First Project Meeting, Thessaloniki November 2009

For three days about twenty-five teachers from the seven participating schools, worked together to develop the first year’s activities.

Programme project meeting

The project meeting was hosted by Triandria’s First Lyceum.

Plenary meetings and workshops were held to draft instruction sheets.

Workshops

topics chosen

plenary meeting

workgroups

workshop identity cards and stereotypes

workshop literature

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workshop newspaper

click on the picture for results

A coordinators’ meeting prepared the next project meetings to come.

All teachers were invited by Triandria’s mayor, who, together with Mrs. Delivogiatzi, the lyceum’s headteacher, offered a typical Greek lunch.

Mayor Triandria (left); headteacher (right)

reception townhall

One evening a cultural show was organised by pupils and teachers of the hosting school.

music band "Nothing ’n’ everything

Of course time was spent to discover Thessaloniki’s historic monuments.

White Tower

View Thessaloniki

Aghios Demetrios

click on the picture of the church for a detailed article

The last day the whole party went on the footsteps of Alexander the Great and his father Philippe II.

The project meeting ended at the foot of Mount Olympus,

Mount Olympus

before the group was introduced to the joys of Greek folk dancing !

Greek farewell evening

ALL OUR THANKS TO THE GREEK TEAM

The next project meeting will be hosted at the end of April 2010 by Salzmannschule Schnepfenthal Staatliches Spezielgymnasium für Sprachen

at Waltershausen, in the region of Thuringia, Germany,

Waltershausen German school

where forty pupils will work with thier German "schoolmates".

http://www.salzmannschule.de/

Marina Bureaud, project coordinator