31 august 2023 – Final video from Portugal school
4 November 2022:How the Arena in Pula gad been built?
Have you ever asked yourselves how the Arena in Pula gad been built? The legend says it was built by farriers in one night dragging the stone from the Učka mountain.
The Eco museum Batana and the Association Kultura stine have joined forces and presented one of the old Rovinj trades to seven and eightgraders: stonemasonry. Rovinj scalpellini were once quite respected because they built the Old town and many monuments from the other side of the Adriatic sea using the local stone. We are proud of our heritage, the town that provides today, through tourism, our means of living. And this is exactly the reason why we should try to understand better what amount of precision, time and hard physical work has to be invested in order to get one simple cut stone – one stone being the smallest part of a building.
Accompanied by art and history teachers and led by expert guidance of stonemason technician Mate Pribilović, pupils watched a five minute film about stone collecting and afterwards strolled through the Old town streets to the Big peer where they learned about hand tools used in this trade. Then they had a go in smoothening a crude stone block cut by hand splitting. Their satisfaction with attending such a workshop was big so we hope there will be similar opportunities in the future.
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24 September 2022: Project on Rovinj field churches
City of Rovinj Public Open University presented a project on Rovinj field churches visits for the first time. Students of extracurricular sections Young historians and Photo group together with their team leading teachers Jasmina Tanović and Arijana Dobrila Barbaro joined this project. The objective of the project, planning to make it a traditional event, is making students aware ofexceptionally rich local cultural and historical heritage and customs.
This year we’ve visited churches from the pre-Romanesque period St. Toma, St. Christophor and St. Euphemie in Saline. We’ve made a tour by bikes and, apart from our students there were also representatives from the City of Rovinj Youth Council, city scout squad members, rectory members and Public Open University employees.
03-08 April 2022: Mobility in Croatia
Our school was a host to partner schools from Poland, Turkey, Portugal and Italy in April 2022 presenting the second mobility within the project ‘Legends and Myths on Board’ that started back in 2020. Following the first virtual mobility in Poland our school was the host to the next one. Students had an interesting opportunity to visit the Red Island and Forrestal park Punta Corrente and the countess Barbara Hüterott told them stories about her family, how they arrived in Rovinj and the way they wanted to promote tourism in Rovinj. After that, the students got the assignment on dramatizing a legend from each country which was completed with highly successful results. In addition to that, the students were taken to a whole day trip to Savičenta and St. Michael. They visited Kaštel Morosini Grimani in Savičenta where they had a tour guide, then they played escape room game as well as seeing and taking photos of medieval arms. After that, they went to Sanc. Michael where students took a ride on the carousel, rode in the carriage, had a go in archery and enjoyed in various medieval games.
01 April 2022: Presentation of project Legends and Myths on Board at local TV station
13-17 December 2021: Virtual mobility meeting
The first mobility under the slogan „The Transnational Teachers and Students Meeting, Environmental protection, legends and myths ‘’ took place at the Primary School No. Janusz Korczak in Kołobrzeg between 13-17 of December, 2021. Due to the global COVID19 situation, students from Turkey and Portugal came to Poland with their guardians, schools from Italy and Croatia participated in mobility remotely via the ZOOM platform. After arriving and connecting with our partners, the principal of Primary School No. 6 in Kołobrzeg, Andrzej Haraj, started a welcomed ceremony for all project participants. After that, students of primary school No. 6 from Poland presented to all participants of the project some important facts about Poland, our city – Kołobrzeg and our school. Students from Turkey, Italy, Portugal and Croatia also presented their countries, cities and schools. We showed to our guests our school, classrooms, and gym. Teachers and parents prepared traditional Polish dishes for mobility participants, and after tasting them we went to the City Hall in order to meet the City Mayor to promote our project. During the meeting, we introduced the goals and assumptions of our project. We ended the day with a city tour.The next day, all participants could learn about myths and legends from other cultures and countries for the protection of the environment.Students presented the most popular myths and legends of their countries, environmental protection in today’s world. We made during workshops an ecological dolls together. There was also an art workshop that students made clay figures related to popular legends and myths from Croatia, Turkey, Portugal, Italy and Poland. In the following day, we made a trip to historical city Gdańsk on the Baltic coast. In the center of the Old Town, rebuilt after World War II, there are colorful facades of the Long Market, famous buildings, shops, museums and restaurants. Nearby is the Neptune Fountain, the 17th-century symbol of the city, crowned with a bronze statue of the sea god. Gdańsk is also the center of the world amber trade, a historical place. Next day, in our school, the mobility participants took part in a theatrical performance by Polish students about famous legend of the Wawel Castle Dragon. Next activity was participation in the workshops of the KAMISHIBAI theater – a magical wooden theater – theater of illustration, storytelling and reading techniques originating in Japan. They were using boards with pictures and text, in which subsequent fragments of history, myth, legend or short story are presented. We showed Polish traditions related to Christmas in Poland. We organized gingerbread baking and decorating workshops for our guests. There were also participation in lessons and meetings with our school community. We ended the first mobility with a certificate award ceremony for all participants and we tested a delicious sweet cake with the project’s logo.
All participants learned about the cultural heritage of the project partner countries through myths and legends, and learned about the methods of protecting this heritage cultural. Involved partners contributed to the development of historical and cultural awareness, they learned how cultural heritage is used in tourism. Our guests are able to show the same sensitivity in protecting their natural environment, starting from the sensitivity manifested in the protection of the cultural heritage that is the subject of myths and legends. Consequently, they also gained environmental awareness through the activities of this mobility. In addition to these achievements, assured, that the participants were in an international environment. They have been culturally coherent and have improved their language skills and self-confidence.
