SOWETO, SO WE GO!

Project Mini World Cup in South Africa

WHAT?
A mini World Cup for French schools abroad (4 days) and a discovery of the Rainbow Nation.

WHO?
- 26 French schools from 4 continents including our very unique and multicultural group of students from Eurocampus.
- 10 kids under 12: 20 % Irish + 20 % Franco-Irish + 10% Germano-Irish + 10% French + 10% German + 10% Italian + 10% Belgium + 10% Bostwanese
- 60% boys & 40% girls
- And also 3 mentors : Albert Sugg, FAI football coach, UEFA A Licence, Sandra Hubert, GP, Well Woman Centre, Mikaël Allain, Business and Sports teacher.

WHERE?
From the 21st of June to the 27th of June 2010. We are flying on the 19th and coming back on the 30th of June.

WHERE?
Mainly in the Lycée FrançAis Jules Verne in Sandton (north of Johannesburg) and also for the opening ceremony and first round of games in a local school called Winnie Ngwekazi school, Soweto.

WHY?
A unique chance to participate to the first World Cup ever organized in Africa.
An opportunity to represent a country i.e. Ireland in a worldwide school event and to show the Irish nation how an integrated team can stand together and perform.
A cultural experience too with 3 days of visits ( Jo’burg museums, Soweto tour, Parliament Day and a guided visit in a National Park )
An opportunity to meet the RSA motto “Unity in diversity” at our school level.

HOW MUCH?
We have already embarked into a comprehensive fundraising campaign including 5 cake sales, one Table Quiz, a football tournament for the South Dublin schools and a corporate angle too. Our first action was to organize a football day in our school sat 27/02/10 covered by Dundrum Gazette with a full page of pictures on March14th edition. Kids were provided with sponsorship cards to collect money from relatives, friends, neighbours, sports clubs,…
6000 Euros have been already collected out of an expected total of 15000. This target amount is covering our 13 flying tickets.

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BILINGUAL PROJECT

in SCIENCE

Class: Eurocampus 5ème

" EVOLUTION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE"

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            The project "Evolution of the countryside" involves several subjects for the 7th class.

The themes that we suggest to work with are indicated in the table below. Then, the project's purposes are developped. Afterwards, you will find few elements about where we suggest to go for this schoolwork. These geological activities must be done on the ground in the science french curriculum. Finaly, we explain how we expect the students to work on the project.

Purposes

Educational purposes:

  Développer des capacités de travail et de communication en équipe
Développer des capacités de travail en autonomie
Acquérir des comportements responsables à l'égard de l'environnement local et au-delà.
Adopter des règles de sécurité en milieu naturel

Sciences purposes:

                 -  To understand the relationships between water and rocks and the consequences on the countrysides and the variety of the environment where life is on being.
- To begin to lear analogical reasoning (what's happen now can explain what happened in the past).
-  To heighten students awareness of the environmental problems.
-  Human influence on the environment.
-  To investigate.
-  To organise scientific information.
-  To lear new specific vocabulary in french and english.

Sport purposes:

To paddle efficiently.
To secure ourself and the others.
To protect the environment.

Outside Activities   

          
           
            Two separate days
            Location:  Glendalough or close to (Wicklow mountains) and Howth
            Date: 15th or 16th week (april 2010)

            Activities suggested:

Schoolwork Organisation

We think about 2 periods each month, during "SVT" classes and several theory classes in sport.
Each class (7A, 7B et 7C) could go deeper in a way. This is oppen to your suggestions.

Students will have to do: bilingual posters or powerpoints on a theme. They will work in groups of 2. They will get a mark at the end of the year.

            We would be very happy if you would be agree to join this project.
It could be in so many ways as you can imagine: going deeper in a specific area, helping us with the local environment, and even more like involving your class in the project!

Let us know about what you think or suggest!

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Geraldine Guyot
geraldine.guyot@ac-rennes.fr

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TRIP TO BELFAST

by Marina Clavijo in Seconde

I went to Belfast with Schools Across Borders. We started the day with a visit of Belfast by bus ; there were many paintings on the walls reminding the conflict between Northern Ireland and those of the Republic of Ireland, and between Catholics and Protestants. The people of Belfast compare their conflict to the one between Israel and Palestine (the Catholic neighborhoods are more pro-Palestinian and Protestants are more pro-Israel).

We then went to a Catholic school where other students from Belfast have joined us and we've done some discussion groups.

To end the day we went to the Ferris wheel.