On the 30th January all the ENA Cluster´s schools

got together for some interesting and different activi-ties related to Bullying. The main purpose was to call

the schools communities‟ attention to this social

problem, in order to fight against it, and to pro-

mote peace among every school members. Pictures, texts and posters related to this

activity can be seen on the following pages.

30th January - The School Day of Non-violence and Peace

Multicultural activities in Tibães

Connecting Classrooms (CC)

April 2012

Number 2

English version

CC.ENA Cluster

Contents:

Anti bullying 2

Anti-Bullying in Ben-

tley Wood, UK

2

Digital poster contest

in ESCA

3

The School Day of

Non-violence in Gre-ce

3

News from Czech

Republic 5

Math, yes you can! 5

Make it Possible,

ESCA

7

Young leaders trai-

ning 8

O CC in Matosinhos 9

Multicultural activities in

Tibães

10

Human cloning 12

CC in Park High School 14

School Dr. Joaquim Gomes

Ferreira Alves

16

TwinSpace >>>>>

Heart and

human lace of

peace

© E

SPL, P16

Another unforget-

table date to the

ENA Cluster was the

16th March…Students,

teachers and guests held

together in Mosteiro de

Tibães, an activity organ-

ized by EB 2, 3 Mosteiro

and Cávado School, about

Multiculturalism. In this

activity called “My World

Represents Who I Am”

took part all the ENA

Cluster‟s Schools. Further

information can be found

on the next pages.

© Ricardo Rodrigues, ESPL

© ESPL, P16

© ESCaldas das Taipas

The School Day of Non-violence and Peace

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Our Citizenship film is about

non-violence/bullying. It is about

three mean girls who pick

on a smart girl because

they think that she is too

weak to defend herself. In

the end, the mean girls feel sorry for the girl they pick on because

she doesn‟t do anything to the mean girls.

It just proves that if someone picks on you or bullies you, they

would either say sorry and become

friends with you or they give up. You don‟t have to settle everything with violence.

Cherise Jarrett, 7CRo – Bentley Wood High School

In citizenship we made a video which was about non-

violence. Through making the video it made us think what non-

violence is, and we had to show our understanding of non-violence through this video. We also needed to show that vio-lence is the wrong way of handling a bad situation. Each group

had a different idea to show non-violence, my group decided to go with bullying. We showed a person who was weak and smaller than the three bullies getting pushed around and badly

scratched. But the three bullies followed their con-

science and agreed violence was not the answer.

Through making the video our group understood non-violence

Citizenship… non-violence video... a lot better, it was a really fun experience. It also made us realise that although there is violence in our

world, there is a lot of non-

violence too – which is great.

Alicia Marsh, 7CR

Contact by Skype...

During the last term Year 7 have

been working on a project called „Connecting Classrooms‟ in their Citizenship lessons. On Monday

30th January a few pupils from each form in Year 7 were asked to par-

ticipate in a special activity. We

were lucky enough to have the opportunity

to speak to some Portuguese students on

Skype and talk to them about world peace. We had to think of some questions to help us learn about their opinions, and the Portuguese students asked a few

questions as well.

„It was a great experience to talk to pupils

across the globe.‟ Anisa Morina, 7CRo

„The Portuguese students gave some great advice for victims of bullying.‟ Katy Hulatt, 7CRo

Anisa Morina and Katy Hulatt, 7CRo

© Escola Secundária da Póvoa de Lanhoso (ESPL), P16

inside the Rib, some

performances were

made by groups of stu-

dents.

Several talks about Peace and

Connecting

Classrooms‟

project were

held in the

school audito-

rium. A video-

conference from

other Portuguese schools which

belong to ENA Cluster‟s project

was established. The day ended

up with the Connecting Class-

rooms hymn, sung by many stu-

dents and teachers who got in-

volved in these activities.

In Póvoa de Lanhoso Secondary

School t-shirts with a message, “I

Took The Anti-Bullying

Pledge”, were given to

all school members tak-

ing part in an

activity re-

lated to anti-

bullying .

In the class-

rooms teachers

showed videos

about the theme, in order to make

students aware of bullying at

school. In the school open

yard, a huge Human Rib

was built up. Meanwhile,

© ESPL, P16

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The School Day of Non-violence and Peace

1º, 2º and 3º prizes - Digital poster contest in Escola Secundária Carlos Amarante

2

3

On 6/3/2012 the students of the 70th High School of

Athens, in the frame of the establishment of March 6th as Panhellenic Day against School Violence, developed and organized several actions and as a first attempt to get in

touch they are sharing with you some of the work done by them.

Kolovou Aikaterini, Headmistress of 70th High School of Athens.

Non-violence … activities in Greece

© 7

0th

Hig

h S

chool

© 70th High School

The School Day of Non-violence and Peace

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The School Day of Non-violence and Peace … at ESCT

Posters in Escola Secundária

Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves

© ESCaldas das Taipas

In 2012 Guimarães is the European Capital

of Culture and its symbol is a heart, not a static but a dynamic heart and therefore it can take many variations. This symbol was

based on the wall of the castle of Guimarães, the visor of a knight‟s helmet and the love of the inhabitants of Guimarães for their city.

This symbol is also "an open window to each personal vision or a blank canvas for any individual expression (…) it values cul-

tural diversity (…) it calls for popular partici-pation (…) it is open to any individual vision because it does not exhaust itself into a closed set of characteristics" (John fields).

Thus, it is only natural that this heart was also the chosen symbol to promote PEACE by the Connecting Classrooms

project in Caldas das Taipas Secondary

School.

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participated in it.

The teams which have suc-

ceeded and are now on the

second stage of the quiz are:

- The numbers team;

Magical Squares; Happy

In the quiz “Math, yes you

can!” put at work by class D,

10th grade, from Secondary

School of Póvoa de Lanhoso,

17 Portuguese teams from

ENA and a Greek team have

1000 - Level II.

- Einstein; Os catetos;

Cauchy – Level III.

None of the teams has

reached the necessary levels

to move forward the 2nd

stage.

Next stage begins with the

problems presentation

online on 19th April, which

can be answered until April

26th. Pay attention!

The final outcomes will be

published in the next

Newsletter.

Thank you to all of you

and good luck for those

who are still competing.

Iva Azevedo

News from Czech Republic...

… Spring workshop ...

Spring Workshop for the attendees of the Day Care

Centre “Jitrenka” - 3rd April 2012, Business

Academy, Chrudim, Czech Republic.

The Business Academy Students prepared and

organised a traditional spring workshop for the

physically, mentally and sense disabled attendees of

the Day Care Centre “Jitrenka”. They made

together spring decorations, such as lambs

and flowers. The Business Academy students

were given a wonderful gift – Easter decorations

made by the attendees of “Jitrenka” themselves. All

involved enjoyed the time spending

together and are looking forward to the

next meeting in June.

Sarka Pudilova

© Business Academy

© Business Academy

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Gender inequality is often understood in terms of female

disadvantage, but it can equally well be understood in terms of male privilege.

Since our class groups are young boys we decided to sen-

sitize them for the still existing gender in-justice sustained in large part by men‟s at-titudes and behaviours, with an exhibition of the

latest news given the fact of men‟s unjust privileges.

Students discussed whether men should promote gender

equality. The conclusion was that advancing towards gen-

der equality benefit man in their well-being, personal relationships, beyond com-

munity interests.

Students made resolutions to promote gender equality

wishing to be male role models.

Conceição Ribas and Quitéria Mateus

could enjoy freedom of speech.

Students also translated into

English, in a free version, some of

his poems studied in the Portu-

guese class.

For the tribute line up

promoted by our

school library students

presented a powerpoint

slideshow with 12 argu-

25 years after Zeca

Afonso‟s death students

showed their pride in

honouring this extraordi-

nary Portuguese teacher,

poet, songwriter, inter-

ventionist singer, present-

ing in calameo – digital

publications – relevant

findings regarding his life,

his work and his resil-

ience so that everyone

ments that account for

this public recognition

at school, which also included

groups of students and teachers

that organized themselves to play

and sing some of his most popu-

lar songs, while others recited

timely political and social satirical

poems

Conceição Ribas and Quitéria

Mateus

CC in Escola Secundária Carlos Amarante...

… tribute to Zeca Afonso...

… Valentine‟s Day ...

Students got informed about Valentine‟s Day

consumption related facts, which have harmful impact on the environment.

Then they showed their feelings for the ones

they love producing love messages both in Por-

tuguese and English, together with simple ideas

for reusing and recycling, which also shows a bit

of extra love for the environment. They made

suggestions for an Eco-Valentine‟s Day, which

included the choice of offering organic and

locally grown flowers and eating at home local

regional products, such as the St Valentine‟s cake. The class 11PCC was awarded with the first prize in the

contest promoted by the school library

Conceição Ribas and Quitéria Mateus

“...gender equality

benefit man in their

well-being, personal

relationships, beyond

community interests”.

… Women‟s International Day ...

ESCA >>>>>

© ESCA

© ESCA

© ESCA

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ries and toys) for families in

need in the local community.

In order to be eye-

catching they used the

flooring technique that

makes part of the

school curriculum of

Maths to decorate card

boxes and placed them

At Carlos Amarante High

School multidisciplinary

boosts solidarity and volun-

tary service.

Three classes – 10 M, N

(course of Arts) and 11 A –

promoted a collection of

goods (food, clothing, toilet-

in the school library.

The school subjects Civic

Education and English also

… Flash Mob - Project “We are all Europe”...

played a major role in the

success of this initiative

Maria da Luz Miranda and

Manuela Carvalho

CC in Escola Secundária Carlos Amarante...

… Make it Possible Project (M!P) ...

We joined a global initiative aiming at proactive young

people to help to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Every student in the English language course, both in Regu-lar and Vocational Courses participated in this innovative

programme whose main topic is “The Millennium Develop-ment Goals”. Our students had the opportunity to know

a little bit of the AIESEC visitors‟ national language, tradi-tions, history, food and clothing. The AISEC students or-

ganized lessons to sensitize our high school students in specific issues such as women situation, human rights, po-

litical challenges and goals for the millennium.

It was very inspiring for youngsters to become responsible

citizens of the world – “AISEC are those to follow”, so

they say. Conceição Ribas and Quitéria Mateus

On March 8, 2012, students from classes I, O, M, N , P (11th grade) par-

ticipated in a Flash Mob downtown to draw people‟s attention to the

need of getting concerned about discussing and finding solu-

tions for Europe 2020.

Adelina Moura

… Volunteering ...

A group of 12 students from Carlos Amarante High

school, class 7A. participated in the school contest

“Maths, Yes We Can!”.

They were divided into teams of four students and got

involved in this activity promoted by Póvoa de Lanhoso

High school for the project “Connecting Classrooms”

with enthusiasm to show that solving Maths problems can

be fun.

Manuela Carvalho

© ESCA

© E

SCA

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Young leaders training...

On the 22nd March, we, a group

of students from Escola

Secundária de Caldas das Taipas,

participated in a training for

Young Leaders in Porto. There

we met another group from Val-

adares and Ricardo Silva, the

trainer. He is a very interesting

person with a long experience on

the subject.

The interaction between the two

groups was great, and we made

new friends. The training was about learning how to

lead teamwork as well creating and managing projects.

We formed three different

groups mixing the students

from both schools and re-

ceived a task: to create a pro-

ject which each group should

develop. The final task was to

make that project come true.

Joining this training was inter-

esting, entertaining and dy-

namic, and it gave us tools to

create and lead group pro-

jects. Being together has also

made us stronger.

Ana Catarina Ferreira, 10ºC

Our cooperation began on the 24

and 25/1/2012 with our participation

in the two day seminar with the sub-

ject “Young Leaders Training” which

was organized in the 2nd High

School of Lavrio.

Kolovou Aikaterini, 70th High School of

Athens

Young leaders training in Greece

In this school year, Caldas das Taipas and Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves Secon-

dary Schools joined The Connecting Classrooms, for that reason their students had

the opportunity to attend a course for “Young Leaders”.

© 70th High School

We want to help! Mental (APPACDM) / Portu-guese Association of Parents and Friends of the Mentally Dis-abled Citizen.

This activity- The Game of Ce-

lebrities - consists of a futsal game

between a team made up of different famous people and another one made up

of ENA Cluster elements. The game will take place at Universidade do Minho, on the 8th June of the present

year, at 3p.m., with the purpose of rais-ing funds to help the APPACDM. We expect the presence of 1740 partici-

pants, mostly students.

"Connecting Classrooms” is, as eve-

ryone knows, a Project directed to the issues of multiculturalism, inclu-sion, therefore the promotion of values of tolerance, solidarity and

respect for the human rights. Having

this in mind, the ENA Cluster

is going to promote an

activity of solidarity to help

an institution that, right now, is go-ing through a moment of serious

financial problems: Associação Portuguesa de Pais e Ami-gos do Cidadão Deficiente

If you are interested in participating, you can contact us through the e-mail: espl.connecting@gmail.com

© João Paulo Peixoto Pereira, ESPL

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CC in Escola EB2,3 de Matosinhos

Formação de Operadores de Infor-

mática) created some posters concern-

ing “Inclusion and Volunteering” in order

to call their schoolmates attention to

such an important issue. The students

were sensitised about this topic in the

English classes and decided

to build posters with fa-

mous quotes related to the

mentioned issue. The

posters will be dis-

Two classes of the School EBI/JI de Ma-

tosinhos, namely CEF EC (Curso de Edu-

cação e Formação de Empregados Comer-

ciais) and CEF OI (Curso de Educação e

played at the school en-

trance so that the entire

school community has access

to them.

Andreia Mendes

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Multicultural activities - Mosteiro de Tibães

My world is as big as what I Know

dents of Póvoa de Lanhoso Sec-

ondary School appealed to vast

participation by the audience.

There was also a beautiful pres-

entation in sign language by the

students of Matosinhos EB2/3

School and a performance of the

'Romeo and Juliet' play by the

vocational students of Joaquim

Gomes Ferreira Alves Secondary

School. Finally, the Rope Skipping

performance by the 'Molinhas'

from Caldas das Taipas Secon-

dary School got the enthusiastic

applause of the audience.

In the afternoon, students and

accompanying teachers were

invited to participate in lectures

on cultural diversity and solidar-

On March 16, class 10C of Cal-

das das Taipas Secondary School

(ESCT), along with students from

other classes of the same school,

participated in the activity Multi-

culturalism - "my world is the

size of what I know" that took

place in the monastery of Tibães,

Braga, under the project Con-

necting Classrooms.

At the monastery of

Tibães, students from all

the ENA Cluster schools

had the opportunity to

enjoy and share the mu-

sic, drama and dance per-

formances they had pre-

pared. Particularly, the chore-

ography presented by the stu-

ity. This activity was also inter-

esting because of the dynamic

interaction established between

the speakers and the audience.

At the end, a delicious snack was

offered to all the students.

In general, we all felt that

the whole experience at

Tibães was extremely re-

warding and had a very

positive impact on the

participants, contributing

to the celebration of

friendship and tolerance

as well.

Ana Catarina Ferreira 10ºC,

Escola Secundária das Taipas

“we all felt that the

whole experience at

Tibães was ex-

tremely rewarding

and had a very posi-

tive impact on the

participants, contrib-

uting to the celebra-

tion of friendship

and tolerance as

well.”

Ana Ferreira, ESCT

© fotos: Ricardo Rodrigues, ESPL

© fotos: Escola Secundária de Caldas das Taipas

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CC in Escola EB2,3 de Matosinhos

be a school voting on the best t-

shirt design and the winner de-

sign will be printed on t-shirts

that will be offered to the partici-

pants of the project in the

school.

The students from class 8ºF gave

their contribution to the “Good

Practices Book” by working with

the topic “Fast Food”. The stu-

Two classes of the School EBI/JI

de Matosinhos, namely CEF EC

(Curso de Educação e Formação

de Empregados Comerciais) and

CEF OI (Curso de Educação e

Formação de Operadores de

Informática) and students from

the class 8ºF are also working on

the creation of the “Connecting

Classrooms” t-shirt. There will

dents showed some worries

concerning nowadays food habits,

because there is an unhealthy

consumption of fast food and an

increasing number of obese peo-

ple in our society. The students

created different PowerPoints

where they focused on the disad-

vantages of this kind of food.

Andreia Mendes

The t-shirts will

be divulged in a

specific site for

the contest that

will elect the ENA

Cluster T-shirt.

My world is as big as what I Know

“My world is as big as what I Know” and “We are the others” – this year‟s motto –

are Connecting Classrooms slogans. The activities developed within this project and, in par-

ticular,the one that took place in “Mosteirode Tibães” together with the ENA cluster‟s school-

sallowed everyone involved to reflect on the importance of

broadening horizons, of knowing other nations in order to un-

derstand them better and, thus, helping to build peace. This mul-

ticultural activity, organized by EB2, 3Mosteiro e Cávado school

integrates one of the highest events of the current year. To the

teachers, Cristina Gonçalves, and, Maria da Luz

Sampaio, our gratefulness to the admirable way

they kindly received us.

Teresa Lacerda, ESPL Cristina Gonçalves

© fotos: Ricardo Rodrigues, ESPL

© fotos: Ricardo Rodrigues, ESPL

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CC in Escola Secundária da Póvoa de Lanhoso

… human cloning…

tions of their points of view.

(links in the left side of page). The issues about therapeu-

tic and reproductive cloning were analysed on different

perspectives. The group rep-resenting the doctors stated that they mostly don‟t agree

with the reproductive cloning. They do defend the therapeu-tic cloning, especially organ

cloning. The representative of

the group concluded by say-ing: “Cloning can save lives.”

The group representing the Christians and Islamists are against all forms of clon-

ing , while Judaism accepts cloning in special cases; for the Jew, human cloning may

be used to cure diseases as for them the human being is “a partner of Good in the

continuous act of crea-tion” (Rabbi Adrian Gottfried, Shalom Community)

During the debate several members of the public gave their opinion on the subject.

In general they just agreed with therapeutic cloning, stat-ing that the cloning of organs has no irregularities or ag-

gression to human dignity since it uses embryos, which are not considered life. How-

Cloning of animals and specially human beings brings

up big social, ethical and moral problems. Can human cloning have therapeutic and/

or reproductive purposes? Should it be forbidden in both situations? What kind of con-

sequences may result from this practice? May human dignity be at stake?

In order to know the opin-ion of the young students involved in the Connecting

Classrooms Project about this issue, the students from Year 11, classes A and C

from Póvoa de Lanhoso Sec-ondary School (ESPL) and one class from Caldas das Taipas Secondary School (ESCT),

developed some research and promoted a debate as part of the Biology/Geology and Eng-

lish subjects, where each working group took a differ-ent position. So it was possi-

ble to hear the opinions of the geneticists, doctors, bio-ethics teams, members of

different religions, elements in favour of human cloning and general public.

The result of all the

investigation was de-bated on the 17th Janu-ary 2012 at Póvoa de Lanhoso Secondary School and on the 23rd

March at Caldas das

Taipas Secondary School. During the session

at Póvoa de Lanhoso Secon-dary School, the different

groups made some presenta-

ever other members of the

public argued that any type of cloning is unethical!

One of the issues related to human cloning, which was

debated was the fact that not everyone can afford to clone themselves because of the

costs required to obtain a clone. People with less money wouldn‟t be able to get a

clone of their own, while that would be possible for the upper middle or high classes.

We can conclude that re-productive cloning is an op-tion rejected by most of the

participants; many of them even argued that the defend-ers of reproductive cloning

are mainly thinking about cre-ating a clone so that it can be used “as a toy and to do what

we do not like doing.” Therapeutic cloning is ac-

cepted by most people in the

audience and by some groups represented in the debate. The opinions of the ordinary citizens were not unanimous,

perhaps because of lack of information, as we can con-clude from the results to the

survey presented in the arti-cle on page 13.

As a summary of this

debate we should ask

the following question:

“When does life begin?”

It is worth stopping

and thinking.... the

answer to this ques-

tion will, surely, influ-

ence the position of

each of us about hu-

man cloning.

José Alberto Silva, Mónica Olivei-

ra, Tânia Oliveira, Tiago Barbosa,

11º A – ESPL

Presentation in >>>>

Presentation in >>>>

Presentation in >>>>

Video in >>>>

Video in >>>>

Presentation in >>>>

© Teresa Lacerda

© Teresa Lacerda

© Teresa Lacerda

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The CC ordinary citizen and human cloning

individuals”. They also know that the first cloned animal

was Dolly (graphic 1). How-ever there is a large number of people that ignore the fact

that cloning can happen both with animals and plants (20%, graphic 2) and 67% (graphic 3)

don‟t know about the differ-ent applications of cloning, which can be effectively, natu-

ral, reproductive or therapeu-tic.

The treatment of dis-

eases is the greatest

advantage mentioned

when people defend

human cloning (60% -

graphic 4) and the biggest disadvantage is the

“degradation of human iden-

tity” (graphic 5)

35% of the people surveyed

are against human cloning and 24% are for. However, the majority has no opinion on

this issue (41%- graphic 6), which shows that this discus-sion must keep on being pro-

moted in the different areas

of society.

Ana Rita Silva, Ângela Afonso, Joana Cancela, Patrícia Rodrigues,

11º A - ESPL

We produced a survey about cloning, in particular,

human cloning. The pur-

pose was to know the

opinion of the citi-

zens related with the

ENA Cluster schools

in the four countries

involved in the pro-

ject. We got 158 answers, from 103 women and 55 men, with ages beginning at 15 years old, with different educational

levels. 80 of the respon-

dents were from Por-

tugal, 37 from the

Czech Republic, 20

from Greece, 17 from

the UK, 1 from India, 1

from Afghanistan, 1 from Kos-ovo and 1 from Mozambique ( these last answers can be

explained by the fact that we have used an online survey). The full results can be con-

sulted at >>>> but we will show here the most repre-sentative:

Most people know that the process of cloning corre-sponds to the “Process of

producing genetically equal

Graphic1

Graphic 2

Graphic 3

Graphic 4

Graphic 5

Graphic 6

Right answer

Right answer

Right answer

human identity

of the clone

© Teresa Lacerda

social adaptation for the clone

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CC in Park High School, UK...

In High School Park in London several activities have taken place related to the Project

Connecting Classrooms. In this edition of the Newsletter we can see the photographic news

report of some of those activities.

In these actions

the students

socialized with the

rest of the

participants,

understood “the

side of the other”,

had fun and

collected £600 for

“The Disability

Foundation” (TDF).

This association

was founded in

1928 and is

devoted to support

people with

chronic diseases.

School Website >>>>

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CC in Park High School, UK...

… International evening… get involved International evening… get involved –– HELP OTHERS!HELP OTHERS!

Gastronomy of diferent countries Performances and music

Jo Lambert (in left) and guests

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Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves...

To start the opening day

“Connecting Classrooms”, stu-

dents sang and played a

version of the song

“Imagine” from John

Lennon along with a choir of

students from the 8th grades.

The school activities stopped for

about 25 minutes so that all the

participating students, teachers

and school staff could partake in

this activity which consisted of an

human lace in the out-

door school space con-

stituted by all the par-

ticipating students,

school staff and stu-

dents from the unity of

autists, all dressed in

white and green, sym-

bolizing peace and

hope. We also launched white

balloons with messages inside

referring to peace, inclusion and

cultural diversity in several lan-

guages and with an email address

for eventual answers. Through-

out the morning, images under

the theme “We are the Others”,

from the documentary “Babies”,

were broadcast on the school

LCDs. The report of the events

were made by the students from

“multimedia” and by the School

Newspaper ”Impressões” pro-

moted by students from the 12th

grade of “Humanidades”. The

students from “Turismo” made

the protocol of the day. We built

a mural with the sentences sent

in the balloons and others to be

completed.

… Opening Day Connecting ...

Blog >>>>>

GFA Tv >>>>>

GFA Radio >>>>>

That day, a cinema cycle was started

with themes related to the Con-

necting theme “We are the Oth-

ers” – films such as “Gran Torino”, “Billy Elliot”,

“Desert Flower”, Water”, “Kandahar”, “Invictus”

were presented for four weeks.

Facebook >>>>>

© ESJoaquimGomesFerreiraAlves

© ESJoaquimGomesFerreiraAlves

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meeting of all the participating Con-

necting schools from the North.

The environment theme was

also dealt with in English subject by 11th

grade students with powerpoint pres-

entations and the organization of a

study visit. The 10th and 11thgraders

from CursosProfissionais wrote sen-

tences about peace, inclusion and di-

versity which were transformed into

postcards by the students from

“Multimédia”. The postcards will be

sent to some of the participating

schools from the cluster. We also

included in this project the

initiative “Make It Possi-

ble”, which is also a volun-

teering project to call the

youngsters‟ attention to the

world problems and encour-

age their will to accomplish

the eight great millennium

goals. With the two volunteers‟ mo-

tivation at our school, a Serbian and a

Slovak, the students debated and pre-

sented valuable work which can be

seen in our sites.

Along the second term, we organized

our online page for our students‟

works and news of the project. In

philosophy and in articulation with

English, the Human Rights were trans-

lated and debated. The students

directed films translated in

English about Ethical di-

lemma – The Problems in our

Contemporary World and

worked on a WebQuest about cul-

tural diversity also translated into

English. The WebQuest was also pro-

posed to the foreign schools from the

Cluster. In the project Workshop of

Ideas, a contest with debate and videos

direction about the Problems of the

Contemporary World and We and Oth-

ers: participation and citizenship has

already been regulated. 12th grade

students from “Áreas de Expressão”

prepared a theatre play which they

presented in St. Valentine‟s Dayto the

users of the institutions where they

will do their internship (mostly retire-

ment homes). The activity was opened

to the community and they sold love

cookies. They also presented the play

on 16th march in Tibães during the

Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves…

...Second term...

Poem - We are the others

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CC.ENA Cluster

Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim Gomes Ferreira Alves...

On the School Day, 2nd March,

we had a room for the project

Connecting Classrooms. We kept

the mural from the opening day

so that the visiting students could

also contribute with sentences

about the theme “We are the

Others”. Throughout the day we

had activities related to the

world problems – the volunteers

from the project “Make It Possi-

ble” gave their contribution with

presentations not only about

their countries but also about the

eight millennium goals for the

underdeveloped countries.

The 12th graders organized sev-

eral activities for the 9th graders

– crosswords, word searches,

powerpoints and table games

about the human rights and

world problems; they also did

two different performances (one

in the morning and another in

the afternoon) about cultural

diversity, globalization and the

way to solve the related prob-

lems; the 8th graders sang “Hold

My hand” to the visiting students.

In another room, the philosophy

teachers presented the works

developed in the project

“Workshop of Ideas”.

… OUR GFA DAY (School Day)...

… Young leaders training...

On 22 March, 12 students

from our school went to IPJ to

attend a training course whose

aim is to train young people to

be young leaders. Other students

from Taipas went there too and

together we were supposed to

develop a project under any

topic. The main goal of the train-

ing course was to connect stu-

dents from different schools of

the country and help them to be

better able to deal with the con-

necting classrooms project. So

that we were divided in three

groups with students from Taipas

and Valadares, within help us to

accept new cultures and new

points of view.

During the day we conducted

numerous activities in order to

know each other better and

establish ties to maximize the

work.

In my

opinion

the train-

ing course

was very

rewarding

because I

learnt

more

about

other cultures and I had

the opportunity to im-

prove the work in

group and the knowl-

edge of how I should be

in group works. It was an

amazing experience that I will

never forget, because of all

the knowledge and friends

that I got in that training

course.

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we talked about things like the

benefits/problems it brings, the

doubts it poses as well as the real-

ity about the research on this topic.

We were organized in five groups,

each with different perspectives

representing different areas, as for

example Common Citizens, Doctors,

Geneticists, In Favor Of and Religion.

There was also a moderator / jour-

nalist asking questions to each

group and also to the audience.

After the conclusion of the debate

we got together to have lunch.

Besides all the decoration things, it

On March 23rd, 2012 the two

schools, Secundária de Caldas das

Taipas and Secundária da Póvoa de

Lanhoso met together for an inter-

esting debate which was followed

by a special lunch (which is carried

out every year in our school).

The debate was about an

issue that raises a lot of

questions nowadays,

mainly ethical ones - Ge-

netic Manipulation/

Cloning. We discussed differ-

ent points of view about this topic,

Webinar - Connecting Classrooms

Secundária das Taipas CC Secundária da Póvoa de Lanhoso

Connecting Classrooms is

commitment, dedication, co-

operation, inclusion and, with-

out doubt, celebration…it was

what the students from Caldas das

Taipas and Póvoa de Lanhoso Secon-

dary School did last 23rd March in Tai-

pas.

On this day, the students presented

the result of a research work about

human cloning done within the Biol-

ogy/Geology and English subjects; they

also organized a lunch with tasty deli-

cacies and had lots of fun with the

Karaoke :)

was nice to share and taste different

food each one had brought.

The next moment was the “karaoke

time”, where we sang together all

those famous and funny songs like

“It‟s the Final Countdown” or

“Barbie Girl”.

To finish the day, we took

a picture of the whole

group and said goodbye

hoping to meet again!

Ana Ribeiro, Ana Gomes, 11ºE

After an invitation of the General Educa-

tion Board (Direção Geral de Educação-

DGE), the Connecting Classrooms was

the theme of Webinar on the 8th March.

The project, Twinspace (collaborative

working space in eTwinning ) and some

of the work developed by the schools,

especially the ones of ENA Cluster, were

presented in this event. To see the We-

binar, you just have to follow the link

>>>>>>>>>>

© ESPL, P16

Published by Escola Secundária da

Póvoa de Lanhoso

Rua da Misericórdia

4830-503 Póvoa de Lanhoso

espl.connecting@gmail.com

Telef: 253 633 338

British Council - Porto

Rua do Breiner, 155

4050-126 Porto

Telef: 222 073 060

This edition had the collaboration of all ENA Cluster‟s Schools.

Connecting Classrooms ENA Cluster

“One egg, one embryo, one

adult-normality. But a boka-novskified egg will bud, will

proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and

every bud will grow into a per-fectly formed embryo, and

every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human

beings grow where only one grew before. Progress.”

No, it is not a recent quote

– it is already eighty years

Reading suggestions: Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, 1932

by Teresa Lacerda, Escola Secundária da Póvoa de Lanhoso

DGE - Ministério da Educação

Av. 24 de Julho, 140

1399-025 Lisboa

Telef: 21 393 45 00

old and is part of the book

Huxley wrote imagining the world in 2500. However,

what seemed, at that time, a delirium is currently, techni-

cally, possible, but is it desir-able?

A fascinating book whose read-

ing is essential and that will-

help us reflect on the inter-est of investing in human cloning for reproductive purposes.

Bentley Wood High School -

European coordinator school

of ENA Cluster.

School Website >>>>

Portuguese coordinator school

of ENA Cluster.

School Website >>>>

Acknowledgements:

Ana Guedes, Ana Teixeira,

Andreia Mendes, Ângela Perei-

ra, Conceição Ribas, Dulce

Ventura, Isabel Friande, Manue-

la Lourenço, Rosa Carvalho

(Thanks for helping in

translation)

Secundária das Taipas CC 4-2nd High School of Lavrio

opportunity to share well-

known Portuguese folktales

and culinary customs with

their Greek friends. The

information was collected

and organised by class 10Q

under the supervision of

teacher Ana Paula Passos

and later translated into

English by classes 10J and

11F with the help of

teachers Rosa Barros and

Escola Secundária de Caldas

das Taipas has been working

on a stimulating project with

Greek 4-2nd High School of

Lavrio. Teacher Dora Mouriki

is collecting information

about traditional stories,

festivities and recipes from all

over the world for an e-book

that she and her students are

producing. Classes 10J, 10Q

and 11F seized this

Ângela Pereira.

When the work was finally

completed and sent,

teacher Dora Mouriki was

really impressed and

congratulated the students

for their hard work.

Portuguese students, on

the other hand, were also

pleased because of all the

new things they learned

about their own culture

Students from 11°F