Transnational Meeting in Austria - 15

Let’s go cultural! 2019-2021

Schedule for the week in Austria

Meeting in Deutschlandsberg (Styria) November 15th - 19th 2021

Volksschule Wildbach

Day 1 – Monday 15th November (VS Wildbach)

Welcoming event and historical festival

(Video from the Whitehouse Common Primary School website and Erasmus+ blog by Señora Stevens).

Hospitation in 4 classes

Topic: Festivals of Austria

Greece – 1a Dolphines

Turkey – 1b Foxes

England – 2a Owls

Spain – 3b Rabbits

Presentation of the Austrian educational system

Visiting Castle Deutschlandsberg

"Traktor Gaudi" - A fun tour with a tractor around Deutschlandsberg

Dinner at Restaurant "Ursprung"

(Video from the Whitehouse Common Primary School website and Erasmus+ blog by Señora Stevens).

Day 2 – Tuesday 16th November (VS Wildbach)

First teacher meeting

Sharing our good practices and community building among partner teachers.

One moment song – (Canon – Es tönen die Lieder)

First lesson of the partner teachers

Topic: Festivals in partner countries

Greece – 2a Owls

Turkey – 3b Rabbits

As the Turkish teachers where not able to come to Austria we still wanted to learn about their culture of course. The Turkish teachers sent us their preparations in advance and so we still where able to do the Turkish lessons in our classes without the teachers unfortunately.

So on Tuesday the “Foxes” learned about the “Kids Festival” of Turkey. We even had a Skype meeting with Nida, a Turkish teacher which was very nice. The kids of the fox class loved to talk to him via a Videocall.

We watched the Video of the Kids festival of Turkey together and then Nida answered our questions about Atatürk.

Of course the whole fox class wanted to be part of the next “Kids Festival” in Turkey.

We enjoyed this Turkish topic a lot. THANK YOU TURKEY!

England – 4a Tigers

Spain – 4b Fish

Seminar

Topic: “How important is it to preserve our cultural heritage?”

An unexpected event

Owls and Lions invite us to join them in singing a variety of songs as part of the project visit to VS Wildbach in Deutschlandsberg

(Video from the Whitehouse Common Primary School website and Erasmus+ blog by Señora Stevens).

Day trip to Graz, the capital city of Styria

Dinner at Restaurant "Glöckelbräu" in Graz

(Video from the Whitehouse Common Primary School website and Erasmus+ blog by Señora Stevens).

Day 3 – Wednesday 17th November (VS Wildbach)

Pupils presentation of local festivals of Austria

(Video from the Whitehouse Common Primary School website and Erasmus+ blog by Señora Stevens).

Second lesson of the partner teachers

Topic: Grafitti Workshops

Greece – 1b Foxes

Turkey – 3a Lions

On Wednesday, the “Lions” dealt with Turkey.
Unfortunately the Turkish teachers could not be here with us, but we’ve learned a lot about their country and their customs in this unit.
The class watched videos from the “Tulip Festival” in Istanbul as well as an impressive video about the Cappadocia region.
Afterwards the children designed Graffiti.
It was great fun! THANKS FROM THE LIONS

England – 4b Fish

Spain – 1a Dolphines

Our digital graffiti walls were prepared by the Austrian partners in collaboration with the rest of the partner teachers and they consist of culture words

First Skype meeting with the British students

Visiting Castle Stainz

Dinner at Buschenschank "Orsl"

(Video from the Whitehouse Common Primary School website and Erasmus+ blog by Señora Stevens).

Day 4 – Thursday 18th November (VS Trahütten)

Second teacher meeting

Third lesson of the partner teachers

Topic: Traditional games

Greece – Group A

Spain – Group B

Turkey – Group C

On Thursday, the kids from our partner school in Trahütten learned many new games from all the countries visiting. First the “Turkish game group” watched the movie about the game of Turkey. Then we talked via Videocall to Nida - the Turkish teacher. Then the group of kids also played the Turkish playground game. You had to catch a flag and run away with it as fast as you could. The kids had been very ambitious about it and one time two boys even crashed into each other a bit because they had been so into it. But don’t worry – nobody got hurt.

It was a lot of fun to play this game together. Thanks for teaching us a new game Turkey!