After the
approval of the project “The European teenagers between culinary
tradition and fast food” our shool direction nominated the Comenius
team on September 2012. Then we divulgated the project at school through our school site http://www.agilpaes.pt/ , articles in local press and by choosing the right place at school for
our “Comenius Corner”.
The Portuguese Comenius team also created a Wikispace
called europe4you – both to spread and motivate other teachers, staff
and students’ parents and to show all the work done about the Project,
information and photos about the meetings.
Our next task
was to decide about the target group of students. We chose the older students
(8th and 9th graders) according to the other partner schools. The students’
group is of fourteen students. But the work at school is going to be made by
all the five classes.
Our first activity at school was the
celebration of the “World Food Day” on
16th October 2012. We invited parents and students to participate in debates
about “Nutritionism” and they were
very motivated to the subject and checked their own health through “Blood Pressure” and “Blood Sample” campaigns. It was a
successful partnership with the Local Health Centre, doctors, nurses and
psychologist.
We also
promoted a “Healthy Menus Contest”
and the winner one was prepared by the 1st graders from EB1 Visconde de S.Gião. The 6th graders also made
some works related to the event and organized an “Exhibition”
and a “Green market at school” with
fruit sale; the 8th graders wrote a commentary about their personal eating
habits. Urban Corps, a local organization connected with gymnastics, promoted a
nutritional evaluation among our teachers, students and other staff.
At school we created the “Office of information and student’s support” that is opened
everyday and the students can go there freely to talk about the subjects they
want, ask for advice in the issues that worry them.
In the first
meeting of the Project (Targu-Jiu, Romania from 29th October until 2nd
November 2012), we met the other Comenius partners, learnt about their educational
systems, created the Blog of
the Project: http://foodorfastfood.blogspot.com (by the Spanish team), defined the dates for the next
meetings, divided the students for each
visit and set the deadline for the “Logo
Contest” . We also made a questionnaire about “Fast food versus traditional food” to be applied to the students
and data processing and public presentation of the results to be
presented in the next meeting in Italy.
In the second
meeting (Montebelluna, Italy from 18th until 22nd February 2013) we tried
to define a better structure for the Blog of the Project and defined the deadline
for the “Virtual Guide“ (by the
Portuguese team, until 8th March).
In the third
meeting in Antalya, Turkey (14th – 19th April 2013) the Portuguese team presented
the “Virtual Guide” of the Project: http://comeniusgtpr.wix.com/virtualfoodguide and were defined the deadlines for the next
activities to be done until the next meeting in Barcelona (Spain – 30th
September – 5 th October 2013). Each country was responsible for doing the
study of one food group (until the end
of June); beginning the study on the
topic “How does our traditional food
take part in the food pyramid? (only
a draft for the meeting in Barcelona) and “Our
Food Pyramid Poster Contest” until 15th September. The Portuguese team will
send the Contest Regulation to the
other partners. Were also clarified all the folders on the Blog and was added
another folder “Diary” for the quarterly
reports.
Before each visit the students prepared their own presentation about their school and the
activities done in the context of the project. After each visit they did a
report about their experiences in a foreign country and what were their
feelings about it in what concerns its culture, culinary tradition, people, etc.
After each visit to the different partner schools we
wrote some information about the meetings that was posted, with some photos, on
the following school website: http://www.agilpaes.pt and sent to
the local press to be published.
In conclusion I can say that the project objectives have been
fulfilled: the students and their parents are more and more concerned about
their children healthy eating habits and at the same time they are much more motivated
to the beneficts of the culinary tradition. On the other hand the students have
been developed their language skills in
English and their research methods.
The
Comenius Project Coordinator
Gabriela de Azevedo
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