Year 5 visited the River Darent in Kent

Earlier this term, year 5 visited another river - the River Darent in Kent, which is a county just south-east of London. We often go on school trips here, as there is an education centre called Horton Kirby, and their instructors can teach our children a lot about the river. Mrs Murtagh took a video of the trip - take a look to see what our children learned during their day.

http://videocentral.lgfl.org.uk/Watch.aspx?v=vdX9Wqs0eUMhjd

Cyprus-Puzzles from Finland and Romania

We received the puzzles from Finland and Romania. The children worked with great enthousiasm. Obviously it is a great christmas present! We are waiting for the rest of the puzzles!

Poland - Christmas gifts

We have already received the puzzles from Finland and Turkey. They are beautiful and I couldn't stop my students from doing them! Thank you!

Cyprus-Comenius Corner

Here are some photos of our Comenius Corner. You can see some of the logos that the children created for the competition as well as some of the puzzles. Some of these puzzles have been sent to you. Hope you will have a nice time while putting together the pieces of our puzzles!

Portugal's Puzzles

Dear all,

Here are some pictures of our students working on the puzzles.
We hope Santa Claus gets to you in time, but just for the children who behaved properly ;) hohohoh!

LETTER FROM FINLAND:)

Class 5A from Poland has received a very nice letter from their pen friends in Finland. Today we read the letter and saw nice Christmas pictures. Thank you!

Santa Claus arrives in Poland

Every year on 6th December Santa Claus comes to our students. The students prepare a performance to prove that they have been good during the whole year. In return he gives them some presents. They are always very excited on that day, it was so this year!

LETTERS FROM POLAND

Otava 5 A has already received two letters from Poland. Here they are reading the Polish pupils' introductions about themselves.

Who is Andrei from Romania?

An extremely modest and shy teenager, Andrei Mandea is the designer of the logo that won the competition. He is 14 and is in class 8C at Scoala Gimnaziala nr.2, Galati, Romania. His hobby is painting and lots of his paintings have been presented in school exhibitions.

For WWW project he made two logos, both of them with a sailing boat. His interest in boats might have its origin in his father's job as an engineer at the shipyard in Galati.

                                               Congratulations, Andrei!

And the winner is....

All the votes given in the logo voting are now counted and it is time to annouce the winner. In the voting there were given almost 1000 votes. The best logo got 26% of all votes.

The winning logo was decined by Andrei Mandea from class 8C from Scoala Gimnaziala nr. 2 Galati, Romania. Congratulations, Andrei!

And here is the winning logo:

Aliki-The salt lake of cyprus

In October the students of the sixth form of our school visited Aliki lake in Larnaca.


The Wetlands of Cyprus

One of only two wetlands in Cyprus is a cluster of the Larnaca salt lake. The lakes communicate with each other despite the fact that they are interdependent.

Salinity of the Great Lake of Salt Lake, is taller than all the lakes. A tiny dark red seaweed is the base of the food chain of the lake. The small shrimp Artemia live and eat there. The shrimp are the main food of flamingos and other birds in the salt. For this reason, any intervention in the ecosystem of Alykes would upset the hydrological balance of the cluster of Alykes, and would have devastating and lasting impact on the ecological balance of the wetlands.

The wetlands are well known for water birds such as flamingos, various species of ducks and gulls. There are also many Almirida and species of orchids. A wide variety of other plants are located in the area and various species of butterflies and insects rely on these plants for their survival.

In 2001, Cyprus ratified the agreement of RAMSAR for the protection of the wetlands and the Larnaca Salt Lake was listed as the 1018th wetland of international importance.

One day left to vote your favourite logo

There is one day left to vote your favourite logo nominee. Voting will be closed on friday at midnight.

RO - children at work for the project

This is a presentation of some children working at school, trying to put on paper their idea of a logo. The older students have done their work at home because, as you know, the school's programme in two shifts finishes at 6pm (rather late) and the art teacher has to follow a certain curriculum during his classes. Anyway, we admired our students' interest in doing the project tasks. Congratulations to all our young WWW partners on their beautiful works of art!

Romania - puzzles to be sent

The children did their job, we will just have to choose six puzzles for their projectmates.

Making puzzles in Finland

Children have made puzzles and they have been really excited about it. They planned and made puzzles in small groups. Here are some pictures about that project. And two pictures of puzzles that some of you will have.

Judging the UK logos

Here in the UK, the children had a choice of whether to enter the logo competition or not. Many children decided to enter a design, and we had a lot to choose from. The school council (elected children from each class) was asked to choose the winning design. Here are some photos to show you how they did it.

The winning logo!

The five best logos

It was a very tricky task!