Let me do it!

To get prepared for functioning in the society and be accepted children should know their roles, rights and a scope of responsibilities. Responsibility generates maturity and increases self-esteem, as the children recognize that they become capable. The sooner they understand their rights and their ability to take responsibility for their actions and behaviour the better, although it is individual based. Teens can provide emotional and practical support to their family and friends and, in this way, build their sense of importance, self-esteem and well-being. To understand how to achieve autonomy and gain social skills, the teens prepared short recordings about how they contribute to their households and how they develop their sense of independence. They were all collected in one digital poster.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFEuGmnzlw/5On1hlKNgKUm9w4GmqvHcw/view?utm_content=DAFEuGmnzlw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

The objectives of the activity:

  • developing foreign language competences
  • understanding how they benefit from contributing
  • developing a sense of belonging and gaining respect
  • building self -esteem and a sense of autonomy
  • gaining self-confidence

Fruit/Sport/Art

How to combine sport activities with healthy food and art? Yes, you can – create photos integrating pieces of fruit or vegetables in a picture presenting a sport discipline. To perform this activity we designed an inspirational presentation – made of pictures published to web. Having watched a video children chose fruit which seemed inspirational for them and created their own artful pictures. All the pictures (well, almost all…) were arranged in a professional way in a virtual gallery.

The objectives of the activity:

  • developing creativity and imagination
  • demonstrating innovation in concept
  • improve the children’s ability to control materials and techniques
  • cultivating an enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts
  • promoting healthy lifestyle

The link to the virtual gallery:

https://www.artsteps.com/view/602d680bfc99b16fd6daf269?currentUser

Stress relievers

Since sport and creating artwork are considered to be one of the most effective stress relievers all the exchange students took part in craft and phisical activities. They started from brainstorming for the words and phrases related to calmness, peacefulness and quietness in their own languages. Then, they made Christmas decoration boards with the words and Christmas symbols. Creating art takes our mind off the most stressing things we have to tackle on the daily basis and it lets the steam off. Others relieved their emotional pressure in zumba dance. It is a form of cardiovascular exercise involving various active movements that help in improving mood and the energy level of a dancer through the secretion of hormones that induce stress relief. As the effects of zumba on supressing the stress causing hormones are commonly known, the zumba practice is held regularly during breaks in our school.