As part of our Erasmus plus project entitled “Our Cultures-Our Treasures”, in which 4o Dimotiko Sholio Edessas-Greece participates together with 4 other European schools, students from partner schools took part in an online activity entitled: “Mystery Call”.

During this activity, which took place,on February 2^nd  and 3^rd  2021, a group of students of our school had an online communication with groups of students from Spain and Slovenia.

During their communication and according to the activity, they had to find out, through general geographical questions which partner school the students with whom they communicated with were from, something that only the teachers in charge of the communication knew.

After the discovery of the country, the students from both schools  asked each other  general questions about their schools, their place / city / country and generally presented data from the culture of their region, such as education, natural environment, traditional songs and dances.

Congratulations to all the participating students for their exemplary presence ,their active participation and enthusiasm. The atmosphere among the participants was very friendly and we agreed to renew our appointment at a next meeting, proving for once more that distances among countries are not an obstacle to communication and cooperation of students from different countries.

Highlights of the meetings

An online webinar concerning the canva application was organized by Mrs Maria Siolou and Mr Sotiris Galipis to the students of year 5.Students were intoduced to the new application and learned all details and tools of the application.

As an extended activity students took the initiative and created a christmas card for all our partners.

Aesop was an ancient Greek mythologist and mythographer.Aesop was probably born in 625 BC.He is the most famous of the ancient mythologists, the undisputed father of ancient myth. It is also considered the leader of the so-called didactic mythology.

The myths of Aesop have a special grace, a wonderful simplicity and unattainable
didacticity! They are taken from everyday life and nature.
Aesop has a unique ability to give animals human qualities, soul
to such an extent that you consider that this was once the reality and everything that is narrated has happened.

These early stories are essentially allegorical myths often portraying animals or insects e.g. foxes, grasshoppers, frogs, cats, dogs, ants, crabs, stags, and monkeys representing humans engaged in human-like situations.

The moral of the fable ‘the ant and the cricket’,that our students chose to share with our partners, is that ” if we enjoy today then we will surely suffer tomorrow” as in the poem the cricket just sung day and night in the summer but the ants did work day and night. So now, in the winter the cricket is dying of hunger.

Among the most famous fables are the following:

The 5th graders of the 4^th Primary School of Edessa being inspired by the relevant unit from the English book which is taught at the 3rd grade in the Greek schools, worked on Aesop’s fable “The ant and the cricket”.First they read the story in Greek and then in English,then they watched a short video in order to visualize storytelling elements. Then they worked in groups in order to write,translate ,paint and create the final product:Our digital bilingual fairy tale book

Integrated methodologies: brainstorming, cooperative learning, CLIL..
Students involved: 5th class.
Total number of students: 22

Interaction of school subjects: Greek Language (describe process orally and written)
English( familiarize students with useful vocabulary in English for writing a story , write down ideas and/or key words, including new vocabulary.
ICT (students should be enabled to create, develop, present ideas and information using a range of digital media)
Art (design, paint)
History (Greek mythology)

Learning Objectives
• To become very familiar with fairy stories and traditional tales, retelling them and considering their particular characteristics.
• Involve students in creating a digital book by taking advantage of web 3.0 tools
• To develop writing skills in the context of writing a short story in English and native language

Read the book made on storyjumper

The Greek Erasmus team created the audio multi-lingual dictionary with everyday expressions,with the contribution of all the schools of our partnership.All these words will be reused all along the project.

The Greek school constructed the common dictionary with everyday words and expressions.The initial list with the English words was created and emailed to all partners, who translated them into their own languages.

At the very beginning of the project, September 2020,students οf year 6 started creating a video presenting their hometown/region and school. They learned about their own geography (urban and countrysidelandscapes), historical monuments, cultural heritage, in order to share them with their partners. Students were first divided into small groups and took up different tasks. They took  photos, found images from the web ,related to the history of our region, worked on the computer using media tools ( powerpoint ,windows movie maker ,youtube etc) and found information on the internet about how to insert English subtitles and music to the video.

A logo design competition was held in our school since early October 2020. The students of year 4,5 and 6 after being acquainted with our partners’culture, history, flags and symbols,by watching videos and ppt presentations,were  divided in mixed ability groups and drew logos related to the project’s theme .

The following  best 3 logos of 4o Dimotiko Sholio Edessas will compete in an online competition among the best logos from all partner schools.The winner logo will be the logo of the partnership. It will be used on all our future creations/products for dissemination and It will be used to identify our European project on the project’s common platform, in mails, in letters to our European National Agency and on twinspace.

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our treasures-our cultures

logo competition criteria

The students in each partner school,after being acquainted with the parners’ culture,history,flags and symbols,will draw and create a logo related to the project’s theme(European Culture and Inclusion)

The values of the project,unity through diversity,common Europeaan identity and cooperation,should also be present,as well as the flags of each country,the flag of EU and the title of our project.

The drawings should be clear enough and easily understood with vivid and distinct colours.

Any material,style or method of painting could be used.

The 2-3 chosen drawings fromeach country should be submitted as JPEG files to the Portuguese school and will compete for the best logo,which will be the logo of our partnership.

The Portuguse school will organise the online competition/online poll among the best logos from all partner schools.

Each partner school will have to vote giving points from 1-5(point 5 will be for the best,4 for the 2nd best and so on)

The logo with the highest score will be the winner logo