On the 13th of January, Edifacoop organized an activity in order to promote de Value of Peace. Nursery, Pre-school, Primary school, CATL and Elderly Care wrote messages of peace that were transported by carrier pigeons, kindly lent by pupils’ families. Pictures of the pigeons’ arrival were then sent to the school. This was a symbolic activity to remind pupils of the importance of this value in our everyday life.
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Portugal – Christmas Postcards Exhibition
Exhibition of Christmas Postcards sent by all partner schools in the scope of the Postcards Exchange Activity during December 2019 – Month of Family.
Portugal – Christmas Postcards
In December 2019, the month of Family, pupils from Edifacoop created Holiday Postcards and sent it to the other partner schools, wishing them a happy holiday season. They also wrote Christmas cards to their families and decorated the school with a Christmas Tree with values.
Portugal – Room of Values
In November 2019, the month of Tolerance, each school was challenged to create a Room of Values, space where the activities’ work can be displayed. In the Portuguese school, pupils can play games, express themselves through drama, and many other activities in the Room of Values This will be an ongoing process during the project implementation period.
Portugal – World Food Day
On October 16th 2019, we celebrated “World Food Day” by offering to our school community a bag of sea salt with a message about our project. This was a way of disseminating our project and raise awareness for a conscious and careful consumption of salt.
Portugal – Activities of Courtesy
At the beginning of October, pupils read the story and sang a song related to courtesy during the school assembly.
In the classroom, they interpreted the text and created comics about it.
In the Erasmus Corner, they created the board “When you close your eyes and think about courtesy, what do you see?”. Then, the school community wrote their thoughts on post-its.
Portugal – Introducing the project
In order to introduce the project and the topic of values in our institution, pupils created a tree of values, a key holder (to identify the bags) and some artwork at the beginning of the school year.
