Save our Ocean

To #SaveOurOcean we must:

- End harmful fishing subsidies

- Stop destructive fishing practices

Together, we can achieve the #GlobalGoals

School Canteen: a healthy meeting point

We all know that we spend half of our every day in school, where healthy food is needed to keep us energetic, so our nutritional practice plays an important role there. Therefore, according to Goal 3: Good Health and Well Being and Goal 4: Quality Education, we arranged an interview with the lady owner of our school canteen in class. We had an interesting conversation with her answering our various questions about: best selling products, nutritional value, processed sugar ingredients, food packaging, cost and profit and student response towards diet habits.

It was a very useful and enlightening procedure having to do with one of the most famous and crowded meeting and “eating” points in school.

Photovoltaic Constructions in Motion

The Erasmus students of the Mathematics/Physics Club of our school were engaged in constructions aimed at understanding energy and its characteristics (conversion, transport, conservation, degradation) and energy consciousness (saving, use of renewable energy sources). Specifically, they created structures that are based on photovoltaic elements, such as small cars and helicopters made of recycled paper and wood. Students using gears, shafts, motors and wires made experiments, took decisions, collaborated and gave motion to their own constructions.

          This experiential learning was innovative, rewarding and enjoyable and, at the same time it served Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy and Goal 4: Quality education.

SOS: Save Water and Electricity!

Our Erasmus students took an action inside school that could teach us to start saving water and electricity in our every day practice. The best way is to get smart with how we use both of them. So, they wrote down and painted some effective slogans on “Water conservation”, as well as “Electricity conservation” and put them all around the school unit (classrooms, offices, corridors, laboratories, school yard).

The smart pictures with phrases that can be easily remembered helped the dissemination of the energy aim of Agenda 2030, especially Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption and Goal 13: Climate action. The next step was to exhibit all the slogans on stands during an open school event, so their meaning was disseminated to our fellow citizens, too.

Shadow Theater: tradition vs innovation

The Erasmus students of the Literature Club and Math-e Physics Club organized a cross-thematic action on the Shadow Theater. Taking advantage of the talent of a pupil as a modern "karagiozis player" (the hero of the traditional greek shadow theater), we got to know this particular art both through the theoretical presentation and through the "performance" set up in the classroom. He used hand made figures and traditional acting technique, while presenting the history of this worldwide famous folk art (from China to Greece).

Since the Shadow Theater includes elements of Literature (theatrical texts, student improvisations of theatrical writing), Mathematics (construction of figures and scenery, proportions of shapes) and Physics (light-shadow, motion) is offered for the innovative cross-thematic approach we have successfully implemented, according to Goal 4: Quality education.

Open Event of our school: "Health and wellbeing for teenage students"

The open event entitled "Health and well-being for teenage students" was organized by our school in collaboration with the 2nd Department of Pathology of the General University Hospital of Ioannina and took place on 23rd January 2019 with great success and audience attendance.

The event was part of the Erasmus+ / KA2 "Agenda 2030: That's Our Challenge" program. The aim was to disseminate the objectives of the program to the general public and, in particular, Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing, Goal 4: Education and Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals.

The results of the projects regarding teenage health were presented, implemented by Erasmus pupils, under the supervision of members of the scientific staff of the Clinic. In particular, by making the somatometric measurements and analyzing the statistic data obtained, the students understood the connection of "physical literacy” with health and nutrition.

At the same time, student slogans on the sustainable development of Agenda 2030 were displayed in the exhibition area, while experiential actions were implemented by the students themselves, such as measuring pressure and calculating the Body Mass Index for the people who attended. Our students were distinguished for their collaborative spirit, interactive participation and excellent presentation.

Working on three Global Goals

This morning our students worked on three Global Goals,  Goal 12 Responsible Consumption and Production, Goal 3 Good Health and Well-Being and Goal 4 Quality Education. With the teachers Bono and Maddalena, they prepared a special Spicy Salt made with the organic herbs of our countryside. They learnt how to produce something good and healthy for cooking without use of additives.

"Mediterranean. Travel and Memories"

Our students were guided to the exhibition of the Italian artist Beppe Labianca with original works, in natural size, made of thin sheets of oxidized iron, attributing variations of human figures from the Mediterranean universe, travels, memories, migration/refugees, wars and peace. As we all know, the Mediterranean Sea has lately become the place of rescue or death for many people who seek for a new life in a new country as victims of a war or other violent situations. So, we served Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, as well as Goal 4: Quality Education and Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals.

30 JANVIER, JOURNÉE DE LA PAIX

                      

J'aimerais que mon oeuvre contribue à la lutte pour la paix  et la liberté .

Frida Kahlo

L’intelligence défend la paix. L’intelligence a horreur de la guerre.

Paul Vaillant-Couturier

Et de l'union des libertés dans la fraternité des peuples naîtra la sympathie des âmes, germe de cet immense avenir où commencera pour le genre humain la vie universelle et que l'on appellera la paix de l'Europe.

Victor Hugo

Tout groupe humain prend sa richesse dans la communication, l'entraide et la solidarité visant à un but commun : l'épanouissement de chacun dans le respect des différences.

Françoise Dolto

Le désarmement extérieur passe par le désarmement intérieur. Le seul vrai garant de la paix est en soi

 Dalaï Lama

Ces sont quelques exemples des documents trouvés et sélectionnés par les élèves de 4º ESO, qui ont travaillé en se documentant sur le thème de la Paix.

On a fait des lectures, des commentaires, des débats, et finalement ils ont élaboré l’arbre de la Paix.

Parmis les textes lus on peut trouver les Objectifs de développement durable des Nations Unies, concrètement l’objectif nº 16: Paix, justice et institutions efficaces qui ont fait réfléchir nos élèves.

Common Action about “Peace”

On the 30th of January we organised the Common Action about “Peace”. It was dedicated to the global Goal 16 of Agenda 2030 “Peace, Justice and Strong institutions” and to Goal 14 “Life below water”.

After a short brainstorming about the word “Peace” and its possible meaning, the students, divided into groups,  guided by the teacher Pina Dell’Aera, Rossella Trovato e Silvia Salerno  were invited to reflect about this concept starting from the article 11 of the Italian Constitution which is the only one which states that “Italy is a Republic that repudiates war”.   Then we saw a  world map with the countries actually at war. We thought about the work of important people who support or have supported peace in their life like Pope Frances who said a big “No to the war” and “the only way to win a war is not to do it” and John Lennon with his legendary song “Imagine”. Other examples were Nadia Murad who has won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2018, a symbol of a generation of young people who has experienced and fought the horrors of the war; Picasso with his painting “Guernica”; Bertolt Brecht with its poem “The war which is coming” where he shows his trenchantly anti-war views. The last work was an extract of the speech Victor Hugo held at the Peace Congress of Paris in 1849.

The second part of the day was dedicated to the importance of “Water” for us and for our entire Planet. The teacher Lucia Pampallona explained the different kinds of water, white water (acque bianche), waste water (acque reflue), grey water (acque grigie) and sewage (acque nere). She showed the steps to purify water and the way this water can be reused after it and the implementation of grey water or rainwater recycling. She asked all of us to reduce our consumption of water through simple daily acts when we have a shower or we wash our teeth. She talked about the heavy impact on the environment of agricultural methods and pig and cattle farming which need thousands of litres of water every animal. It will become more and more difficult to sustain this rhythm in the future so we all should rethink our food habits in a short time.  Finally, a competition with the application aimed to see which class paid more attention to the activities by means of some questions. The class IV E sala won the prize, the “Degree of Peace and Environmental Sustainability”.