After the visit in Turkey

The today's lesson was almost like travelling. We visited Turkey once again! The students were so excited seeing the things which we have brought from Turkey.They asked me a lot of questions about the country, the school and the Turkish students. They were jealous to hear that a class in Turkey lasts 40 minutes instead of Polish 45:). And they enjoyed Turkish coffee, of course:)
Then we read the letters we got from our project partners. I was so surprised when they asked me to prepare the reply letters immediately. It means that the travel was successful. Thank you! Greetings from Poland.

Romania: snow, snow, snow

 As everybody knows, snow is the solid aggregation form of water. Snow is usually the reason for children's joy, a symbol of purity, a blessing for the future crop.

Yet, it can also be a terrible danger for people's life and everyday life if the quantity depasses certain limits. This happened in the south of Romania where there were (maybe still are) houses in the villages burried under the snow for six, seven days.

There is now a solidarity campaign for helping these people with food, water, burning wood, clothes and any kind of assistence. The most difficult is to get to them digging into the thick snow. Everyday we see and hear very touching stories about the rescuers' victories and sometimes about their defeats, too.

Latest news: it is snowing and will keep on snowing for another two days. There's no way to get to Bucharest by train or car but we still hope to attend the project meeting in Turkey.

Water experiments in Romania

Older students of our school under the guidance of Biology teacher Viorica Calugaru analised the water samples with the help of monitoring kits. They could establish and compare the smell, the clarity, the quantity of dissolved oxigen in the water and the pH.

The water experiments ... UK

We had a great afternoon finding out about the water from our partners' countries. We carried out the suggested experiments very carefully as follows:

a) Physical aspects: colour, smell, clarity, pH response.

b) Observation under a microscope

c) Adding violet ink and placing a flower in the water.

d) Mixing the water with salt, sugar, flour and oil, and observing the results.

The children were most amazed by the pH reaction: they found that the water from Lake Puula was acidic! Is this true? And the water from Cyprus appeared to be slightly alkaline. Is this also true?

Finally, Holbeach makes the puzzles!

The puzzles are proving a great success, in the UK as everywhere else! The box of puzzles is now making its way around the different classes, and the children are really enjoying making them. They are so different, each one is a new challenge.

Wetlands Day in Romania

World Wetlands Day (2 February) was celebrated in our school with an activity organised by two teachers who are members of the Wiki Water World project team (Viorica Calugaru and Maricica Cosug).
Representatives of pupils from most classes could follow the presentation of the wetlands in Romania, they presented their own drawings about life aspects favoured by wetlands and also methods to preserve these areas. An exhibition with the pupils' drawings and eco messages was organised as a product of the activity.

Crazy puzzle game in Azores :)

As said before the idea of giving puzzles to each school was great and our students have enjoyed it a lot, look at them go...

Cyprus-Experiments with water!

The students of the fifth grade performed three experiments in their science class with the water samples brought from the Finnish meeting।

1. Absorbing paper was used to clean the water.
2. They created their own filtering device composed of various layers to clean the water.
3. They added ink into water in order to show that water is polluted even by a minimal amount of pollutant agents and cannot be cleaned.

What a fun! Poland

Look at us! We are enjoying a lot!!!