Last April, we wrote that seven students from I LO had taken part in workshops held in Viborg, Denmark, as part of the English-language “Healthy European Youth” project, which aims to promote a healthy lifestyle. This year, students from the school (Anna Wojnowska, Monika Warężak, Paulina Szylin, Karol Maziec, Szymon Świerniak, Sebastian Mincel and Wojciech Jasiński) spent a week in Colmar, France. “This was the final meeting במסגרת HEY,” says teacher Katarzyna Cieślak-Ostrowska, a co-author of the project. “We are very pleased with how it was carried out. We are already thinking about the next one.”
Like last year, the young people from Bolesławiec prepared thoroughly for the workshops. They took part in fitness classes and completed a first-aid course. All of this proved useful in Colmar, where they worked in groups made up of representatives of different nations. “Once again, we got along best with the Irish,” says Szymon Świerniak. “It was a great linguistic adventure. We had the opportunity to practise both English and French. We also learned the Alsatian dialect,” Paulina Szylin lists. “In the family I stayed with, nobody spoke English. Despite that, I somehow managed,” Monika Warężak says with a smile.
The students sitting their school-leaving exams this year did not get bored in their free time. Among other places, they visited Strasbourg. There, they had the opportunity to listen to proceedings of the European Parliament and take a cruise on the Ill River. They returned to Bolesławiec enchanted by Alsace. “We had very nice weather,” says Monika. “It is a beautiful region,” Wojciech Jasiński points out. “From early morning, you could take some really great photos.”
During the workshops, the students were supervised by teachers Barbara Sobczyszyn and Piotr Matusiak, as well as by I LO principal Cezary Czernatowicz. “Thanks to this trip, our students were able to meet peers from different parts of Europe. For them, it was a living English lesson,” says Piotr Matusiak. “I oversaw this project for two years and I must say that it ended successfully,” Cezary Czernatowicz emphasises. “Projects of this kind are very important for our school. It is also significant that English was the language of the HEY project. This gave the students the opportunity to check how well they had mastered the language.”
The project was financed from European Union funds במסגרת the Comenius “Lifelong Learning” programme.
(information: GA)