Wednesday 16 December 2015



Open day for 4th graders

Four students from class 5a participated in the open day for the 4th forms of the BG/BRG Judenburg on the 27th November 2015. On this open day, students of the 4th grades were informed about the curriculum, subjects and facilities they can expect in higher grades of the BG/BRG Judenburg.


Victoria Weiss, Verena Fössl, Schnedl Paula and Viktoria Petrisch represented the project committee in order to promote the idea of Erasmus+ as a further opportunity to gain project and professional experience.


The project representatives explained in their presentation the characteristics of Erasmus+ in general and which opportunities it offers to schools and students. They explained that Erasmus+ offers the possibilities for students to join an EU funded project, to cooperate with 28 European countries, to improve one’s ICT, language, social and professional skills.


They also mentioned students’ requirements to participate in an Erasmus+ project in higher grades of the BG/BRG Judenburg, which are:

  • ·         age 14+
  • ·         sufficient knowledge of English / German
  • ·         open-mindedness, proactivity, reliability, responsibility
  • ·         the readiness to do additional work for the project
Finally the Erasmus+ project delegation presented facts about the current Erasmus+ project entitled: “Crossing Borders: New Approaches to Inclusion”.




Erasmus+ Brochure 
BG/BRG Judenburg 


Sunday 13 December 2015

International Days of Persons with Disabilities



From 30th November to 3rd December our school celebrated the International Days of Persons with Disabilities. 
During these days our students prepared some posters on issues related to people with disabilities and put them up on the walls all over the school. In physical education classes, some of our students were asked to play games while being blindfolded or confined to wheelchairs in order to raise their awareness of how hard it is for disabled people to play these games. On Thursday the 3rd December almost every student was wearing a yellow T-shirt to show that we are together and we accept their differences. It was very  funny and yellow day, indeed. What is more, some students were reciting poems learnt by heart, which was very touching. Finally, another small group of students with their teachers participated in the observance of the International Days of Persons with Disabilities in our city in “Rondo” Sports Centre. It was a very important and gathering time for our school which promotes the idea of working together and being together with disabled children.















Tuesday 1 December 2015

Austria
Newspaperarticles 
Ocotber / November 2015 








Visit 
from the 
Erasmus+ Project Partners 
at the BG/BRG Judenburg 


From the 5th to 6th November 2015 there was the first meeting between the teachers of the Erasmus+ project. The project managers Mag. Bernd Fichtl and Mag. Ilse Prenn from the BG/BRG Judenburg welcomed the four teachers of the partner countries. Jaime Castillo  Sainz from Spain/Gandia, Matgorzata Gralewski and Matgorzata Krzymińska from Poland/Konin and Tine Pejstrup from Denmark/ Aalbourg.   
Furthermore at the official project opening the head of the Simultania Helmut A. Ploschnitznigg, his assistant Monika Leissenberger and Mario Reiter took part. At the first part of the meeting the teachers presented their schools. Moreover the teachers of the partner schools could make a round tour at the BG/BRG Judenburg 
After the welcome by Dir. Mag. Mr. Johann Mischlinger in the library, the teachers were invited to a lunch. In the afternoon, the whole project group visited Graz the capital of Styria. The first day was finished by a comfortable dinner. 
At Friday, there were many workshops and project activities between the project partners and they discussed about topics across the project. The project members visited also the Simultania, which is part of the project. Helmut A. Ploschnitznigg showed them the whole building.  

Verena Fössl and Paula Schnedl (5a) 

 

 

Austria
OUR PARTNERORGANISATION





Colegio Abad Sola 


Abad Sola School is a concerted school that has students from 2-16 years at the following levels: Nursery, Primary and Compulsory Secondary. We have approx. 420 students and 28 teachers with differents specialities. The students start at the age of 2 or 3 years, and the leave or school at the end of the compulsory Secondary (16). The school offers a wide range of subjects in different fields: science, sports, arts, languages, humanities. We have participated in several european projects, and also in several national programs related to evironmental education, introduction to reasearch... We try to educate with the Information and Communications Technologies: we have two computers rooms, one mobile computer classroom, and every classroom has one computer and a projector. 
Students form Abad Sola school come from all social classes, but most of them come form middle or lower middle classes.

They have quite a long experience with projects in general, and also in EU projects. Their school has participated in environmental projects, and also in one kind of projects that they had in Spain some years ago in which the students took part in a program aimed to recover abandoned towns and rural areas, and also wanted students better acquainted with the way of life in the countryside. These projects have been organized and supported by our National Government, and also by our Regional Government.
In their city they have also participated in environmental projects for example related to reforestation, equality between men and women, and solidarity with the needs. Abada Sola school is sponsoring a group of needy children in Colombia, in order that they can get an education and a future, and the entire educational community participates in this charity project.
For years their students have participated in small projects introduction to research those which have allowed them to participate in contests national, in which attaining some honorable mention.


This wil be their  fifth European project. They have been involved in four European Projects (two billateral Comenius Projects and other two multilateral ones). They have worked with schools from Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, Slovakia and Romania. Their projects have focused on issues such as water uses and its legends, visual dictionaries, tourism and heritage... They have also participated in Euroscola, and we have had a couple of language assistants form the EU.
They have worked with one instituion form Gandia that work with handicapped young people. They prepare them to special occupations and cooperate with industries, so that these young people have a job opportunity. They had been in our school and the monitors of the association and some of the young handicapped people had acted as teachers with our students: we were taught to do mosaics.



 

Sofiendalskolen


The school has been taking part in many projects such as:
- 'Make a step' project conducted by AISEC organization, the project assumes cooperation with 
   students from different countries that come to our school to conduct cultural classes in thEnglish    
 language,
- ' A young citizen' project, it is a Polish project that promotes the knowledge of local community and shows what actions students can take in their local environment.
- PO WER project which is an additional source of funding for Erasmus+ KA1 action( EU funds), we were accepted to the programme in December 2014. Our teachers are going to take part in the English language and methodology courses in the UK and job shadowing in Germany.
 

The school is a quite a young school and they have never taken part in a students exchange project and it will be our first experience.

Sofiendalskolen is experienced in working with handicapped people and also in working on international projects as they have carried out two Comenius project in the past. They also have a close cooperation with other institutions that care for handicapped people which will be of great support for this project. At Sofiendalskolen they teach a blind boy, who is included in normal classes, and that he has been since he started. Furthermore they have a  special department responsible for classes with students with special needs such ADHD. All participating teachers have excellent ICT knowledge to carry out reports and dissemination activities.