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Szent Piroska Görögkatolikus Általános Iskola
Szent Piroska Görögkatolikus Általános Iskola
Our institution has been enriched with another successful European Union tender. A 2020-2022. The preservation of traditions, cultural values and the latest IT knowledge are combined in our work.
Project Title: Making Culture Alive - Digital Escape Rooms D-escape (keeping the culture alive - released Digital Rooms)
Our goals include organizing creative activities for students through digital education, implementing new teaching techniques in the field of digital learning through European cultural heritage and traditions. Developing the professional skills of teachers, collecting and describing good practice in digital education.
We are planning six international meetings to spend five days with students and teachers from different countries. We organize digital escape rooms based on local traditions and culture, where students solve problems with the acquired ICT skills to get out. Students write presentations between meetings using digital methods. At the end of the program, an ebook , an electronic book is made from experience.
Our partners are Finnish, Estonian, Slovenian, Czech and Spanish schools, with whom we have worked in a similar way on several occasions. The working language is English.
Due to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus, we have been able to experience the role of the digital world in our lives today. We need to prepare our students to need this knowledge at any time and stage in their lives. This project is a very good opportunity to deepen theoretical and practical knowledge, to practice English.
- Illés Gabriella Tímea Koleszár
Joint Teaching with Slovenia
Joint Teaching with Slovenia
On February 11, 2021, we attended a joint class with Slovenia with four fifth-graders. The theme was winter, winter holidays. After the introduction, the class talked about winter customs, including carnival. During the joint game, the students learned terms related to winter.
Participating students: Barna Kata, Szemán Amira, Csomós Roland, Kiss Rozina
Shared games: Let's move like winter Kahoot!
Festivals in Hungary in winter.pptx.pdfPresentation of our students - Hungarian winter festivals
Meeting in Hungary
Meeting in Hungary
IN ENGLISH ON FAITH, TRADITION, NATIONAL VALUES
The St. Piroska Greek Catholic Primary School in Nyíracsád is participating for the fifth time in a two-year Erasmus + program series, in which primary schools in six European countries work on a common theme, keep in touch via the World Wide Web, and meet in person in each country. The first partner meeting of Finnish, Estonian, Czech, Slovenian, Spanish and Hungarian students and teachers participating in the project was in Nyíracsád in the second half of September.
The week was an unforgettable experience for both children and adults. Exciting, meaningful, lively, adventurous. It was with these words that participants most often described the programs.
The topic of the meeting in Nyíracsád was the connection of the past, present and future. All this was done in such a way that the hosts introduced the local and national cultural values and traditions of our past to the representatives of the partner countries. From the present to the future, the direction for development was the recognition and development of digital literacy, which also intertwined the programs of the week. The students lived with families in Nyíracsád, the common language of the program was, of course, English.
The guests spent the first day of the meeting in Nyíracsád. They got to know the school, where László Garda, head of the institution, greeted them. They peered into a classroom and a classroom, and then visited the sights of the village, including our three churches. In the afternoon, teacher Tímea Koleszár and computer scientist György Szlifka were introduced to a comic book writing program, which will be needed to create a digital book at the end of the project.
The children spent the evening in Nyíracsád, organized by teacher Ágnes Demeter. They took part in a goulash party, where one of the hosts, the Barna family, hosted the children in the school hall with real Hungarian goulash soup. During this time, the adults, accompanied by Gabriella Illés, the local project coordinator, and László Garda, dined at the Greek Catholic community house in Attila Square in Debrecen, where they could also meet Metropolitan Father Fülöp.
On the second day, the foreigners and the host children were in Nyíregyháza, accompanied by Anna Bródi-Bálega and Gabriella Illés. They met the past in the open-air museum, the present in the game park, the faith in the Greek Catholic diocese.
On Wednesday, they took part in a village knowledge obstacle competition in Nyíracsád, and they really enjoyed the tasks based on the village tour on Monday by teacher Tiborné Marozsán. Returning to school, a balloon chain filled with the words of greeting from the participating nations was launched. While the children competed, the adults held a project discussion at the school. The afternoon program was a truly special experience for both children and adults. The team enjoyed the hospitality of Tímea Koleszár's family. The family, known for their respect for the ancient Hungarian traditions and the transmission of the traditions, flew the guests back until the time of the conquest, as the former area of Nyíracsád, the leader of Acsa, was also a settlement during the conquest.
Teacher Tímea Koleszár invented a story about Chief Acsa, two girls, the attacking dragon, and then played it in age-appropriate costumes, while presenting the ancient Hungarian costume, the art of falconry and archery, which the guests could later try together with swordsmanship. This afternoon, each participant will make recordings using their own digital device, and then, using the comic book editing program they learned earlier, everyone will write their own little story from which the digital book will be born.
On Thursday, the guests got acquainted with the sights of Debrecen, and in the evening at the farewell dinner in Nyíracsád, which was attended not only by the hosts but also by some members of the they could also learn a step.
The guests spent the last day of the program week in the capital, led by teachers Illés Gabriella and Anna Bródi-Bálega. They also visited the Heroes' Square, Vajdahunyad Castle, the Matthias Church and, of course, Margaret Island. The next meeting will take place in Finland. Participants are looking forward to another meeting.
- Györgyné Zilahi Enikő
A printed article in the local newspaper Nyíracsádi Krónika
Pictures of the Hungarian meeting
Land of Brave Warriors.docThe role play
Erasmus vetélkedő VÁZLAT.docxPlaces of Nyíracsád - games, places, traditions, interesting things
D-Escape Room Hungary 2021.09.19-25..docxThe program of the meeting
Cartoon of the Hungarian story
Our students made a cartoon with an online program (Toony Tools). They used their photos.
Online Erasmus lesson
Learning about codes
The seventh graders learned to code under the guidance of Radu Mariescu-Istodor, a teacher at the Finnish University of Joensuu.
Fifteen seventh-grade students participated in the program on February 4th, where, using the Visual Studio Code program, they learned the basics of coding by getting to know the programming language. They learned alongside Finnish, Estonian, Czech, Slovenian, and Spanish students within the framework of the Erasmus+ D-Escape program.
Within the Erasmus+ program, we organize creative activities for students using digital education, introducing new teaching techniques in the field of digital learning and teaching using European cultural heritage and traditions. The program focuses on developing teachers' professional skills, collecting and describing good practices in digital education. We organize six international meetings, each lasting five days, in the participating countries. During these meetings, digital obstacle competitions are organized based on local traditions and culture, where students solve problems using the ICT skills they have acquired. Students prepare presentations using digital methods between these meetings. The program runs from 2021 to 2023, involving one school from each of the five European countries.
Friday's joint work was part of this program. György Szlifka, the school's IT coordinator, prepared the computers, assisted in using the programming language, and the students completed the preliminary task received from the Slovenian teacher before the program. Using a program, they had to draw a snowman in a shared document. Very individual works were created, and the drawings were made in a good atmosphere. Later, these drawings were used to code their own snowman. If they solved the task without errors, they received the same drawings. Initially, the students were coding, but they quickly understood the logic of the instructions. They received the task in English through the Teams platform, and it was good to see that they followed it without teacher assistance. Two Spanish students enthusiastically joined in the teacher's work, almost taking over the task. Among the Hungarian children, particularly the girls showed interest in coding.
During the program, students used important work-related skills, such as the English language, computer usage, not just from a user perspective. We hope that it contributes to some of them in their career choices.
Gabriella Illés Erasmus+ School Coordinator
Meeting in the Czech Republic
Meeting in the Czech Republic
Students made short introductions of themselves before the meeting.
HU Bíborka Büte.pdf másolataHU Kata Barna.pdfErasmus-Csehország-pdf.pdfThe report of the meeting
Online article of the Czech meeting on the Church's website - https://hd.gorogkatolikus.hu/Erasmus-programon-fedezhettek-fel-Csehorszagot-a-nyiracsadi-diakok--2022-majus-02
Students presentation of a famous Hungarian toy
The Rubik’s Cube.pdfThe Rubik's Cube.docRubik’s Cube Escape Room
https://view.genial.ly/63a98e39811115001105b724/interactive-content-rubiks-cube
Pictures of the Czech meeting
Meeting in Slovenia
Students made short introductions of themselves before the meeting.
HU Kata Barna.pdfHU Panni Varga.pdfHU Rozina Kiss.pdfHU Bíborka Büte.pdfStudents' video homework about Nyíracsád
Report - SloveniaThe report of the meeting
Pictures of the meeting
Christmas with Slovenian students
Christmas with Slovenian students
As part of our ongoing Erasmus+ program at our school, the 3rd-grade English-language group had an online meeting with students from the Slovenian partner school on December 5th. Under the guidance of teacher Tímea Koleszár, Hungarian children used online communication to tell the Slovenian children in English about the Hungarian Christmas traditions and Advent customs. They also presented a Christmas icon painted by Tímea Koleszár, which the Slovenian children really liked. The Slovenian students spoke to the Hungarian children about their own Christmas traditions in their native language and, of course, in English. At the end of the meeting, they sang to each other and wished each other a blessed Christmas in their native language and then in English as well.
Link of the post:
https://www.facebook.com/piroska.szent.5/posts/pfbid02z7PLwXBp4sPA
Meeting in Spain
Meeting in Spain
Task before the meeting
The partner school shared an exciting, multi-level 'Escape Room' game. Csenge Kerti, an eighth-grade student from our school, shared this game with her classmates, introducing them to Spain. Across the five levels, children encountered interesting and playful challenges that covered almost every competency area.
Pictures of preparing
A short article in the local newspaper
A report with many photos on the notice board at school.
The riport of the meeting
Events of the Spanish Erasmus Program
Between February 25th and March 4th, as part of the European Union's Erasmus+ 2022-2023 application, teachers and students of the Szent Piroska Greek Catholic Elementary School became participants in another successful project in Spain. Representing our country at the fourth partner meeting were educators Anna Bródi-Bálega, Gabriella Illés, Tiborné Marozsán, and student Csenge Kerti. The project's theme was 'Making Culture Alive – Digital Escape Rooms D-Escape,' aiming to preserve traditions and cultural values by merging them with the latest IT knowledge.
Within this framework, the hosting Spanish country asked the participants to solve the preliminary Genially task with 5 levels, which they were to complete in Spain. For this, Csenge Kerti and assisting educators involved multiple classes in presenting and solving the domestic task. The project task was titled 'Save our Queen!' The enthusiastic students greatly enjoyed the collaborative work and eagerly awaited Csenge's return to conclude the story of the queen.
The hosting school was one of the schools in Badajoz, Spain, named IES Barbara de Braganza, a secondary school. On Monday morning, the students greeted us with a musical welcome, and we got acquainted with the school's educational profile.
With the help of Spanish educators, we got to know the notable animals in the area, which serve as visual aids in biology classes for the children. We observed an English class on the topic of 'Reading and storytelling in language teaching.' Throughout the lesson, various visual aids and explanations were used to teach English grammar through stories.
The Erasmus team solved the last two stages of the 'Save our Queen!' video game individually but together in each country, revealing how the queen was saved.
The week's events were organized around locations featured in the Genially video game. Initially, we had a city tour in the downtown area of Badajoz at 'la Alcazaba.' In the High Square, we received detailed information about local landmarks during a guided tour, followed by conquering the Arab fortress, the Scaredog Tower.
Continuing the game's events the next day, we visited Trujillo, where we had a guided tour in the old English quarter. In the afternoon, we continued our journey to Monfragüe, where we visited a castle at the interpreter center called 'Salto del Gitano.' We explored many locations within the buildings that were part of the game tasks.
On March 1st, we arrived at another destination, Pinofranquendo, where we received guided tours at the Hurdan Carnival Museum and the Hurdan House. We gained insights into the irrigation system's structure and the method of oil pressing. In Cambrón, we viewed another exhibition about myths and notable creatures, where we learned about the interesting story of a unique creature.
After lunch, the Erasmus team embarked on a one-hour tour to discover the 'Chorro De la Meancera' waterfall. The view from the top was marvelous, and pleasantly tired, we returned to Plasencia.
On March 2nd, continuing the events of the video game, we arrived at another setting, the Yuste Monastery. Then we paid our respects in the adjacent cemetery, where German soldiers who died in World War II are buried. Following this, we arrived at Piornal, where we visited the Jarramplas Museum, observing how a mythological story becomes reality in contemporary times. We found out that this event is highly respected and significant; locals have already signed up for the role of Jarramplas in the captivating story for the next 50 years. To conclude the day, we returned to our hosting city, Badajoz.
The final day of the Erasmus Program was spent at the school again, where students first presented an irrigation system aided by innovative technology. We organized a 'light-running race' in the classroom using technical tools. Both children and adults eagerly participated in this 'luminous' race. Following this, with technology involved again, we attended a storytelling class, where students developed social competencies and received guidance for their future careers.
Among the speakers, we welcomed our former colleague, Paco Portalo, who delivered a presentation titled 'The Beginning of the Video Game Era in Spain.' We learned that he was responsible for the first Spanish computer video game.
As a closure to the program, the school's students bid farewell to the guests with a high-quality performance, including violin and piano playing, choir performance, saxophone and modern dance displays. The participating students concluded the week spent together with a shared afternoon meal and a walk.
Throughout the project, we enriched our methods and knowledge by applying innovative learning and teaching techniques with the help of European cultural heritage and traditions. Our partners were students and teachers from Czech, Finnish, Estonian, Slovenian, and Spanish schools, with English being our common working language. Participants gained theoretical and practical experience in the importance of digital culture and language skills, which served as a reinforcement—an experience and motivation for a lifetime.
Pictures of the meeting
Meeting in Finland
Meeting in Finland
Students made short introductions of themselves before the meeting.
HU Raul Hajdú.pdfHU Márton Kiss.pdfStudents' vidio about Nyíracsád
The riport of the meeting
We visited Finland
The fourth partner meeting of the Erasmus+ program running between 2020-22 took place in Finland in the first week of October with the cooperation of six countries. The aim of the two-year program is to preserve traditions and cultural values by integrating the latest IT knowledge. Gabriella Illés, Ágnes Demeter, teachers, and students Raul Hajdu and Márton Kiss represented our country and our school. During getting acquainted with the cultural heritage of the respective countries, the participants developed digital skills and took part in the programs. We saw many examples of the use of digital culture in various fields, as well as its role in education and learning.
We observed how practical application of knowledge, experience - which we can refine in school - is crucial in our future daily lives. Playing a musical instrument, baking, sewing, creating objects from metal or wood, the joy of creativity and creation all contribute to coping in life and problem-solving. From an environmentally conscious lifestyle, selective waste collection, conscious consumption to the importance of a healthy lifestyle and nutrition, the week covered various topics. We gained insight into schooling from elementary to university level and visited many wonderful places where we could see the remarkable sights of Finnish landscapes and history.
Students are creating presentations using digital tools about these meetings and solving tasks, which also combine the modern and traditional in the children's creative way. The success of the program lies in collaborative work, communication in a foreign language, and community building. During the week, we also experienced the constructive, positive effects, enriching and broadening our perspective and knowledge about the world around us.
Meeting in Estonia
Meeting in Estonia
Students made short introductions of themselves before the meeting.
A short ripot about the meeting on the shool's facebook profile
Pictures of the meeting
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