INTRODUCTION

TEENAGERS THROUGH CULINARY TRADITION AND FAST FOOD

We have begun a Comenius multilateral school partnership project with seven schools from: Poland, Italy, Romania, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain. This project began in September 2012 and will finish in July, 2014. Our first meeting was in Romania, in November, 2012, where we decided to create a general blog called “Mum's food or fast food? “and it will be the place where we are going to post all the photos, comments, activities mentioned in our application form, such as the album of the project, Grandma's recipes, the healthy eating guide and the new ones we decide to do.

The aim of this project is to make student aware of the importance of having healthy eating habits. So during this project we are going to focus on the following objectives: to define and understand the meaning of healthy eating, to rediscover the culinary tradition of each country and to know  other cultures through their culinary tradition. The target language will be English.

The project aims to involve teenagers in a debate with the topic of intercultural food style of young generation and the consequences in cultural identity’s field. Students from partner institutions will be helped by coordinators teachers to explore the issues of unhealthy food, and probe the medical, social and cultural implications. They will oppose two concepts, (food type) fast food and culinary tradition, understand the break that happens in the individual mind by assimilating artificial culture that tends to become universal food code.

The teens will reflect on their food preferences, the culinary tradition and family backgrounds. They will explore areas related to nutrition, food technologies, traditional and ecological agriculture they will also confront cultures and traditions by extending the dining experience in partner countries.

Each partner will initiate an investigation in two directions: a foray into the fast -food that will give the possibility to study chemical compounds used in preparing menus (will talk with nutritionists and sociologists, will confront opinions and ideas.

  On the other hand, it will be  a culinary journey in the region to which it belongs, approaching  tradition and customs. The students will be invited by a family that keeps cultural tradition of the place. There they can assist to the preparation of a traditional menu, they will taste the products and  find recipes, ingredients,   traditional ways to  prepare food and natural conservation of food .

These experiences will be shared within   the project visits, on the web site and materialized in the final products (European guide of healthy menus, book of traditional recipes , brochures,

This project will help students improve their English competence, raise awareness of belonging to a common European culture and know their own culture and their partners’.   We will also promote culinary and cultural traditions, having easy access to the results obtained in the partnership.

Spanish student self-evaluation

Conclusions

The first Comenius in our school has been evaluated very positively by parents, teachers and students.

As we can see in the graphs, parents  very much appreciate the possibility what this project has offered to their children in terms of getting to know other countries, cultures, traditions and get used to respecting other realities. Thanks to this, now they can appreciate  their own culture more.

The students have recognised that now they are more motivated to learn English because they see it as a communicative tool that helps them meet other people and integrate into other cultures.  They have also said that they have very much enjoyed doing the activities and preparing the meetings where they have shared their knowledge and experience.

With regards to the topic of ´healthy food´ which included the importance of healthy eating and appreciation of traditional food, the students have added that they are now more conscious of them, but they have not changed their eating habits.  Perhaps it is a question of time and maturity and we hope that when they grow up, they remember the things learnt in this project and they will improve their eating habits.

The teachers are very satisfied with the project.  We have seen that our students are more motivated and more curious to learn about other cultures.  A fact that confirms our statement  is that there are a great number of students who want to take part in new projects and parents are asking for a new Erasmus project now.

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Project Comenius 2014 ISISS Sartor Montebelluna (TV)

Meetings Comenius Food 2014 ISISS Sartor Montebelluna (TV)

Fourth Spanish report

FOURTH SPANISH COMENIUS REPORT

                                                                                           

                                                                                        

February 2014

 

After the visit to Portugal, our students prepared the diary of their week in Torres Novas and explained it to the rest of the classmates.  They talked about the culinary traditions.  The rest of our students could see the powerpoints posted on the blog, so they could enlarge their knowledge about the culture of our partners.  They also explained the activities carried on there and the places they visited.  All of their explanations helped the others enlarge their geographical and history knowledge.

 

We began to prepare the final meeting in Poland.   They continued working on the recipe book to be sent to the Poland team, so they could design it and send the final version to the Italian team, who was in charge of printing it.  So all the partners could get a copy in Poland.

 

March

 

We held a meeting with the families to prepare the trip to Poland.  We gave the families the programme planned for the week, the name and address of the Polish families and the school.

In the “Jornadas de portes obertes”(“Open Day”) we presented the Project to the families of the new students of the school.  They could see the materials prepared by our students and their partners, the activities carried out in the meetings and photos taken there.

The teachers prepared 3 evaluation sheets, one for the students, one for the parents and the third for the teachers who had taken part in it. We sent our proposals to the Coordinator and she created the final versions to be revised in Poland.

 

We prepared our trip to Poland.  The students looked for information about Lubineck, the place where the Polish school is.  They saw the information about the school in the blog, read the presentations made by the Polish team in the different meetings.  So they could be more familiar with the country they were going to visit.

The last meeting was held in Poland where we met our partners for the last time.  There we did different activities mentioned and posted on the blog. 

We agreed to carry out the evaluation questionnaire and send the results in a circle graph to our coordinator.  It could help us think about the positive and negative things carried out in order to improve the activities in our future project, Erasmus plus.

 

April

 

When our student came back, she prepared the diary of their week there, explained it to the class and presented the recipe book.  The students had a look at it, so they could discover more things about the culinary tradition of their teams.  We also talked about the most impacting places we visited, specially the Concentration Camp in Auschwitz.  So they could enlarge their geographical and historical knowledge about that period of time.  It was a good topic to make them think about religious, racial or ideological kinds of discrimination.

On Saint George’s Day, the students of the second year of Baccalaureate who had participated in the Comenius project during these two years got a diploma made by the school and we disseminated the project in that festivity.

In  the school magazine we published different articles talking about our Comenius Project, written by the students and teachers who had taken part in it.

 

May

 

We worked on the evaluation sheets and created the graphs.  The teachers studied them in order to see the things that  should be improved in the future and to know the parents’ opinion, because the students’ opinion had been picked up after each meeting.

In the farewell party of the students of the Second Year of Baccalaureate there was a movie about the best moments spent in the school and the Comenius experience couldn’t be missed there.

We celebrated “la fira del Coneixement”(“The knowledge fair” as every year.  It consisted on preparing different activities for the Primary students who came and visited us on the 21^st of May.  There were different workshops organised by the teachers of the different subjects.  The students of the second year of ESO were in charge of them.  This year the English Department organised a “Green restaurant”, based on the topic of our project “Healthy food”.  The students of our school were the waiters and waitresses of a healthy restaurant and the primary students were the customers, but there was only healthy food in the menu, so they could only choose healthy dishes.  We tried to make them aware of the importance of healthy habits and the fact that there are a lot of delicious dishes that are very healthy.

 

The students are preparing articles about the Comenius for the school magazine.

On the final day we will prepare a lot of physical activities and we are going to focus them on the project aim: ”Be active” with the objective to make students practise more sport, enjoy them and make them aware of the importance of not spending so much time in front of the TV or computers.

 

 

                                                             Written by Pilar Belloc

Romanian report for February-May 2014

Report about activities of the Romanian team

February-May 2014

February 2014

 In February were took place activities of dissemination for visit in Portugal, into school and in local media.

The students which visited Portugal have showed Power Point presentations in front of their colleagues and for the Comenius team.

 The teachers have made dissemination for their colleagues and an article for local media.

During this month the whole Comenius prepared the materials for the final exhibition in Poland.

March-April 2014

The Romanian Comenius team finished the materials prepared for the final exhibition in Poland.

Between 29.03-5.04.2014 a group of 3 teachers and 1 student have participated in the last visit of the project, in Poland.

It was a very nice and instructive time for teachers and students, in the same time. Each of them had the opportunity to meet the Polish culture as part of the European patrimony, and to know wonderful people.

It was another perfect moment for meeting our large Comenius team, unfortunately for the last time during this project. 

After return in country, the student which were in Poland had a presentation for disseminate her visit in front of the school’s Comenius team. The teachers have written an article for the local media and a report of coordinator for county’s educational department.

They presented a short film of this last project meeting in front of the school’s teachers.

Till 15 April, the coordinators of the partners’ teams sent to the Romanian coordinator the drafts for final self-evaluation questionnaires for students, parents and teachers.

 The Romanian team decided the final form of these and sent to each team that applied it and have to post the results on the blog till 15 May.

 May 2014

The Romanian team applied the questionnaires for the students and teachers that had mobilities during the project and for these students’ parents.

We collected the results and made a report with conclusions

The Romanian team posted its own results and conclusion on the blog of the project, on label Romania.

The coordinator began the filling of the database EST.

 The teachers and the students of the project’s team were started to prepare the dissemination seminar from June.

 Prepared by coordinator,

 Anca Peptan

Report Italy

FOURTH  REPORT ITALIAN ACTIVITIES: Feb  2014 - May 2014

ITALIAN ACTIVITIES “COMENIUS FOOD”

Feb. 2014 –May  2014

By teacher Paola Amadio - Italian Coordinator Comenius Project

February

After visiting Torres Novas (Portugal)    the Italian  Comenius team  continued the local activities of the project.

-Meeting with the Leadership (Headmaster). Summary of meeting in Portugal and plan of future activities

            Team Comenius (3 teachers and Leadership)

-. In February the cultural visits in Portugal and the experiences of the students and teachers were shared with the rest of the school. Students  talked to their colleagues about the dissemination of Portuguese  and Comenius experience.

-Second classes of  ISISS Sartor worked  on  the COOKING BOOK…

They checked recipes and prepared the format with  the Polish team about printing.

-Students finished the materials for Grandma’s Recipes and for the virtual guide.

Team Comenius (3 teachers)  classes 2A, 2B  

March

-Students and teachers worked  to collect the works done during the 2 years of project and put it in the blog after the last meeting in Poland.

-During this month the whole Comenius team worked to  prepare the last meeting in Poland  (materials to present in Polish meeting).

Two  students  were selected for the visit in Poland, meeting with families.

Team Comenius (3 teachers)  classes 2A, 2B  

-Coordinator   prepared proposal for self evaluation to discuss during the meeting in Poland

Italian Coordinator (1 teacher)

  March  2014  MEETING in Poland

Sixth  meeting of project

Team Comenius  3Iitalian teachers and Headmistress and  2 Italian students

(SEE Poland REPORT for activities)

After visiting    Poland  the Italian  Comenius team  continued the local activities of the project.

-Meeting with the Leadership (Headmaster). Summary of meeting in Poland  and plan of future activities in Italy

April

- It was applied the questionnaire self-evaluation sent by Romanian Coordinator (for students, teachers and families)

Team Comenius Project, students, families

May

Italian coordinator   prepared results to send to Romania

-It was elaborate the questionnaire self-evaluation and  the teachers   made a report with results and conclusions.

Italian Coordinator (1 teacher)

-Students of 2^nd years  had an experience  in the Dolomites testing local products.

2 teachers and  classes 2A,2B (about 30 students)

            -Italian Coordinator wrote  report for Romania (Coordinator of Project Food)  about activities done in Italy during  the last period and updated the blog

            Italian Coordinator (1 teacher)

Teacher Paola Amadio