Study trip/excursion, Training • Kalisz
Slovak Group’s Visit in Kalisz in Poland
Monday Events and activities:
- Slovak group's arrival to Kalisz in the afternoon (15 Slovak students and 3 Slovak teachers), a welcome meeting at the primary school No18 in Kalisz ( 15 Polish students and 3 Polish teachers participating in the project welcome the Slovak group in Kalisz),
a short walk around the school building and the neighbourhood residential area, accommodation in Polish host families. The desired objectives:
- buildind up Polish-Slovak friendships,
- developing communicative skills in English,
- getting to know Polish and the local culture and tradition.
Tuesday
Events and activities:
- a bus trip to the Municipal Solid Waste Treatment and Neutralisation Plant “Orli Staw” in Prażuchy Nowe, Ceków Kolonia municipality (participants:15 Slovak and 15 Polish students+ 3 Polish and 3 Slovak teachers ),
- a visit in the plant,
- a meeting and workshop with an expert from the plant about the coherent system of collection and transport of waste in Poland and about basics of proper waste management and proper waste treatment (Polish and Slovak students and their teachers);
- in the afternoon: every pair of a host and exchange student takes a short cleanup walk with the host families' members in the host families residential area to clean up and throw away rubbish according to the eco-friendly waste management disposal rules they get to know during the workshop in Orli Staw.
The desired objectives:
- to create ecological awareness of community waste treatment,
- students learn to treat and manage waste in a eco-friendly manner,
- to facilitate students’ international partner support for efforts to protect the planet Earth,
- a cleaner city,
- to developing practical skills in sorting out and recycling rubbish,
- improving communicative skills in English,
Wednesday
Events and activities:
- a meeting with the local authorities at the town hall,
- sightseeing in Kalisz (both Polish and Slovak groups with teachers),
- an IT design workshops at school on how to use IT tools to design fancy dress costumes (for Polish and Slovak project participants- 30 students) ,
- Polish-Slovak students in groups dress up each other according to their IT design projects created at the IT workshop using second- hand clothes, old plastic bottles brought by Polish students,
The desired objectives:
- to develop IT skills,
- to learn how to reuse materials in everyday life activities and prepare an online presentation with ready to use fancy dress costumes designs made of recycled materials,
- to get to know the local history, culture and tradition,
- to improve communicative skills in English.
Thursday
Events and activities:
- an offline conference open to public on how and why recycle plastic,
- after the conference a fashion show open for public at which Polish and Slovak students will present their designed fancy dress costumes made of recycled materials,
- Polish and Slovak students cleanup walk in the school neighbourhood area to pick up litter and sort it out to the accurate bins;
The desired objectives:
- to raise the local community awareness of the negative impact of plastic on the environment,
- to show examples how to reuse the material in everyday life,
- an online catalogue of photos with fancy dress costumes (the source of ideas ),
- to train sorting out and recycling rubbish in an eco-friendly manner,
- to promote eco-friendly habits in the local community,
- cleaner school's neighbourhood area.
Friday
Events and activities:
- Slovak students departure from Kalisz to their hometown in Slovakia (15 Slovak students and 3 Slovak teachers).
Every day students improve English communicative skills as they use English to interact with host families and students. They also build up their Polish-Slovak friendships as well as form partnerships to protect the earth by means of the eco-friendly habit, behaviours.
https://sp18.kalisz.pl/aktualnosci-szkolne/v4-gen-mini-grants-fund/1042
