A timeline of our board game

Short-term exchange of students to Agios Nikolaos (Greece)

During this learning activity the Greek partner showed the rest the most outstanding features of its cultural heritage using the five senses through visits and workshops. The hearing and the sight  played the main part because they were directly related to the final tasks carried out.

What had students prepared BEFORE the mobility?

Common song :

Partners chose “Ode to Joy” by Ludwig van Beethoven as the song to be sung in all national languages and English. All partners exchanged a short video showing their students sing the first stanza of this song in their language - Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish. Each video also included subtitles for the other partners to be able to sing along and prepare for the common singing session in Greece. All the videos were exchanged through Youtube.

Tutorial on traditional dances: each partner  agreed on a dance to represent its country. Students  made and send a tutorial video to their fellows abroad for them to practice. These tutorials were also uploaded on Youtube before the short-term exchange, so that students could learn and practice the dances beforehand.

Glossary in progress

The Greece hosting partner created and sent the video to show how the set of words and expressions are spoken and written in Greek. Students copied them in the chart while they were watching and practicing before the mobility.

The board game: The Greek association created 20 more cards for the game. These cards  include questions, images, symbols dealing with any aspect related to the visit to its country.

What did students do DURING the mobility?

Day 1 : Welcome to the school by the school choir and school dancing team with traditional songs and dances.

Getting to know each other.

Exhibition and workshop on traditional greek dances. 

Rehearsal of multilingual “Ode to Joy” version in all partners languages.

Learning the Greek glossary workshop.

Tour around  Agios Nikolaos (landscapes, streets, monuments, emblematic places etc).

Day 2 : Guided tour to the Minoan palace of Knossos and to the Archeological Museum Of Heraklion.

Day 3 : Tour to the Island of Spinalonga and to the nearby villages of Plaka and Elounda.

Day 4 : Tour to Sitia, the palm-trees forest of Vai, the Toplou Monastery and its organic oil mill and winery.

Day 5 : Attending the  School Celebration of the National Anniversary of the 28th of October . 

Sense your city: The game : competition among teams  on the questions  from all  mobilities (on KAHOOT)

Workshop on each traditional dance from the four partner countries.

Closing event: Meeting with all students, parents and teachers: Singing “Ode to Joy” – dancing the 4 traditional dances (video recording). Certificates of attendance.

"Ode to the Joy", a European Anthem in Four Languages

Aiming at finding a song we could sing in the four national languages of the partner countries involved in this project,  we finally agreed on Beethoven's glorious "Ode to the Joy". 

Its popular catchy melody and also the connotations of this European anthem suited perfectly the topic of the project and also our main aim: teaching each other to sing in Polish, Greek,  Portuguese and Spanish. 

Once the song was picked up, the teams at each school have been preparing a video to help their partners abroad to prepare the song in different languages and rehearse before the International Singing Session which will take place during the mobility to Agios Nikolaos in October 2019.

These are the videos made by the four partner teams from Gdynia, Agios Nikolaos, Barcelos and Tarragona:

  

And this is the result of joining together to sing this Euroepan anthem during our short-period exchange in Agios Nikolaos (October 2019):

Let's learn a little Greek before travelling to Agios Nikolaos!