eTwinning Project: Happy Schools make happy students

 According to the 2015 World Happiness Report, schools that give priority to learner well-being, have the potential to be more effective, with better learning outcomes and greater achievements in student's lives. More than ever before, this signals the need for schools to become happier places, where qualities that are essentially based on relationships, including empathy, tolerance, respect for diversity, communication and teamwork are truly the basis for an education that aims for creativity, critical thinking, self-motivation, perseverance and optimism. 

The main idea of our eTwinning project: "Happy Schools make Happy students" was that schools can be happier places and that all human beings can learn to be happy, but can also be happy to learn. 

During the project we shared and discussed important information in the twinspace, which has broadened our perspective about the importance of empathy, tolerance, respect for diversity, communication and teamwork to build happier schools.

It was important to recognize the positive elements of our life and  to focus on positive thinking, positive attitude towards others, solidarity and respect,and and to spread this knowledge in the school community.

We worked together with other students and teachers from European countries and we developed our language skills and enthusiasm for the English language.

As a final product, we created an e-book gathering our testimonies and works, which will offer a  picture of how we understand and live these values and how engaged we are in creating a happier school:

Our ebook

The project was very successful and it was even awarded with an etwinning National Quality label in 2022 and an eTwinning European Label too.

Here, in this video, we give a short presentation about the students' experience as etwinners and we also provide a glimpse of our new project for this school year:

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How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is," Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000."

 

The best books to read at Christmas time

Snuggle down on the sofa with one of these reads

Favourite Christmas poems:

https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/literary/our-favourite-christmas-poems

https://www.loveliveson.com/christian-christmas-poems/

Best Christmas Books to Snuggle Up With This Holiday Season

All we want for Christmas is a reading marathon.

https://time.com/5471470/best-christmas-books/

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/editors-choice-book-reviews/a565401/the-best-books-to-read-at-christmas-time/

https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/tv-movies/g28737773/best-christmas-books/

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

'A delicious, important novel’ The Times

‘Alert, alive and gripping’ Independent

‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both’ Guardian

As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning ‘Americanah’ is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.

World Teachers’ Day - 5th October

World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe.  

It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions.

 World Teachers’ Day has been celebrated since 1994.

"On World Teachers’ Day, we are not only celebrating every teacher. We are calling on countries to invest in them and prioritize them in global education recovery efforts so that every learner has access to a qualified and supported teacher. Let’s stand with our teachers!"

Ocean Literacy : The ocean and the Agenda 2030

 

Careful management of this essential global resource is a key feature of a sustainable future. However, at the current time, there is a continuous deterioration of coastal waters owing to pollution, and ocean acidification is having an adversarial effect on the functioning of ecosystems and biodiversity. This is also negatively impacting small scale fisheries.

eTwinning project: Choreography of the song "Happy"

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