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Christmas decorations in Wiener Neustadt

Here is a short compilation of pictures from the Christmas decoration in Wiener Neustadt. Enjoy!

Christmas Carols from Greece

Christmas Carols and much more
This is the contribution of the Greek Comenius group. For this reason, within the group, the "Chaos-chorus" was formed.
Songs that children in Greece sing during the Christmas Holiday period:

1. Christmas carols
   
   
2. New year's Eve carols
3. Song for Peace
4. Christmas song 2
5. Greek Epiphany carols

If you wish to admire the video production, press HERE

Visit to Latina

Harald Makl and Peter Mazohl visited the ITS "Vittorio Veneto" in Latina. They had a guided tour through school. The students of the 1^st form performed some Christmas songs (assisted by their teachers). It was gorgeous to listen – and it’s reality: Italy is the country of "belcanto".
After the performance all the involved teachers celebrated the upcoming Christmas feast with original Pannetone & Spumante.

Thank you Francesca for your excellent work ant your warm welcome!

Here are some pictures (you will find more in the picture album of our partnership)



Main Entrance of the ITS "Vittorio Veneto"


Students of the 1^st form performing Christmas Carols

Austrian Christmas Carols (Es wird scho glei dumpa) and others

Here is the Austrian contribution to our project "Christmas Carols".

Stille Nacht

Immer wenn es Weihnacht wird


Es wird scho glei dumpa

The Christmas post cards!

Made in Portugal - Lisbon

The myths of St. Vasilios and Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas)

One of our pupils, Dimitris Filioglou, prepared the following presentation about the two saints that are celebrated this season

The myths of St. Vasilios and Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas)


Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas)
On our planet two orthodox saints are associated to the custom of “delivering” or handing out presents to children during Christmas time. These two different saints were both Greek and bishops in their region. For western countries the one who brings presents to the poor people and the children is Saint Nikolaos ( Santa Claus), who is celebrated all around the world on 6 December. People consider him the protector of seamen. The story of St. Nikolaos as the protector of poor people and children, has been enriched throughout the centuries with elements such as the elves, the northern star, sleighs etc. taken from the ancient myths of the northern people like the Dutch and the Finnish. Nowadays we have the image of a plump person with round glasses, a white beard and red clothes who lives in the North Pole and is surrounded by snow fairies and elves.
The Orthodox bearer of presents : St. Vasilios the Great
He was a tall, thin person with a dark complexion. His hair and beard was black and he had a thoughtful look. Most of his family were also saints. St. Vasilios became the Great because he gave away his fortune to the poor. During the great epidemics of his time, he helped people with his actions and his beliefs, preaching the words of Jesus. In his hometown (Caesarea), he built hospitals, hostels, charity establishments and asylums for orphans and old people. He also organised the distribution of goods and clothes and engaged in numerous other charitable activities.

Rehearsing in Mundão

Class 6th B rehearsing some Christmas Carols.

"Será sempre assim

o que sinto em mim

O melhor quero oferecer

A ti neste Natal

Eu só serei feliz

se encontrar alguém

que me conte

a origem do Natal

Se tu puderes ouvir

os sinos a tocar

É um sinal de todo o amor

Que eu tenho p'ra te dar"

Austria: The making of Cristmas Carols

I started a new picture album, where you may upload pictures from the production of the Christmas Carols. I’ll start with several pictures taken by Christoph Senftl, the musician who’s responsible for the School Band (“se schoolband”). Have a look and feel free to upload your pictures!

SPANISH CHRISTMAS CAROLS

Typical Spanish Christmas carols performed by 1st-2nd Secondary students, conducted by their teacher of music Mr. Angel Roman, especially for CHIEF project. As most of Spanish carols, these one have their origin in our "flamenco" music and tradition.

The instruments are: Spanish guitar, "castañuelas", "pandereta", bottle and flute.

New perspective in Christmas Carols

Multi-cultural Christmas Carols!
Amazing Choreography.
New ideas.................................................
Enjoy it

Here's a small sample of Postcards from Viseu - Agrupamento de Escolas de Mundão - Portugal.

In a few days I'll try to publish all the received and sent post cards.

CLICK HERE :)

SPAIN: CHRISTMAS CARDS

Greetings from Spain.
Here you have the full pack of Christmas Cards sent to you all.
Have a Happy Cristmas time!

Christmas Carols

The Comenius group of the 1st General Lyceum of Egaleo is being prepared to perform some Greek traditional Christmas and New-year Eve carols. You'll find here some evidences of the rehearsals...............

Wait to listen to them !!!!!!!!!!!!!

COMENIUS Christmas card Activity

Yasas (Hello) from Egaleo Greece.

Yesterday, Saturday afternoon we finished the Christmas card construction and we put all the cards in the envelops. On Monday 7/12 , we are posting them. Some of the arethe originals, some were copied by scanning and then printed. I am presenting you some:

Visit to Vialonga

On their trip to Portugal and Spain Peter Mazohl, Johanna Spreitzhofer and Kristina Kogler visited the Agrupamento de Escolas de Vialonga. They had the opportunity to meet the headmistress, Maria Armandina Costa Soares, and the coordinator of the partnership, Paulo Antunes.
On a tour through school the guests could get an impression of the situation at school, visit the training workshops and other facilities of the school.

This video - produced by Kristina - gives an overview of the trip (Vialonga & Lisbon).

Peter Mazohl visits Spanish School

CHIEF Coordinator Peter Mazohl, together with two participant students, Johanna and Kristina, visited our SAFA school last Friday 9 October. During the brief meeting, they gave us important infomation necessary for our trip to Austria next Wednesday 14 October, relating to CHIEF project. Moreover, the visitors had the chance for a fast visit round the school, with stops over at most important things: science laboratories, FP workshops, theater/hall, language laboratory, the church. They also had the opportunity to see the town bullring.

In the picture: Teacher Mrs. Juana Muñoz, Student Johanna, Teacher Mr. Miguel Armillas, student Kristina and teacher and CHIEF Coordinator Mr. Peter Mazohl.

El Coordinador del Programa Europeo CHIEF, Peter Mazohl, junto a Johanna y Kristina, dos de los estudiantes participantes del centro de Wiener Neustadt (Austria), visitaron nuestra escuela el pasado viernes 9 de octubre. Durante el breve encuentro, se celebró una reunión en la que nos facilitaron información importante sobre el proyecto y de utilidad para nuestro viaje a Austria el próximo miércoles 14 de octubre, en relación al proyecto CHIEF. Además, los visitantes tuvieron la oportunidad de visitar el centrok, deteniéndose en las cosas más destacables: laboratorios de ciencias, talleres de FP, salón de actos, laboratorio de idiomas, la iglesia. También tuvieron ocasión de visitar la plaza de toros.

En la imagen, la profesora Dª Juana Muñoz, la estudiante Johanna, el profesor D. Miguel Armillas, la estudiante Kristina y el profesor Coordinador del proyecto CHIEF, D. Peter Mazohl.

Here is a video from Kristina!

Visit to Portugal

Peter Mazohl, Johanna and Kristina - from the coordinating school of this partnership - visited Mundão from 4th to 7th October.
They talked with teachers and students and had the opportunity to Visit Porto and Coimbra.

There is a pictureshow from this trip to Mundão

..: Fine weather :..

In the moment we have fine weather and I hope that wil be in october as well.
I'm looking forward to our meeting.

StartUp Workshop

We will run our StartUp Workshop in Wiener Neustadt from October, 14^th to October, 18^th.The 14^th and 18^th of October are intended as travelling days. Working program will start with Thursday (October, 15^th) and end at Saturday evening (October, 17^th) with a joint dinner.

For accommodation rooms are blocked in the Hotel Zentral^*** - a nice small hotel in the center of Wiener Neustadt located at the main square of town [1]. Walking to school takes less than 5 minutes. To reach Wiener Neustadt you may use Vienna International Airport (Graz is possible as well).
Please wait for the signing of the contract before booking your flights!

I’m looking forward to welcome you in Wiener Neustadt!

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[1] Link to the Homepage of the Hotel Zentral^***

Granted schools (as is July, 13th)

In the moment the listed schools are approved at the partnership "C.H.I.E.F.":

• BG Babenbergerring (Wiener Neustadt, Austria)
• Visaginas "Ziburys” Pagrindinė mokykla (Visaginas/Lithuania)
• ITC Vittorio Veneto (Latina, Italy)
• Liceo Classico “G. Carducci” (Cassino, Italy)
• 1^st General Lyceum of Egaleo (Athens, Greece)

We will wait for further messages - enjoy your holidays!

School is over now!

I wish you all nice holidays. I'm looking forward to additional information of my NA (and want to ask you to do as well).
Let's stay in contact to plan further steps - there will be a meeting in Wiener Neustadt in fall!

Approved ...

I got the official information from the Austrian National Agency that our project is approved.
In the moment I do not know the list of the final partners (Maybe you check at your National Agenca). I'll try to find out next week.

I wish nice holidays to you all and I hope to run the project together with you all for the next two years!

Here is the original message of the Austrian NA:

Wir freuen uns, dass Ihr Antrag auf Förderung einer COMENIUS-Schulpartnerschaft 2009 im Rahmen des EU-Bildungsprogramms für lebenslanges Lernen genehmigt werden konnte.

After Easter Greetings from Athens

School is about to end, after 15 days and Final exams will start

Happy Easter!

I wish fine and peaceful holidays to you all!

Frohe Ostern!
Buona Pasqua!
Wesol`ych S`wia`t!
Boa Páscoa!
¡Feliz Pascua!
καλó πασχα (Χριστος ανεστη)!
L-Għid it-tajjeb!
Lamingų Šv. Velykų!

Peter

Spring ...

Finally we got spring and I'm looking forward to the funny Easter egg hunting ...

Easter ceremonies and habits should be an important part in our new project of family celebrations!

Greetings from Austria

Peter

Application forms submitted ...

I got messages from all partners that they have successfully submitted their applications to their National Agencies.
We got cold winter weather in Austria - have a look at the beautiful icicles!

Application form distributed to the partners

The final version of the application form was disributed to all partners. The next steps are:

• Print it and get signed the "declaration of Honor" (by your headmaster/headmistress)
• Find out if there exist national priorities
  - If yes - get the form, compile it
  This information may decide about application!
• Find out if you have to send additional papers
  (in Austria that's a confirmation about the incoming application ... )
• Send all to your NA in time
  (dead line = 20^th February - don't wait for the last oportunity ...)

I wish you all good luck and as many pioints as possible!

Peter

Picture album at Picasa

There is a picture album about my trip to Viseu at Picasa. You will get an impression about our Portuguese partners. Some pictures taken in Portugal will give an impression of this beautiful country.

We can use this place at Picara to publish pictures to the project.

Have a look here!

Presentation of the BG Babenbergerring

Our students of the department of Information Technologie ("Informatics") had to produce a presentation aboutschool. The best work was done by Clara.

Instructions:
You may download the presentation and run it at your PC (It's a ZIP file including one single EXE-file. You must unzip it. The ZIP-file is about 3MB). It's executeable under Windows only (No MAC-version, no LINUX).

You get the files following the link:

• ZIP-File
• Original Presentation

If you want to get it by EMail I will send you by request!

Check list (preparation of the application form)

Here some notes about things to be done ...

• Did you check the contact sheet, correct (if necessary) and send it back?
• Did you send the text about context a motivation? Please keep in mind that there's a limitation to 2500 letters!
• Did you think about your mobility activities and return the table to Peter?
• Did you read the draft application form - and do you agree (or do you have proposals for changes?)

Have a nice Sunday - next week w start to finish the application form.

Partnership type <=> Number of mobility activities

Please decide which type of partnership (depending of mobility activities) you want to select. There are the following possibilities for mobility activities in the frame of the Partnership :

• COM-4M (Multilateral / Small nr of mobilities - min. 4)
• COM-8M (Multilateral / Limited nr of mobilities - min. 8)
• COM-12M (Multilateral / Average nr of mobilities - min. 12)
• COM-24M (Multilateral / High nr of mobilities - min. 24)

For each of the participating organisations, please select the "Partnership type" that best corresponds to your Partnership work plan for the whole 2 year duration. Please note that each type is linked to a minimum number of mobilities to be carried out during the grant agreement period – these minimum numbers have to be respected when entering the numbers of planned pupil and staff mobility into the table. The grant amounts for each Partnership type are defined at national level and they can vary from one country to another.

Please make sure that, for each of the participating institutions, you have selected the grant amounts applicable in the country and for the programme in question.

CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION

For the application we have to use the online form (that's not yet online but will be end of January). I will compile this form with all necessary data. This will be:

1. General description
2. School information

This joint document will be sent (electronically) to you at begin of February and you have to send a printed copy of this document (adding the necessary additional national documents) to your NA.



Picture: Current view of the online form (Austrian NA)

Therefore I need the data sheet (with school data, names of contact person and headmaster/headmistress including all addresses and phone numbers – a mobile number is necessary) and the context and motivation of school (I sent you some weeks ago). As I didn’t receive the text from all schools please send me as soon as possible.

Here is the question for the “Context & Motivation” with 2 points a) and b) again. Please keep each text at a maximum length of 2.500 letters (as the online form will not accept more content).

5.2 CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION

a) What is the general context of each institution involved in the proposed
Partnership? Is there a specific context as for example: Are the participants in disadvantaged areas? Do they have specific needs for pupils, staff or other groups, e.g. pupils at risk of social exclusion, pupils with special needs, migrants, and refugees? If so, please explain.

b) Why do the participating institutions want to take part in European cooperation activities such as this Partnership? What do they expect to gain from European cooperation?

Mailing List

I installed a mailing list using Google Groups. An E-Mail sent to chief-LLP@googlegroups.com will be distributed to every member of the newsgroup (= contact persons of the schools interested in the project).
Please check your E-Mail account, all members got a message that must be confirmed to get access to the system and to get the messages.

Interested Schools (as of 3rd January)Updated 1st July 2009

I want to publish the basic data of the schools interested in our project C.H.I.E.F.

Greece (Athens)

1^Ο ΓΕΝΙΚΟ ΛΥΚΕΙΟ ΑΙΓΑΛΕΩ
(1^ST GENERAL LYCEUM of EGALEO)
secondary school
Papanikoli 14
GR 12242 Egaleo (Attika)

Contact: Michail Filioglou

Portugal (Viseu)

Agrupamento de Escolas de Mundão
General primary and secondary school
Largo Lameirinhas da Rosa
3505-459 Mundão - Viseu

Contact: Ana Paula Carlão

Portugal (Vialonga)

Agrupamento de Escolas de Vialonga – EB 2,3
Rua Gago Coutinho
2626-508 Vialonga (Lisboa e Vale do Tejo)

Contact: Paulo Antunes

Poland (Kołbiel)

Gimnazjum Publiczne Im. Oskara Kolberga w Kołbieli
Gimnazjum (secondary school)
Szkolna 5a
05-340 Kołbiel

Contact: Ewa Sajdak

Lithuania (Klaipeda)

Klaipėdos “Varpo” gimnazija
Budelkiemio 7
92233 Klaipeda

Contact: Lina Jackiene

Lithuania (Visaginas)

Visaginas "Ziburys” Pagrindinė mokykla
Street – Number Energetiku g.56
LT-31227 Visaginas

Contact: Zana Solomacho

Spain (El Puerto de Santa Maria)

ESCUELAS PROFESIONALES SAGRADA FAMILIA
Av. San Luis Gonzaga, 1
11500 El Puerto de Santa Maria (Andalucia)

Contact: MIGUEL ARMILLAS GOMEZ

Spain (Torre Pacheco)

C.E.I.P.S. Virgen del Pasico
Vrda. Orihuela, S/N
30700 Torre Pacheco (Murcia)
Infant, Primary and Secondary School

Contact: Marife Garcia Ros

Marife retired from the project

Austria (Wiener Neustadt)

Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring
Babenbergerring 10
(classic grammar school, secondary school)
A-2700 Wiener Neustadt

Contact: Peter Mazohl

Malta (St Venera)

Maria Regina College, Boys' Junior Lyceum, St Venera
Fleur De Lys Junction
St Venera (Malta)

Contact: Christine Sillato

Scottland (Glasgow)

GOVAN HIGH SCHOOL
12 Ardnish Street
G51 4NB Drumoyne

Contact: Susan Mcauley

Cyprus (Limmasol)

Lykeio Agias Fylaxeos
Aitnas Street
LIMASSOL
3117 CYPRUS

Contact: Despina Vyronos

Despina retired from the project

Italy (Bologna)

DATA MISSING!
Contact: Marianna Gallo

Marianna retired from the project

Italy (Latina)

ITC VITTORIO VENETO
Viale Mazzini,
404100 Latina

Contact: Francesca Neiviller

Italy (Cassino)

Liceo Classico “G. Carducci”
Via Lombardia 1
03043 Cassino

Contact: Agnese Bruno