Author: Liah Jade

Erasmus Newsletter

La Linea Visit 7th & 8th May 2015

We held our meetings at "Istmo Museum". A 19th Century building placed in the centre of town, which nowadays includes several museums, a library and other social services provided to our community. Its use was a courtesy of our Town Hall.
On Friday morning we visited our Mayoress, Gema. The meeting was very interesting. She provided several facts about our historical beginnings and made us see how proud we should be of our town and people, always being friendly with everyone visiting us.

England
The meeting in Spain-La Linea was successful and the working party are making changes to the learning resources following our evaluations.
Staff are beginning to plan how the resources will be used in September and are excited by the innovative use of ICT to create engaging learning resources for our 2 year European Project . The first topic will be ‘Pupils and their families.’
Look out for our website in July www.erasmusproject.co.uk

La Linea
This time we want to share bittersweet memories about our last meeting in Spain. The happiness we felt sharing our learning materials and meeting again, not only with the goal of working on the web page, but also just because we wanted to see each other again. However it was also a sad time losing someone special who meant a lot to the partnership. Thank you Sirri for always believing in us. We will never forget you.

Greece
The Greek Erasmus+ team would like to inform all European partners that we have successfully completed all learning materials for Topic 1: “Home and Family”.
We definitely enjoyed every moment of our participation in this project. What we found the most entertaining, though, was the activity: Our Ambitions/ Aspirations.
We are looking forward to seeing the learning materials from the other European countries and we hope that we will be given the chance to deepen our knowledge about your countries.

Romania
The two Romanian teachers who participated in the third meeting in the project organized in Spain – La Linea noticed the commitment , empathy and emulation expressed by all the partners while presenting , discussing, evaluating the learning resources for the first topic and designing those for the second one.
The working party is more and more interested in guiding and supporting our students to create qualitative , inspirited and relevant learning resources.
We have already started to prepare the next meeting in the project and we will be happy to welcome all the partners in Iasi, in October.

Turkey
Everything was great in Spain for us at the beginning. We visited different schools in La Linea and we acquired knowledge about the education system and school life there. We saw that students mostly wear a similar school uniform and this is almost the same in our country. We adopted the idea of introducing the Leaders of European Union in the school corridors. We agreed to meet in October in Romania and now we are doing our homework for the next meeting. Unfortunately, the last days were terrible for us. We lost our Project Leader, Salih Sırrı Demirel and we learned how to cope with sorrow.

Poland
After our meeting in La Linea students and staff are even more motivated to create learning materials for second topic “Local Area”.
Now we are working on improvement learning resources for first topic “Students & Their Families” which will be available on project website in end of the July.
Our staff are impressed because learning materials which were presented during the third meeting were really exciting. We are waiting for September and planning how to use resources during the lessons.

Croatia
We continue to work on our first topic The pupil and their family. A boy from 3rd grade has prepared Popplet with a help of her sister and a girl from 2nd grade is working on her Story jumper. Pupils from 2nd grade have decided to prepare a presentation of a playground game.
We have also discussed tasks regarding our second topic Local Area. Some pupils will collect videos during the summer which will be used to create resources for this topic.

Barcelona
Meeting in La Linea de la Concepcion offered the change to review the learning material our school had prepared. We agreed on suggested improvements and are at present implementing them. We agreed on suggested improvements and are at present implementing them. Out third course of complulsory education is now deeply involved in vlogging, recording examples of a day in their lives. From Barcelone we want to support our Turkish colleagues after the loss of thei r coordinator Sirri Demirel.
Thanks to Sirri Barcelona is involved in this project.

SALİH SIRRI DEMİREL
SALİH SIRRI DEMİREL was born in Tepecik/Tavşanlı in 1974.He finished primary school in Tepecik, and then he completed his secondary and high school education inTavşanlı Atatürk High School. He graduated from the University of Selçuk, English Teacher Department in 1997.He started his teaching career in the same year in Tavşanlı Atatürk High School. He was also the assistant manager in the same school. In 2007, he completed his master’s degree in Dumlupınar University. He was promoted as the headmaster of Tepecik Secondary School in 2010. Unfortunately he died because of the heart attack in Malaga, Spain on 9th May 2015.He was married and he had a lovely son. He was the one who opened the door of Europe to our school.