Schulleitertreffen England 17. - 22.1.2014

Mrs A Duffy, West Kirby Grammar School

2017-05-17T17:33:44+03:00

What is your name?
Alison Duffy

What is the name of your school?
West Kirby Grammar School

How do you promote the Wellbeing of the students and teachers in your school?
Well I’m new here, I just started here in January. But what we’re doing really is looking at wellbeing and some of the issues that the students have faced and some for the stresses and we’re trying to put in a programme to support student so if they getting stressed for exams there’s help. If they get stressed because of issues outside of school, with relationships we have the learning Mentors, so there assisting in place.

Which country, in your opinion, serves the best school meals? (and why?)
(laughs) Well, my last school was in Wales and we had a healthy school meal there and here it’s good. I do not know about your country and what you eat for the school meals. I think in this country, England and Wales everybody is more conscious about having a balanced diet, so we have salads, and lots of vegetables, fruit and we are trying to get people more aware of how they eat.

How has education in your country changed since you were at school? (Is it for the better?)
Its far more child focused now. When I was on school basically we had to sit down, shut up and get on with it, you know they didn’t really give you any guide or some support it was very much down to us, and now we try and give as much support as we can to students. But also the subjects that we teach is much boarder. My background is Art and Design. When I was at school we did not do design technology or have workshops and things like that, it was very much traditional painting and drawing. I think also IT is changing the way we teach. Oh yes, it is much for the better.

How do you encourage your students to have respect and tolerance for each other?
There is a PSHE programme, which is people thinking not only of themselves but different cultures. In assembly’s we talk about tolerance, we talk about expectations and our community and also I think leading from the top it is how I respect pupils and I expect them to respect teachers and each other. I think the ethos is really important.

If you could paint your school in one colour, which colour would it be?
A happy one! Sunshine! I think when you walk into the school it is very calm but it is also a very positive place which is nice.

What is the best technology in education?
Interactively as a tool. Here we are wanting to develop IT, I want to use a lot more handheld devices so there can be much more interaction. You are really used to using your phone, maybe laptop or iPad. My vision is to have this school so it is up to date with the latest gadgets and handheld devices so it can be far more interactive and used as a tool.

What makes a good school?
People really, it is much about people and relationships and how they work together. Also opportunities and I think this school is great at providing opportunities for pupils and opening their eyes to what’s available. Not just universities, but also apprenticeships and life beyond school. I think that it is trying to find what makes students tick and get them involved in things and get them excited.

What is the purpose of Comenius project?
I think it is again about relationships and building bridges across the world, making sure that young people can share their views, opinions and learn from each other. They get a better understanding, really of other people’s cultures and hopefully lifelong friendships. I think it is a brilliant project.

Thank you! Nice to meet you!
Bye! Nice to meet you too!

Agata Gutorska, Poland

2017-05-17T17:35:03+03:00

What is your name?
-Agata Gutorska
What is the name of your school?
-IV LO Poznan Poland
How do promote the Wellbeing of the students and teachers in your school?
-We do special website, and a lot of meetings.

Which county, in your opinion, serves the best school meals? (and why?)
-All countries serves very delicious meal. We can try traditional cuisines, so it is very nice.

How has education in your country changed since you were at school?
(Is it for the better?)
-In Poland education system has changed a lot since 2002. I don’t really know if
it’s better or not. In schools there are also a lot of new technology.
I think it is easy to teach now. Now there are primary school, gymnasium, and grammar school.

-How do you encourage your students to have respect and tolerance for each other?
The most important it is our(teacher’s( behaviour, but also we talk a lot of with students,
meet with different kind of people.

If you could paint your school in one colour, which colour would it be?
-Green

What is the best way to use technology in education?
-It is very difficult question. It depends on subjects, technology is almost everywhere,
so we must be modern and use all type of technology.

What makes a good school?
-Teachers, students, and parents. We have to trust each other.

What is the purpose of Comenius project?
-To know new people, culture, make friendships, to meet different habits and learn
a lot from all of the partners.

Cintia Szőnyi and Amoun Wided

Ari Toropainen, Finland

2017-05-17T17:38:48+03:00

What is your name?
Ari Toropainen

What is the name of your school?
Iitin Lukio (Finland)

How do you promote the Wellbeing of the students and teachers in your school?
By dances, sports etc.

Which country, in your opinion, serves the best school meals? (And why?)
I think that in Finnish school have good school meal. Because we have long tradition of school meals.

How has education in your country changed since you were at school? (Is it for the better?)
School has changed more interactive direction. Teachers and students work together and they have very good atmosphere.

How do you encourage your students to have respect and tolerance for each other?
Everybody are polite and they have good atmosphere.

If you could paint your school in one colour, which colour would it be?
I myself like a lot of green colour, because it’s colour of nature and also colour of development, it is also relaxing.

What makes a good school?
Good atmosphere and cooperation between teachers and students.

What is the purpose of Comenius project?
Our students and teachers have a lot of friends in Europe. We have got new ideas from another schools.

Gergely Pásztor, Hungarian

2017-05-17T17:37:14+03:00

What is your name?
- My name is Gergey Pásztor.

What is the name of your school?
-Táncsics Miháy Gymnasium.

How do you promote the wellbeing of the students and teachers in your school?
-we have a colourfull school building. Inside we have comfortable sofas where students can relax. Students and teachers can turn to me with their problems. We have table tennis and sport tools.

Which country, in your opinion, serves the best school meas ( and why )
-I think the Finnish have the best meal because it's healthy. But ours is very tasty.

How has education in your country changed since you were at school ( Is it for the better? )
-Yes, a lot but it would take time to talk about it.

How do you encourage your students to have respect and tolerance for each other?
-Yes of course. Tolerance is very important

If you could paint your school in one colour, which one would it be?
-Our school is already painted in rainbow. Every foor has its own colour.

What is the best way to use technology in education?
-Projectors are good.

What makes a good school?
-Good education, very good teachers and colourfull students.

What is the purpose of comenius project?
-Learning about other cultures, schools and people

Gerrit Ulmke, German

2017-05-17T17:36:10+03:00

What is your name?
Gerrit Ulmke

What is the name of your school?
It is called Helmholtzschule.

How do you promote the Wellbeing of the students and teachers in your school?
We do it with regular meetings to promote the Wellbeing of students. The students can take part in projects such as Comenius. We offer a variety of courses and see what opportunities the pupils have to improve school in all fields. It is not only a question of pupils but of teachers and parents all working together. It is working together that is the most important.

Which country, in your opinion, serves the best school meals? (and why?)
I must admit that I have not discovered all the schools right now, actually I have only been to Hungary where I liked the food very much. I can tell you about the meals in Germany, the pupils get offered a three course meal everyday, they can choose between two or three courses. Each course has got a side salad, you also can have a big plate of salad. There is tea, water and also dessert which contains all the fruit. I think that is very healthy. In general home made and freshly prepared food with the ingredients of the region is the quality you should look for.

How has education in your country changed since you were at school? (Is it for the better?)
I would say education has not actually really changed but childhood has changed and it is the reaction of schools to this change in childhood which is important. 30 years ago, when I was in school, there weren't as many single parents. Now we have to cope with a lot of divorces causing trouble to the children. We now have lots of children watching TV, I remember when I was at school we only had three programmes and at 10 o'clock they stopped the programme so there wasn't any possibility to watch more than you should. The variety of films you can watch was not there so media consumption has changed and today many children have computers and laptops in their rooms. They can use YouTube and they have iPods and iPhones with them all the time. These things can be used wrong and they take you away from your school subjects.

How do you encourage your students to have respect and tolerance for each other?
First of all there is a lot of talking to them, a lot of working in groups together, it is workshops on these topics. Of course one of these is the Comenius Project, who should know it better than you do. We have teachers to support the children who take care of them and make them have respect for others. We have tutors and mentors at our school and I think that there is a wide variety of methods to encourage the students to have respect.

If you could paint your school in one colour, which colour would it be?
Spontaneously, I would say orange and green but I can only choose one so well, maybe a very warm yellow but I also like blue, which is my favourite colour, so it is a very heavy question. But if I have to choose one colour it would be a warm yellow.

What is the best technology in education?
Depends on the technology you mean, in general to use technology is to bring knowledge to pupils to use technology as a tool to help create wisdom.

What makes a good school?
When I became head teacher, just 15 months ago, I told my teachers, the pupils and the parents that I think that what makes a good school is that those who go there want to learn and to work. So that everybody likes to go to school, and they like to go their not just for social meetings and friends but for success they have. So successful pupils like to go to school and I think this makes a good school. If they do not have success in marks there are other kinds of success that can be created.

What is the purpose of Comenius project?
Of course it is to gain respect and tolerance, to my mind is theoretically very abstract but is concrete practically. We are talking of getting to know other cultures and going to talk about getting friendships. These friendships may last a lifetime, for example, in 1979 we had a exchange from the town I went to school and a school in this region. So since 1979, I have been here in this area a lot of times. We have friends who we are still in contact from the exchange and we hope to continue this. It has lasted over thirty years and I think this is one purpose of the Comenius project, to have respect for other people and cultures and to build up friendships.

Thank you! Nice to meet you!
Bye!

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