The meeting was aimed at improving the theatrical and presentation skills of the pupils.
In addition to creative activities, discovering the beauty of the region and tasting traditional Slovak cuisine, students and teachers from Turkey and Poland participated in a creative theater workshop led by experienced actor and theater director Peter Červený.
The participants of this meeting took home with them:
✅new skills in the field of literary creation,
✅ new friendships,
✅ experiences,
✅the knowledge they gained about Slovakia and its history,
✅ self-sewn bookmarks for the book,
✅ a good feeling from overcoming their fear of presenting in the company of their peers,
✅ success in the kahoot quiz.
The meeting in Poland was focused on creating stories.
The activities carried out during this meeting aimed to teach students to create their own stories.
At the beginning of the meeting, the students of each partner school presented the read work - a novel. They presented the most important authors of their country, winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A visit to the library in the city of Kolo showed the students the variety of book genres. Project participants learned what kamishibai is, how kamishibai is presented, and in the next activity they created their own kamishibai in mixed international groups.
Pupils worked together to create posters to support reading among their peers. They placed these posters in the school lobby on the last day of the meeting.
In the Turkish city of Adana, it was the last meeting in the "A Step to Books' World" project.
The educational activities were aimed at developing students' reading literacy through the joint creation of comics. The result of the students' work in mixed international groups were comics created by the students in the pixton platform.
What skills did the participants of this mobility improve?
✔️ work in linguistically mixed groups,
✔️ communication in English,
✔️ digital literacy when using the new platform,
✔️ social skills when dividing tasks in work groups and during joint activities with foreign students,
✔️ presentation skills when introducing our school and also when presenting the created comic,
What new things did our students see and try in the city of Adana and its surroundings?
🔹flight by plane,
🔹Adana kebab - the best kebab in Turkey,
🔹the hustle and bustle of a big city (Adana has approximately 1.8 million inhabitants and is the 5th largest city in Turkey),
🔹visited the second largest mosque in Turkey, located in the city of Adana,
🔹they saw the city of Tarsus and its historical monuments - the birthplace of the holy apostle Paul (originally Saul),
🔹excellent Turkish cuisine,
🔹walked along an almost 2000-year-old bridge,
🔹visited the film museum and the archaeological museum in Adana.
🔹 peeked into the cultural and social life of the inhabitants of the southern part of Turkey.
We are looking forward to further activities in the project that develop the reading literacy of our pupils and which we plan to implement even after the end of the project at the school.