Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 82

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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Violeta Solomon has been working as a teacher since
1997 and has experience in various educational levels and
teaching practices. Since 2001 she has been teaching
Romanian culture and civilization and Spanish language in
a non-formal education school in Sibiu, Romania, and for
the last 2 years she has been the head teacher of the
school in Arpasu de Jos, Romania.
Discover Poland with Bolek and Lolek
By Jana Anděl Valečková and Małgorzata
Walczykiewicz
The Primary school in Přimda in the Czech Republic
and the Primary school in Mielżyn in Poland have
been partners since 2014. We have done four
eTwinning projects and two Erasmus+ projects
together. Our last common eTwinning project is
called Discover Poland with Bolek and Lolek and it is
based on the Bavarian contest The Germans and
their Easter Neighbours – We in Europe (Die
Deutschen und ihre östlichen Nachbarn – Wir in
Europa). The Bavarian Ministry of Education
organizes this contest every two years and the topic
for this year was Poland. The communication
language of the project was German, so the original
name is Entdecke Polen mit Bolek und Lolek. Pupils
from the 8 th grade from Přimda and 7 th grade from
Mielżyn in Poland participated in this project. Pupils
participating in the project are beginners in German
– they start learning German in the 7 th grade.
At the beginning, we read the brochure about the
contest and choose the topics for our project. Then
we created the schedule and designed the logo of
the project. There were different designs created by
our two groups, so we had to vote for the final logo.
Our pupils also voted for the name of our project.
Our guides through the whole project were Bolek
and Lolek – characters of Polish cartoons.
In the part Looking for Traces, our pupils were
looking for common Czech and Polish history – they
learnt more about the Middle Ages in our countries
and created different presentations and comics
about the first members of the Přemyslid and Piast
dynasties. They also learnt about the history of
Łódż and Theresienstadt in the WW II – both of
them were ghettos for Jews.
In the part Art, our pupils created the logo of our
project and many comics with Bolek and Lolek.
They also painted pictures of Łódż and
Theresienstadt in style of the Polish painter Nikifor
and created models of “kierpce” – traditional Polish
shoes. They painted medieval pictures on “wood
shingles” – Czech group painted the first half of the
shingle and the Polish group finished the second
part. We have also created our own calendar with
Bolek and Lolek.
In the part Music, Czech pupils learnt Polish song
Strumyk and recorded a video of it; Polish pupils
learnt the dance Gołąbek and recorded a video of
their dancing.
The first task of the project was to introduce
ourselves. The Czech pupils recorded a short video,
the Polish pupils prepared presentations aout
themselves.
We were working on different topics that were
connected to the contest. The contest is divided
into two main parts – Creative Workshop and
Looking for Traces. Creative Workshop has 4 parts
– Art, Country and People, Literature and Music. We
have chosen some tasks from each topic.
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