Street slow food picnic (Finland)

Hey guys!

Here’s some news for you from Vesanto!

On our second day of school this Autumn (the 12th of August) we, the 1st year students of the Vesanto high school, had a “get to know each other” -day and a picnic. There’s 27 of us and some of us didn’t know each other before so it was great to spend some time together. We gathered in the “Vesanto Yökahvila” which is a place where the youngsters from our town like to hang out on the weekends. Some of our teachers, the municipality’s youth worker and the congregation’s youth worker were there too.

In Yökahvila, everyone took part in preparing for the picnic. Our theme was healthiness, which came true very well in our opinion. We chopped up some vegetables (cauliflower, carrots and cucumber) and prepared a sour cream dip to go with them. We also had frankfurters and tried making popcorn, but they got burnt so we bought salty crackers instead. As a drink, we had juice.

 

When everything was ready, we walked to a sports field near our school and set everything up. Some of us sat on the grass and started to eat, others were chatting to each other, and some were catching Pokemon. The picnic was a very good idea because we got some fresh air and the weather favoured us. The sun was shining and the sky was blue and cloudless. The weather was warm and so was the atmosphere. It was a bit windy though, so we needed to be careful not to let the wind steal our trash.

It was very nice to come back to school after summer holidays and spend time with our classmates! Having a picnic together with the whole class was a lot of fun. The picnic food was great and the company was even better! We’re looking forward to more Erasmus projects this Autumn!

Regards from the 1st year students

Street slow food picnic (Poland)

With this task we tried to teach students how important it is to keep balance in one’s life. The extensive usage of technology acts as a deterrent when it comes to meetings face-to-face. Students find it easy to communicate with their colleagues and friends via mobile phones, social networking sites, chats, emails. 

However, they rarely spend time together and bonds that they create are not so strong as it was in case of their parents and grandparents. This influences strongly and in a rather negative way features like group-cooperation, negotiations, leadership skills, social skills and communication skills in general.

Street slow food picnic aimed at improving those competences of or students. Through the usage of board games, riddles, sports games we showed our students how they can spend time without technology. At the same time it was to promote the healthy way of eating which is one of the main goals of this project. 

Getting to know the sports of other countries (Poland)

Wow! It’s been a day! During their PE lesson students who will participate in the exchange 2017 tried a sport of our Finish partner! Football in slippers! – can you imagine that? We couldn’t! ;) However, we were brave enough to give it a go! We overcame some obstacles - like the weather (it was raining cats and dogs!) and missing slippers. Because of the weather we decided to play in the gym. After quick warming-up exercises the match started. It was exciting to play and it was exciting to watch! 

Our PE teacher supervised the whole match in order to make sure that all fair play rules were respected. However, there were no winners – we decided to play for pleasure and points were not counted. It’s been a great experience – we certainly will implement this kind of activity into our PE lessons. Thank you Finland for sharing with us this aspect of your culture!