Sunflower Sale

Sunflower Sale
Our partner organization, called „Proyecto Padrinos de Atiquizaya e. V.“ , helps children in El Salvador. They collect money to pay scholarships for pupils who otherwise would not be able to visit school, since they have to work on coffee, banana or bean plantations. To support the project, the Carlo-Schmid-Oberschule organized a donation campaign. We, the pupils of the Spanish classes of the 7th and 8th grade, are collecting donations to improve the living conditions and educational opportunities of the Salvadoran pupils. Therefore, we plant sunflowers, decorate the flowerpots and sell the flowers for 3,00€ each. You would make us and the Salvadoran pupils very happy if you help us with your donation.

Emma, Lara and Maxim


Venta de Girasoles

Nosotros, los alumnos de la Carlo-Schmid-Oberschule, estamos colaborando en el proyecto „Proyecto Padrinos de Atiquizaya e. V.“ para ayudar a los alumnos de El Salvador. Queremos conseguir dinero para que muchos niños puedan ir a la escuela y consigan un buen trabajo en el futuro. En El Salvador hay guerra y pobreza. Muchos niños no pueden ir a la escuela, ya que sus familias no tienen tanto dinero como para pagar los gastos escolares. Los alumnos del 7. y 8. grado están participando en este proyecto. Los del 7. grado se encargan de decorar las macetas de papel pintándolas y los del 8. grado se encargan plantar los girasoles e informarse más sobre girasoles y del país El Salvador en general. Lo que haremos será poner girasoles en las macetas decoradas y así venderlas por un precio aceptable (3,00 €). El dinero que ganemos lo donaremos al „Proyecto Padrinos de Atiquizaya e. V.“.
Contaremos con vuestro apoyo.

Diana y Jessika

Sonnenblumenverkauf
Wir, die SchülerInnen der 8. Klassen der Carlo-Schmid-Oberschule in Berlin Spandau, möchten mit unserem Partnerprojekt „Proyecto Padrinos de Atiquizaya e. V.“ den Kindern in El Salvador mit den Spenden helfen. Wir verkaufen Sonnenblumen für eine Spende von jeweils 3,00€ und geben den gewonnenen Betrag an unsere Partnerschule weiter, um einigen Kindern eine ordentliche Schulausbildung zu ermöglichen.
Unserer Schule ist es leider noch nicht gelungen unsere Partnerschule zu besuchen, da in El Salvador Krieg und Armut herrschen, dennoch wurden wir bereits schon mehrmals von SchülerInnen unserer Partnerschule besucht. Da viele Eltern in El Salvador das nötige Schulgeld nicht aufbringen können, müssen manche Kinder ihren Eltern auf deren Feldern behilflich sein. Wir sind dafür, dass auch dort die Kinder das Recht auf eine Schulausbildung haben und möchten die Spenden verwenden, um Schulmaterialien zu kaufen oder Schulgelder zu bezahlen.
Über Ihre Spende und Mithilfe würden wir uns sehr freuen. Vielen Dank!

Josi, Laura und Lena

Participation in the Student Action Week "Planet 2030" of Action Aid

The Erasmus+ “Agenda 2030: That's our Challenge!” team invited the students of our school to participate in the Student Action Week "Planet 2030" of Action Aid. In order to disseminate knowledge and awareness about the 17 Global Goals, students worked to create fanzines based on the digital material of the organization. Thus, they seeked to communicate their ideas to the world and express themselves through their personal publication.
The fanzines that have been created will be presented at an Action Aid event in April, which will be included in the plan “Athens: World Book Capital 2018”. This action is considered as our Best Crowd Engagement Action, since it involves a great number of participating people, who get informed about the Agenda 2030 and our initiatives to serve it not only in our city limits but on our country level as well.

See the link: http://education.actionaid.gr/gaw

Teaching visit to the innovative company NIKI-MEPE Digital Engineering

Οur school and especially our Erasmus+ team visited the innovative company “NIKI-MEPE Digital Engineering”, at the University of Ioannina Technological Park. The students had the opportunity to get to know the executives and structures of this company, as well as to be informed about their achievements in the field of Scientific Technology, Industrial Design, Energy, Biomedicine and New Technologies. During the discussion, views were expressed on the use of technology by man over the years, as well as on modern policies of sustainable development for the benefit of humanity. Thus, we served Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, as well as Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 4: Quality Education and Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals.

Educational excursion to the villages of “Zagori”

Βefore Easter holidays, our Erasmus students visited a place of unique natural beauty and traditional culture, one of the main sights of Greece. “Zagorohoria” are a preserved settlement: built with gray stone houses and stone alleys, between high mountains, with unique special local food and desserts. Also, in the same place there is the famous “Vikos Gorge”, the largest and deepest gorge in our country.
Our students travelled there, where they enjoyed the walk in the nature. Then, they visited a folk museum to get to know the traditional culture, through handmade items of everyday life or works of art, that a local artist/collector gathered for the next generations to admire. They also visited a cultural institution where they enjoyed a photo exhibition about previous ways of living. Thus, students and teachers have served Goal 4: Quality Education, Goal: 17: Partnerships for the Goals and Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being.

Sustainable cosmetics

For many years the colleagues of the natural sciences in the CSO have been organizing the project week „sustainable cosmetics“. In this special school week the students produce their own cosmetics such as skin creams, soaps, bathing oils and many other products. The youngsters were always enthusiastic about how easy it is to make cosmetics themselves.
Due to the high demand, we decided to offer this project regularly all over the year. The new working group is called „Sustainable cosmetics“ and meets once a week for two hours. The cosmetics, that students take home and use, are very colorful and motivating. The Sustainability is based, for example, on the raw materials used to produce the cosmetics and on the bottles and skin-cream pots, that students bring from home. We reuse the containers several times, before they end up in trash.
Concerning production, the saying “less is more“ applies, so only the essentials are used. Since we produce our creams freshly, we are able to work without any additives such as preservatives. In the fridge, the products can be kept for at least two weeks. They can also be frozen in portions. Moreover, if desired, the products can be perfumed with essential oil. Everyone can choose their perfume individually – allergy sufferers can completely do without it. The raw materials are purely vegetable – no animal products are used.
The photos show students preparing bathing bombs and bathing oils. Furthermore, you can see the finished products from the students such as: creams, lip gloss, peelings, soaps, bathing bombs and bathing oils. The girls often lovingly pack their products in materials that would otherwise have been thrown away from their parents, such as old curtains. In this way, the youngsters are developing increasingly sustainable consumer behavior.
F. Kösece

WORKSHOP on the Gender Equality

A local writer and internet magazine editor, Eurydice Mantelis, happily accepted our invitation to participate in an experiential workshop with our students. In the context of the school lesson “Ancient Greek” and the cross-curricular approach with the lesson of “Computer Science”, students have decoded an internationally recognized comic book as well as online data on the social role that the two sexes - consciously or not - obtain over time.

The collaboration has been fruitful and creative, since it experientially served Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 4: Quality Education and Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals.

Celebrating Easter holidays

The famous Greek poet and Nobel prize winner, Odysseas Elytis, says about Easter:
"It feels like you fly high and offer your soul as a gift from high above to all..."
As we all are an active Erasmus team, let's wish the happiest Easter to everyone and share our best goal, to create the beauty of life on earth!