LITHUANIA 1



In 2013 -2015 our school is participating in the Comenius project “Rhythm of heart is rhythm of life” (ROHROL). The idea and the goal of the project are to develop the skills of healthy lifestyle and apply them to life and family. During the project most of the activities will be integrated into the lessons. Students will write essays, create poems and create a role-play scenario in the lessons of Lithuanian language. In mathematics and ICT lessons students will fill in questionnaires and summarize their results, also they will prepare the presentations on subjects about healthy lifestyle. In nature and technology lessons students will explore the ingredients of food and will try to find healthy food in the traditional Lithuanian cuisine. In art lessons students will design the logo. During the class lessons, as well as human safety, ethics and religion lessons students will learn communicative skills, how to manage and control stress in stressful situations, develop preventive healthy lifestyle and will create the posters. In music and choreography lessons students will learn folk dances and songs of countries, which participate in the project. In the language lessons the children will learn everyday phrases and prepare glossaries of the partner countries. In geography and history lessons the students will get acquainted with the geographic location and history of the countries, which participate in the project. In physical education lessons the pupils and teachers will select exercises, which they would like to share with the project partners. 


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November 2013-May 2014


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On May 29th  the school headmaster Ona Subaciene invited psychologist E. Karmaza, who introduced students’ parents to the stress management techniques. The lecture was very helpful to the parents. In particular, they liked the practical advice on how quickly and effectively to get out of the stress condition and help to control and reduce the stress to their children.
 

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In April in the ROHROL website, the comparison of responses in the questionnaire about healthy lifestyle was presented. On April 10th the teachers who returned from Italy, shared their experiences. Teachers Audronė and Ilona presented ​​a memorable slideshow of the Italian landscape, Fano city and interesting, purposeful activities that they saw in G. Padalino school. Teachers were happy because of the sincerity of School principals, Italian hospitality, enchanting smiles and wonderful parents of the families where our girls lived. We noticed that the curriculum is focused more on the building of artistic abilities (painting, music), therefore Italy is famous for its artists. We will try to use this experience at our school. Teachers who participated in the presentation of the trip, were treated to Italian sweets. Teacher Aldona fried meatballs stuffed with olives and teacher Audrone made ​​Panna cotta dessert.


 Teachers Raimonda and Inga collected information about non-traditional techniques of stress management, and prepared a presentation.

The proposal was considered to include laughter therapy during breaks.

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In March the students made the daily menu of healthy traditional Lithuanian cuisine. Lithuania has the change of the seasons and the traditional diet is very different at different times of the year. So pupils made two versions of menus: one for the winter and the other for the summer.

Menu       No. 1
(For the summer)

Breakfast
Cottage cheese cuts “Tingineliai”
Snack
Fresh tomato salad
Lunch
“Saltibarsciai” (cold soup) with boiled potatoes
Dinner
Pancakes with fresh berries

Menu No. 2
(For the winter)

Breakfast
Buckwheat cereal with vegetable gravy
Snack
Baked apple
Lunch
Barsciai (beetroot and sour cabbage soup) with baked potatoes
Balandeliai (minced meat wrapped in cabbage leaves)
Dinner
“Svilpikai” with sauce and tomato salad


The dishes, which are healthy and easy to make and are familiar to the students were included in the menu. While preparing for the visit to Italy pupils had to choose a dish representing Lithuania and learn how to make it on the Cooking day. After the evaluation of a variety of Italian products and the kitchen equipment options of the host school (there were no conditions to use the oven or to fry), pupils decided to choose cottage cheese cuts “Tingineliai”. Students participated in the practice of the preparation of this dish, and then cooked it at home for their families.

March 24th - 28th the team of our school (four students and three teachers) participated in the meeting of project partners in Fano, Mars region of Italy. Partners from Italy (G.Padalino school) warmly met all participants of the project. Students were accommodated in the families of Italian students. A very intense and interesting program of activities for both students and teachers was prepared.

Monday: the first day of the visit was for making acquaintance and excursions to schools: we looked around the progymnasium, primary and pre-primary schools. Pupils and teachers were pleased with sincere greetings, emotional communication, songs and dances, performances, which introduced cities and countries. Everybody who tasted Italian dishes of Mars region and took part in joyful competitions “Athletic field” was happy. We were impressed by the school academic environment. It is not surprising that Italians call their classrooms “the laboratories”.




 Tuesday: We took part in the solemn, formal welcoming in Fano municipality “Aula Magna”, and the meeting with the mayor. We understood that we were not only the guests of G.Paladino school, but the guests of Fano city. Senior pupils took care of us, guided and told us about the sights of Fano city. We learned a funny Italian word ALLORA. In the afternoon the students were learning how to make kites and teachers planning the project activities and reported about the work, which was done. Late in the evening, after dinner (about 10 o’clock) teachers were able to listen to the rehearsal of mixed academic choir of Fano city. Later we came back humming Italian classics...

Wednesday: a trip to the city of Urbino. Due to the rain it was difficult to look around the wonderful historical town, which is famous for its university and the palace of the Duke of Urbino. However we admired the exhibits and interiors of Marson National Gallery. By the way, the famous Italian painter and architect Raphael was born in this town. We spent the afternoon in the interactive Science Museum and Planetarium “Bali”, located in the beautifully renovated provincial villa surrounded by picturesque valleys of the Apennines Mountains, with cypresses, olive fields and belfries... In the evening Italian teachers taught our teachers to cook real Italian “Spaghettata”...


Thursday: The most exciting day was “Cooking day”. Small groups of students cooked their national dishes and treated the school community and the guests. It is important to mention that our students' team proved just perfect. Although Italian products and kitchen equipment is different from the Lithuanian, cottage cheese cuts “Tingineliai” were delicious and looked good. We spent the afternoon in the volleyball arena playing volleyball. Later we all were waiting for the school community evening.


Friday: was farewell and going back day. In the morning pupils had fun in orientation competitions in the streets of old town (teams consisted of one Italian and one guest student). Our girls won the second and the third places. Groups of guests, one after another, left the wonderful city of Fortune and its hospitable hosts. Oh, a lot of tears of farewell were poured out on that day. Students spent the afternoon with the Italian families and looked for presents and souvenirs. Teachers looked around the Fano underground (archaeological artifacts dating back Roman times), the interior of the theater, hidden August atrium (courtyard surrounded by porticoes). In the evening everybody could listen to a free concert in one of the many beautiful churches of Fano. Chamber orchestra and mixed chorus performed works by Vivaldi and Mozart. It was amazingly good to see familiar faces among the performers: Italian teachers certainly are the part of the city's cultural elite.



Saturday: on the way home, we visited the famous Cathedral of Milan and the Sforza palace.


We would like to thank the Italian partners for the unique meeting, during which we realized that ITALY IS AN AMAZING COUNTRY AND THAT ITALIANS HAVE WONDERFUL HEARTS ... Respect, inner peace and patience, perfect emotional hearing, certainty, discreet but definite diligence, overall aesthetic feeling, inexhaustible cultural treasures and heritage. And there are still not all the values ​​that impressed us in wonderful Italy.
Impressions from Italy



Travel to Italy gave me a lot of good experience. I had my first flight on  an  airplane, first time I saw huge mountains in Italy. I visited Fano, Urbino and also Milano cities. Although  the weather was rainy, I could see amazing places. I enjoyed visiting Urbino National Gallery, Bali museum. I was happy there, because I met lots of new people and realized that Italian people are friendly and warm- hearted. Especially my family where I stayed was careful and friendly. I think that I had a wonderfull week in Fano.

Rugilė


Maybe Fano is a small town ,but it's very beautiful.
It's old and interesting town. My Italian family was very friendly. They have a nice dog Bubba. Every evening we went in town centre or restaurant. In Fano is  a very delicious ice cream, so after school we usually went in ice cream shop. One day I and other children went in the planetarium. It was very interesting. We were in a giant tent which is a beach. Then we played voleyball, it was very fun. Italians are very friendly people. I had a very good time in Italy. I miss Fano very much.

Justė



In Italia people are  friendly and warm.
Fano city is extraordinary beautiful. I very liked fano ice-cream and it was so delicious. I really liked their  school. School was very beautiful in it's antiquity and students were funny and cheerful. My Italian family was friendly, good, nice and simply amazing. Trip in mountains was exciting and interesting ,because I have never been in mountains. Actually I liked everything in Fano.

Elžbieta



I love Italy!

It‘s a so beautiful country. In this trip I saw a wonderful Milano Cathedral, old Fano town, visit very friendly people, find lots of new friends. I never forget this week and beautiful Italians!  

Goda

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In February, the students continued to produce healthy traditional Lithuanian dishes, as well as counting calories and studied how properly combine foods according to teacher’s recommendations. In ethics and religion lessons pupils prepared preventive posters against smoking, alcohol and drug use. In the lessons of physical education pupils and teachers chose exercises that would like to share with the project partners from other countries.
 
 
 
 
 

Our Daily Exercises:)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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In January after the winter holidays at the end of the first lesson, the morning exercise-dance was integrated.
 

Also the questionnaire about healthy lifestyle has been integrated into the English language lessons and the children of 5-7 classes filled it in.








About 330 students answered questions in the questionnaire. The students were 9 -15 years old. The questions were about students‘ healthy eating, habits, sport activities. The questionnaire showed the following results. The biggest part of students have breakfast every day on weekdays (60%), 15 % of students never have breakfast. Other students have breakfast irregularly. At weekends students have breakfast more often (80% have breakfast usually, only 5% never have breakfast). The survey also showed that about half of all students eat vegetables and sweets every day. Most of them eat fruits every day. Only a quarter of students don’t eat fruits every day. Most of the students are happy with their weight and are not on a diet (60%), about 10% are on a diet. Others are not very happy about their weight but for some reasons are not on a diet. About 15 % of all students think that they are too slim, and the same number of students think that they are too fat. About 60 % of all students brush their teeth more than once day, about 30 % once a day. Only a very small part (3%) brush teeth less frequently. About 80 % of students were active more that 60 minutes a day about four or more times a week. Only about 2 % had almost no physical activity during the week. Most of the students train 2-3 times a week. Each sports practice takes average 1-2 hours. The students watch TV, play computer games during the week about 1-2 hours and 2-3 hours during the weekends. About a third of students didn’t have injuries during the past 12 months. Most students had one or two injuries. About half of the students have been in a physical fight in the past 12 months. Most of them were involved in 2-3 fights. Half of the students have been bullied at least once at school in the past couple of months. A quarter have been bullied twice a month. Half of the students have not bullied another student(s) at school in the past couple of months, 25 % have only done it once or twice. 42% of students have close relationship with mothers, 30% with fathers and about 5% with stepmothers, stepfathers and grandparents. Only half of the students say that it is easy to talk with their mothers or best friends in difficult situations. About 70% of students have 3 or more close friends. Most of the students spend about two evenings a week with their peers. About half of students talk to their friends on the phone or send them text messages or have contact through the internet every day. About 50% of students have psychological problems (stress, nervousness, bad sleep) once or twice a week. About 15 % have physical health problems (headache, stomach ache, backache, etc). Only 20% answered that their health is excellent. About 50% think that they have good health. The majority of students (50%)  value their live at 8-9 points (scale 0-10) and only a few percent value their life at 4 or less.

 
MEETING IN LITHUANIA 
On January 21-24th, the partners from other countries of ROHROL project visited our school.
On January 21st  three teachers from Slovenia, two teachers from Italy, coordinators of the project from Turkey, four teachers and eight students from Estonia and three teachers and five children from Poland were met. Parents of our students together with our school's teachers were waiting for the guests. They kindly agreed to accommodate the children in their families.
 
On January 22nd all the guests were kindly welcomed by school teachers and the headmistress. There was a presentation about our school activities and the system of Lithuanian education. Our school students made an excursion through the school in English. The partners of ROHROL project visited the municipality of Vilnius city. Later they participated in the English lesson, led by our school first-class students with their teacher Rita. In the afternoon the participants visited the Old Town.
 

 



On January 23rd the guests were kindly welcomed by the director of Public Health Bureau of Vilnius. During the meeting the activities of the bureau were presented also the handouts (games, books, and booklets) were donated. Later the guests went to Trakai, visited Trakai Castle and tasted traditional foods. In the evening the guests with the school community took part in the folklore evening of our progymnasium. Folk dance ensemble “Šimtažiedis” from the Vilkpėdė community center of Vilnius taught the guests to dance folk dances.

 

On January 24th, the last day of the visit, after all work issues were discussed; ROHROL team was officially welcomed at the school's hall for farewell ceremony. Our gymnasium music and choreography teachers together with the students prepared a wonderful concert. After the concert teachers and students from other countries were given souvenirs and scarves of our gymnasium. After lunch ROHROL team had a meeting with the special educator Gražina Suchocka. The guests were introduced to the electroencephalograph “biofeedback” and visited the sanatorium „Pušyno kelias“, where teachers were introduced to the work of the children’s department.

Students from Estonia and Poland had separate schedules. They attended lessons along with our students, talked with the self-government of the school, participated in sports games. In the evenings, foreign students spent their free time in the families of our pupils.
On January 27th the history teacher Dmitri Kukuškin of Vilnius Emilija Pliaterytė gymnasium took two lessons for 6b students together with ROHROL project coordinator Hilmi Dogan from Turkey.
 

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In December the integration of healthy eating and food matching began in the technology lessons. During these lessons the students tried to rediscover our traditional dishes that are healthy. Pupils and teachers were getting ready to meet the guests from Turkey, Poland, Slovenia, Estonia and Italy.
 
 




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In November the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students created a project logo.


In the competition of the best logo that was held at school, the best logo of Ieva Paukštytė (pupil of 7a class) was selected. 
 
 WINNING LOGO


Our school students participated in the direct video conference with representatives of other countries in which the logo of the project was selected. It was designed by the Slovenian students.

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