First Comenius Day

von-Vincke-Schule, Soest

(20th December 2006)

We had a rotation system and 4 turns for 4 groups of pupils .
Short description of our programme:

Introduction and welcome in different languages, welcome with
Bulgarian bread and honey
Bulgarian dance
Stations: making Bulgarian dolls; learning about Bulgarian money,
tasting Bulgarian food (bread with rose-jam),
table of each country with the flag, brochures and leaflets
Picture show of our stay in Bulgaria

Teacher passing Bulgarian bread to a pupil.

Primary school pupils and teachers doing Bulgarian dance in a circle.

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That is how partners live: After the meal there is a dance

Von- Vincke- Schule makes contacts to Bulgaria, Crete,
Finland, Poland and Cyprus

Pupils taste Bulgarian bread with warm honey

SOEST. The last day before the Christmas holidays, the pupils of von - Vincke- Schule learned something about Bulgarian customs and they tasted Bulgarian bread with the sweet topping. The school has contacts to Bulgaria, Crete, Finland, Poland and Cyprus. This is a project supported by the European Union with the name “Comenius Project”. This project should help pupils and teachers to build bridges to other European countries and overcome prejudices.
Seven schools out of six countries started this project last summer.
In this project the von – Vincke - Schule is the only school for blind and partially sighted pupils.

Partnership can be great fun, this is what all the puils noticed yesterday. “After the meal they dance”, this is what teacher Dr Silke Bachsleitner told the pupils in the assembly hall. The students and teachers took each others hands and started dancing like their Bulgarian mates.

Marianne Moritz ist the German coordinator of the project. Last November she went to Bulgaria with some colleagues, where all the participating countries got together. The German teachers were especially impressed
by the Bulgarian hospitality.

The next meeting will be next year in Poland with also four German pupils.

After the dancing the pupils had a look at all the things the partners had given to their teachers at the meeting in November. There were for example raisins from Crete and rose jam from the Black Sea Coast.