1. COMENIUS BILATERAL PROJECT 2012-2014
March 2013
Every country has got a history, a culture and traditions. Popular games and sports belong to this heritage, and are living evidences. To discover, to share and to learn our traditional sports and games are
a way to find our own roots again, our own identity, but also to get out of the isolation, to know each
other better, to develop the idea of membership in a new community of destiny through a consciousness that has a European dimension.
Our project is aiming to inspire every young person to have healthy bodies by participating in more
sport on a regular basis. We want to create an energy and enthusiasm for sport through the observation of favourite local teams and through learning new sports and traditional sport games and to encourage young people to do sport. In addition, it will give pupils and teachers from two participating
countries an opportunity to work together on a project, to learn about and experience traditional
sports and games of the partner country.
Zulfija Guzienė
Two schools in two countries are involved in this project. Lithuania ensures the general coordination
of the project and each partner has the task to coordinate one of the planned achievements of the
project.
Šiaulių Vijolių Vidurinė Mokykla
SIAULIAI
LITHUANIA
Coordinator : Mrs. Zulfija GUZIENE
Escola de Cuba
CUBA
PORTUGAL
Coordinator: Mr Antonio Lucas

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OUR SCHOOL: ŠIAULIAI VIJOLIAI SECONDARY SCHOOL
The school was founded
on the 1st February,
1961.
Today about 400 students attend Vijoliai Secondary School, 99 of
them attend sports classes, about 30 students
are from Children Boarding House. There are 4
primary classes, 9 basic
classes, and 5 secondary
classes. About 50 teachers work at this school.
The first sporting classes
were established on 1st
September, 2004. Most
of sportsmen live in students’ hostel which is
situated in the building of
a Boarding House.
There is a big choice of
extra-curricular activities
for students. They can
attend such clubs as
Choreographic Dance
group , vocal singing studio, various sports clubs:
football, handball rugby,
karate, yoga.
Our school works on
different projects: and
other activities based on
students’ interests. Our
school has already participated in following international projects: Bilateral Comenius project
(Lithuania-Turkey):
„Culture on Disposals“,
multilateral Comenius
project (Lithuania-TurkeyFinland) „Think globally,
act locally, act together”,
multilateral Comenius
project: “Better to know
us through our festivals
and traditions” ( Lithuania- France- BulgariaSpain- Poland-TurkeyHungary)
It is a tradition at our
school to organise various events such as: “The
week of languages”, Social and real Science
week, “The week without
taunts”, “Sport and environment; republican conferences of primary
teachers; elections of the
best sportsman of the
school (ten sportsmen);
„ENO Tree planting day”;
Pilgrim trips to the Hill of
Crosses, Šiluva.and others.
School organizes such festivals: “Autumn festival”,
“Sports Festival”,
“Celebration of Mother’s
Day”, “The birthday of
school”, “Halloween”, ”St.
Valentine’s Day”,
“Basketball Tournament”,
“Family Sports Festival”,
“School society days”, “The
Last Bell Celebration”,
“Christening” of sportsmen.
The big attention is paid at
a formation of healthy life
skills.
The philosophy of school is:
the student is beloved, respectable and trusted. The
teacher is a helpmate, a
manager, an assistant, a
friend and a creator of supported atmosphere at
school. The goal of the
school is to become a
school of Sport and Healthy
Lifestyle of Šiauliai region,
which successfully combines formal education,
extracurricular and sport
activities and which actively
takes part in preparation of
successful sportsmen of
Šiauliai region.
The community of Šiauliai Vijoliai Secondary
OUR COUNTRY-LITHUANIA, OUR CITY-ŠIAULIAI
Lithuania is in northern
Europe, on the eastern
shores of the Baltic Sea.
The capital of Lithuania is
Vilnius. Beginning at
about the same time as
movements in the other
Baltic republics of Estonia
and Latvia, Lithuania
quickly surged ahead. In
March 1990 democratically elected representatives voted for independence, lost in 1940 with
annexation by the Soviet
Union. Lithuania joined
both the European Union
and NATO in 2004. The
official language is Lithuanian.
Šiauliai is the fourth largest city in Lithuania, with
a population of 133,900.
The city was first mentioned in written sources
as Soule in Livonian Order chronicles describing
the battle of Saule. Thus
the city's founding date is
now considered to be
September 22, 1236, the
same date when the battle took place, not far
from Šiauliai.

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OUR SCHOOL: EB FIALHO DE ALMEIDA – CUBA
The name of my school is
EB Fialho de Almeida –
Cuba. In our school we
have got twenty three
classrooms, two laboratories, teacher’s room, video room and crafts
rooms.
We also have got a canteen, student’s room, a
stationary, a library, the
secretary office and the
management office.
the student’s room because we have a lot of
space to play. We have a
park, a gym and a courtyard. Our school is big
and has got a lot of children.
We invite you to come
and stay with us because
we enjoy it very much and
we welcome you all.
Our school is situated in
our village of Cuba. It is
small but very calm and
social.
Cuba is well known for its
flowers and wheat fields.
It lies near Beja in Alentejo Portugal.
We spend a lot of time in
OUR COUNTRY-PORTUGAL, OUR TOWN– CUBA
Portugal is located in the
south of Europe on the
Iberian Peninsula together with Spain.
The capital of Portugal is
Lisboa and the president
of the republic is Cavaco
Silva. The prime minister
is Passos Coelho. In Portugal the official language
is Portuguese and we are
about 10 million people.
The religion is catholic.
Braga was considered the
European Youth Capital.
Portugal is divided into 3
regions: north, centre
Portugal is located in the
south of Europe on the
Iberian Peninsula together with Spain.
The capital of Portugal is
Lisboa and the president
of the republic is Cavaco
Silva. The prime minister
is Passos Coelho. In Portugal the official language
is Portuguese and we are
about 10 million people.
The religion is catholic.
Braga was considered the
European Youth Capital.
Portugal is divided into 3
regions: north, centre and
south and there are 18
districts.
“ To ca tch th e re a d e r' s a t te n ti o n , p l a ce
a n i n te re s ti n g s e n te n ce o r q u o te f ro m
th e s to ry h e re .”

4. THE FIRST STEPS OF OUR PROJECT
IN PORTUGAL
Due to the fact that this Bilateral Comenius project between Lithuania and
Portugal didn’t start in September because of delays in the agencies we
started working on our planned activities later in December, so everything
got down on the schedule organization.
words and phrases in both Portuguese
and Lithuanian languages.
This activity led the way to the building
of a booklet with the most popular traditional sports and playground games,
the first ideas were gathered and written down in Portuguese and in English.
This said we are giving an account of all
The website was also set with the prothe activities developed, according to
ject and its achievements with the help
our project programme.
and commitment of the ICT teacher.
A detailed plan for the project activities
With the help and participation of the
was presented to the students, famiarts teacher the students were orgalies, school community and teachers
nized into doing the contest for the proinvolved as well as some presentations
ject's logo and after exchanging and
of schools, towns and countries particianalysing the students’ drawing they
pating.
will choose the best one as the official
Posters and booklets were made and
logo of the project.
these included photos of the students
They also very happily participated in
in the different activities being held,
the setting up "Comenius Corner" at our
information about the schools involved
school.
and about the region and country.
Students also started building a multilingual dictionary containing everyday
In Lithuania
School year 2012/13
has brought a new
challenge to us. A project prepared by our
and our partner‘s
schools: “Generational
link: playing and learning” was accepted by
national agencies.
We launched the project work by announcing it in front of our
colleagues on the staff
meeting for this school
year. It was accepted
with interest and we
started preparations
for the project realization from establishing
a team of teacherscoordinators and students to work on the
project activities. Also
we presented the project and its activities
on the school website.
The first week of December we had our Comenius week. Special
lessons on European
citizenship and the
lessons with the subject
“What I know about the
country partner of our
project?” were held in
our school. Students
were introduced with
the main information
about Portugal. And
then started gathering
information about our
traditional sports and
games. Before Christmas the exhibition of
Christmas cards with
congratulations in Lithuanian and Portuguese
made by our students
was held. The best
cards were sent to Portugal. In January the
students started to
create the logo of the
project, and the exhibition of the best logos
was held at school as
well..
The next steps of the
project were the creation of the multilingual
dictionary and the beginning of researching
work. Students with
the help of their teachers tried to find out as
more as possible information about Lithuanian traditional games
and sports and then to
learn how to play these
games during the physical education lessons.