| PLANT A FUTURE: BASQUE FLAYERS Apr 18th 2012, 07:54 VISIT TO TURKEY ( AKHISAR) Here you can see some pictures of our fantastic visit to Turkey!It was our third visit in the project. We had the chance to meet new people, learn about ancient culture, make a lot of friends and have an unforgettable time. We also talked about the work we have already done, we agreed on further activities and planned the next visit to Poland Thanks to the Turkish team for making it possible!!  VISIT TO ITALY All project partners met in Taranto- Italy for the second meeting: Italian, Polish, Latvian, German, Turkish, Bulgarian and Basque. It was a great success!! We had time to present the work done by all the groups, evaluate the aims and activities, agree on next steps and of course taste the best of Italian culture. We visited the two Italian schools that take part in the project, tasted italian food, saw interesting and beautiful places, met friendly people, and the most important thing:shared all those incredible experiences among us. AN ENORMOUS THANKS to our Italian friends for making it possible!!! VISIT TO GERNIKA 
Here we are in the old Assembly House of Gernika where the famous tree is placed. The tree of Gernika is an oak tree that symbolizes traditional freedoms for the Basque people. The lords of Biscay swore to respect the Biscayan liberties under it, and the modern president of the Basque Country swears his charge there. During our visit, each country was given some oak corns from the tree to plant in their schools.
VISIT TO THE BASQUE COUNTRY The first meeting in Zeberio was a great experience for all of us. It gave us the chance to meet our partners, talk about the project and plan further activities and deadlines. Students and teachers from different European countries shared a lot of especial moments. 
Happy Easter card designed by Italian students from Taranto
Nice Easter break and a wonderful SPRINGTIME to all our friends.
STUDENTS CAMP 
4th and 5th classes from ZUBIALDE school were on a camp from 12th to 16th march. Lots of cooperative games, emotions, Basque and fun!
HAPPY 8th MARCH. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WOMEN!! 
BULGARIAN CELEBRATIONS 
Have a look at some shows and reading activities in the Bulgarian school. Congratulations for parents´involvement !
BULGARIAN MARTENITZA WORKSHOP 
Martenitza symbilizes new life, conception, fertility and spring. It is usually pinned on the clothes near the collar or tied around the wrist. The tradition is to wear the martenitza until one person sees a stork or a blooming tree.
MARTENITZA, A BULGARIAN TRADITION IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY 
Here are some pictures of our students making Bulgarian "martenitza"
POLISH EXHIBITION 
Polish friends made an exhibition with pictures of the different Carnival we celebrate in our countries. Here are some pictures.
CARNIVAL 2012 IN ZEBERIO We celebrated Carnival at school last 17th February. It was a very good show. We performed a "pastoral". "Pastoral" used to be a long religeous performance very popular through the whole Europe since Middle Ages. Now it only remains in a Basque province from the French territory. Though it has completely lost its religeous sense, it still reminds the origial traditional music and way of acting.It is all written in verse and it is usually about a famous character or a happening. We wrote our "pastoral" about the new school building and all the problems we had before being allowed to move there. AGATE DEUNA 2012 
Last saturday -february 4th- we celebrated Agate Deuna. On this day, people go out and sing from house to house to collect money. This year we had snow for the first time. It was cold but very beautiful. We started singing at 9:30 nd finished at 19:00
ENGLISH CAMP 
Students in 5 and 6th class from the Basque Country were in an English camp between january 16th and january 20th. A whole week speaking English and having a good time together with students of other rural schools from Biscay and Gipuzkoa.
THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR 
The German children performed the story of "the very hungry caterpillar" and shared their pictures with all of us. It looks really professional!!
HAPPY RAMADAN TO TURKISH PARTNERS It is time for Ramadan Feast that marks the end of the fasting month. During the feast people visit relatives, give their respect to older, give away, sweets and desserts...
150th ANNYVERSARY OF THE UNITY OF ITALY 
From an Italy divided into seven states on the 17th March 1861,the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Sardinia approved the Basic Law of the Unitary state in which " the king Vittorio Emanuele II assumed for himself and his successors the titleof king of Italy." 150 years after this historic date, a party flaginvolved the streets of Rome as the major cities of Italy At our school all the students celebrated this event on 16th March because on the 17th was public holiday.
CHILDREN´S DAY 23 April National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey is a unique event. The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, dedicated April 23 to the children of the country to emphasize that they are the future of the new nation. Every year, the children in Turkey celebrate this day as a national holiday. Here are some pictures of celebration both in our school and in our district. KNOW ABOUT MANISA´S MESIR FESTIVAL  There are 41 species used in the making of Mesir. 3,5 tonnes of Mesir was scattered from the doom and the minarets of Sultan Mosque. Click on the picture and learn about the origen of this delicious and healthy tradition . HOLY WEEK IN ITALY  click on the picture and read about Italian traditions for Easter HAPPY EASTER 
Latvian picture
KORRIKA IS COMING  Korrika is the Basque name of a countrywide non stopping race organised by AEK, an organisation which teaches Basque and Basque literacy to adults.The first Korrika took place in 1980.Since then, the race has become one of the Basque Country's major events in terms of number of participants. It is held every two years.A hollow baton is carried during the race and exchanges hands at each change of kilometre. Inside there is a message which will not be made public until the Korrika ends when a Basque personality reads it out loud. KORRIKA at school 
This year the official KORRIKA is not visiting Zeberio but the nearby towns so we celebrated a small KORRIKA at school. Everybody took part. In the evening many activities were organized by cultural associations and parents
1st APRIL- FUN DAY  Kintergarter chid´s friend is sending you smiles and love from Bulgary POLISH "MARZANNA"  The first day of spring used to be celebrated quite differently than it is now. The oncoming spring was welcome with spring cleaning. On the first Sunday of May winter expelling was held. A spruce tree was decorated with colorful ribbons, papers and pictures of saints. This 'Maik' was carried around by boys and girls. Songs about saying farewell to winter and welcoming summer were sung. These days all over Poland, spring is welcome on March 21 st and winter is expelled by sinking or burning 'Marzanna.' CARNIVAL IN ITALY You can find information about traditional dishes, parades and how to have fun at Carnival in Taranto CHIACCHIERE 
This is a traditional Carnival dessert from Italy.Try at home, it is delicious!!.Click on the word Taranto for the recipy.
CARNIVAL IN LATVIA 
Latvians also have masking traditions but we do it before Christmas.The mask characters are similar - we also have cranes, goats, bears and even the Death. And it's believed that one who dances with the Death will be lucky the whole next year
According to old Latvian beliefs people have to help the sun to find its way back to people. So people dress up in masks and try to frighten away the darkness and all the evil that comes with it. More often in the countryside mask processions go from home to home and it is believed that they bring blessing to the visited families.
CARNIVAL IN BULGARIA  On several occasions during the year, ritual games called "Kukeri" take place in Bulgaria. The Kukeri games aim to scare away the evil spirits with their magic dances.You can see lovely photographs and interesting explanations just by clicking on the picture above CARNIVAL IN POLAND  "Zapusty" is the Polish name for Carnival. Polish celebrate Carnival eating " favorki", riding a "kulig" and dressing up as a " Zapust". You can learn much more if you click on the photograph above CARNIVAL IN STRALSUND Today we celebrated carnival at school. During the art lessons the children painted pictures about carnival and performed handicraft works ( clown masks made from paper for decoration). After the lessons the teachers and the children met in the gymnasium. Everybody was wearing a costume. Together we danced and played funny games.
CARNIVAL IN ZEBERIO  This is a performance of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. We prepared it for Carnival and all the school took part in it. We worked the dialogues, chose the music, wrote the lirycs, made attrezzo and stage and finally...performed it for parents. Afterwords we had some hot chocolate and biscuits.It was a great success. You can click on the photograph for a short taste of it. Listen to one of the songs from the musical. The Pied Piper of Hamelin BASQUE CARNIVAL There are a lot of traditions in the Basque Country related to Carnival. Depending on the place , you can find many different characters that represent our fears, wishes and instints. You can know a bit about it. Just click on the picture below.
WOMEN´S DAY WISHES!  Dear Plant a Future girls,Congratulations for the Woman's Day 8 March!Much love to all of you. Tzvetana MARTENITSA - A Bulgarian tradition  On the first day of March and for many days afterwards, Bulgarians exchange and wear white symbols called martenitsa. Do you want to know more?Click on the photograph above. CHRISTMAS IN TARANTO  Clck on the photograph above to see some Christmas traditions from Italy CHRISTMAS TIME IN LATVIA Have a look at the Latvian presentation about X-mas and read about Christmas traditions in that country. SANTA AGEDA - EUSKAL HERRIA (4th february)  The story is about a girl called Agate Deuna. She was born in 230 ad. A governor, Quinciano, wanted to marry her but she didn´t want to so Quinciano took her to jail and cut off her chest. She was tortured and she died in Katania on 5th February 251 aged 21. Nowadays we go from house to house and we sing to remember her. Some knock on the door and ask for money. We did so on Friday and we got 1012,77€.You can listen to our students singing Santa Ageda just with a clik on the picture above CHRISTMAS PHOTO ALBUM Have a look at the Bulgarian celebrations for X- mas CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM TURKEY 
they don´t celebrate Christmas but they have made some cards for us. Thank you!!
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM GERMANY During the last days the children at primary school „Juri Gagarin" made Christmas cards for all the friends in Basque country, Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Turkey. We hope you get our cards in time and you can make yourself a Merry Christmas.
Every Tuesday morning during Christmas time we meet in the school entrance hall and sing Christmas carols together.
TURKISH ANTIQUES This week , we displayed an exhibition and had small talks on the subject '' I'm learning my past''. Our students collected antiques to compare with today and learn more about our culture and history. They liked this activity They have been hunting on these objects from their grandparents houses.:) TURKISH EXHIBITION Last week, Our students displayed a small exhibition on technology and desing. We'd like to share with you! LATVIAN CELEBRATIONS Here you can see November events in Latvia and our school prepared by our students as a PPT presention
SOME MORE LATVIAN CELEBRATIONS  click on the photograph 3rd DECEMBER THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE BASQUE LANGUAGE -EUSKARA Do you know that there are about 5000 languages in the world that belong to 16 different branches? Still there are about 5 isolated languges that don´t seem to belong to any of these branches, one of them is the Basque Language or Euskara. EUSKARAREN EGUNA Today is the international day of EuskaraWe made a poster with photos and conpromises. It is an important day for us and were are going to do special things: dancing,songs and lots more. By Naiara and Maider
HAVE A GOOD TIME!!!
SOME NEWS ABOUT OUR POLISH PARTNER In November we celebrate some holidays. At the begining of the mont, on 1st Nov., it was All Saints` Day. This day we remember our died relatives and friends. We put flowers and burn candles on their graves and we pray for their souls and attend special nasses. Next day it is All Souls` Day, which is the follow-up of the first day. On 11th November we have another holiday – Independence Day. This day commemorales the regaining independence by Poland after the First World War. SOME BULGARIAN CRAFTS Do you want to see what Bulgarian students can make? BULGARIAN CELEBRATIONS We had a public celebration with the Kindergarten, devoted to the Day of Enlightenmeht - 1 November, /a very important Bulgarian celebration of national figures, who gave light, through knowledge and arts to the people. We also had a funny Halloween fest, with all children dressed like witches and goblins, wher all sketches and songs were in English. The most important of all, was the celebration of the International Day of Tolerance - 16th November. Our Association was appointed by the European Commision to organize the celebration on the very date and we undertook a broad range of preparatory activities. On the very 16th of November we celebrated the Day of Tolerance with a colourful concert performance in one of Sofia theatres.We had all kinds of children performing: Gypsies, children with disabilities blind, deaf,... STORYTELLER IN ZEBERIO Today in the morning a storyteller came to our school. she told a story in our class. The story was about a school. It was very interesting. By Naroa and Eider. PARTNER SCHOOLS  LOVELY PHOTOGRAPH by ATATÜRK school, a Turkish school in Manisa.If you want to know something else about the school click on the photograph  | |
