SHORT RAPORT OF THE PROJECT (2012-2014)

SHORT RAPORT OF THE PROJECT (2012-2014) (TURKEY)

Romania: 28th  September, 3rd October 2013

At the beginning of the new educational year, Comenius Project was introduced to the teachers and students.Between 28th of October and 3rd of November The first meeting of the Project was held in Targi-jiu, Romania participated by the teachers of the partner countries.

Emin Kutlu, Recep Batu and Osman Yılmaz participated the meeting from Turkey.In this meeting, each country introduced their own cities, schools and educational system on the first day. Moreover, in the two- year- project period, activities to be done was planned, partners agreed to cooperate and the meeting date for the following partner was decided.The  other activities planned are preparing a web site, deciding the name of the site, which was named ’’ Mum’s Food’’, and choosing a logo. The partners decided for each country to design their own logo and to choose the best by voting. After returning to Turkey, Certificate of Presence was given to the Project teachers.

 

Italy: 18th -23rd February 2013

 To the second project which is in Italy; Emin KUTLU, Sevtap ÇAM and Burcu ŞAHİN as teachers, Barkın YİĞİTBAŞI, Ebru KÜÇÜK, Diba TOPAÇ, Yağmur ERSOY and Sevdiye Esra EKİCİ attended as students. The school of Istr. Sec. Sup. D. Sartor ‘which is a farming vocational school’ in Montebelluna, Castelfranco was visited.On the first day,the house and the farm of the founder, the main building of the school and the other units related to the farming and stock raising were seen. The students presented the film slides about the projects in the meeting room. Later, the guests saw the classes,labs,computer room and the cheese production place of the school and they were informed about them. The guests ate lunch at school dining hall and were offered traditional meals and drinks of Italy. Our students joined the preparations of the Italian meals at the school dining hall and the meals were serviced at lunch. The Mayer of Montebelluna joined the lunch at school and he was presented Turkish delight as gift.Our students stayed with the Italian families and learnt the Italian culture better. They were happy to be there and represented our country well. They practiced English, which they learnt at school. 

 

Turkey: 15th -19th April 2013

 The Turkish teams welcomed teams on Saturday and Sunday, and hosted them in families chosen before. There were 32 students and 17 teachers from other countries hosted by 32 Turkish students, their families and 8 teachers. During the trips, we tried to make our guests participate in several lunches and dinners in order to introduce them the beauty and taste of the culinary traditions of our area. Every activity is documented with photos and videos.    The visit in Turkey was very helpful and made the students feel connected and self-confident about how to communicate with people from other countries. All the families who hosted students thanked to the teams as their students were kind, warm-hearted and respectful. Moreover, the atmosphere was really friendly.     

 

Spain : 29.9.2013-5.10.2013

We visited the Institud Europe school in Barcelona in Spain between 29/9/2013 and 5/10/2013  at the framework of the Comenius project, teenagers between fast food and culinary food, which our school belongs to. During our visit, our students made good friends, talked to them and had good time. They leant a different culture. They also recognised their own culture beter. They saw the modern and historical buildings. They noticed the similarities and differences. They improved their confidence. They experienced a foreign culture. They practised their English and had good friends. Our teachers also experienced and learnt a lot.

 

Portugal 12-18 January 2014.

Our school visited the Maria de Lama school in TORRES Novas İN PORTUGAL to join the meetings of the Comenius project of EU, 12-18 January,2014. The project coordinator Emin Kutlu, the assistant manager Mevlüt Uğur and English teacher Zeki Demir participated   thevisit.The students who joined the Portugal meeting were Esranur ELVAN, İdea Nehir ÖZLİMAN, Sevgi BAŞEĞMEZ, Musa Serkan DÜNDAR, Berk TOSUNve Ahmet Emre BOYACI. During the visit our students had good relations. they learnt about different culture, compared to their own culture. They had good friends and overcame the fear of foreigner. they saw some historical buildings, people and towns. They noticed the similarities and differences, they improved their self confidence. They practiced their English all the time and improved their level. And our teacher had the chance to see their schools, classes and education system. We had good information and developed ourselves. İt was a very useful visit.

 

Poland: 30th March-5th  April 2014

Comenius Project, Polonya Lubliniec, Zespol Szkol Zawodowych  school. In order to take part in the European Union Comenius Project, we visited Zespol Szkol Zawodowych School, Lubliniec, Poland between 30th March and 6th April for the Project meeting.Project coordinator Emin Kutlu, Vice principal Şakir Öztürk and English teacher Burcu Şahin participated to the Project meeting. The students who took part in the Poland visit are, Dilan EFE, Berkay DENİZ, Fatma Sena SONGÜR, Hilal KARAYILDIRIM, Ayça ACIR, Güner Can DÜNDAR,  Mert POLAT, Arif YILMAZ ve Gizem CAN.During the process of our trips, our students had great dialogues with the foreign teachers and students. The had the awareness towards their own culture. They had a lot of information about the cultural and historical side of the countries they went to .They had self confidence. they found out that travelling abroad is not as difficult as they thought it would be. They always spoke English efficiently through the visits. as far aa teachers are concerned, they had the opportunity to observe the educational systems in the partner countries.Between 2012- 2014 the visits to Romania, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland were completed.