Erasmus Day in SZeŠ a SOŠ Poděbrady.

Day of learning, playing and having fun for all students and teachers from the school.

The students that went to the Short-term meetings, made a report about their trip and their involvement in the project in general.

Our teachers have been really intrested and imagenative in creating beautiful, warm and welcoming classrooms especially in the younger classes. Other teachers have had help from their students to create nice and cosy classrooms.

Our students made a greenhouse before we went to Podebrady, they used materials that they found lying around and painted it to make it pretty.

We had a poem contest and a few interesting poems entered into the competition. Two of them got a prize.

We had a fundraise for the SOS children's villages. Our children did choirs at home for money and the teacher collected the money, and the kids went with their teachers to the home office SOS which is located in Kópavogur and delivered the fund.

We did a survey and asked our students, parents, and others. We used the questions from the P13 of our Project. Here are some examples of the answers.

• Pretty and more nice too look at and to not bring pressure on students

• The teachers role is to make a safe and comfortable environment for the students to study in, it would also be good if teachers tried out different methods of teaching to keep students engaged.

• To teach and not to shout at kids for making mistakes. If you dont make mistakes you will never learn and dont judge kids by their mistakes.

• Make the education the same as the rich areas and giving the less fortunate people the same chances in life as the richer population

• More chances to get to better schools and learn more but not in a stressful way

• At least free breakfast in all schools, make a safer environment for students, have enough resources for students

Our students made a Drama play and had a great time creating, playing, and filming it.

Smáraskólahlaupið ( The school run) . Every student in our school had to take part in this run and everyone had to run at least 2,5 km. Everybody had their runningtime taken and some of our students ran 10 km. We are so lucky that our school is located in a beatiful valley, where the running competition took place.

We held our Erasmus+ day in May and we used the Eurovision songcontest as a great way to motivate and involve our students in Smáraskóli and the teachers and staff even further in our project. Also it was a great way for everyone to get to know things about Europe and Erasmus+ that they didn´t know before. Every student drew a country to study and introduce to other students, and of course their favorite song.

Our students prepared themselfes for their visit to Spain. They made a video to interduce Smáraskóli and a few games to teach the other students in the project.

Covid-19 stoped the project and it was put on hold for the next year.

In the year 2022 our project started again and there where some changes that had to be made. First of all Austria had drawn out of the project as soon as the covid-19 pandamic occured. We had to have all the Short- term meetings in only four mounths, because that was all the time we had left of the extension of our project. It was decided to have the Short- term meetings in Czech rebublic 21.-25. February, in Corum, Turkey 28. March – 1. April and in Alicante, Spain. Also do to covid-19 we had to buy hotels accommadations for our students and meals because they weren´t staying at the local homes anymore. That was a huge blow to our budget and we could not afford to go on all the trips. Of course we were heartbroken not to be able to go to Turkey, we decided not to go there because it was such a long trip for us and expensive.

Arnar Pétursson a former student of Smáraskóli, and now our countrys top athlete as a long distance runner, visited our students and lectured them about following dreams, and to never give up. How to live a healthy life and nourish both mind and body.

Telma´s students in 7th grade made a time capsule.

Husbandsday (Bóndadagur) We celebrated this very old national day, dressed up in handknittet wool sweaters and had a taste of our old national food, such as shark, lamb testicles, dried fish and sheeps heads. All the students and teachers came together and sang icelandic folksongs. This was a great day.

In local news is a article about our meeting in Iceland.

Þórhildur Helga Þorleifsdóttir is a lecturer, specialized in educational sciences and team teaching. She came to Smáraskóli with a presentation and is helping teachers teams to use the tools they have to help each and every students to bloom.

We adorning classrooms and hallways.

We decorated and put up posters. Then all students in the school thought about there dream school. Then they put there ideas on a heart.

The spring colors (pink, purple and greens) are the things that they have and don't want to miss or things that they want to have in our school.

The fall colors (red, yellow and oranges) are for the things that the students wants to change or don't want to have in there school.

The tree helps students to remember the things they want have and behavior they want to show and see.

We started a competition for logos and slogans for our project. The competition went well and many logos and slogans were submitted. Teachers will meet in Iceland in December 2019 and choose a logo and slogan for the project. Here are some examples.

Here is article about the project on Smáraskóli's website!