Happy Christmas

We are at the end of a very successful year full of activities and fascinating meetings. I want to thank you all for your effort to develop our partnership.
Let's enjoy the holidays and start the final work!

We wish you a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo!
Buon natale e un felice anno nuovo!
Priecigus Ziemassvetkus!
Linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu!
Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego Nowego Roku!
Feliz Natal e propero Ano Novo!
Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!

Greetings from Austria - Grüße aus Österreich
Peter, Harald, Susanne, Rupert, Wolfgang, Christian and the all the students from the project groupof the BG Babenbergerring (Wiener Neustadt, Austria)

HAPPY XMAS FROM SPAIN

Dear CHIEF friends and colleagues:

This year gave me the chance to confirm I have some good friends and colleagues in other parts of our wonderful Europe: we are not alone. I hope you all can enjoy these nice Xmas holidays together with the people you love. I promise I will.

Hugs from Spain.

Miguel Armillas

Happy Christmas - Boas Festas - Nixtieklek Milied tajjeb u is-sena t-tabja! - Nadolig Llawen - Fröhliche Weihnachten - Eftihismena Christougenna - Buon Natale -  Boze Narodzenie - Linksmu Kaledu.

In the picture, our traditional nativity scene called "the mistery" (el misterio) or "the stable in Bethlehem" (portal de Belén), including the star, the angel, the sacred family, our 3 wise men with their presents to the child (gold, incense and myrrh), a shepherd with the sheep, the donkey and the ox (in the stable)

ALL SAINTS DAY IN SPAIN (2)

Dear friends:
Every 1 and 2 November, Spanish families get together to celebrate All Saints Day by eating traditional food ["huesos de santo" (saint's bones), "boladillos de viento", "castañas"(chesnuts)]

and visiting cemeteries where they take flowers and clean tombs.
- Miguel

ALL SAINTS DAY IN SPAIN

Dear friends:

Last year, Spanish student Beatriz López (15) prepared this video to show the European students our Spanish traditions and behaviours on this Spanish national festivity called "All Saints Day". This work was one of thos optional works presented during auditions to participate in CHIEF meeting in Glasgow. The sound is not good and maybe you will find some mistakes, but I think the video deserves to be watched and I am sure you will enjoy it.

Thanks, Bea!

- Miguel

Austrian students in Cassino

Ten Austrian students had a fine time together with the students from the partnerschool Liceo Carducci in Cassino. There was a guided tour through school as well as the visit of the monastery of Montecassino as a cultural activity.

The students had a lot of fun together and used the time to learn about each other. The next option to meet will be Malta - they all are looking forward to it!

Liceo "Vittorio Veneto" meets Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring

Ten students of the BG Babenbergerring visited the school in Latina to exchange experiences and to prepare the meeting in Malta in spring 2010. One of the emphases of the meeting was to get into contact and to prepare the future cooperation. There was an intensive intercultural exchange - for an example the Austrian students learned to play an italian game with cards. A visit at he school and a general meeting in the assembly hall of the school brought the students to a good working base.
Besides that the teachers had a meeting to plan future steps and coordinate the joint work for the second year of the partnership.

SPANISH PRESENTATION IN KOLBIEL MEETING (POLAND)

Spanish team wants to share our presentation in Kolbiel with everybody since we suffered a "technical" problem which ruined the piano performance. Our team was formed by Carlota Armillas, Ignacio (Nacho) Castro, Julia Diaz, William Gawn, Ignacio Martinez de Murga, Almudena Sanchez, Almu Maldonado and Rocio Lopez. And the teachers Miguel Armillas and Juana Muñoz. This is our homage to Chopin to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth. We join Poland in this national celebration.

@Nacho Castro:Hi everyone, my name is Nacho and I am part of the group of students who come from Spain. I can speak for my group when I say that we are delighted to be here in Kolbiel. Now, I am going to introduce the group members. [...] Also I would like to explain that we are not going to do any related to harvest celebration because the town we come from, called El Puerto de Santa Maria (in Cadiz), hasn't got any harvest celebration. Instead, we have prepared a piece of music which will be performed by Carlota.

@Ignacio Mtez. de Murga:

Hi, I'm Ignacio and I'm going to tell you that in Spain all celebrations have one thing in common: music. You can find different types of music according to each celebration or there is one special song for some special celebrations.

@Almudena Sánchez:

Now, I'm going to talk about some other celebrations in Spain in which all the family get together. For example, during Christmas holidays families have dinner together at Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. We celebrate Jesus' birth. In this celebrations we sing traditional Spanish christmas songs and carols and we eat a lot of typical sweets as "polvorones".

@Almu Maldonado:

Hi my name is Almu and I'm going to tell you about the Three Wise Men's day. It is celebrated on 5th January. In Spain most people get their Christmas presents on the Three Wise Men's day instead of having them brought by Santa Claus. Family get together in the eve before to have a special sweet "Roscon de Reyes" and in the morning for breakfast.

@Rocio Lopez:

We also celebrate Birthdays: Adults celebrate their birthdays with the family, but the majority of teenagers celebrate their birthdays with friends, and they can have a surprise party.
@William Gawn:
This year, 2010, is the bicentenary of the world famous Polish musician Chopin so we, the Spanish students, have prepared something special to commemorate him. Chopin has dramatically influenced music right up to the current day. Because of this, we all want to pay homage to this musical character that has been so important for the polish culture and for the world in general.

@Julia Díaz:

Now, I'm going to introduce the most beautiful, funny, graceful, stylish, cool, modest, creative, blah, blah, blah...: My friend Carlota. And she is a pianist, too. She has played the piano for five years. And now, she is in her first year of the proffessional musical school.Carlota is going to play a work by one of the most famous musicians in the world, Chopin.

@Carlota Armillas:

As you can see, Julia is a best friend. Well, I'm Carlota. I'm going to play a waltz by Chopin called "Le Vals de l'adieu". I have chosen this waltz because it is one of my favourite Chopin's compositions, and Chopin is one of my favourite composers. Thank you very much for listening.

We hope you enjoyed our little presentation. Dziękuje! :-)

The Greek group in Poland

Egaleo goes to Kolbiel

Today Friday, the Greek Comenius group had a meeting to receive the feed-back from our visit to Poland. It wasn't only the people who travelled but all the students that have been implicated in this partnership. We watched all the videos from the main school event and some photos.

The feedback from the visit was tremendous!! All the students declared that it was one of the best trips they had made. Even the people that left behind got into this situation.

We also discussed our future assignments and we shared the responsibilities.

Soon you'll have more news from us.

On behalf of the group

Michail

Visit at Kolbiel/Poland (Meeting)

The Austrian Comenius – Team of the Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring got the opportunity to visit the partner – school in Kolbiel, Poland, for four days. Included were sightseeing tours in Warschau and Krakau.
Comenius – Representatives of Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Portugal, Scotland and Portugal were also present. Therefore, this stay turned out to be interesting, entertaining and educational.

Students from the school in Kolbiel gave an impressive performance that showed their harvest – festival traditions.
After that, the Comenius – Teams had to present themselves via a short presentation given by all members of the Teams.
Of course, that made communication and acquaintance easier.
After the performances and the presentations, a tasty meal composed of excellent polish snacks, warm and cold food, coffee and cakes, awaited us. During lunch, we could talk to our polish hosts and get to know the students.

The trip to Krakau was an interesting experience, because we had the opportunity to dive into its long, cultural and political history.
Warschau itself turned out to be quite different in its size, buildings and history. However, both places are worth being visited again!

Our meeting in Kolbiel showed how important the pursuit of cultural, linguistic and even culinary exchange is. Furthermore, personal interaction and communication can be improved and enhanced and maybe helps to establish a closer European network of teachers, students and schools.

Images
Presentation of harvest traditions
Guided tour in Krakau
The Austrians (Susanne & Rupert) in Warsaw

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Susanne (for the Austrian team)

End of the schoolyear

At the Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring the schoolyear was finished at 3^rd of July. Before there was the traditional "Schulfest" - a meeting place for tudents, teachers, parents and former students.

View at people enjoying dte "Schulfest"

Service staff (like every year assembled from students of the 7^th form)

Visit in Athens

Harald and I used our trip to Athens to meet Michailis at his school in Egaleo. There was not only warm weather but we were welcomed cordially. Michail guided us through school and we met several students I know from Visaginas. Michail introduced Georgia to us - she will assist Michail in the Greek team next year.
The visit was finisher with a phantastic meal at the roof terrasse of Michails house - there was an impressing view to the illuminated Acropolis. Thanks Michail for spendig so much time for us!


More pictures: PicAsa

COURSE FINISHES AT SAFA SAN LUIS (SPAIN)

On Friday 18 June, we celebrated our Closing Ceremony of Year 2009-2010 and the Farewell to Students who got their Bachillerato (High Secondary) degree.
At the end of it, 1st Secondary students conducted by their music teacher Mr. Angel Roman performed "Va Pensiero" from the opera "Nabucco" by Verdi.

From Spain team, we wish you all happy holidays!

See you in Kolbiel!

BIRTHDAY & NAME DAY CELEBRATION IN SPAIN

In these pictures, you can see one of the works made by 3rd Secondary Students for the activity "Birthdays and Name Days". We use it as a part of the procedure to choose the participant students for next CHIEF meeting in Kolbiel.
This work is a leaflet titled "Birthdays and Name Day", by Carlota A.M.. She also included a flier with the recipe for her family's traditional birthday cake of Tiramisú.
(click on pictures to enlarge)

After the meeting II

All came back - for some of us with a delay of several days ... but all are at home.


Now we will start the next activities, before we can enjoy the summer time ...

After the Meeting

Dear Colleagues

Now , that the school week has ended, I feel in a good mood to communicate with you.

First of all , I would like to send you my headmaster's greeting to you all. He really liked you a lot and told me to salute you.

I also send you some photos, but I promise to post more in a picasa alboum

meeting in El Puerto

The meeting in El Puerto was great. The school, and the places I saw were very interesting.The people were very friendly. The food was very good. I want to thank Miguel and his staff for their fantastic work. Thank you for everything
Francesca.

Meeting in El Puerto

The partners are completing the intermediate report and discussing the activities for the next year.
During the break teachers could walk around the school.

Happy Easter (A' Chàisg sona)!

Sveiki sulaukę velykų!

Wesołych Świąt Wielkiej Nocy!
¡Felices Fiestas!
Buona Pasqua!
Frohe Ostern!

Páscoa Feliz!
Καλό πάσχα - Χριστός ανέστη!
Kellemes Húsvéti Ünnepeket!
Priecīgas Lieldienas!
L-Għid it-tajjeb!

Mundão In Visaginas :)

Hi everyone!

Although late in CHIEF's Blog ... but we've already posted some info in the blog we created for the Comenius Project in Mundão (Viseu).

So If you follow THIS link you can see some photos and the PowerPoint students presented about Birthdays.

You can also see our LOGO - we won the 2^nd place :).

It was a avery enjoyable meeting and our students just LOVED it!! :)

Core group Wiener Neustadt (Austria)

Here is a picture of the core group of the C.H.I.E.F. partnership of the Bundesgymnasium Babenbergerring in Wiener Neustadt (Austria).
1^st row: Christina Gruber, Carolin Perg, Lena Kersch
2^nd row: Martina Malainer, Sophia Garner, Sophie Sommerbauer, Katharina Einsiedler, Stefanie Kogler, Theresa König, Prof. Harald Makl
3^rd row: Katharina Punkl, Kathrin Zehrfuchs, Kristina Veraszto, Prof. Susanne Appelt, Ann-Marie Rabl, Marlene Pirker
4^th row: Lydia Schermann, Clara Scheicher, Stefanie Hackl
5^th row: Prof. Rupert Esberger, Sebastian Kunc, Patricia Novinic, Maximilian Mader, Bettina Kotlan, Prof. Christian Senftl

Easter Celebration in Mundão

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Easter at school

The greek team in Visaginas!!! 1st General Lykeum of Egaleo

The greek team in Visaginas meeting. It was a great experience for all of us and especially for our pupils. We hope that this will be the first step for our communication!