Our works presented in Bezana (3)

Our logo projects.

What we brought with us to Bezana (1)

Here you have our students' presentation of Bolesław Chrobry High School.

Patron Day in Polish Bolesław Chrobry high school in Kłodzko. Tradition = Manners and mores in " Comenius Proeject"

Patron Day in  a high school  named Bolesław Chrobry in Kłodzko

This day is a part of our school tradition , which is celebrated every year on the last day of April.

That is the monument of Chrobry in Wrocław

What is more, this is also the farewell day of the 3^rd Form students. From that day on, it is only the leaving schools exams they should be concentrated on………….

But, let’s go back to Patron Day,  and mainly to Bolesław Chrobry. You know , it was our great Polish King from  the Middle Ages. An outstanding politician with quite a prophet- like  vision of the future  for Poland; the country not that important when he came to power, but  independent and strong when he died. Well, if you really would like to know more about him go to Wikipedia.

Now, how is that day cherished in our school?

The most often a kind of ceremony is held for all the students in the patio of our  school. What does it look like ? You can see in the

photo.

As I said the students, supposed to wear students uniforms, gather as the audience in the patio with teachers. In fact, the perfect image of the students in our school is presented by the students showing the big inscription - in Polish - Dzień Patrona, in English- Patron day.You can see here clearly their outfit- navy-blue uniforms with silver badges presenting the image of our school Patron- Bolesław Chrobry.

                                                                 

All the ceremony is run by President of School Council. 

President of School Council- the second on the left dressed very formally

The first very formal partof the ceremony  is inaugurated by the entrance of  our School Flag fellowship

 ( looking quite seductive, especiallg girls, don’t they?)

 followed by Polish National Anthem  sung by all the audience and , finally we are entertained by  the  speech of Our School Head giving some details on the remarkable character of  Bolesław Chrobry.
 By the way, the nickname Chrobry meant in Old POLISH – STRONG.

Then usually starts so called the artistic part of the ceremony. As it is less formal the Flag fellowship are supposed to leave the patio while the audience are standing  on the attention ( in other words “not moving”).

Now the performance starts. It is made by students from class 1F. You can imagine the overwhelming music sung by one of our bards of Polish music,reminding us (click -h)

of the distant times and there enter the boys and one red-haired  girl in some costumes of Polish medieval knights. If not  the costumes are  truly  historical , at least the shields patterns are.

They are reciting the poem on Chrobry written in the 19the century, so quite a long time ago. Sounds boring? To make it more appealing we divided the poem into three parts. The first one –“ the past “I told you about. Then goes “ present “ and here, first a teacher and then a student are presenting the verses of the poem...

Still boring, but then come the boys rapping the next verses of the ancient poem. 

 An then comes the future, where the final verses of the poem are recited by knights, a teacher, students and rappers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite a mess?

 No, the answer to all the turmoil of the present is tradition. How about now listening to the fragment of the song from The fiddler on the roof musical with the storming word shouted “ tradition”? 
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In the final comment to our performance we stressed the importance of tradition because of its focus on continuity, which gives to our fragile life, here on the globe some context , sense and  memories to refer to. 

This means we are not separate units  but the indispensable parts of that  phenomenon of  continuity of life, which gives meaning to the existence of each community, also our school one.

And here we are so close to our “Comenius Project “ problem. Yes, this year our short spectacle is the answer to the question of the project :

“ Manners and mores –do they still matter?”

Yes, because they build tradition which , in fact keeping us down to earth, lets us live not losing our senses . HOW? W e have always someone  to talk to , no matter if  they are young or old. And this happens by means of a  “ common language of tradition” recognized by all generations. Yes,   we can  communicate between  generations!  The only thing you have to do is let your mind open to the past, present and future!

I have almost forgotten. All the spectacle, the audience were entertained with music produced by two girls, the violinist and  the cellist, awesome? Right.

And one more  thing. Here we are the performers – CLASS 1 F :

CZEŚĆ!

Dziękujemy.

Logo winners!!

Here are the winners of our logo contest. A lot of creative and beautiful designs were submitted to the contest. Congratulatios to all participants.
   And the winners are....

 FIRST PLACE:
Pia Vossen
Goethe Gymnasium, Bensheim
Grade 11
...From now on, this is the official logo of our Comenius Project (as you can see at the top of this blog)

SECOND PLACE:

Diego Díez Pereda

IES La Marina, Bezana

4º ESO C

THIRD PLACE:

Jaime Sardiñas García

IES La Marina, Bezana

3º ESO C

Manners and respect to people with disabilities

Manners and respect to people with disabilities

Disabled people always try to be as independent as possible in an accessible space. Like everyone else, they have to be treated with respect and equality; an inexcusable error of our society is to associate disability with dependency or need of others, so here are some manners, to know how to deal with people with disabilities.

Person is the first

The disabled people before anything else are human people, they have the same rights and obligations as others, they can take decisions and assume consequences; disability is a condition of life, not an illness, so they should always be treated as a person and never as a sick person. It is important to talk to them according to their age.

Behave naturally

When you are related to a disabled person, you should behave as usually you do with any other person; this does not mean forgetting or ignoring his or her disability.

Treat disabled people naturally, means avoid: overprotection, looking at them with fear, contempt, curiosity and / or pain; instead of that, we have to look into their eyes, in a natural way.

Always ask before doing

If you find that a disabled person needs your help to perform some activities, offer it before doing, and if you are accepted, ask how about you could help.

Respect the space of people with disabilities

Everyone needs a living space to feel safe and comfortable, sometimes actions like take the arm to a disabled person, give pats on the back or head, can be taken as a meddling, causing insecurity and possible overbalance.

Be inclusive

Disabled people know what are their abilities and limitations, so they can decide in which activities they wish to participate. They should never be excluded only by thinking that they cannot perform them.

Reply with kindness and a smile the requests of people with disabilities

Smile and respond with kindness, when you receive a request for help, because we are all different and we all need each other.

Avoid degrading, negative or diminutive, terms

The right thing is to call people by their names, but if you search an appropriate term, this would be "people with disabilities", but this term should never be used to offend.

Disability is not contagious, but discrimination can be easily spread.

Respect the special furniture and equipment 

Respect the parking places indicated, furniture and equipment that are special to people with disabilities.

Maintaining confidentiality

It is normal to feel curiosity about the life of a disabled person, but we must respect the privacy of that people and wait until he or she decided to talk about the situation.

Be patient

Do not despair if the actions or language are slow, do not interrupt.  Let the people finish and if something was not clear do not be embarrassed to ask. It is better to have a short but concise conversation that long and confusing.

Perhaps, Quizás

All partners agreed to create new lyrics for this project song: "Perhaps, perhaps". The music was composed by cuban composer Osvaldo Farrés. Here you can listen to a beautiful performance by Nat King Cole. You can also find the music score here.

Todos los socios hemos acordado poner nueva letra a la canción "Quizás quizás". La música está compuesta por el compositor cubano Osvaldo Farrés. Aquí podeis escuchar una versión muy bella a cargo de Nat King Cole. También podeis encontrar la partitura aquí.

Nice memories - Bonito recuerdo

   We all spent a really nice week in Spain last March. We all, students and teachers from Poland, England, Germany and Spain shared a lot of activities and we all learned a lot from each other. 
   We'd like to thank all participants for being that enthusiastic and for bringing here all your Good Manners!!
   See you soon in London!!!


  Todos hemos pasado una hermosa semana aquí en España el pasado Marzo. Todos, estudiantes y profesores de Polonia, Inglaterra, Alemania y España hemos compartido muchas actividades y hemos aprendido los unos de los otros.
   Nos gustaría dar las gracias a todos por vuestro entusiasmo y por traer y compartir vuestras buenas maneras.
   ¡¡¡ Nos vemos en Londres muy pronto !!!