Let’s Savethe NatureTEAM:SCHOOL:COUNTRY:COACH:TEAM MEMBERS:(age 13)Children of the Nature“Ivan Goran Kovacic” Primary School, StanisicSerbiaSvetlana KalajdzicVanja Cimesa, Uros Rosic, Bojana Veselinovic, Una Crnomarkovic, Bojan Grujic, NikolinaKarabatic, Milica Matijevic, Aleksandra Komazec.ROLES, TYPE OF DECISION-MAKING AND LEADERSHIPI was there to guide them, to organise rehearsals, to get the costumes from the theatre<strong>for</strong> the school plays and organise the visit to nearby <strong>schools</strong>. The students organisedthemselves into groups, some were actors in the play, some were the creators of the FBpage “Children of the Nature”, others participated in the other important activities suchas making posters, taking pictures from the plays, handing out the leaflets... I wasn’t actingas their teacher in this project but rather as part of them (the students) and all of thedecisions were brought together.PROJECT DESCRIPTIONTOPICWe decided to make a school play about ecology and how people treat toward nature.After the premiere in our school, we began our “tour” and went to several other <strong>schools</strong>where our group per<strong>for</strong>med the play.MAIN ACTIVITIESRSThe students who were doing on their FB page were doing their job, quite properly, othergroup was learning the script <strong>for</strong> the play, and the third group was making posters andin<strong>for</strong>ming people about our activities. After the premiere of the play in March in ourschool and in our village as well, we went to a nearby school in Gakovo, then to AleksaSantic, then to Ridjica. After the spring break, we will go to school in Conoplja andKljajicevo. All these are local <strong>schools</strong> in villages near our school. We also organised someactivities <strong>for</strong> the Earth Hour when the children were handing out the leaflets and postersin the Stanisic, and we also organised activities <strong>for</strong> The Day of the Planet Earth wheremy students, dressed in their costumes, were talking to <strong>small</strong> children and we organisedactivities <strong>for</strong> all of the people who care about the nature. The Sombor Newspapers wroteabout all of our activities.ACHIEVED OBJECTIVESWe managed to get the costumes from the Sombor Theatre, to organise visits to local<strong>schools</strong>. So far we managed to visit 3 <strong>schools</strong> and to organise the play in our village.By the end of the may, we will have visited 5 <strong>schools</strong> <strong>for</strong> sure. We won’t be able togo to to Novi Sad as it was planned. If any other school turns up, we will be glad togo and per<strong>for</strong>m there! All of the activites related to the project were successful andour great help was a wonderful woman Dragana Djapic, a culture coordinator in ourlocal community who helped us organise all of our activities and she was our truesupporter.52 Schools Taking Action For Europe’s Environment
BIGGEST OUTCOMES OF THE PROJECTI can definitely say that all of my students are more awareof the problems that concern nature. We hope that wewill open up some big questions and that more and morepeople will deal with the same topic as we did. Our school,teachers who work there and the students now think ina different way, we organised the planting of the roses inthe school garden and many students came to help!WHAT WENT WELL? WHAT WENT NOT SO WELL?..When it comes to the project itself, we didn’t have anyproblems, everything that we planned we achieved. Theonly thing I regret the most as a teacher is the fact thatwe didn’t write anything in our blog. Not because wedidn’t want to, but because I had technical difficulties andcouldn’t solve them...IMPACT ON THE SCHOOL’S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMWell, this project is one of the first of this kind in ourschool and we have definitely started something!! Thestudents want to participate so we won’t stop after thefinal event in Romania, but we will continue to work onour local community and to per<strong>for</strong>m in the local school,raising awareness among students!HOW DID YOU CELEBRATE?We haven’t celebrated yet because we haven’t finished theproject! Hopefully, by the end of the May we’ll have ourcelebration and you’ll see the pictures in Romania! RECOMMENDATIONSFirst of all, I would recommend to ALL of the teachers toapply <strong>for</strong> such projects because they really broaden yourhorizons, give you a chance to make a difference! Also,my recommendation is to be persistent with the children,local community and with everybody that you work with.And, of course you and your students MUST have an ideaand follow it and believe that you can do it!Projects Report 53
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