1st meeting in France 19-23 th october 2009, last news

Dear Partners,

The first meeting will take place soon in France and you are all welcome.

1- England comes by plane with 8 students, 2 teachers and perhaps a Comenius turkish assistant?
2- Nederlands comes by plane on their holidays so without student but with two teachers.
3- Spain would come by mini bus with 4 students and 2 teachers.
4- No news yet from Turkey but one teacher will be there.

All partners will arrive on Sunday the 18th.
All partners will be greeted with a host family, except the 2 Spanish teachers who have booked an hotel in Rochefort. Spain will leave the meeting on Thursday the 22nd (midday).Nederlands leave on Friday morning. Others partners will leave France on Friday the 23rd evening.

A schedule of work and visits has been sent to all partners who have approved, even if it is possible that there may be some modifications.

Each country has accepted to participate in the financing of the activities, visits and meals in proportion to their number.

France has requested individual invoices for each country so that they will have evidence of payments for their participation (coach, mini-bus, visits etc...)
Each country must do the same when they are hosting a visit
Visiting countries need to bring euros to pay their invoices when they are in France.

If you have any suggestions or comments before your arrival please let us know as soon as possible.

Regards to everybody,
Yours,
Philippe and french comenius team.

Now the meeting is over and we have had a nice week working and visiting.
Some pictures showing an activity with the SEGPA's students and a french buffet to discover differents way of cooking in France. View, smell, taste, touch were in this activity:

Les élèves de la Segpa ont réalisé un buffet de 60 convives pour les participants à ce projet. Le tour de France culinaire a permis à tous de découvrir différentes spécialités et d’apprécier les

saveurs, les couleurs, les odeurs des produits transformés. Les élèves de la Segpa ont ainsi développé leurs savoir-faire aussi bien en cuisine qu’en restaurant avec beaucoup d’application.

Augustinuscollege

Finally, here is link to our school in Groningen, the Netherlands!

www.augustinuscollege.nl

Enjoy!

greetings,
Guus en Suus

Diaporama Philippe 5 sens Istanbul fev 2009

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Le site du collège La Fayette tout nouveau, tout beau!

The website of "Collège La Fayette (France)" has changed. Please have a look. Now it seems much nicer. What do you think about it?
Notre site a changé. Il est tout beau me semble-t-il? Qu'en pensez-vous?
Votre avis nous intéresse.
Rappel Lien (Link) : http://www.colleges17.org/lf-rochefort/evaweb/

NB: Il semblerait que l'Agence française ait acceptée le budget de notre projet. Qu'en est-il dans les autres pays?
It seems our french national Agency accepted the budget of our project. What about the others countries? (Philippe)

At last!

A big thank you to Guus and Susan for the fantastic job of co-ordinating the bid. I hope you have a well deserved holiday. My bid went in the post on Friday afternoon. Fingers crossed! I am off to Paris in the morning. Will be in touch.

To all my language teacher colleagues

Here is the link to the British Council school search site. Good luck!http://www.globalgateway.org.uk/

Link to COLLEGE LA FAYETTE ROCHEFORT (CHARENTE-MARITIME) FRANCE

http://www.colleges17.org/lf-rochefort/evaweb/

Link to Ecola del Treball

www.elmeuies.com/www

Link to our city: http://www.lleidatur.com/ing/

Link to Muallim Cevdet Ilkögretim Okulu Turkey

http://www.xn--muallimcevdetio-mtb.k12.tr/iletisim.php

Link to Augustinus College NL

www.augustinuscollege.nl

Link to Brentwood County High School UK

http://www.bchs.essex.sch.uk/

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Merci Cécile! Merci à notre équipe de direction!

L'équipe Comenius de Rochefort (France) souhaite vous présenter Cécile Tessier, professeur d'Anglais au Collège La Fayette de Rochefort et la remercier tout spécialement, car c'est elle qui a fait naître ce projet et l'a conduit jusqu'à la visite préparatoire avec le soutien actif de notre équipe de direction. Nous lui souhaitons un bon congé maternité et un beau bébé à venir. Cécile: nous serons heureux de t'accueillir dans ce projet, espérons-le validé, dès ton retour!

The Comenius team of Rochefort (France) wants to present to you Cécile Tessier, English teacher at College La Fayette and, especially, thank to her, as she gave rise to this project and led it to the preparatory visit, with the active support of our management team. We wish her a good maternity leave and a beautiful baby to come. Cécile: We will be glad to welcome you in this project again, hopefully validated, once your return!

thank you..

Caroline, thank you for your nice smilebox. It would be great if you could post it here.... Et merci à Cécile pour son idée qui a fait possible notre très agréable rencontre. On se verra en France! Thank you to Cécile who has made possible our meeting. See you in France.

Merhaba!!

Hello everybody!! Bonjour!!
Thank you for this nice blog.
Here you have some of our enjoyable moments in the pursue of the 5 senses in Istanbul.....

....coloured scents from baskets full of spices in the Grand Bazar.... (et le Pineau des Charentes de Philippe en sortant du marché...)

a promise of turkish rhythms...

enjoying turkish meal...

merhaba :)

This is a very very very nice blog. Thank you Caroline and everybody. It is great to know you!!!!!

Five senses : "crèpes bretonnes à la turque"!

Caroline, thank you very much for this blog very functional and useful.



Five senses : from Sandra, Philippe, Damla and Sercan:
preparing with turkish ingredients and "savoir-faire":
crèpes bretonnes à la turque!
Delicious!
Bon entraînement pour nos échanges culinaires!
(Good training for our culinary exchange )


Thank you to our guests Damla and Sercan.

Istanbul Map and the situation of the school

Many thanks to the headmaster and his staff, students and parents
of the school "Cevdet Muallim İlköğretim Okulu".



Merci aux enseignants et aux élèves
pour leur accueil chaleureux dans leurs classes
(Thank you to teachers and students

for their warm welcome in their classrooms)

Merci aux musiciens, enseignants et danseurs pour
ces musiques et danses traditionnelles de votre pays.
(Thank you to the musicians, dancers and teachers to

these traditional music and dance of your country.)

Merci aux élèves qui nous ont présenté leur école et leur ville.
(Thank you to students who have presented their school and their city.)



Merci aux cuisiniers et parents qui ont su nous faire découvrir de très nombreuses recettes traditionnelles.

(Thank you to the cooks and parents who have let us discover many traditional recipes.)

Merci à tous nos partenaires qui ont su rapidement constituer une équipe efficace, complémentaire et conviviale. ( Thank you to all our partners
who quickly establish an effective team, friendly and complementary)

Mir haba!

I thought it would be nice for my school to have a Turkish language assistant so I very hurriedly applied for one last week.  The deadline was Friday.  If we are lucky enough to have the application accepted I will have someone to teach Turkish to our students, and me! 

Minature Turkey

Welcome

It's great that you have signed up.  Phillipe, we are waiting for you!  Can you send me Sandras email and I will add her also.

Best regards to all

Hi guys,

I'm also a member of the five senses blog! Good work! At the moment I'm waiting for Gus, because we're going to work at the project tonight.
Silvia, could you please mail me the document we used during our work in Istanbul? It will make a great difference for us! Hope you are all doing well.

Güle güle,
Susan

To Caroline again

Hi Caroline,

The email adress of Susan is: csgzie@csgweb.nl

To Caroline

Hi Caroline,

That't quick! Very nice that youy already did this! I never worked with a blog, so I am trying now. For your information, Susan and I hope to be ready with the document sunday evening; so we will send it by mail to you all at monday. Byebye, Guus

Blog

I have invited the partners to become authors and contribute to this blog.  However, I do not have the email adresses of Sandra or Susan.  If you have them please send them to me so that I can add them as authors.  Back at school I have written a piece about our project for the staff bulletin and put the blog address on it so I hope we will get some comments over the coming months. I hope you have all recovered from the travelling and Gus and Susan not working too hard.  

Photos from Istanbul

Preliminary visit to Turkey

The five countries involved in the preliminary visit are UK, France, Holland, Spain and Turkey. Turkey were the hosts and representatives of the 5 schools met in Istanbul on the 19th of January and completed the meeting on the 23rd of January. We got through a lot of work and worked well together as a team. Many thanks to our hosts for their warm welcome and hospitality. The next weeks will be spent finalising the bid to reach the deadline for funding on the 20th of February.
The product of the project will be a virtual book in which each country will have a chapter about their own county created by students. Students will be able take part in a voyage around the 5 countries via the book expreiencing the five senses in each country. Various activities will be held in each country and a programme of visits to the countries for small groups of students accompanied by teachers will be arranged. It is hoped that through this project we will raise an awareness of global citizenship with our students.
More details of the project will be posted soon and photos of the visit.