St Mark's Church of England Junior School
Comenius
Welcome to our 'Comenius' project Page.
'A European Playground'
During February and March 30 children, over three weeks, decorated Totem poles with pictures from our European partners traditional tales. Here are some pictures showing you how we made them and the artists standing with their finished creations. They are now standing proud in our European area at the front of the school.
Comenius Update:
During half term, six children and 3 teachers, were lucky enough to visit our partner school at Rathcormach, Ireland. We all had a great time making friends with children from Newnham St Peters in England, Poland and Ireland. Whilst in Ireland we all kissed the Blarney stone that gave us the gift of the gab! Visiting the Irish partners school was a real treat, we exchanged our traditional tale books that each country have created and experienced hurling.
I hope you enjoy looking at a selection of photos from our trip. Diaries of our experiences can be found at the bottom of this page.
Miss Hickson
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Travelling to Ireland
Our Comeius mascott Mark enjoyed his trip away
Ready for Hurling
Irish dancing
Irish 'European story telling' area
Sharing story telling books in Ireland
Ireland
Ready for our unveiling, thankyou year 6 for blowing up all of the balloons!
Unveiling our poles
Our story telling chair
My pole
Our story telling chair.
Planning our Totem poles. February 2008
Listening to our Comenius partners traditional tales
We draw pictures onto long strips of card as a practice run.
Plnning the pictures
Drawing the initial designs onto the pole
This is brilliant fun
In a world of her own.
Not easy!
You need a steady hand.
This is how we painted the very large poles
Concentrating on the finer details
Mixing paints to get just the right colour
Beautifully painted
It's taller than me!
Comenius Bear visits the Danish school. November 2006
Our Comenius mascot with his European friends
Balloon launch at St Mark's. September 2006
Hello from Ireland
Our Irish friends
Our Polish friends
Balloon Launch in Germany
What are our German friends spelling with their Balloons?
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Our Comenius project 'A European Playground'
Find out more about our Comenius project and all the exciting activities we have been doing and are planning for the future.
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Ireland diary entry for Saturday 24th May 2008
Ireland diary entry for Tuesday 27th May 2008
We planted spring bulbs in our European area for each of our Comenius countries. The bulbs we planted are Tulips, Daffodils, Snowdrops and Bluebells.
