Trip to sister school and bio-farm day 4

Today the entire Erasmus group visited some interesting places in the island. First we visited Riverside bio-farm where we had a bio breakfast and a tour of the farm. 

We then headed to the capital Nicosia where we had a quick look around the pedesteian streets of the town and finished at the border entry point between Cyprus and Turkey. It's really hard to believe that a city so beautiful and steeped in culture could be so divided. Passports are needed to cross at this point. 

Following our short visit to the capital we headed to the sister school for lunch. The very modern school had a pool, cafe and an extremely successful football team! What a school!!

Fantastic day and now for a final tavern meal altogether! 

Getting to work- Collaboration day in school

Students and teachers spent most of the day working on how they will present their weeks experience to the other students on Friday. 

They split into their groups and worked on computers as well as took turns talking about how they would put thier findings together and who would have what speaking role.

Quite impressive from the group of English, Cypriot, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, German and Italian students! We look forward to seeing the presentations on Friday. 

Following this hard work we were rewarded with a fantastic lunch.

Teachers spent the morning working on the project objectives and making decisions on how we will present our final products this included website design and book presentations.

Later in the afternoon we all had a couple of hours of freetime. Some students enjoyed the afternoon going bowling, strolling through the old town, or walking along the promenade drinking Starbucks frappachinos! 

Tomorrow will be a busy day as we will visit the capital Nicossa and a bio-farm! 

Erasmus meeting day 2 school collaboration - eTwinning

Today's events included final presentations by the Romanian delegation, an eTwinning workshop run by yours truly, an afternoon lunch to a traditional tavern in the mountains and a walk through the cobbled streets of Omodos.

We finished off the country presentations learning about Romanian towns and our partner schools. We had a break and then off to our eTwinning session for 90 minutes. 

I introduced the project page and showed teachers and students how to add documents, images and videos along with many for of the sites functions.

We also looked ant the new chat and meeting funcrions. I added all of the students onto eTwinning so that they can begin to upload their work for the project and they they collaborated in groups on their presentations which will be shown on Friday.

Students were active in getting online and preparing their work for the end of the week.

At around 1pm we headed to the mountains for lunch in a Cypriot tavern.

 We had a really delicious meal and the students enjoyed their visit to the old town of Omodos.

Traditional salad and kebabs.

Here we walked through the old town of Omodos. A very pretty and quaint little village in the Cyprus hills. The town is home to the only mine stay in Cyprus.

The cobbled streets we filled with tourist shops filled with lovely traditional souvenirs and food.

Tomorrow we will work on the project objectives and outcomes at school.

Erasmus Cyprus first day in our partner school!

Pascal school in Cyprus 

We arrived at school to see the girls in full swing of lessons. We had a tour of the school and learned about their house system and classrooms with the students sitting in.

 After a tour of the school we assembled in the hall to present to the group our work so far on the project the Place Where We Live. All the LSA students changed into their uniform ready to present to the group. 

Greek students dancing

The students of Pascal school started the presentations with a traditional dance. Following this the they told us about the history of Cyprus. Each country prepared a presentation about their town and school along with a short video. LSA year girls, Molly Chloe, Sylvie, Hannah and Sammy presented very well and did our school proud wearing this uniform while presenting. 

Following this we had lunch at school and made our way to the busses to visit the local archeological site that was once the place of worship of the goddess Aphrodite. The location was a sanctuary for worshipers.

The remaining columns of the sanctuary. 

We then tool a short walk along the tourist promenade which was directly next to the beach.  We all enjoyed taking photos and feeling the splash from the waves. 

The part of our day finished with a visit to the castle of Limassol.

 This castle was the defence post of the city. It was built in the Byzantine era and protected the city through the centuries.  Inside are many ancient artefacts dating back to the 3rd century. 

The higher you climb the better the view equally for the persistent invaders of Cyprus.  We then had an hour to get some souvenirs and coffee then back to school to say good night! 

Until tomorrow thanks for reading from the Erasmus team in Cyprus ! Quiet working dinner!