Happy Easter!

 "The Greek Team wish you A Happy Easter! Let's all together stay in the bright side of life and try to make heaven a place on earth!"

"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”.

 

School Day of Non-violence and Peace

Next Wednesday, 30th January, we will have a meeting with our Erasmus students and some other classes to realise our common action about "Peace" . We will invite them to reflect about the concept of peace, starting from the article 11 of the Italian Constitution, going on with contemporary songs and poems written on this subject and concluding with a research about all the Countries are at war nowadays. In the end we will ask them to answer some questions about the subjects treated. The class who will answer better and in the shortest time will receive a "Diploma of Peace"

Roma Armee

The eleventh grade of the Carlo Schmid School went to the Maxim Gorki Theater on the 22 September 2018. We watched a play "Roma Armee", which is about the discrimination of the "Sinti and Roma" minority in Europe. On the 8 October 2018 the main actor and director Sandra Selimovic came to our school to deliver a workshop. We did warm-up lessons about prejudice and thought about new perspectives on racism, violence or prejudice.
Later, we did a different body and move exercises with different emotions and music. We "fought" in teams first in slow motion and staged a fashion show where the other students had to guess which body part we wanted to exercise. In the last part of the workshop, we improvised a scene on a park bench. The task was to evict a person with gestures. Every figure had their own "character". In the end, we decided that the workshop was instructive. We learned how to be free and how to open up to others.

A happy new year to all of you!!

A happy new year to all of you!! We're very happy to have this partnership with you and we hope our friendships will continue and we'll make the world a better place. We wish you all the best and a lot of success for your next projects  💫🍀🍄

Our Agenda Christmas tree

In the spirit of Christmas, our students collected eco-friendly recyclable materials to decorate our Agenda Christmas tree. At the same time, they created slogans, wrote them down and painted cards devoted to Peace All Over the World, which is the important meaning of Christmas, to put on it. The 17 Goals and, especially Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, were this way celebrated and made a good impression to everyone in our school.

Plastic bottle cap: a useful offer

On 3rd December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we took a voluntary initiative for the organized development of a plastic cap collection network. The purpose of the action is to develop and activate recycling consciousness, voluntary spirit and social awareness, for the benefit of children with disabilities and financial assistance for the purchase of technical infrastructure of the local institution “MERIMNA”. We handed out a lot of plastic caps that had been collected since the beginning of the school year for this social purpose, since we had understood the principles, values ​​and importance of respecting the diversity of people with disabilities, as well as the equal rights they deserve. This way, we served Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals and Goal 4: Quality Education.

"Get where you can not": a theatrical performance

The Erasmus students of our school had the opportunity to enjoy the theatrical performance based on the work of the world-famous Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, entitled "Get where you can not". His work is devoted to the humanitarian values of equality, freedom, justice and peace. Therefore, through the sophisticated text and the imaginative scene performance, as well as the interactive action between us and the actors, we implemented Goal 4: Quality Education and Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

Goal 16 “Peace, Justice and strong institution”

Goal 16 “Peace, Justice and strong institution” includes the resolution of conflicts without using violence. In the IES Clara Campoamor we have a group of mediation to avoid problems with others by helping each other.
The objectives are to avoid conflicts, listen to the problems of others, to talk to each other. The mediator proposes solutions so that it does not happen again.
Who can be a mediator?
All the students can be a mediators, but it is necessary go to do formation. We are formed about bullying, of gender violence, how to solve problems for students… etc.
In addition, we are going to start a mentor program to be more supportive with others, to help other people with their problems in class, in different subjects.
Being a tutor isn`t only about helping others, it definitely helps us too, like a chain of favors.
The people that participates in this program has been taught to empathize with other students and have done activities, like writing sentences to motivate others, like “ go on , you are strong” and to recognize also sentences that can demotivate like “you are a waste of time”.