Project activities

An overview of activities carried out at our school connected to the topics of the project - from 2019 to 2022.

Erasmus Days 2019

During our project we carried out Erasmus Days at our school as a form of dissemination of awareness about our projects, including U2 Have a Voice, at our school. The whole school took part in this project day. Students drew a partner country and prepared some basic information about the partner country, some typical dishes and dressed up in national colours. They then presented their work to other classes, students and teachers. During the activity students were invited to join the project.

Learning about volunteering and the Duke of Edinbrough Award - 2019

The first topic of our project focused on active citizenship and volunteer work in the local community. We invited an ambassador of DofE to come and talk to our students. They were informed what DofE is about and the speaker shared her experience and gave examples of good practice on what to do.

Several students involved in the project also joined DofE and started to volunteer in an organisation called ADRA located in our town. This is an NGO organisation that works with kids, seniors and provides various types of assistance and volunteer programmes. Students tutored younger kids, prepared programmes and activities for them as well a a club for seniors called "pátečníci".

Some of us started to do volunteer work for ADRA, we tutored and also worked as coordinators for some programmes. We started the project "pátečníci" which focused on senior citizens. We wrote them letters during times of Covid. (Eliška M, Míša R. (4.B.))

AN OVERVIEW OF THE VOLUNTEER WORK CARRIED OUT BY THE STUDENTS INVOVLED IN THE PROJECT (BEFORE COVID LOCKDOWN)

Volunteer Center Adra_Short.pptx

Remembering 17th November 1989 in Czechoslovakia

Students prepared a display about modern history of the CR with a focus on the events of 1989 and the Velvet Revolusion in the Czech Republic. Remembering our first president Václav Havel.

We did interviews with our parents or grandparents to ask them how they remember the events of 17th November 1989, which lead to the culmination of protests against the Communist regime in the Czech Republic and the beginning of a new democratic era.

Writing for rights with Amnesty international - December 2022

For the topic Human Rights 2nd and 3rd year students participated in the letter writing marathon called Write for Rights with Amnesty International.

We devoted three lessons to the topic of Human Rights. Students watched several videos and read about the violation of rights of different young people from various countries around the world. We discussed why some people are persecuted and imprisioned in their countries. Then during the last lesson studetns wrote letters to the case that they supported. We also read the declaration of human rights.

Antybullying posters

For the topic of Human Rights students created posters to inform about what is bullying.
They also conducted a survey at the school to find out what students think about bullying and if they were victims of it.

Visit to the Senior Home - December 2019

Presentation of our visit to the Senior Home

A short while before Christmas we visited the Senior Home in our town. We learned about its services for the clients and had a peek around the facilities. Then we sat down with the clients and talked to them for some time. Some we visited invididually (we were not allowed to take photos of the clients).

It was an interesting visit, most of the clients did not mind being in the home and seemed satisfied to be there.

Charita Příbram (catholic charity organisation) - January 2020

The Director of Příbram´s charity organisation, Ing. Kála visited our school. Charita Příbram is a non-profit organisation that provides various services in the local community.
We visited the organisation with our teacher and organised a collection of clothing and donated it to the organisation.

They have a "wardrobe" and "food bank" in at the Charity, where people can come get clothes, food and hygiene for free.

More information about the organisation can be found here:
Charita Příbram - Charita Příbram

VOLUNTEER WORK - DOING SOMETHING NICE FOR HOSPITAL EMPLOYYES WORKING AT ICU ward DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC

During the third wave of Covid we decided to collect money for the employees of the ICU at our local hospital.

We were informed that after the first and second waves of Covid, when everyone was very helpful and grateful, that during the third wave people had become more negative in general. The employees at the hospital were also tired, working long shifts.

We prepared posters, put them up in our schools and told our teachers and classmates about the event. Then we collected several thousand Czech Crowns. Everyone was very generous.
We bought some good food and fruit to thank the hospital staff.

We also wrote a thank you card on behalf of our school. Some of us were able to go to the hospital and give the food to the staff. We were infomred about what it is like to work with covid patients in the ICU ward. We also met some of the staff.

A letter that we wrote to the nurses and doctors at the hospital

vOLUNTEER WORK Collecting money for Ukraine - March 2022

When the Russian invasion of Ukraine started we knew we had to do someting to help the refugees that were comming to our country and town. T

We organised a collection of money in our school. The money was used to purchase basic stuff needed by the refugees.

WORKSHOP - Fakescpae - ESCAPING FAKENEWS - aPRIL 2021

Fakescape is a University student initiative, which has gained very good reviews from schools. That is why we decided to invite them to our school. Media literacy is something that is not taught much in Czech schools within regular subjects. The aim of the FakeScape project is to acquaint pupils with the issue of fake news, disinformation and critical thinking in the form of a playful workshop.

The escape game takes about 45 minutes in which students will try to search for and verify information, detect manipulations in photos and distinguish a hoax from a verified message. When solving tasks, they also train attentive reading and critical comprehension of the text. (FakeSchape crew)

Third year students participated in the workshop held in our school.
"A lecturerer come to our school to tell us something about Fakenews. It was very interesting. The first part was more theoretical, about 45 minutes. We looked at news excerpts and photos from Czech media. In the second part we split up into smaller groups and we played a game called "escape fakenews". It was fun and I think we all learned something new about fake news." (student 3rd year)

Game: The year is 2028 and the election of a new president is imminent. Students become journalists who one day receive anonymous denunciations: one of the candidates wants to cancel the summer holidays! With the help of individual clues, the fulfillment of tasks and, above all, the verification of information, their task is to figure out who the villain is.

Teacher input: the workshop was intersting and we can use some of the material in language lessons or in civil education class.
Webpage: www.fakescape.cz/

Watch a video from the seminar:
Video from Escape game seminar

ERASMUS DAYS II

COLLECTING CLOTHES FOR CHARITY

A volunteer activity that the students organised and carried out at the school was the clothes collection for a charity organisation and a homeless organisation in our town.
Clothes were collected only at the school and then donated to the charity.

VOLUNTEERING - FOOD BANK

Some of our students volunteered in a supermarket and helped collect food for the food bank

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