Comenius Romanian Project

Our school is doing a Comenius project. Holy Family Senior School is going to e-mail countries all over Europe. In particular, we are going to email Poland, Germany, Czech Republic and Romania. Ms. Clifford and Mrs. Ryan’s classes are emailing Romania. So that we could have a little information, we decided to do a project on Romania. We researched Romanian culture, money, music, history, geography, and monarchy.

When we (Mrs. Ryan’s and Ms. Clifford’s) had researched all that information, we put it together to form a project. You can see it here on the Web site.

In fact, it was really Ms. Clifford’s class who worked. But it wasn’t the other classes fault, Mrs. Ryan had fractured her arm and so could not help.

Mrs. Ryan has visited Romania and she says what struck her was a field full of sunflowers, just full of sunflowers, bobbing and facing the sun.

When we commence emailing Romania this term we will be using our computer lab. They are using a laptop. They will also use a camera we presented to the principal that we presented in January 2001. Now we can see the pictures that they take!

The project has helped us a lot to understand other cultures, and has helped form a bond between ourselves and other countries. We hope that some day we can foster strong bonds between ourselves and all the other countries all over the world.

Compiled by Aisling O’ Gara & Orla Keane - Teacher: Antoinette Clifford

Comenius Czech Republic Project

We launched our Comenius project recently. At first we didn't know anything about the Czech Republic until we started our project. After thorough researching we learned a great deal about their country and culture. We learned about what they eat , what they wear and about their language. We learned that they like to eat Calta (bread) and Cuba (a pudding which is made from barley, mushrooms and milk) at Christmas.

December 24^th, 25^th and 26^th are the official holidays of the season . This is how you say Happy Christmas in Czech "Stastne a vesele vanoce a stastny novy rok". reat feasts take place.

The beautiful city of Prague is the Czech Republic's capital city. Its government is a Parliamentary Republic. Our teachers Mrs Darmody and Mr Connolly enjoyed all the exciting research along with our class. This term we hope to E-Mail one of the schools in the Czech Republic and send them some of our art, poetry and maybe some creative writing.

We know our teachers are going to Prague. We hope they have an exciting time and that they won't forget us.

Compiled by Rachel, Adriana & Shahd - Teachers: Annamarie Darmody & Hugh Connolly

Comenius Project on Germany

During the research for our German project, we looked up different sources of German history such as Berlin wall, St. Nicolas and we learned about interesting German people. People such as Bach, Wagner, Handel and  Becker.

At the launch of our Comenius project we put our project on display in the front hall of the school to view.

The project appeared on the local paper called the "Clare Champion".

"I liked researching the project because we were finding out facts about Germany," says Sarah Bailey.

"I liked researching about German history," says Ailís Burke. 

Teacher: Séan O'Neill