Gravdal meeting, Norway

Going to Gravdal , Norway, has been one of the most beautiful experiences we have lived so far both for us teachers and for the students who had the chance to admire a breathtaking landscape, taste food that you wouldn’t find elsewhere and get a warm welcome from the partner school and Comenius staff Per, Willy, Roger, our special hosts.
We have also worked and been delighted by the songs the children from the elementary school sang for us.
Activities during the meeting:
-Presentation of the educational trainings in Norway and of the school of Gravdal by the headmaster-
-Visit of the fittings of the school-Conditions of the creation of a blog for the project in each centre ( for the activities of the second year)
-Meeting with the press
-Visit of an aquaculture centre
-Preparation and dressing of an international buffet of local food products in the restaurant of the school
-Visit of the Lofoten Islands
-A show : songs prepared by the children of the primary school of Gravdal
-Visit of a factory of food products based on fish
-Visit of the museum of the Vikings
-Fishing the cod on the school boat
-Cooking on the boat
-Visit of a farm breeding lamb with the Lofoten label
-Visit of the aquarium of Kavelbag
Comenius meeting in Gravdal
-Report of the activities of the year and presentation of the works
-Achievement of recipes
- Presentation of typical products of each region by each partner
- Visit of food factories
Activities in each centre
In Gravdal each scool had to present the project outputs we agreed on at the meeting in Limoges concerning this first year of work 2006/07.
As for our school we made the creation of a comenius file on the school web site, a logo, presentation of a DVD on the region, achievement of a DVD about the recipes, mobility of students.
Dates of the meeting in Almeria
We will meet there from Tuesday October 16th to Saturday October 20th 2007. During this meeting we’ll set the activities for the school year 2007/2008.
In order to make the exchange of videos easier we have also decided to work with Windows Media Player and to use Microsoft software. Besides, the blogs will be created on “blogger” google blog