Our trip to Haarlem

During springtime we were offered to visit Haarlem for one week with the Erasmus+ project. In our Erasmus+ profile class with the topic “Drops of awareness”, we were tasked to film a documentary reporting about water in our region.

At the Mendelcollege in Haarlem each of the five countries presented their very own documentary. Every country has individual problems with water and they are quite dramatic. It was really interesting to learn about the situations in each country. After that we formed international groups and tried to come up with solutions for the problems.

Since we were in the Netherlands we learned about the importance of water there, e.g. regarding historical events, like the Great Flood of 1953 which caused several hundred deaths due to broken dykes and which initiated the building of world’s largest storm barrier Deltaworks which we visited, as well as present ones. Of course, we also visited Amsterdam and went into the Scheepvart Museum that showed the early phases of the discovery of our planet.

We were able to meet lots of new people and to form friendships which will last longer than just this one week. The Erasmus+ project offered us a lot of new experiences that widened our view of water and how we must stay proactive to save our water. We learned the importance of water for the world, which only strengthens the fact that we have to raise awareness of these problems.

Hanno L. 10d

Internationales Dokumentarvideo

https://youtu.be/OK0a5WrewWA

Erasmus+: Drops of Awareness and the Future of Water

Liebe Schulgemeinschaft,

lange ist es her, dass wir mit Schüler*innen wegfahren durften und im Fall von Erasmus+ hat während unseres laufenden Projektes „Drops of Awareness“ leider noch keine einzige reale Schüler*innenbegegnung stattgefunden. Dennoch haben sich unsere Schüler*innen großartig in zwei virtuellen, internationalen Projekten, organisiert durch unsere Partnerschulen in Estland und Spanien, engagiert. Nun ist endlich die Zeit gekommen die Koffer zu entstauben, da wir mit insgesamt 12 Schüler*innen aus drei Jahrgängen an zwei Projektbegegnungen an unseren Partnerschulen in Haarlem, Niederlande, und in Le François, Frankreich, teilnehmen werden.

Aber auch die Aussichten auf das nächste Schuljahr sind sehr gut, da wir einen Projektantrag zum Thema „The Future of Water“ für ein Jahr und die Möglichkeit mit insgesamt 26 Schüler*innen zu unseren Partnerschulen in Eurovillas, Spanien, und Pärnu, Estland, zu fahren von Erasmus+ bewilligt bekommen haben!

Wir freuen uns darauf Europa mit euch zu erkunden!

Euer Erasmus+-Team

Virtual Erasmus+ student meeting

Tere! That means “hello” in Estonian.

This is one of the many things we learned during the project hosted by our Estonian partner school from 29th November to 1st December, 2021. We got to know many new things about Estonia, their biodiversity and the Baltic Sea as Estonia borders it. In order to learn many interesting facts, we had two professors visiting the video conference to give a presentation.

But not only the professors made a presentation, students from all countries too. Also, the students of each country worked together on a poster, which was presented later on. The Estonian lesson, in which we learned the basic phrases of the Estonian language, and the interactive quizzes were very interesting and liked by everyone.

On the last day, we also did some cool experiments regarding water and their surface tension. We particularly liked the movement breaks between the lessons. These were used to refresh our mind, so we could concentrate better.

All in all, we really enjoyed these three days, I think everybody can agree with that and we also made a few new friends along the way. We really hope the next time we meet, will be in person. Have a great day!

Ben, Jonas, Justus, Leni and Oliver
(Schillerschule year 8, Hanover, Germany)

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Winners of the Erasmus+ photo competition 2021 (Schillerschule)

The Erasmus+ „Drops of Awareness“ team proudly presents the winners of the lakes and rivers photo competition 2020/21:

All handed in photos showed the amazing beauty of Europe – thanks for taking us on a journey when travelling was impossible!
Over all 86 students chose their three favourite pictures – thanks for taking part in the poll!

Congratulations to our three winners Annika, Leona and Gustav!

Stefanie Lücking for the Erasmus+team (27 June, 2021)

„Clean up the world – Day“ – Ein Beitrag des Erasmus+-Projekts „Drops of Awareness“

Am 23. September 2020 hat unser PU-Kurs „Erasmus+: Wasser“ zusammen eine kleine Aktion gestartet. Wir sind zu den nahegelegenen Annateichen gelaufen, um der Umwelt etwas Gutes zu tun, indem wir Müll gesammelt haben.  Zwischen dem ganzen Papier und Plastikmüll wurden sogar Dinge wie teure Weinflaschen oder ein silberner Ring gefunden. Oder auch etwas absurdere Sachen wie Socken und ein Mini-Grill. Insgesamt war es eine erfolgreiche Aktion!

Mia & Leana, Jg.8, PU-Kurs “Erasmus+: Wasser“

Help the world to become a better place!

In our PU lesson, we went to a lake to do something good for the environment. Even though the lake seemed to be very clean and we really couldn’t see any rubbish at all, we still collected almost eight bags of the size of a six-year-old full of plastic, bottles and other very animal- and environment-harming things. Do you know, how many animals we prevented from getting harmed for no reason at all? Do you even have a clue, how much eight bags full of trash are? Then let us tell you – it’s a lot.

After the successful project, we all felt very proud of ourselves for helping the world to be a better place.

Kilian, Salina and Simon, year 8, “Erasmus+: Water“-project

Europe is dead? NOT AT ALL

Although unfortunately our planned international meeting in Pärnu, Estonia, had to be postponed due to the Covid-19-lockdown of all of the participating countries, this does not mean that all Erasmus+ activities have been cancelled as well.

Naturally, most of our partner countries, as Schillerschule as well, first had to organise homeschooling for regular lessons. This has been pretty hard, as there have been severe restrictions to everybody’s lives especially in Italy and Spain. However, after some weeks of getting used to the “new normality” and an upward trend in all countries, planning about Erasmus+ in times of Covid-19 has started. Hence, some members of Schillerschule’s Erasmus+ team had a video conference on May 7^th to discuss plans for the near and far future and to exchange ideas about how to carry on.

Meanwhile, Mr Fischer, our very own eTwinning expert, started a new eTwinning project about “The story of a water drop” in which the international team pursues the question “What kind of story a drop of water would tell us if it could speak”. The idea of this project is to allow different students from different age groups to share their knowledge about water, and what water means to the different peoples of Europe. “Bon voyage!” Mr Fischer!

https://youtu.be/cMn9SKaIpsQ

Internationally, the Spanish Erasmus+ coordinator Mrs Ruiz García in Eurovillas is making a video for Europe Day 2020, which will be on May 9^th and asked the partner schools to send some video messages to her students. Fortunately, our students, who had been supposed to go to Estonia, happily embraced this idea and recorded cheerful and outgoing videos to our partner school. Thank your very much for this commitment, girls!

Well, what’s next? Although we cannot travel to our partner schools in person at the moment, we are just planning another way to go there – come back soon to accompany us on our virtual journeys to all those fascinating and beautiful places!

Stefanie Lücking for the Erasmus+team (May 2020)