St Mark's Church of England Junior School
Comenius
Welcome to our 'Comenius' project Page.
'A European Playground'
During February and March 2008 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 2008 May 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.
In May 2009 6 children will be travelling to Denmark. We look forward to sharing our experiences with you.
Miss Hickson
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Travelling to Ireland (31KB)
Our Comeius mascott Mark enjoyed his trip away (52KB)
Ready for Hurling (38KB)
Irish dancing (26KB)
Irish 'European story telling' area (52KB)
Sharing story telling books in Ireland (66KB)
Ireland (89KB)
Ready for our unveiling, thankyou year 6 for blowi (74KB)
Unveiling our poles (59KB)
Our story telling chair (78KB)
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My pole (36KB)
Our story telling chair. (39KB)
Planning our Totem poles. February 2008 (38KB)
Listening to our Comenius partners traditional tal (39KB)
We draw pictures onto long strips of card as a pra (48KB)
Plnning the pictures (20KB)
Drawing the initial designs onto the pole (28KB)
This is brilliant fun (46KB)
In a world of her own. (35KB)
Not easy! (39KB)
You need a steady hand. (42KB)
This is how we painted the very large poles (52KB)
Concentrating on the finer details (51KB)
Mixing paints to get just the right colour (46KB)
Beautifully painted (41KB)
It's taller than me! (47KB)
Comenius Bear visits the Danish school. November 2 (58KB)
Our Comenius mascot with his European friends (31KB)
Balloon launch at St Mark's. September 2006 (53KB)
Hello from Ireland (76KB)
Our Irish friends (50KB)
Our Polish friends (56KB)
Balloon Launch in Germany (36KB)
What are our German friends spelling with their Ba (29KB)
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Our Comenius project 'A European Playground'
In September 2006 we started our three year Comenius project called 'A European Playground'. We have been very lucky to make links with schools in...
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Planting spring bulbs
We planted spring bulbs in our European area for each of our Comenius countries. The bulbs we planted are Tulips, Daffodils, Snowdrops and Bluebells.
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