Connecting Cultures: Friendship Across Oceans and Seas

 Gonca Solmaz /Gaziemir Science And Art Center Father’s Day Poster Activity As part of our special days and cultural awareness activities, our students prepared a meaningful poster for Father’s Day . The aim of this activity was to help students express love, respect, gratitude, and appreciation for fathers through visual design and English language use. In the poster, students highlighted the important values associated with fathers, such as love, support, guidance, strength, and inspiration . They used warm family visuals, hearts, gifts, flowers, and a cheerful design to reflect the special bond between fathers and children. The message “Happy Father’s Day!” was presented in a colorful and joyful way. This activity also gave students the opportunity to improve their creativity, digital design skills, and English vocabulary. While designing the poster, they learned how to use meaningful words and visual symbols together to create an emotional and effective message. Through this wo...

  Here you can find the project joint and collaborative products.   The joint product reflects the spirit of our project: learning from one another, celebrating our cultural heritage and building bridges between countries through collaboration and understanding. Therefore, our students have designed a calendar called "Our Shared Cultural Calendar" in which one can see important days of our cultures.   CALENDAR  👉 The collaborative product is the result of the creativity, teamwork and friendship of students from Türkiye, Greece and Poland. Through shared proverbs, traditional games, local foods, cultural celebrations, music and dances, our students discovered that although our cultures may be different, we share many common values. Working together across borders, they created a story that highlights friendship, cooperation, respect for diversity and environmental awareness.  This collaborative product not only showcases students’ creativity and digital s...

  TRADITIONAL GAME 'MILA'  Since culture also means traditional games , the kids decided to show their friends from the other two countries a traditional game played very often not only at school but everywhere! This game is "Mila" or 'Apples' in English. They prepared a video for them to see: Mila

  03-06-2026 The project was presented to parents, students, teachers in the MUNICIPALITY CULTURAL CENTRE OF THESSALONIKI in ANO TOUMPA. Everyone who attended the event at the Cultural Centre had the opportunity to discover the work we carried out during the project, learn more about our eTwinning activities, and understand how important it is for young learners of English to be given meaningful opportunities to express themselves in English. Throughout the project, our students wrote, spoke, collaborated in international groups using English as their common language, created stories, and contributed to a shared book and a calendar of events from each participating country. Participating in such an inspiring eTwinning project was a truly rewarding and moving experience. Everyone present at the Cultural Centre could feel how meaningful and valuable this journey was. 💖 You can see our presentation by clicking on the link below : 💢 CANVA PRESENTATION (in Greek) 👉  

 1st MEETING We were very happy to join an online meeting where our students could meet each other for the first time and have some fun together. They talked about their schools, hobbies, and interests using fantastic question cards prepared by our teacher, Pinar. Students also enjoyed playing an exciting Kahoot quiz about Poland. It was a great chance to get to know one another, share smiles, and start new friendships! 2nd MEETING At our spring meeting, everyone was getting to know each other a little better. The first reason for this was that we had met during our first online meeting, and also another reason was because the Turkish students had visited their friends in Poland during the last week of March as part of the Erasmus+ project they were participating in. During this online meeting, our Turkish students talked about their visit to Poland. Afterward, we learned about 23rd April Children festival in Turkiye, the different Easter celebrations in Greece and Poland. Finally,...

What I liked about the project! When the project was closing to its end, I asked the kids to say what they liked about the project. You can see that in the following video.