The document summarizes a Comenius school meeting in Bedzin, Poland. It describes visits to the host school where they saw flags of participating countries, met with teachers to discuss the exchange project, observed classrooms, and had lunch in the decorated cafeteria. It also discusses attending the Comenius Day celebration with performances by students and a choir, watching a play about the city's myth and a Romeo and Juliet skit. The group observed sample lessons on traditions and diet/food as well as visited the city hall and an educational center in Slansk to learn traditional dancing.

1. COMENIUS
Our first Comenius meeting at Bedzin,
Poland

2. The hotel

3. The school

4. The inside-Flags
 There are flags in the
entrance of the school
and in every corridor and
the students know which
countries they represent.

5. The project

6. In the teachers’ office
(Place of work for the project)
 Welcome from the
headteacher and offer of
gifts to the guests
 Table with traditional local
food
 Discussion about the
project and planning of
the next activities

7. The classrooms
(Meeting with students and teachers)

8. Classrooms

11. Computer lab

12. The place where teachers and students
have lunch
The place is decorated
with crafts which concern
our project.

13. Comenius day
 In the gym of the school, we attended the Comenius Day, a school
show dedicated to our project. Local educational authorities as
well as the parents’ association were also present. We also
watched a performance from a local choir. The whole place was
decorated with embroideries and traditional costumes made by the
students’ families.

14.  The school headteacher welcomes the attendants and
refers to the general principles of the program. Next,
cities’ video presentations are shown and we watch
performance from the choir.

15. Play-the myth of the city Bedzin
 A student who
pretends to be
Comenius is the
narrator.

16. Romeo and Juliet
 Play with Romeo saying
“I love you” to Juliet in
every language apart
from Polish.

17. Dances
(traditional and modern)

18. Dramatization representative of each
country
 Every country is
represented with the
relevant clothing and
music. A student holds a
basket with grapes and
dances while we listen to
a song by B. Tsitsanis. In
the end, she gives the
grapes to the people.

19. End of Comenius Day

20. Sample teaching
 The topic of the lesson which took place in Polish was:
tradition-handicrafts. There was plenty of material and
objects which were coming out of a trunk sent by
grandma.

21.  An interactive board was used and the students
actively participated in the lesson.

22.  In the end they embroidered a bookmark. The same task
was asked by the teachers who were watching the
lesson.

23. Lesson
Diet and local food
 The lesson was
conducted in English.
There was a video
presentation which
included pictures and
small texts according to
the level of the students.

24.  The material used:
branches, leaves and fruit of our place, olives and sweets relevant to
our lesson
All the students tasted the food.

25.  Worksheets were given to
the students and a puzzle
with the imabe of
goddess Athena was
prepared on the internet.
Goddess Athena was
presented to the
students through the
ancient greek myth of
Athens taking its name
from the goddess as an
exchange for the gift of
the olive tree.

27. Visit at the City Hall
 Meeting with the local authorities. Exchange of gifts.

28. Central corridor of the city hall
(The importance of school in the city’s
life)

29. Workshop in Slansk
 A private educational centre of
conservation of tradition,
unique in Poland. A complex of
buildings with museums,
teaching classrooms,
projection rooms, theatre and
others.

30. Teaching of local traditional dance
 We were taught dances
from a professional
dancer of a famous folk
dance group, which has
travelled and given
performances in many
countries.

31. The museum

32. Visiting Cracow