We wanted to encourage our fellow students, their parents and family members spend more time in the fresh air walking and monitoring the results with the help of the walking App. Those making the most of it would be awarded. The Initiative was shared via Facebook page of the school.

Still in lockdown...

MISSION: HERB TEA

During the Project meetings, Science lessons, class hours and after talking to the teachers and parents we decided to study plants, helping to fight Influenza or any other viruses. We wanted to take up a mission helping to convince the audience in beneficial use of some herbs by presenting the ideas and sharing the information writing blogs or introducing and sharing healthy recipes on our school’s Facebook page.

January as an anti-Covid month

After all information had been collected, another mission was born- to declare January an anti-COVID month and promote our spotted herbs as a strong means helping to resist the viruses. We saw this initiative as a simple domestic way to keep healthy and fight the viruses in the way everybody could afford. Parents and students were asked to take pictures of the “Covid fighting” process. The photos were used to share on Facebook page or via Messenger groups to spread the idea.

International collective work

Together with the partners from Greece, Poland, Romania and Turkey we created an E book of herbs.

Students-partners sent us their research pages containing scientific and historical information about the medicinal use of plants in their countries. As a result we have got a multinational book of useful plants.

Awoken Curiosity

By doing this we aimed:

• to awake students and parents’ curiosity,

•unite the community,

•encourage to do something important together, even during the hard times of Covid and lockdown;

•make people believe that even staying at home, we can act and make changes, at least to our personal lives.

To the Skeptics and unbelievers…

•Even though some skeptics might disagree with the idea of herbs, we were sure that as long as we believe in what we are doing, as long as people support our initiative, all together we can overcome the difficulties, stress, self-isolation, frustration and thus, in our way, we can resist and fight COVID.

Another way of fighting against COVID and resisting it was getting to know the virus better by studying it deeper. So, the teachers and the team members suggested to integrate some COVID related tasks into curricular. By doing this we aimed to educate ourselves and learn more about the unknown traitorous virus.

COVID tasks from knowledge partners

The COVID situation was new to us and to the world. People felt afraid and frustrated. In order to know the feelings of our students we asked them to answer some questions concerning their feelings and attitude towards the unexpected conditions they had to live in and share their advice how to adapt to the new way of life.