There are many possible curriculum maps for the project. The meeting in January will produce many, many ideas. Here is one possibility:
Geography – An exploration of all the countries involved in the project
History – The history of the traditional sports and games being explored by the project
Citizenship – The family of nations that is the European Union
Languages – Learn some Dutch…..Romanian….Bulgarian….Polish!!!!
Science – The ecology of the different regions of Europe
Maths – Projectiles in games – shapes of balls (eg a rugby ball is a prolate spheroid!!),
Business Enterprise – Fair Trade, Organising the Comlympics, costs/profit etc
Technology – Use of websites, blogs in developing the project
Art – posters, photography, film
Music & Dance – the music of the regions eg manale, chalga, levenslied, tarantella
During the final day of celebration in year 2, as well as the sports events, it might be fun to finish with a concert of traditional music, dance and drama in the evening.
But all of this can be discussed at the meeting in January!
Monday 30 November 2009
Romania - Colegiul Tehnic,, Aurel Vlaicu'' - Baia Mare
Hello ,
My name is Elena Rusu .
I teach Physical Education and Sport at
,,Colegiul Tehnic Aurel Vlaicu ''
Baia Mare - Romania
Technical secondary school - students aged: 14-19 years old.
My name is Elena Rusu .
I teach Physical Education and Sport at
,,Colegiul Tehnic Aurel Vlaicu ''
Baia Mare - Romania
Technical secondary school - students aged: 14-19 years old.
Sunday 29 November 2009
Trains Timetable from Cluj-Napoca to Baia-Mare + HOTELS in Baia Mare
Hello ,
i found 3 trains from Cluj-Napoca to Baia Mare :
1.Train nr. 844 from Cluj -Napoca at : 6.07 arrive in Baia Mare at : 9.09
2. Train nr. 1745 from Cluj-Napoca at : 16,27 arrive in Baia Mare at : 19,29
3. Train nr. 846 from Cluj-Napoca at : 18,14 arrive in Baia Mare at : 21,07
Ticket price maximum 20 Euro .
There are some Bus who come in Baia Mare , but i don't know where is the station in Cluj-Napoca
About the Hotels there are some :
1. Hotel CARPATI : http://www.hotelcarpati.ro/ , 4 stars
2. Hotel MARA : http://www.hotelmara.ro/ , 3 stars
3. Hotel RIVULUS : www. hotelrivulus.ro , 3 stars
4. EUROHOTEL : http://www.eurohotel-bm.ro/ , 3 stars
5. Hotel AMBASSADOR : http://www.hotelambassador.ro/
Hotel Mara and Rivulus are in center of town , and hotel Carpati are not so far from our school. All are very good.
You can find the prices on website : from 50-70 euro/room , but you need to check .
You can make your reservation on internet , if you want.
There are some hostels that have lower prices ( from 20-30 Euro/room)
For other information please write me on email.
Elena Rusu
i found 3 trains from Cluj-Napoca to Baia Mare :
1.Train nr. 844 from Cluj -Napoca at : 6.07 arrive in Baia Mare at : 9.09
2. Train nr. 1745 from Cluj-Napoca at : 16,27 arrive in Baia Mare at : 19,29
3. Train nr. 846 from Cluj-Napoca at : 18,14 arrive in Baia Mare at : 21,07
Ticket price maximum 20 Euro .
There are some Bus who come in Baia Mare , but i don't know where is the station in Cluj-Napoca
About the Hotels there are some :
1. Hotel CARPATI : http://www.hotelcarpati.ro/ , 4 stars
2. Hotel MARA : http://www.hotelmara.ro/ , 3 stars
3. Hotel RIVULUS : www. hotelrivulus.ro , 3 stars
4. EUROHOTEL : http://www.eurohotel-bm.ro/ , 3 stars
5. Hotel AMBASSADOR : http://www.hotelambassador.ro/
Hotel Mara and Rivulus are in center of town , and hotel Carpati are not so far from our school. All are very good.
You can find the prices on website : from 50-70 euro/room , but you need to check .
You can make your reservation on internet , if you want.
There are some hostels that have lower prices ( from 20-30 Euro/room)
For other information please write me on email.
Elena Rusu
Saturday 28 November 2009
news-preparatory visit in Baia Mare
Hello everyone,
finally I can announce the time of the visit in Baia Mare ,Romania : 21-23 January 2010.
the meeting of project will take place in 22 January 2010 , as Andrew suggested.
Of course ,if someone want to stay long is not a problem ,but i need to know.
The rules of our Agency is that the visit can be from 1 day to 5 days (maximum).
If you need official invitation from our school , please tell me how to be send the invitation ( by mail -postal ; email ; or fax ) and also send me the following information :
1. your name ( or the teacher who will come in Romania)
2. school name , adress, phone , fax
3. name of your principal
4. your name country
5. your personal email and phone number.
Thank you
ELENA RUSU
finally I can announce the time of the visit in Baia Mare ,Romania : 21-23 January 2010.
the meeting of project will take place in 22 January 2010 , as Andrew suggested.
Of course ,if someone want to stay long is not a problem ,but i need to know.
The rules of our Agency is that the visit can be from 1 day to 5 days (maximum).
If you need official invitation from our school , please tell me how to be send the invitation ( by mail -postal ; email ; or fax ) and also send me the following information :
1. your name ( or the teacher who will come in Romania)
2. school name , adress, phone , fax
3. name of your principal
4. your name country
5. your personal email and phone number.
Thank you
ELENA RUSU
Thursday 26 November 2009
Fair Trade
Fair Trade is a loosely organised social movement that has its origins in the 1960s but first began to gain significant market share in the 1990s.
It starts from the recognition that in developing countries most farming and agriculture is carried on by independent subsistence farmers who have little time or ability to form organisational structures to represent them. Increasingly, from the 1960s to the 1990s, their buyers became bigger and bigger multinational companies against whom the small farmers have little bargaining power.
This creates difficulties. Firstly, the price that the farmer can command is pushed lower and lower making it impossible for them to generate any sustainable capital for investment. Secondly, agriculture, which should form a stable bedrock for any economy, becomes commodified with the risk that big buyers might switch their contracts from country to country leaving severe hardship and economic damage in their wake. Thirdly, the multinationals begin to promote the commodities that will maximise their profit, not the products that are necessarily the most productive for the land which the small farmers are working.
Fair Trade seeks to counteract these tendencies by building social enterprises that provide an alternative route to market for farmers. Prices are guaranteed allowing room for capital accumulation, helping the economy as a whole, and increasingly distributors and retailers have to sign contracts that prevent them from exploiting the goodwill of consumers by increasing their mark-up on such goods. Fair Trade sales in the UK increased by 22% last year.
As well as protecting small farmers income, the Fair Trade movement has widened in recent years to include objectives such as protecting traditional crafts, industries and skills - and by linking up with NGOs to provide sustainable education and health facilities in rural communities.
It starts from the recognition that in developing countries most farming and agriculture is carried on by independent subsistence farmers who have little time or ability to form organisational structures to represent them. Increasingly, from the 1960s to the 1990s, their buyers became bigger and bigger multinational companies against whom the small farmers have little bargaining power.
This creates difficulties. Firstly, the price that the farmer can command is pushed lower and lower making it impossible for them to generate any sustainable capital for investment. Secondly, agriculture, which should form a stable bedrock for any economy, becomes commodified with the risk that big buyers might switch their contracts from country to country leaving severe hardship and economic damage in their wake. Thirdly, the multinationals begin to promote the commodities that will maximise their profit, not the products that are necessarily the most productive for the land which the small farmers are working.
Fair Trade seeks to counteract these tendencies by building social enterprises that provide an alternative route to market for farmers. Prices are guaranteed allowing room for capital accumulation, helping the economy as a whole, and increasingly distributors and retailers have to sign contracts that prevent them from exploiting the goodwill of consumers by increasing their mark-up on such goods. Fair Trade sales in the UK increased by 22% last year.
As well as protecting small farmers income, the Fair Trade movement has widened in recent years to include objectives such as protecting traditional crafts, industries and skills - and by linking up with NGOs to provide sustainable education and health facilities in rural communities.
Community Sports
Community sports may be one part of the new project - to be discussed. The EU is full of cultural diversity and whilst we share a passion for many sports such as football, volleyball, basketball and so on - there are also many more sports that are more closely identified with a single country - 20/20 cricket in the UK; oina in Romania; pallone col bracciale in Italy; Belgium might offer something like krulbol and so on.
One possible outcome of the project might be for students to participate in a Community Sports Olympics on one special day in the second year covering a number of these different sports.
Your views at the meeting in January would be very much appreciated!
One possible outcome of the project might be for students to participate in a Community Sports Olympics on one special day in the second year covering a number of these different sports.
Your views at the meeting in January would be very much appreciated!
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Preparatory visit in Romania - Baia Mare
Hello everyone ,
I hope that will be a great project.
About preparatory visit : I will send you more details as soon as posible , to inform you of the date of the visit (probably next week).
Baia Mare is a city in north-west of Romania.We have an airport in Cluj-Napoca (3 hours from Baia Mare). You should not go to Bucharest Airport because is very far from here (10 hours with the car , or train)
Here is a picture of Romania
Elena Rusu
I hope that will be a great project.
About preparatory visit : I will send you more details as soon as posible , to inform you of the date of the visit (probably next week).
Baia Mare is a city in north-west of Romania.We have an airport in Cluj-Napoca (3 hours from Baia Mare). You should not go to Bucharest Airport because is very far from here (10 hours with the car , or train)
Here is a picture of Romania
Maybe you can tell me the hours when you will arrive in Cluj , to help you to find the better way to come in Baia Mare ( bus or train)
Elena Rusu
Where We Are Now
Hello Friends,
Some of you may be completing your application forms for your national agency. You might want to write something like this for sections E1 and E2 - but feel free to change this if you want to.
Although this is where we are now, we can change this at the meeting in January.
Section E1Start date: Sept 2010
Title: The Fair Trade Community Sports Olympics
Ten schools from eight countries involved - UK, Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland
The project will pursue three themes which may develop into a major sports event, created and planned by the students combined with a Fair Trade market.
The three key themes are:
1) Cultural Diversity and Community Cohesion within the European Family of Nations
2) Local sports traditions
3) Fair Trade
Students will form international clusters generating curriculum projects in each of these areas. As we will also be exploring the theme of social enterprise, any profits generated will be diverted to a socially useful activity of the students' choosing.
The project will be integrated into other areas of the curriculum such as Business Studies, Sports Education, Mathematics and Humanities.
and for section E2, you might write something like this:
Representatives from all nine schools will attend the preliminary meeting, the main purpose of which will be to follow this agenda:
1) Aims & Objectives of the Project
2) Communications
3) Reporting procedures
4) Activities planning for the two years
5) Division of responsibilities and action plan for year one
6) Assessment procedures
It is intended, however, that the meeting should provide an opportunity to develop additional joint activities such as joint research projects between teachers, a sports tour and so on - in order to maximise the output from the investment into the trip.
Some of you may be completing your application forms for your national agency. You might want to write something like this for sections E1 and E2 - but feel free to change this if you want to.
Although this is where we are now, we can change this at the meeting in January.
Section E1Start date: Sept 2010
Title: The Fair Trade Community Sports Olympics
Ten schools from eight countries involved - UK, Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland
The project will pursue three themes which may develop into a major sports event, created and planned by the students combined with a Fair Trade market.
The three key themes are:
1) Cultural Diversity and Community Cohesion within the European Family of Nations
2) Local sports traditions
3) Fair Trade
Students will form international clusters generating curriculum projects in each of these areas. As we will also be exploring the theme of social enterprise, any profits generated will be diverted to a socially useful activity of the students' choosing.
The project will be integrated into other areas of the curriculum such as Business Studies, Sports Education, Mathematics and Humanities.
and for section E2, you might write something like this:
Representatives from all nine schools will attend the preliminary meeting, the main purpose of which will be to follow this agenda:
1) Aims & Objectives of the Project
2) Communications
3) Reporting procedures
4) Activities planning for the two years
5) Division of responsibilities and action plan for year one
6) Assessment procedures
It is intended, however, that the meeting should provide an opportunity to develop additional joint activities such as joint research projects between teachers, a sports tour and so on - in order to maximise the output from the investment into the trip.
Welcome to the Comlympics!!
Welcome to all our partners in Romania, Turkey, Poland, Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria and the UK!!
The purpose of this project is to examine the benefits of cultural diversity within a framework of community cohesion within the Family of Nations that is the European Community. It has been suggested that we do this through the medium of sport. A second curriculum target will be to promote responsible enterprise within the students taking part in the project. This may be done through the students organising a sports event supported by a Fair Trade market.
The target may be therefore to build in the second year of the project towards the Community Olympics or Comlympics - a one-day event that will feature teams involved in sports that are special to the countries involved in the project. This might involve sports such as cricket from the UK and oina from Romania.
Alongside the sports events on the day, we may also feature a Fair Trade event with appropriate market stalls and games.
However, these are only the ideas that are being discussed at the moment. Elena Rusu will be organising a preliminary meeting in Baia Mare in January to which you will all be invited. As a democratic project, you will all have an equal opportunity to decide what should be the curriculum targets for the project, when the meetings should be and what the final outcome of the project will be in the second year.
If you cannot make the meeting, you can keep up with events through this blog!!
All of you have access rights to this blog and will be able to post your comments at any time.
Best wishes to all
Andrew
The purpose of this project is to examine the benefits of cultural diversity within a framework of community cohesion within the Family of Nations that is the European Community. It has been suggested that we do this through the medium of sport. A second curriculum target will be to promote responsible enterprise within the students taking part in the project. This may be done through the students organising a sports event supported by a Fair Trade market.
The target may be therefore to build in the second year of the project towards the Community Olympics or Comlympics - a one-day event that will feature teams involved in sports that are special to the countries involved in the project. This might involve sports such as cricket from the UK and oina from Romania.
Alongside the sports events on the day, we may also feature a Fair Trade event with appropriate market stalls and games.
However, these are only the ideas that are being discussed at the moment. Elena Rusu will be organising a preliminary meeting in Baia Mare in January to which you will all be invited. As a democratic project, you will all have an equal opportunity to decide what should be the curriculum targets for the project, when the meetings should be and what the final outcome of the project will be in the second year.
If you cannot make the meeting, you can keep up with events through this blog!!
All of you have access rights to this blog and will be able to post your comments at any time.
Best wishes to all
Andrew
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