A project linking Yester Primary School, in Scotland, with Kuvansin koulu Primary School, in Finland.
European Quality Label...
Both Yester and Kuvansi schools were delighted to be awarded the European Quality Label in July 2008 for the project "A Healthy Passport".
eTwinning Quality Label...
A Healthy Passport has been awarded National Quality Labels in both Scotland and Finland by the eTwinning teams in both countries. Yester Primary's teacher, Michael Purves, applied for and received the Quality Label in February 2008, while Kuvansi's Jyrki Ikonen received the great news that he too had been awarded the Quality Label in June 2008.
The following quote comes directly from the eTwinning.net website:
"eTwinning Quality Labels are granted to teachers with excellent eTwinning projects. The Quality Label is concrete recognition to teachers and schools of the high level of their eTwinning activities. For pupils, this offers a boost to their work efforts, and for the school in general, a public affirmation of their commitment to quality and openness in European collaborative work."
This means that, as both schools now have been awarded the Quality Label, we should shortly receive news that A Healthy Passport will be awarded the European Quality Label, the highest award possible at European level!
Well done to all in both Kuvansi and Yester who have been involved with this project!
Project of the Month!
Our project was featured on the British Council website as Project of the Month for March 2008. This was a great honour, as the project was chosen from many hundreds of similar projects from all over the UK that are running concurrently. You can read more about the British Council and eTwinning by clicking on the link. And, if you wish to see what the British Council said about our project, look here.
The Header Images...
Each time you visit "A Healthy Passport", an image of either Gifford or Kuvansi is shown at the top of the blog, behind the title. There are a total of 8 different images- 2 each from summer in Scotland and Finland, and 2 each from winter in both countries- and they appear randomly. Keep visiting, and see if you can spot them all!
Curriculum for Excellence...
One of the aims central to our blog is that it will help our children to increase their ability to be successful learners - confident individuals - responsible citizens - and effective contributors. These are the four aims of A Curriculum for Excellence. A Curriculum for Excellence is central to the Scottish Government's 'Ambitious, Excellent Schools' reform agenda. The LTScotland website gives more details
A report of our blogging work is featured on LTS' website here.
Hello Jigga! my favourite acticity in P.E are football and floorball. i like basketball too. Sorry, i don't speak english very well but i try! I don't know what it is in english , but in finish it is Itä - Siperian laika. It's black and white. in have too four cats!
Halloween is when people get dressed up in scary outfits. Some people dress up like witches, devils, and all sorts of scary things. Then we go out at night and ring peoples doorbells and say trick or at and maybe sing scary songs and say jokes then they give you sweets. That is called trick or treating.
Haloween is tomorrow me and Sunrise are going trick or treating together.
Hi Aliisa, How are you? Yesterday at school we had a really fun day!What we did was we had all these different stalls,there was one for every country in Europe! some people got to stand behind them and serve people, I got to and I stood behind the stall for Germany.I was serving people sausages! it was lovely!! Also at the Finnish stall they were serving blueberries.It was a fantastic day we all enjoyed it.
Hi Aliisa, How are you? It says on the blog that it is starting to get amazingly cold in Finland! Do you like the cold weather? Or do you prefer the hot weather?
Do you know what you are getting for Christmas? I am getting an ipod, an ipod is a little machine that keeps music on and you can listen to it with the earphones.
Hi Aliisa, Do you like to write stories? Today in writing we were doing Writers Craft. This is where we are asked to read a bit of a story, then write the end to it. I was writing the end from "Grandad's Cupboard."
Hi Aliisa, On Wednesday,Thursday and Friday we did a big play to our friends and family called Tin Pan Ali.Tin Pan Ali is a story set in America in the 1930's. We had great fun!
Moi Aliisa its High5. My dog is over 12 weeks old!What is your favourite football team? My favourite football team is Rangers! My favourite subjects at school are:Language,ICT AND P.E. Looking forward to hear from you soon! From High5
Moi Aliisa its Topcat and High5 here! Hyvaa Joulua ja Onnelista Uutta Vuotta! What would you like for Christmas? High5 would like a Nintendo wii and Topcat would like a knew mobile phone! Looking forward to hear from you soon! From Topcat and High5
Moi Aliisa its High5 and Crofter here! I hope you got what you wanted for Christmas! What was your favourite Christmas present? Looking forward to hear from you soon! From High5 and Crofter!
Yester Primary is a rural primary school in Scotland. The current school role is around 165, with one class per stage from P1 to P7. Kuvansin koulu, in Finland, is also rural, with currently around 109 pupils, in six classes, aged 6 to 12.
Both schools hope to use this blog to exchange information about each other and to find out a bit about each other’s cultures.
History...
International Education is something that Yester Primary school staff are very interested in developing. Early in 2007, two of the staff, Fiona Edwards and Michael Purves decided to look at ways of linking Yester with schools from other countries. After researching the idea, the school registered with eTwinning.net, an international organisation that helps schools from different countries make links with each other. It was always hoped that we would make a link with a Finnish school; as Finland is top of the list of countries that the Scottish Government recommends for links. As Michael Purves had also spent a highly enjoyable family holiday in 2006 in Finland, it seemed a natural choice. By June 2007, we had found a partner- and Jyrki Ikonen from the Kuvansin koulu school near to Varkaus had agreed to join us in our project, which we are calling “A Healthy Passport”. Over the course of the next school year, until June 2008, we plan to get children from both schools to exchange information on a range of subjects, allowing them to find out as much as possible about each country’s schools, villages and the cultures of Scotland and Finland themselves.
46 Comments:
Hi Aliisa,it's Jigga, what would you say your favourite activity to do in P.E? Mine is gymnastics.
Hi its jigga again,what type of dog do you have? Write back soon please!
Hello Jigga! my favourite acticity in P.E are football and floorball. i like basketball too. Sorry, i don't speak english very well but i try! I don't know what it is in english , but in finish it is Itä - Siperian laika. It's black and white. in have too four cats!
Hi Aliisa it's Jigga i think you speak english very, very well. Sunrise is sitting beside me. My dog is spotty, it has black spots and is white.
I have never heard of floorball! How do you play?
Hi Aliisa it's Top cat here.
what football team do you like.
I have two dog's.
Hei Aliisa its Bannock,
Do you like horses?
I have 2 horses!
From Bannock
hello Jigga, it's Aliisa here. Floorball it's easy play. It's almost like hockey but we play in to sport hall. it's too fun game!
hi Top cat! it's Aliisa here. My favourite football team is WJK. WJK is football club in Varkaus. My football team is WJK!
Hello, Bannock.
I like horses very much! I love them! I would like to have.
Hi Aliisa,
What time do you finish on Friday?
We finish at 12:00am!!
Hi it's Jigga here. Is floorball your favourite game?
What do you like doing in boilogy?
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Hi Aliisa, what is your favourite animal? Mine is a tiger or a giraffe.
Hi Aliisa,
How are you? It's Sunrise and Jigga here. If you could go on holiday anywhere in the world where would you go?
Are you looking forward to Halloween?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Bye
Hi Aliisa,
Halloween is when people get dressed up in scary outfits. Some people dress up like witches, devils, and all sorts of scary things. Then we go out at night and ring peoples doorbells and say trick or at and maybe sing scary songs and say jokes then they give you sweets. That is called trick or treating.
Haloween is tomorrow me and Sunrise are going trick or treating together.
Bye
from Jigga and Sunrise
Hi Aliisa,
My horses are called Kizzy and Zara!! They are both girls!
from Bannock
Hi Aliisa,
How are you?
Yesterday at school we had a really fun day!What we did was we had all these different stalls,there was one for every country in Europe! some people got to stand behind them and serve people, I got to and I stood behind the stall for Germany.I was serving people sausages! it was lovely!! Also at the Finnish stall they were serving blueberries.It was a fantastic day we all enjoyed it.
One other thing...Do you like blueberries?
Bye
Hi again,
Do you like the snow? I love it I think it's really good fun!
Write back soon.
Bye
Hi Aliisa,
How are you? It says on the blog that it is starting to get amazingly cold in Finland! Do you like the cold weather? Or do you prefer the hot weather?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Bye
Hi Aliisa,
Do you like animals?
What is your favourite animal and how do you say it's name in Finnish?
Hi Aliisa,
Do you know what you are getting for Christmas? I am getting an ipod, an ipod is a little machine that keeps music on and you can listen to it with the earphones.
Hope to hear from you soon.
From Thistle
Hi Allisa its High5,how amazing that your dog is called Rock too.
How old is rock?
Hear From you soon.
from High5
Hi its Thistle,
That is so cool that you are getting a new phone.What colour do you want it to be and what colour do you want your MP3 player to be?
From Thistle
Hi Aliisa,
Do you like to write stories?
Today in writing we were doing Writers Craft. This is where we are asked to read a bit of a story, then write the end to it. I was writing the end from "Grandad's Cupboard."
Do you do things like this?
Hi Aliisa,
On Wednesday,Thursday and Friday we did a big play to our friends and family called Tin Pan Ali.Tin Pan Ali is a story set in America in the 1930's.
We had great fun!
Aliisa said...
"hello its Aliisa here. do you like winter? or do you like snow?"
Hi it's Nevis here. Yes, I do like winter, and I do like snow! I wish it would snow here soon!
Hi allisa do you like the snow? We do but we dont get that much snow in Scotland.
Bye
Do you like hamsters I like them I pretend I am one
Hi Aliisa,
What is your favourite season?
Hi Aliisa,
Are you excited about christmas?
I know I am!
Moi Aliisa!
It's Sunrise and Oatcake here!
What would you like for Christmas?
Sunrise would like a NintendoDS.
Oatcake would like some Pokemon cards.
Looking forward to hear from you soon!
Moi Aliisa,
Are you looking forword to your Independence Day? It sounds very interesting to me.
Hope to hear from you soon.
From Thistle
Moi Aliisa its High5. My dog is over 12 weeks old!What is your favourite football team? My favourite football team is Rangers! My favourite subjects at school are:Language,ICT AND P.E.
Looking forward to hear from you soon!
From High5
Moi Aliisa,
Have you heard of Stardoll?
If you have then on it i have a personn and i am called princesscharz!
From Jigga
Hi Aliisa what is your favourite game to play?
Hyvaa joulua ja Onnelista Uutta Vuotta!
Have you been iceskating today Allisa?
From Nevis ja Thistle
Hi Aliisa,
My favourite colour is Sea Blue.
Whats yours?
From Thistle
Moi Aliisa its Topcat and High5 here!
Hyvaa Joulua ja Onnelista Uutta Vuotta!
What would you like for Christmas? High5 would like a Nintendo wii and Topcat would like a knew mobile phone! Looking forward to hear from you soon!
From Topcat and High5
Hello Aliisa,
It's Oatcake here!
Are you looking forward to Christmas? ♥
What do you want for Christmas from Santa Claus? ☺
Hi Alisa,
I like yellow too. I have a pink bike i dont really like it.I like yellow and sea blue.We are like twins.
Hope to hear from you soon.
From Thistle
Hiya Aliisa,
It's ok.
I love skating! I first started ice skating when I did it for my birthday party one year. When did you start ice skating?
"Aliisa said...
i would like to christmas a new mobile phone !
from: Aliisa"
Hi its High5 here!
WOW! Do you really want a Mobile Phone?
Moi Aliisa its High5 and Crofter here!
I hope you got what you wanted for Christmas!
What was your favourite Christmas present?
Looking forward to hear from you soon!
From High5 and Crofter!
Moi Aliisa,
Are you a member on Stardoll? I am.
Bye From Top Cat
Moi!
It's Sunrise here,
Did you have a good Christmas? I did!
What did you get?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Hello,
Whats your favourite colour? Or colours?
Mine is Pink and Silver!
Oh and another thing... do you like girly things?
Sunrise Bye
Hello Aliisa!
It's Sunrise and Oatcake here,
How are you today? Were both fine.
We were wondering if you could teach us some Finnish words?
We would like to learn a simple Finnish song and the days of the week in Finnish.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Bye
Hello Aliisa,
Kiitos for teaching us the days of the week!
Mr Purves told everyone how to say them!
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