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SOCIAL COMPETENCE GROUPS Hi, we are pupils of IV A. We're told we are among the liveliest in the school. The teachers have to work really hard with us, but we're happy to work together with friends from other parts of Europe and learn about how they behave at school and deal with each other!

Ciao, siamo gli alunni della IV A. Dicono che siamo tra i piu' vivaci della scuola. Le maestre devono lavorare davvero duro con noi, ma siamo molto felici di lavorare insieme ad amici di altre parti d'Europa e imparare come ci si comporta la'.

Hi there!!! We are pupils of IV B. You can see from our faces that we are very lively, not noughty as the adults often call us. Yes, we admit it isn't always easy to get along with each other and we often fight and struggle to accept the rules, but we're very good really and happy to be meeting other European pupils and work with them! Hurray!!!

Eilah!!! Siamo gli alunni della IV B. Dalla nostra espressione potete vedere che siamo molto vivaci, non monelli come gli adulti spesso ci chiamano. Si', lo ammettiamo, non e' sempre facile andare d'accordo e spesso litighiamo e facciamo fatica ad accettare certe regole, ma in realta' siamo molto bravi e felici di incontrare alunni di altre nazionalita' e lavoare con loro. Hurra'!!!!

Hi, we are pupils of VC (10 years old). We are quite a lively class and the teachers keep telling us that we drive them crazy, to which we reply "we're just children!!!" We're very happy to be part of this big Comenius project. The teachers have shown us a film on diversity and appreciation of each other which we have loved. We also love drawing and creating, so we're working on comics to show you as soon as possible.

Ciao, siamo gli alunni della VC (10 anni). Siamo una classe piuttosto vivace e le maestre ci dicono spesso che le facciamo impazzire, al che noi rispondiamo "ma siamo semplicemente dei bambini!!!!" Siamo davvero molto felici di partecipare al progetto Comenius. Le maestre ci hanno mostrato un film sulla diversita' e l'accoglienza dell'altro che ci e' piaciuto molto. Ci piace anche molto disegnare e creare, per questo stiamo lavorando su dei fumetti che vi mostreremo appena possibile.



Hi, we are students of VA. There's 18 of us in the class, 12 boys and 6 girls. We get along very well together and love studying. We are very happy to be able to do part of our studies with all of you. It's going to be very interesting, we are sure. Let's start then!!!

Ciao, siamo gli aalunni della VA. Siamo 18 in classe, 12 maschietti e 6 femminucce. Andiamo molto d'accordo e ci piace studiare. Siamo molto felici di avere la possibilita' di condividere parte del nostro studio con voi. sara' molto interessante, ne siamo sicuri. Iniziamo allora!!!



Hi, we are the pupils of VB. Our class is not very numerous. There's only 17 of us, 6 girls and 11 boys. We are in the same team as V A, in the sense that we have the same teachers. We are very happy about working in this new project. It's going to be so stimulating for us!! We are sure we will get along very well with you all!!

Ciao, siamo gli alunni della VB. La nostra classe non e' molto numerosa. Siamo solo in 17, 6 bimbe e 11 bimbi. Siamo nello stesso team della VA, cioe' abbiamo le stesse maestre. Siamo molto contenti di lavorare a questo nuovo progetto. Sara' molto stimolante per noi!! Siamo sicuri che andremo molto d'accordo con tutti voi!!!

LETTER FOR YOU!

VC

 Hi! We are students of the School “Raffaele Leone”. We have read your letter (well the letter from the Spanish students) and we like the projects you do very much. Our teachers have shown us the pictures they took when they came over in September. We saw two of our teachers in them: Linda and Domenica. How strange! We are very happy to be working on this big project with pupils from so distant countries. It all sounds so exciting! It’s going to be fun to show you little by little what we will be able to do and get to know what you do! With this letter we want to tell you a bit about our school. Our class is VC. There’s 25 of us in our class, 9 boys and 11 girls. We have 5 teachers working with us: Ermelinda, Vittoria, Rosanna, Mariligia and Chiara. We study different subjects among which: English, Italian, Geography, History, Citizenship and Constitution, Physical Education, Geometry and Science. Our school was opened in 1975, so it’s 35 years old now, a little younger than yours. Apart from the national curriculm subjects, we work on lots of projects and do lots of school trips meant to allow us to know the cultures of other places. We have been to Pompei, a town that flourished many years ago in the province of Napoli, in Campania. We have been to Taranto to visit the museum which houses plenty of remains and obejects which belonged to the Old Greeks. The projects that we have going on at the moment are: street behaviour, Science, in which we do experiments or we go out to explore the natural world, Trinity, which is an extension of English, the telematic newspaper, where we tell the other students of the school what’s happening in the school and on the territory, the choir, with which we prepare shows to put on stage during our festivity periods for our parents and the rest of the school to see. And now we also have this new Comenius project with all of you students of other European countries. It’s all so very exciting!!! We really are looking forward to seeing and being protagonists of all the exchange phases and comparing stuff to get to know how you work and show you how we do!!! Back to our town place. Our town is called Ginosa Marina (which means Ginosa by the sea to distinguish it from the other Ginosa up the hill which is part of our town hall territory but is a few km away from us). It is placed in Puglia and precisely in the province of Taranto. Ginosa Marina is a small tourist place on the Ionian Sea and has about 5000 inhabitants. Though having few inhabitants, it is quite wide in its territory and has many many more people in Summer. We have got a cinema-theatre close to our school. Near our school there is also our church with a big square. We have a pine wood called “Pineta Regina” and a big park just in the centre of the town, where we can have long walks in Summer. Other important buildings around are the ex tobacco factory, the big building of wood protection police and the three buildings where our institute is hosted: the Nursery school, for pupils from 3 to 5/6 years, the Primary school, called “Boschetti Alberti”, which has pupils from 6 to 10, and the Secondary School, for 11 to 13 years old, placed in the main building where the headmaster is and where we are as well as the Primary School building doesn’t have enough classes for all of us, so the V classes of Primary School are placed with the Secondary School students. We hope that reading this letter has allowed you to imagine what our town and school look like. We hope we will get more news from you as soon as possible. In the meantime we wish you a fantastic Christmas and a splendid New Year!!!!! We are attaching to this a few Christmas cards that we have drawn for you. We hope you like them.

THE CHILDREN'S WORK ON SOCIAL COMPETENCE

The teachers of VC have decided to have the children work on the feeling of frustration taking the hint from a film that the children themselves choose from a selection proposed so that they could feel more involved in the whole thing. It's the American movie "Step up" staging the frustration of teenagers wanting to be seen and considered by adults through their ability of dancing. They have to go through different hardships to go up the ladder and be acknowledged. The children have shown deep interest in the whole phase of vision, discussion and final expression of their feeling through sketches and comics.

Gli alunni della classe VC hanno deciso di lavorare sul sentimento della frustrazione prendendo spunto da un film che hanno scelto da una selezione proposta, in modo tale da sentirsi più coinvolti. Si tratta del film "Step up", che rappresenta la frustrazione degli adolescenti che vogliono essere notati e considerati dagli adulti per le loro capacità nella danza. Devono superare diversi ostacoli per arrivare in alto ed essere riconosciuti. I bambini hanno mostrato un forte interesse durantre tutta la visione del film, la discussione e la rappresentazione dei loro sentimenti attraverso sketch e fumetti.









Luke is very sad because he has lost his house and he feels very frustrated about that.



Luke is leaving, but before going he gives Muso the shoes he longed so much for.



The show. All the frustration slips away when you can do what you're most passionate about and express yourself in a healthy way.

Letter for you from IV A and B

Hello!!!!

We are students of the IV A and B of the Comprehensive Institute “Raffaele Leone” of Marina di Ginosa We are writing this letter together because we are followed by the same team of teachers: Rosanna (teacher of Italian), Giulia (teacher of Maths and Physical Education) Mina (teacher of Geography, Science and Music), Linda (teacher of English) and Mariligia (teacher of Religion). We thought we would write to you near Christmas so as to take the chance to send you our most affectionate and bright wishes for Christmas. There are 24 of us in IV A, 14 boys and 10 girls, and 24 inn IV B, 11 boys and 13 girls. We must admit, we are a bit naughty for our age, at least some of us, but we are all very excited about the Comenius project to do together with friends from other parts of Europe. We have been very happy to receive your letters and we always ask about you and when we are going to meet you. We have been told that it will only be on the web and we are a bit sorry for this. It would have been so nice to meet you in person and some “closer” work with you. Teacher Linda and teacher Giulia always speak about their journey to Spain to see you and the teachers of the other schools working with us. They describe your school and some of the work you do. It almost feels like we have been there too. Plus we have seen all of the pictures they have taken. You really have such a nice school! Maybe our school is not as exciting as yours but our teachers try to make it as cosy and coloured as they can for us to always feel comfortable and happy in it. And we contribute a lot to it with our drawing and handicraft works to decorate it. You should see it now that it’s all decorated for Christmas! We all drew and cut out stars and tinsel and different decorations to hang on the walls or stick on the windows. And we made two Cristmas trees and two nativity caves, one for each floor. We all care so much about the nativity cave where baby Jesus was born! And we are all preparing our little shows and songs and poems for the best last school day before Christmas (22nd of December). We are attaching to this pictures of our work and our best Christmas wishes for you. Maybe we’ve been talking too much! We have so many things to say!! We hope you don’t mind!! We want to tell you something about our school and our own now. Marina di Ginosa is a very little town by the Southern coast of Italy. It’s usually very hot in Summer and quite cold in winter. This year is being particularly cold. We had -2 degrees the other day. We hope it will snow! We all love the snow (and the school might be closed for a few days if it snows!). Though small, Marina di Ginosa has bog many facilities. We have different gyms, a swimming pool, tennis courts and football pitches, a cinema, many restaurants and bars and a big park just near the school where we go sometimes to play and have a walk. Our school is divided into 3 buildings: one for Nursery children, one for Primary school and the main base, where all the offices and the headmaster are, for Secondary School. Only the main base has got a gym. We little ones do our Physical Education lessons in the courtyard, when the weather is ok. We have an ICT laboratory and what we call the TV room where we watch DVDs and TV. We don’t have a canteen but a room is set up as a lunch room for the children that have lunch at school (only two classes). Most of us in fact have only lessons in the morning from 8.10 to 13.10, though there’s plenty of afternoon projects that we can join freely (they are not compulsory) in the afternoon: music, choir, theatre in English, English certification, computer, journalism for children, Italian for foreigners, maths ect…). We just have to choose according to our bends. We are so very busy!!!! Our school is also very sensitive to environmentally friendly projects so every year we do some new things to contribute to protect and respect the green spaces of our town. Last year, for example, we ere all on the beach to clean it from all the rubbish that environmentally unfriendly people drop off without care. It was big fun because we went all by bike. Our parents were also there on their bikes and even our headmaster! We will tell you some more things about us in our next letters. In the meantime we wish a merry merry Christmas with your families. May it be big fun and full of peace. With love The students of IV A and B

VA and B

The teachers of VA and B have started the discussion on frustration from reading a story out of a selection of UNICEF stories about the children's rights. The story is about a poor girl who lives in an ugly little house just opposite the big and beautiful house of a rich girl with a big garden and plenty of toys to play with. Everyday she looks at the girl and her brothers playing and having fun and feels frustrated, but in the end she understands that the precious talent of creativity and imagination she has got is worth so much more, and understands how much she is worth it and how frustration isn't a healthy feeling children should nurse in their hearts.

Gli insegnanti della VA e B hanno cominciato la discussione sulla frustrazione partendo dalla lettura di una storia da una selezione di racconti UNICEF relativi ai diritti dei bambini. La storia riguarda una ragazza povera che vive in una casa piccola e brutta proprio di fronte la casa grande e bella, con un grande giardino e piena di giochi, di una ragazza ricca. Ogni giorno lei guarda la ragazza e i suoi fratelli giocare e divertirsi e si sente frustrata, ma alla fine lei capisce che il dono della creatività e dell'immaginazione che possiede vale molto di più, e si rende conto di quanto lei valga e di come la frustrazione non è un sentimento che i bambini devono provare.



The girl is not happy of playing with the old creeking toys in the public park

 The poor girld looks at the rich girl's house and whishes she was a flower in her garden.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">CHILDREN PERSONAL EXPRESSION OF FRUSTRATION IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">"Shall we make up, Fabio?" - "I'm not sure, I'll have to think about it Francesco"



<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">"You can't play with us, you're bothering me!!!" - "What a shame he is a good goalkeeper" - "Sigh!"

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">"I hate to be sitting next to such an ugly girl!" - "Sigh! sigh!"



FINAL VIDEOS ABOUT SOCIAL COMPETENCE!

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Tolerance Tolleranza

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= Traditional games = = Giochi tradizionali =

1-2-3- Star!! 1-2-3 stella!!

Dodgeball Pallaprıgıonıera

Stroke in bags Salto coi sacchi

=**Initiation Games**= =** Giochi di iniziazione **=

Caterpıllar Il Bruco

The Frog La rana

Here we are playıng a Spanısh game: the snake!! Ecco che faccıamo un gıoco spagnolo: ıl serpente

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