must develop projects involving their schools and all European capitals about which they already worked and produced a movie.