Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 13

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Climate action project was integrated in the Save
Word project. For the first four weeks of the project
students explored what climate change is, causes
and effects and solutions. It was an amazing way to
start their educational adventure in relating their
everyday life with their project and the whole
world.
The second mission was to explore the issue of
poverty. Students, after their initial research on the
reasons and effects of poverty, made collaborative
postcards from the Land of Poverty and uploaded
them at https://padlet.com/sophiakouz/challenge2.
They also had an opportunity to talk about the
problems that refugees are facing.
We then contacted the Coordinator of the Myrsini
Center in Greece and the Coordinator of Education
at the Myrsini Refugee School in Lechaina Greece,
and arrranged a visit on Thursday, December 20th
2018.
Peace was the third challenge for our students.
They explored the issue and wrote poems in English
and in their own national language.
https://soundcloud.com/betinaastride/save-the-
word-english-version
Two big carton boxes full of school supplies, pens,
papers, markers, note books and note pads
etc, were sent by the Portuguese and German
students as well as black and white and coloured
inks to use in their printer were sent by the Greek
students to the Refugee Primary School at the
Myrsini Refugee Camp.
Lessons for the refugees took place in the
afternoon, when the morning classes of the pupils
of the village had finished.
On the day of the visit the Coordinator of the
Myrsini Center, a civil servant in the Department of
the Reception and Identification Service in the
Ministry for Migration Policy, General Secretariat for
Migration Policy and the Coordinator of Education at
the Myrsini Refugee School were present.
First we visited some parts of the camp. Then we
went to their school.
Zero hunger inspired learners to write messages
and record them on Voki. Then, they used web
tools to make digital posters in order to spread their
messages at school and in the local community, an
activity which developed their empathy and
increased their active participation.
There are two classes: one for the 6-9 and one for
the 9-12 year old students. All the communication
was in English. One of their classmates was there to
help in the translation when they did not
understand English.
One of young refugee students had a relative in
Germany and some others students knew people
who had gone through Portugal.
They were happy to receive the gifts and thanked
the teachers and students sending postcards to
them.
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