"European school"

In Thuringia now there are 29 of these schools- just a few of Primary schools.
We applied for this title because of some special points of the educational concept in our school:
Children learn English from the year 1- in the age of 6 years. They start learning French in year 3-   aged 9. So they become openminded for other languages and cultures in early years.
We take part in different Erasmus+ (former Comenius) projects to share our experiences. Some of our teachers have taken part in language training abroad or jobshadowing. They improve their knowledge and skills for the job as a teacher. In the last years we have being happy about language assistants and teachers from different countries for jobshadowing. Next time we're going to apply for single mobilities, next projects and partner schools.
We are very proud about getting the title just before our schools party on the 10th of May. Guests from the ministery and politics, the mayor of our town, parents, teacher and pupils from the "European school" Ostschule Gera (a secondary comprehensive school) and much more, also teachers and children shared this very moment with us. The choir sang the European hymn.

Our head and the mayor of Gera

The choir "Kästner- Kids"

Congratulations!

An "European cake"

Transnational meeting Gera (Germany)

From the 6th till the 12th of May the last transnational meeting took place in Gera in Germany. 15 guests from Wales, Poland, France, Spain and Italy visited the "Erich Kästner" primary school in Gera.

We met our guests at Leipzig.

On Monday they visited our classes and did some little activities in ther mother tongue with them.
The childrens loved it.

On Tuesday was "European day" and  we were at the State Chancellery and the European Information Centre in Erfurt. 

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we were back at school, visited lessons, visited a secondary school and a kindergarden and held some project meetings. The highlight was the schoolfestival at wednesday in the afternoon. Each delegation presented their country and did some little activities with our pupils.

Thank you so much for your work during this week!!! 

Theseus and the Minotaur

“Ignoto Militi” Primary School 

 Saronno (Varese) Italy

Class 2^ A

THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR

Minotaur

Let’s build a labyrinth with felt-pens.

 Cnosso Palace planimetry

Ariadne gave a ball of wool to Theseus. He  unrolled it as he was walking in the labyrinth.

 

“You’ll just have to roll it back and you’ll find the way back!”.

 

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   Theseus went into the maze and found the Minotaur. They  fought for a long time until Theseus was successful in killing him. After that, he rolled the wool back and  he found his way to exit.

 

Labyrinth built with Lego

 

The glorious Theseus sailed away from Crete, immediately. 

But he forgot to hoist the white sail instead of the black one. Aegean, Theseus father, saw the ship with black sail on the horizon and he thought his son was dead. 

He was  hopeless and jumped into the sea around the Greek coast. 

From that day on, that area was called Aegean Sea.

 

 Ship built with Lego

Students