Short presentation of Rediu School partner in a Comenius project 2010-2012

1. Rediu School Iasi, Romania Music by George Enescu (1881-1955) - 'Rapsodia Romana' ('Romanian Rhapsody')

2. Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe , on the, Lower Danube river within and outside the Carpathian arch , bordering on the Black Sea .

3. Bucharest – our capital Welcome to Romania! Romanian territory has an impressive cultural, artistic, touristic and ethnographic heritage.

4. Welcome to Romania!

5. Colors of the nature

6. Iaşi County is located in the N-E part of Romania. This is the second largest county in Romania.

7. Surrounded by hills, Iaşi (the Municipality) - historically also named IASS, Iaшii, Iassy - is the main city of Iaşi County and the main urban centre in northeastern Romania. The city was the capital of Moldavia (Moldova) between 1564 and 1859, one of the two capitals of the Romanian United Principalities between 1859 and 1862 and of the Romania country between 1916 and 1918.

8. IAŞI is a city of great ideas, of the first major country union , of the first Romanian language theater performance and of the first literary memorial museum (Hut from Ţicău). Iaşi – “ V. Alecsandri ” Theatre Iaşi - Palace of Culture Iaşi - Metropolitan Cathedral Iaşi - Dosoftei House and “ Saint Nicholas” Church

9. IAŞI is a city of great ideas, of the first major country union , of the first Romanian language theater performance and of the first literary memorial museum (Hut from Ţicău). Iaşi – “ V. Alecsandri ” Theatre Iaşi - Palace of Culture Iaşi - Metropolitan Cathedral Iaşi - Dosoftei House and “ Saint Nicholas” Church

10. Also, it is the most important economic, political and cultural centre in Moldavia region.

11. "The city was created not by the caprice of some princes or following a spectacular chance of development of Moldavian history. It is an organic creation of the old Moldavia, itself an organic creation of the Romanian people“ (Nicolae Iorga - a Romanian great historian)

12. We love rece i ving guests

13. Special guests in our school

14. European teachers

15. School visit and teaching sessions

16. School visit and teaching sessions

17. Trip to the Moldavian mountains

18. The exhibition of logos

19. … and the w inner is: CYPRUS!

20. The meeting with our M a y our !

21. The meeting with the mayor.

22. Children are dancing … as the stars of the U E’s flag !

23. Romanian traditional dances.

24. T eachers are having fun , too !

25. A ctivities for a greener & cleaner planet!

27. World Water Day

29. Let’s do it, Romania!

30. Artcrafts

31. World Water Monitoring Day

32. Recycle, Reduce, Reuse

34. Winter characters and customs

35. Celebrating our great national poet (Mihai Eminescu) who did write wonderful poems about nature! a

36. Dissemination

37. Thank you! Daniel Lozbă-Ştirbuleac Şcoala Horleşti-Rediu Iaşi, Romania Resources: www.worldalldetails.com/Gallery/Romania.html www.aboutromania.com/MapIasi.gif www.sorging.ro/en/articles/about-iasi www.celendo.ro/MapsCounties/Map_County_Iasi_Romania_Celendo.jpg www.romanianvoice.com/images www.romanianvoice.com/sounds/phoenix/Phoenix-Fata_verde.mp3