BREAD CULTURE

The Kozma Trichkov Secondary School works on an international educational project Comenius from the 2006/2007 school year with partners from Spain, Italy and Turkey on the theme ". BREAD CULTURE:.

 The project contributes to improving the quality of the students’  work in the course of mutual European education, international cooperation between schools and language learning, deepening intercultural understanding.

Implementation of the project includes: research on types of bread, making bread and food culture, traditions associated with the bread, getting acquainted with works of art on the above theme, producing a multilingual glossary of language partners and English on popular vocabulary on the theme "Bread and bakery products and a collection of recipes” for the traditional local bakery processes.
The project enables participants to share experiences, expand common culture and teach them to understand and respect other cultures.

Early in May  The Kozma Trichkov Secondary  was a host of four-part-meeting and welcomed guests from Italy, Spain and Turkey – our copartners.
That international educational project is within Comenius programme , funded by the of Human Resource Centre of the European Union.
At the entrance of the school guests put morsel of bread in sal / our “sharena sol”/ and tasted the bread according to our famous Bulgarian hospitality. Just this ritual strongly impressed them. They were delighted with the nature of Vratsa -  that  "quiet and comfortable" city.

There were a lot of events accompanying their stay due to the implementing of the Project plan, also they were on an excursion to our famous cave “Ledenika” , outstanding Belogradcbik Rocks and Klisura Monastery.

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MEETING IN SPAIN

Delegation of The Kozma Trichkov Secondary School in  Vratsa: Nelly Borcheva - Principal, Tatyana Petkova - Biology Teacher and students from Class 11a - Nicholay, Luben, Peter and Tsvetan visited Catalonian town of Igualada / Spain / located 60 km from Barcelona in late April. There they  took part in the final meeting of the project partners   " Bread Culture.”

The project is realised within three school years together with partners from Spain, Italy and Turkey in the framework of the "Lifelong Learning" programme - sub Comenius. The project goals are; to  present European education systems, to strengthen international cooperation between schools and promote learning of foreign languages also to deepen intercultural relations between the partners, to increase motivation of students to participate in vocational educational process as a result, to reconsider their leisure time and enrich their knowledge about  the way of life of their peers in other countries.

 Bulgarian students gathered, translated and illustrated proverbs, riddles and stories about  bread and shared them with their partners, organised "delicious" exhibitions of different types of bread and bakery products.  Multilingual European / Bulgarian, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Turkish and English language / dictionary was launched. There are recipes with traditional types of bread and bakery products from the four countries and the most popular vocabulary on the topic.

„CBIT” – an educational and entertainment game was presented and students compete answering questions on history, culture, customs and language of the partners.

Participation of the school on that project contributed greatly to expand the horizon of the activities for "verification of the clock" by neighboring schools abroad, enabling teachers and students to get acquainted with their colleagues and peers during the previous meetings in Nevshehir / Turkey / and Parma / Italy / and share experiences and ideas for future joint initiatives.

 

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MUSIC LECTURE with the participation of Vratsa Philharmonic Orchestra  took place today in the Conference Hall of Tthe Kozma Trichkov Secondary  in Vratsa. Students of the 6th grades had the opportunity  to enjoy the performanceof brass instruments and to understand more about them – how  they were created, development, etc... Detailed answers to all their questions gave the Conductor of the Orchestra Valery Vachev. The phenomenon. "Musical lectures featuring  is the only way to get kids to touch the real live music. This way of presenting   music live  is very attractive to children and it enriches  their knowledge and rise their interest ," said Lala Baneva – Music teacher.

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4-11 October, 2009 the Principal Mrs Borcheva took part in the National Institute for Principals’ education project “ Leaders and managers’ skills development. The mobility visit is according to the Leonardo Programme in London.

The education programme  was lead by The Learning and Skills Improvement Service / LSIS/ - second biggest in Great Britain organization servicing the sphere of education and leaders.

The visit gave Mrs Borcheva useful information on experience in the management of education field, innovation ideas on education and managing schools, systems for professional consultations and educating, modules from the programmes for novice and future school Principals – there were new elements in content of her field of work, leadership, management and organization  in education.

New materials and experience gathered also and new contacts established will be useful in our future work especially according to the new module of Career Development for Bulgarian teachers and new titles as Senior Teacher, Methodologist, Vice Principal, and Principal.

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Countdown to Copenhagen Students Speak! Contest
Students Speak! Contest: Announcing The Winners

 

 

 

Countdown to Copenhagen!

Students from all over  the world illustrated their ideas on  climate change worldwide. The contest is hosted by ePals, in partnership with the campaign team for the conservation of the Earth (Teamearth). The materials were handled to the leaders attending the conference on Climate Change Copenhagen 7.12. 2009 to 18.12.2009g

"Students speak!" Contest is designed to provide world leaders, scientists and other otstandingl personalities withthe students views on climate changes.

Students worldwide answered the questions
-What would you say to world leaders about climate change?
-What actions would ask them to take?
-What is important to you about climate change, forests, energy and global cooperation?

A team of students from school "Kozma Trichkov - Vratsa with its Team Leader – the IT teacher  Dinkova entered  " The Team of Earth”. 115 countriescompeted and we are proud our student .
Rumyana Ilkova – 12th grade  received a special award in the category of "Protecting the Planet" for her MS Power  Point Presentation entitled "Biomass - Cheap HEATING.

 

 

 

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Study visit in Denmark

 

Mrs Neli Borcheva – the Principal  of The Kozma Trichkov Secondary School-Vratza, participated in an international study visit in the Danish town of Ebeltoft from 7th  to 13th  March, together with representatives from England, Finland, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Romania and Germany. The visit was entitled" Measures to prevent early school leaving.
The role of the school in preparing young people for further education and socialisation. "

The visit was organized by the CEDEFOP - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training under the programme "Lifelong Learning".

When back home Mrs Borcheva said:“Established useful contacts with the participants in the visit is the first step towards future projects and partnerships. I am very impressed by the Danish hospitality and kindness. "

The program included  sharing experiences and practices also  visits to different types of schools and centres, including boarding ones where participants were acquainted with the school teams and the way of work with children and young people with different  early school leaving risk degrees.
During the visit it was stressed upon that all participating countries are to prevent the problem of early school leaving. Socialisation of young people is important and solving that matter  is a real challenge. It was also argued that students dropped out of school for various reasons, but they are similar and typical for each country and their solution depends on the socio-economic conditions, educational policies, traditions, etc
Accents in working with such children are fully supported, promoting positive relationships and motivate individual work focusing on specific and specific needs of each child, vocational training and building real life skills. The qualifications and motivation of staff in various schools also establish relationships with students, based on mutual trust, are of great importance here. Positive relationships settled and furthermore

going on with continuity in the course of  staff work will allow  relationships to be maintained and  developed.

 

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