Comenius Multilateral Partnership 2013-2015

Training For LIFE: Leadership Initiative For Europe

Utena Dauniškis gymnasium

Utena,2013

By Smilte Tarvydaite

UTENA DAUNISKIS GYMNASIUM

OUR GYMNASIUM’S MOTTO:

Enter good, leave better.

STATISTICAL FACTS

Students – 520

Forms – 26

Teachers - 74

Adult department:

learners– 139

forms - 9

Extra curriculum activitiesSports activities

Our students are great and successful at sports. The school’s basketball team takes part in and organizes competitions among the students of other schools.

We also have renovated sports hall which is modern and very beautiful.

Extra curriculum activitiesPop music group

Pop group “VIVO” was formed in 1998 in Dauniškis gymnasium.Teacher – Asta Skeirienė.

The collective consists of 17 members. They have participated in many festivals in Lithuania and abroad, they were also awarded and nominated in many international contests.

Extra curriculum activitiesFolk music group

Folk group “UNTYTĖ” was founded in 1996.

The leader of this folk group is Laimutis Kirilauskas.

“UNTYTE” has attended many international contests and festivals in Lithuania and abroad.

Students’ Council

Students’ Council is a social and non-commercial youth organisation, which unites the students of Dauniskis gymnasium.

Students’ Council consists  of 16 members. We have school president and 3 committees: children rights, sports and the press.

Every year we have election campaign, where all volunteers can take part for the post of the pupils’ president.

During the election all the students and teachers vote and elect the president and 16 members of students’ Council

Students’ Council Represents Dauniskis gymnasium

and its community in social movements;

Organizes school events and celebrations.

Organizes meetings and solves school children’s problems; meets their needs and proposals.

Takes part in many projects and programmes;

Cooperates with school director, school’s and teachers’ councils;

Organizes the press conferences.

Collaboration IT and Math Institute Vilnius University, Laser

faculty Kaunas University of

technology Regional schools

Traditions and events

1. Events marking national holidays:

January 13th

February 16th

March 11th

2. A study of political parties

3. Anniversary of achieving Gymnasium status

4. An hour of poetry and hymns to mark Advent

5. Christmas celebrations

6. Sports day for district schools

7. European Day. Events connected with the international projects.

8. Celebration to honor the best gymnasium students.

Project activities at school

Projects have been implemented at the Dauniškis Secondary School since 1994. Project activities began from an international cooperative project with the Gimle School of Economics, located in Kristiansand, Norway.From 2001 to 2004, our school carried out the first international Socrates/Comenius 1.1 school project, ‘Citizens of Europe in the New Millenium’.

At present, our school participates in projects of different levels:

school, district, republic, international, online.

Project activities at school

2004 - 2007 Socrates/Comenius 1.3. “Equal opportunities for all”

2005 – 2007 ELOS (Comenius 3), Comenius 1.1 “Imagine: Europe is closing in...”

2005-2011 “Spring Days in Europe”

2007-2009 LLP. Comenius partnership project “EURidentity, my background”

2006 -2007 started –Socrates/Grundtvig 2 “EDUCATION FOR THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE “;

2007-2009 Grundtvig partnership project ‘GAME”

2010-2011 – eTwinning international projects:

GAME Under the open Sky –

Romantic Astronomy Joy in Life – more than lots of

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2006-2007 project activities A special excursion to Druskininkai

Project participants visited the Educational Centre in Druskininkai ”(it’s 230 km from Utena) and had the lecture on pshycological theme “Crises of children”.

Participants visited the sanatorium of mineral waters and SPA center.

Participants enjoyed 18 different baths in aqua-park.

2007-2008 project activities

Lecture : “Healthy attitude to life”

The target group was formed from 41 adult participants.

Lecture “Healthy attitude to life” was given by Vladas Vitkauskas, the famous Lithuanian mountaineer.

2007-2008 project activitiesLecture: “Healthy food”

Themes of the lectures:1. “Genetically modified food”2. “Ecological food”3. “Water as an important

medicament for the health of people”.

2008-2009 project activities Training sessions

2 times per week at 18.00 -19.00

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