Waldschule Schwanewede 08/2019 - 02/2022

Project Diary

Erasmus+ Europe Naturally!

Forest and Sea

Diversity and Responsibility

26th April 2019

26th April 2019

Visiting Hasbruch Jungle

Actually, we started dealing with our topic before the official project start in August 2019. So, already in April 2019 we made an excursion to one of the last German primeval forests with a grade 7 class that had treated the mixed forest in biology lessons.
We wanted to know what such an old forest looks like. With a special permission of our guide, we were even allowed to leave the paths at some point.
The forest educator showed us different beetles and a frog, woodpecker holes, mushrooms and the approx. 1250 year old Friederike oak. The old trees are very impressive, some look as if they had faces or as if they were animals and mythical creatures.
That's quite inspiring!
We would like to come back here as part of the student exchange with our French guests.          
NBR

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1st September 2019

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New Erasmus+ project launched
At the beginning of the new school year 2019/20, the project "Europe Naturally! Forest and Sea - Diversity and Responsibility" targeting Waldschule pupils of year 8 and pupils of the same age from the Collège Gran Man Difou in Maripasoula has started. Without generous EU funding, an exchange as far away as that would not be possible for any of us. French Guyana is a French overseas department located on the northeast coast of South America and is mainly covered by tropical rainforest. The life of the young indigenous, Creole and Afro-Guyanese youth in the tropical climate zone with daytime climate, the floors of the rainforest with its countless inhabitants and the coastal protection of the mangrove forests will be discovered by the Schwanewede pupils. For the French from South America the animals and plants of the European mixed forest and the UNESCO - Natural World Heritage of the Wadden Sea will be exotic as well. Joint ventures carried out in French and English, will promote the students’ commitment to environmental and climate protection.                      BER

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1st September 2019

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New Erasmus+ project launched
At the beginning of the new school year 2019/20, the project "Europe Naturally! Forest and Sea - Diversity and Responsibility" targeting Waldschule pupils of year 8 and pupils of the same age from the Collège Gran Man Difou in Maripasoula has started. Without generous EU funding, an exchange as far away as that would not be possible for any of us. French Guyana is a French overseas department located on the northeast coast of South America and is mainly covered by tropical rainforest. The life of the young indigenous, Creole and Afro-Guyanese youth in the tropical climate zone with daytime climate, the floors of the rainforest with its countless inhabitants and the coastal protection of the mangrove forests will be discovered by the Schwanewede pupils. For the French from South America the animals and plants of the European mixed forest and the UNESCO - Natural World Heritage of the Wadden Sea will be exotic as well. Joint ventures carried out in French and English, will promote the students’ commitment to environmental and climate protection.                      BER

12th September 2019

First school club meeting and first evaluation: Hopes, fears, and questions
In our first school club meeting, we first got to know each other. We played some games to break the ice, completed important forms, signed a declaration, and filled in questionnaires for our partners.

Finally, we collected all our expectations and fears concerning our school exchange and created a large tree poster together.
The tree symbolizes the project:
green leaves stand for our hopes, red leaves for our fears, and yellow leaves for our remaining questions. It was good to talk it all over and we will come back to all of these aspects during our project work.

On the occasion of the first parents' evening, the parents were invited to contribute leaves of their own but they preferred discussing what we had already written.
Philipp

First school club meeting and first evaluation: Hopes, fears, and questions
In our first school club meeting, we first got to know each other. We played some games to break the ice, completed important forms, signed a declaration, and filled in questionnaires for our partners.

Finally, we collected all our expectations and fears concerning our school exchange and created a large tree poster together.
The tree symbolizes the project:
green leaves stand for our hopes, red leaves for our fears, and yellow leaves for our remaining questions. It was good to talk it all over and we will come back to all of these aspects during our project work.

On the occasion of the first parents' evening, the parents were invited to contribute leaves of their own but they preferred discussing what we had already written.
Philipp

September / October 2019

Gran Man Difou College in Maripasoula:

KGS Waldschule in Schwanewede:

Presenting our schools and ourselves

Obviously, one of the first things we did was trying to get to know each other. So, both groups turned a film at school showing the school building and the school grounds and introducing students and teachers.
Tammo cut our film and we were very happy with the result.

Originally, we were going to share our films via eTwinning but, unfortunately, that didn't work out. So, we eventually decided to change the medium and started using Padlet and book creator instead.

The film from our partners in Maripasoula turned out to be so big, that it was at first a bit tricky to send it.
We are very impressed with it because it is highly professionally done! See for yourselves!
Tammo & SNH

Presenting our schools and ourselves

Obviously, one of the first things we did was trying to get to know each other. So, both groups turned a film at school showing the school building and the school grounds and introducing students and teachers.
Tammo cut our film and we were very happy with the result.

Originally, we were going to share our films via eTwinning but, unfortunately, that didn't work out. So, we eventually decided to change the medium and started using Padlet and book creator instead.

The film from our partners in Maripasoula turned out to be so big, that it was at first a bit tricky to send it.
We are very impressed with it because it is highly professionally done! See for yourselves!
Tammo & SNH

Extract from our yearbook October 2019

Erasmus+ "Europe Naturally!
[...] The two-year project "Europe Naturally!" is aimed at our Year 8 pupils of all branches. The project languages are English and French and the focus is on the topic "Forest and Sea - Diversity and Responsibility". Most of the project work takes place in an afternoon school club on Thursdays and it will culminate in a student exchange in March and September 2020.  
[...] We work in international teams with a school in Maripasoula, French Guiana. Although French Guiana is in South America, it belongs to France and therefore also to Europe. The pupils of this school [...] have the same right as all other Europeans to participate in Europe, also e.g. in the form of student exchanges, and they are encouraged to do so. During our mutual visits we will see a lot. However, these are not holiday trips, but work meetings. We will compare the biodiversity of the tropical rainforest with that of the European mixed forest, we will experience the different climate zones first hand and we will learn from each other and develop ideas together on how to protect nature. [...] SNH