Our first results: CO2 emissions

Comparison of the cities: Wath (9,03 t), Bouchum (9,43 t) and Barcelona (12,91 t).

Cartoons about the media: think green!

From... Wath Comprehensive School

We are currently in Y10. We have 45 pupils in the Comenius group today (20-1-10) working on the environment project.

We have about 17 students in a group that is working on the recycling materials. Instead of getting rid of magazines and stuff like that, the group are making strong paper carrier bags!

We also have two groups, one of which is in year 8 (13 years old) and the other group which is in year 10. Both are doing presentations. The Year 10’s are doing a display about the Comenius visit to Bochum – Germany which will be put in our main hall. The year 8 group are working on a Powerpoint presentation on the launch of our recycling program which will happen in March. The Presentation will be shown to all of the school. We have the rest of the group looking at how recycling works across Europe. Four of our Comenius students are making a documentary film about how green our school is. They have also been interviewing students in the various Comenius groups on what they have been doing in the morning.

Jordan Hoblin & Bethany Smith from Wath Comprehensive School.

Welcome to the Comenius Project

We have created a new communication channel that will go beyond the classroom. With this new tool we would like to make comments, to suggest news, videos or images that might be interesting subjects to work on: we will link news sites, written documents and visual documents that will allow us to analyze our Project "making a world of difference”. The meeting at Albert Einstein Schule (Germany) in late October was the starting point of our multilateral Project. The objective: reclycling and ecological awareness in our schools and a culture of change in our own communities. We welcome the participating schools: Wath Comprensive School (Rotherham), Albert Einstein Schule (Bochum) and Col·legi Pare Manyanet (Barcelona). Good luck with the Comenius Project!

Welcome to the blog of the Comenius Project

Welcome to the website of the Comenius Project, dedicated to exchanging ideas to solve environmental problems. On October 28 we met in Bochum various students and teachers from colleges participating in this project: Pare Manyanet (Barcelona), (Wath) and Albert Einstein Schule (Bochum). In this first meeting, we exchanged ideas, and made a logo and a manifesto for the project. The meeting was very interesting and entertaining, and concluded with the presentation of this logo and the ideas we wanted to do (manifesto). Thanks to this we could enjoy meeting with students from other countries, share the same ideas and work on the same project. I hope that these next two years we can reach the goal of this project. Good job everyone!

Ariadna González and Angel Valls (Pare Manyanet)

Wath Pre-Evaluation Questionnaire Results

Students from Wath expect to get out of the project:

• Further understanding of schools abroad
• Become more aware of our local area and start to make a difference
• Share ideas with our partner schools
• More recycling
• Help for the environment
• Reduce our carbon footprint

Students from Wath hope to get ideas and knowledge about:

• Recycling
• Trash
• Opinions from students in different countries
• Carbon footprint in other countries
• How to preserve the environment
• How other countries recycle

Students from Wath want to acquire strategies to help them to:

• Recycle more
• Preserve the environment
• Reduce our carbon footprint
• Encourage others to look after the environment by recycling more

On average, teachers from Wath thought that the most important reasons for taking part in Comenius are:

1. To enjoy the Comenius experience.
2. Bring an international dimension into the school/classroom.
3. To experience the feeling of being together with colleagues from different member states of Europe and share experiences.
4. To solve problems relevant to work in the classroom and get an update of new ideas on education.
5. To find out what other colleagues think about their practice applications in teaching.
6. To find practical ideas and tools to help me to do my work better in the classroom
7. To sit back and learn something.

Albert Einstein School Pre-Evaluation Questionnaire Results

Students from Albert Einstein School expect to get out of the project:

• Improve environment
• Learn about ecology and recycling
• Change of personal behaviour
• Other people’s opinions
• Exchange information
• Meet new people
• Go to different countries
• More information for people
• Raise awareness
• Less pollution
• Practical ideas how to reduce global warming

Students from Albert Einstein School hope to get ideas and knowledge about:

• Create strategies for schools to reduce CO₂ and waste
• Exchange and share ideas
• The world’s environment situation
• Nature
• The energy we have and how we use it
• New strategies to help me and school in the future
• How to work better in a group

Students from Albert Einstein School want to acquire strategies to help them to:

• Interact with other countries
• Save the environment
• Raise awareness about global warming

On average, teachers from Albert Einstein School thought that the most important reasons for taking part in Comenius are:

1. Bring an international dimension into the school/classroom.
2. To enjoy the Comenius experience.
3. To experience the feeling of being together with colleagues from different member states of Europe and share experiences.
4. To solve problems relevant to work in the classroom and get an update of new ideas on education.
5. To find out what other colleagues think about their practice applications in teaching.
6. To sit back and learn something.
7. To find practical ideas and tools to help me to do my work better in the classroom.