Connecting Classrooms Project Diary. August, 2011

August 24-28, 2011

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Changing the world – challenging youth’. European Youth Parliament -Ukraine
This time European Youth Parliament sitting took place in Chernihiv, Ukraine. Regional
Session was held on August 24-28th, 2011 The Session took place under the patronage
of the Mayor of Chernihiv and the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine. Oleksandr
Pukas, one of the students’ leaders of Connecting Classrooms Project school # 15 Rivne,
was chosen to be a participant of this great event.

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August 22-26, 2011

A group of CC cluster schools from the North Cyprus visited Ukraine within the  frame of the project “Four Cultures –Four Countries” for the cultural exchange. This was a pioneer visit to finalize the annual program of the CC project which has had a lot of the events in four countries- Ukraine, Cyprus, Malta, and North Wales.

Final Annual CC Activity Report of school # 15 Rivne

August, 2011

The Outline of the Program of the Exchange visit of CC North Cyprus schools to Rivne, Ukraine.

August 22-23, 2011 Kiev

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August 24, 2011

A welcoming ceremony in school # 15 became a great event of making friends and getting to know
each other better.
https://picasaweb.google.com/106163571114267756221/August24_WelcomingSchool15_Rivne
The teachers from Cyprus had the chance to try Ukrainian dishes at the picnic in Chervona Kalyna,
the party place for school # 15 CC program coordinators. They enjoyed the ways people in Ukraine
celebrate their national holiday of Independence.
https://picasaweb.google.com/106163571114267756221/August292011

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August 24, 2011

The guest from Cyprus had a nice day visiting the events of the Independence Day Fest in Rivne,enjoying the exhibitions of the national crafts, folk dance groups’ and folk songs concerts, the event of the national costume Fest.
https://picasaweb.google.com/106163571114267756221/August24_Fest_Rivne Becoming friends is so easy… https://picasaweb.google.com/106163571114267756221/August24Friends Ozge Tahiroglu spent her time working in the master class making a toy. While working she was thinking about a new project for Rivne and Nicosia Turkish Maarif College students. More people will have the chance to join in. https://picasaweb.google.com/106163571114267756221/August24MasterClass_Rivne


August 25, 2011 Ukrainian Folk Dancing Class

The dancing class continued even at the railway station…The group of CC participants practiced some elements of the Ukrainian folk dance. They got to know about the history of folk dancing traditions. The Ukrainian folk dance was very popular in Ukraine in the 18 century, especially Ukrainian cossacks liked to dance and their favourite dance was the "hopak". It is an original Ukrainian folk dance with a lot of improvisations. Its name is derived from "hopaty" to leap and stamp one`s feet". It arose as a male dance at the Zaporizhian Sich in the 16th century and gradually spread throughout Ukraine, particularly through the Kyiv region. As it spread it became transformed into a group dance performed by couples with males retaining the lead role. It has several variants: a solo dance, a group and couple dance, and in Western Ukraine a circular dance (hopak-kolo) became popular. The elements of the Ukrainian folk dance have also their own peculiarities. For example, in the Carpathian region the landscape is mountainous so people can`t jump high and do small steps while dancing; the central part of Ukraine is flat so the basic male movements are leaps, squats,stretches on the ground and in the air,and various turns;the female movements are quick steps, bends and turns. The "hopak" is the culminating dance in the repertoire of almost all Ukrainian dance ensembles. The teacher to conduct a dancing class was Nastia Sihilyetova.
https://picasaweb.google.com/106163571114267756221/August25DancingClass_Rivne

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August 25, 2011 The Review on the Workshop in Cooking Dishes of the Ukrainian Cuisine

The Workshop was held on August 25 in The Rivne College of Economics and Business. At first Romanchuk Vasil, the director of the college warmly greeted students and the organizer of master-class Anna Sukhetska, a trainer of this college said a few welcoming words to students from Cyprus. Then she describes some kinds of Ukrainian borsch. After that students were preparing the working places and raw materials, peeling and cutting vegetables for cooking Ukrainian red borsch. Then we had a short acquainting excursion in the college. After the break students were taught how to cook another Ukrainian dish, varenyky. Our trainer showed us how to make various kinds of them. Everybody made them very thoroughly and enthusiastically. Besides they got acquainted with the tradition to put some surprises into varenyky on Ukrainian holidays, and they try to do it themselves then. After that all students actively participated in the quiz “All about vegetables”. It was very funny for children to show their knowledge and to know new facts from the history of some vegetables, and to get some prizes as well. When dinner was ready everybody tasted the Ukrainian dishes. Everything was delicious, especially because we cooked it together. At the end the students were handed the certificates of the participants of this master-class. It was an unexpected surprise for them. They were very happy.
https://picasaweb.google.com/106163571114267756221/August25MasterClass_cooking_Rivne
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August 26, 2011 Back to Kiev

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A welcoming meeting in the British Council, Kiev

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Connecting Classrooms Project Diary. July- August, 2011

July-August, 2011

We’re highly honored to host a group of teachers and pupils from Cyprus  in Rivne school 15 from 23.08.2011 till 26.08.2011 and are looking forward  to meeting our friends. A lot of work on the exchange preparation has already been done:  an exciting cultural program including sightseeing in Kyiv, Rivne and Rivne region has been planned carefully, an invitation letter has been sent, all the details of this visit have been discussed with teachers from school-partners via the Internet, 16 host families have been chosen to introduce new friends from Cyprus to Ukrainian culture.

We really want this exchange to be a success and do believe our friends from school partners will benefit a lot personally from communication with us and, of course, will get unforgettable impressions about Rivne  school 15, its pupils and teachers, hospitable families, our town and a beautiful country Ukraine.  

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Charity For Children That Have Cancer

During the 2010-2011 Academic year there was started a new project called ‘Hospital Schools’ for students that can’t attend schools due to their illness and are having treatment at   Dr.Burhan Nalbantoglu State Hospital Oncology Service. Within this project students are taught Turkish,Mathematics, English, Science, Technology and Social Studies. For these children to have a better education environment and treatment we have started a project called ‘50+’.

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