During December, students diligently decorated their classrooms and school corridors, sang appropriate Christmas carols.
On the last day of classes on
December 23, 2022, the students prepared a performance for their parents.
Parents and family members enjoyed the students' acting, singing, and dancing.
Santa Claus also came to the performance and gave sweets to the students.
In the month of November 2022, we started planning how to beautify the school yard in the pre-holiday atmosphere for our students and parents, as well as for the surrounding residents.
We decided to work together to create an Advent fence that will brighten the days of December for all passers-by. Each class was given the task of painting one elf on the prepared chipboards. The fence took on a new look every day - with each day there was a new dwarf on the fence. All 18 departments at the school participated and everyone created according to their own ideas. The students participated according to their abilities - some colored the drawn sketches, others created templates, others helped with the help of teachers, and the fourth painted everything themselves.
We are extremely proud of the whole, which was complete the day before Christmas. It is something special. How did we do it?
The idea leader of the Advent fence, teacher Vojka Havlas
Students created under the mentorship of their class teachers
On Monday, December 19th, 2022,
students and mentors from Erasmus+ project »Get to know us« went to Varaždin.
The purpose of our trip was to get to know Christmas Varaždin, and above all to visit our pen - pals in person.
First, we drove to our partners school
- Tomislava Špoljar Center. From there we went together to the old city center
of Varaždin. In the city, each pen pals also officially met. Of course, we took
photos of them on this occasion. Our Croatian friends then took us through the
streets of Varaždin. Among other things, we visited Santa's House (Kuču Deda
mraza), an ice rink with an ice slide, took quite a few photos and warmed up
with hot tea.
At the very end of our meeting,
our friends invited us to their place in the school for lunch. They also
provided dessert. With all the hospitality, they said goodbye to us with
beautiful gifts that will always remind us of our Croatian friends.
The day passed too quickly. It
was a short but sweet meeting. We look forward to our Croatian friends visiting
us during the carnival. We will do our best to be good hosts.
Thank you for a wonderful day.
Year 8/9 went to Belfast Christmas Market. It was situated outside Belfast City Hall in their grounds. They had a wonderful time. They saw stalls from Germany, France, Switzerland and the Russian Orthodox mission, Santa Claus Grotto, and the Christmas tree inside the City Hall. They loved it and sampled some treats on their way round!
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„Subject area
Inclusion, Diversity und Special Education“ 1100 Vienna, Quellenstraße 52, Tel: +43 1/602 11 48 E-Mail: direktion910013@schule.wien.gv.at
from 3rd till the 7th
of October 2022
Overview:
After former meetings in Varazdin (CRO), Heide (DE) and Belfast (GB-NIR), twenty-five colleagues from five European countries (GB-NIR, SLO, IRL, DE and CRO) from the field of special education met for the fourth time in Vienna from October 3 to 7 to exchange experiences within the framework of the ERASMUS+ project "Get to know us".
The
main focus of the meeting in Vienna this time was the professional area of the
Austrian special education system as well as the implementation of inclusion
and diversity especially in the educational area of the Viennese special
schools. In addition to the possibility of observation in inclusion and special
education classes at different school locations in the 10th district of Vienna
(Campus Monte Laa, VS Klausenburgerstraße, MS Leibnizgasse, OMS Absberggasse
and FIDS Quellenstraße), the international guests were able to get a
comprehensive picture of the didactical and methodological parameters of
differentiated instruction in different school levels as well as multi-level
classes on site. The subsequent exchange of experiences in individual and group
meetings as well as the two presentations of system-relevant officials of the
Vienna Directorate of Education in the areas of "school quality management
in the Vienna school system" and "special educational needs in the
Vienna school system" enabled all project participants to gain a deeper,
substantial and sustainable insight into "Inclusion, Diversity and Special
Education" in Vienna.
Alongside
the professional and educational topics of the stay, the participants also
learned about the cultural characteristics of the cosmopolitan city of Vienna
during a city tour and an official reception at Vienna City Hall. A guided tour
through the 1st district of Vienna as well as guided visits to traditional
Viennese sights (Naschmarkt, Danube Park and Tower, Vienna Prater with a ride
on the Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel and the Museum of Art History) rounded off the
cultural program for the 25 participants.
The
Austrian evening in traditional folk costume and the performance of traditional
Austrian folk songs as well as culinary delicacies may certainly be termed as a
highlight. The evening was highly complimented by all attendees and
characterized an excellent success.
In
the context of the project in Vienna aimed points and goals are mentioned below:
The
objective of the project was to share best practices and knowledge among the
six partner schools. Furthermore to improve social inclusion of our pupils and
increase their social skills through staff-training. This allows them to
communicate more effectively within school, their social environment and with
society in general; can thus be seen as implemented and fulfilled from the
host's point of view. In concrete terms, the following program points were
implemented during this week in cooperation between hosts and guests.
Activity report of mobility in Vienna
in the period from 3rd till the 7th of October 2022:
Monday, 3rd of October (Day 1):
Welcome of all our colleagues from Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland
and Slovenia at School Center Quellenstraße at the library with coffee, tea,
snacks and Smalltalk. Afterwards, our principal Katharine Ostermann welcomed
the guests and subsequently the school center Quellenstraße for students with
special educational needs was presented to the guests by means of a PowerPoint
presentation. This was followed by a presentation on "School Quality
Management in the Viennese School System" by Barbara Würzelberger. Finally,
the premises of the school site were visited by all guests in small groups and
the equipment, furnishings and room layout of the site were discussed in
initial professional talks.
At
the final meeting the weekly schedule with all planned activities (lectures,
courses, excursions, ...) were presented again and last adaptations were made.
At the same time the Erasmus+ coordinator Mr. Colm Burns shared with the latest
news about our project. While the individual country coordinators met
afterwards, the remaining participants went on their way to the agreed common
dinner.
Tuesday, 4th of October (Day 2): On this day, the first technical study and
teaching groups were scheduled. In order to be able to offer the participants a
good insight, three rotating study groups A, B & C were formed in order to
evenly distribute the group size of the international guests among the planned
teaching focuses as well as contents. The three main focuses could thus be
visited and intensively experienced by all teachers.
Group
A: Motor skills parkour with Peter at the playground: Sports therapy aims to
improve our students' motor skills and get them more engaged with activities as
well as the world around them, with an emphasis on the five senses.
Group
B: Technical work with Mario and Silvia in the workroom: Fine motor skills,
creativity as well as the safe handling of different tools and materials are in
the foreground as well as the cooperation of the two teachers
"team-teaching" in dealing with school children with special needs.
Group
C: Music and singing with Doris in the classroom: Musicality as an expression
of the personal mood and individual personality of each student is the focus of
this course. The individual creativity as well as the social behaviour in
heterogeneous communities by means of music, singing and performing play on the
basis of a school class with children with special needs were illustrated to
the colleagues in this lesson.
After
the completion of the three rotating study groups, a joint lunch, prepared by
the school children in the school kitchen for our guests and served in the
school library, was followed by a guided tour of the sights in Vienna's city centre
before the Erasmus+ Team Vienna invited to a traditional Austrian evening with
classical folk songs, local delicacies and regional clothing (traditional costume,
dirndl, lederhosen) in the premises of our school location.
Wednesday, 5th of October (Day 3):
The third day started with all participants from our partner schools directly
at Karlsplatz. During an informative walk along Vienna's Ringstrasse, the colleagues
gained valuable knowledge about the impressive historical buildings along the
world-famous boulevard on their way to today's destination "Vienna City
Hall". After the official reception
of our delegation in the Vienna City Hall and the welcoming words, the visit of
the extensive and well-known library with numerous precious exhibits from the
Austrian contemporary history as well as the visit of the contemporary history
exhibition "The Wedding in Ausschwitz" took place in parallel. An extraordinary,
historically documented, story from the time of National Socialism.
Thursday, 6th of October (Day 4):
On the fourth day, our guests were able to visit four different school
locations and types (Campus Monte Laa, VS Klausenburgerstraße, MS Leibnizgasse,
OMS Absberggasse and FIDS Quellenstraße) to see how inclusion works together in
the Viennese school network on site and to learn useful information about the
operation, the learning content, the goals and ways of inclusion, diversity and
team teaching directly from the colleagues/teachers. In order to adapt the
group sizes to the classes, a division was necessary for this and the
distribution of the respective nations to all four offered school locations. The
sustainable exchange of information and the lively discussions between our
guests at the following lunch made the morning a successful example of a
"best practice" when a broad spectrum of expertise can be offered to
give interested colleagues a broad overview of "Special Educational Needs
in the Viennese School System".
After lunch (preparation and presentation by students from our school), the morning program was followed by two very informative presentations on the topics at the four inclusive school sites: "Inclusion, Diversity and Special Education" and "Special educational needs in the Vienna School system". Both lectures served as a supplement as well as a deepening of the focal points already conveyed during this week. The contents should help the colleagues present to better understand the key points, goals, difficulties and solutions for inclusion, diversity and schooling in the field of special education and to recognize the similarities as well as the differences in the national school systems (Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Slovenia). In the afternoon, guided visits to traditional Viennese sights (Naschmarkt, Danube Park and Tower, Vienna Prater with a ride on the Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel and the Kunsthistorisches Museum) were on the program. The evening ended in a typical Viennese restaurant in the Vienna Prater.
Friday, 7th of October (Day 5):
On the last day of the mobility in Vienna, there was a lively exchange about
the impressions and experiences gained. During the visit we achieved the goals
we had set and all activities took place as planned (this time without COVID
restrictions). The group cohesion was strengthened as well as deepened, which
allows us to implement experiences in our future work, but also promotes the
relationship within the schools. All partners expressed great satisfaction with
the organization (especially the home evening!) of this week and with the
experiences/insights they gained in working with students with limitations and
special needs and the possibilities of their integration into the community.
On the 6th of December Saint Nicholas visited our school. He read in his big golden book if the pupils are nice and well-behaved. As all the pupils and teachers are for sure well-behaved they got chocolate and tangerines.
First week of
October brought us spending very interesting time in Austria, Vienna. We spent
quality time with people, who work with pupils with special needs from Croatia,
Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Austria, which hosted us that week.
Our hosts organized
for us every day something special. During the week, we got different lectures:
about school quality management in the Vienna school system, about the
Austrian school system in relation to “Inclusion, Diversity and Special
Education” and about special
educational needs in the Vienna School system. We also met a member
of the provincial parliament, municipal councillor of the city of Vienna and
director of the Academy of Education, who friendly welcomed us at the Vienna
town hall in the provincial parliament. It was very exciting to be there. Of course,
we also had time for Vienna sightseeing town walk and we were all
thrilled about the city.
The most interesting time for all
of us was spending time at different schools (they told us, there are around
700 schools in Vienna!), with children with special needs and with their
teachers. So, we could join a class at the motor skills park, technical work in
the workroom and music and singing in the class/at the gym. We could saw, all
children in all classes were able to be inclouded in all activities, it means,
those were inclusion classes with children with high skills. But, what the most
surprised us, was the number of migrants children. Only in one school there are
37 different nationalities, what means 37 different languages in just one
school. Because of so many nationalities, there is sometimes a native speaker
in the class with the teacher, who helps the pupils with the language. Vienna
is very open city to migrants and their school system works the same. Teachers
are always ready to translate and help “new” pupils feeling as much as possible
comfortable and welcomed in the school.
Pupils with special needs visit
lessons together with other children. Very surprising for us was the
information, that teachers usually don't even know, who has special needs in the class.
There is a special education teacher (and, depends on the number of pupils with
special needs, also more other teachers) working together with class teacher.
An example of good practice was the desk in the middle of the class, where
every pupil could sit down for few minutes (or the whole hour), if needs some
help. The pupil doesn't need to ask a teacher; he/she could just stand up, walking to that desk,
sit down and the (special education) teacher knows, that pupil needs some help.
It is also aloud for other pupils to go there and help. As soon as the problem
is being solved, the pupils just go back to their desks and the lesson goes on.
Definitely one very good idea also for Slovenian school system.
Danke schön, ViennaJ.
Slovenian Erasmus+ team Tanja, Nataša, Marjetka and Tina
Bread Day and Thanksgiving for Earth fruitage Day
Each year in month of October, at schools across Croatia, we celebrate Bread Day and Thanksgiving for Earth fruitage Day. Students of our Centre celebrated Bread Day on Friday, 21st of October 2022. They brought various pastries, that they either baked or bought, to school. All the pasties were displayed on the celebration table in the school atrium. After the blessing of the bread and Autumn fruitage ceremony, the students participated in themed workshops. Some of them kneaded the dough and shaped pasties, some baked cakes, some made pictures out of various seeds and fruits and some played various games. Everybody had a good time and school atrium stayed decorated with Autumn themed works and pictures.
Report
about the Erasmus+ 
Visit to School Center
Quellenstraße http://www.spz10.at/wordpress/
„Subject area
Inclusion, Diversity und Special Education“ 1100 Vienna, Quellenstraße 52, Tel: +43 1/602 11 48 E-Mail: direktion910013@schule.wien.gv.at
from 3rd till the 7th
of October 2022
After
former meetings in Varazdin (CRO), Heide (DE) and Belfast (GB-NIR), twenty-five
colleagues from five European countries (GB-NIR, SLO, IRL, DE and CRO) from the
field of special education met for the fourth time in Vienna from October 3 to
7 to exchange experiences within the framework of the ERASMUS+ project
"Get to know us".
The
main focus of the meeting in Vienna this time was the professional area of the
Austrian special education system as well as the implementation of inclusion
and diversity especially in the educational area of the Viennese special
schools. In addition to the possibility of observation in inclusion and special
education classes at different school locations in the 10th district of Vienna
(Campus Monte Laa, VS Klausenburgerstraße, MS Leibnizgasse, OMS Absberggasse
and FIDS Quellenstraße), the international guests were able to get a
comprehensive picture of the didactical and methodological parameters of
differentiated instruction in different school levels as well as multi-level
classes on site. The subsequent exchange of experiences in individual and group
meetings as well as the two presentations of system-relevant officials of the
Vienna Directorate of Education in the areas of "school quality management
in the Vienna school system" and "special educational needs in the
Vienna school system" enabled all project participants to gain a deeper,
substantial and sustainable insight into "Inclusion, Diversity and Special
Education" in Vienna.
Alongside
the professional and educational topics of the stay, the participants also
learned about the cultural characteristics of the cosmopolitan city of Vienna
during a city tour and an official reception at Vienna City Hall. A guided tour
through the 1st district of Vienna as well as guided visits to traditional
Viennese sights (Naschmarkt, Danube Park and Tower, Vienna Prater with a ride
on the Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel and the Museum of Art History) rounded off the
cultural program for the 25 participants.
The
Austrian evening in traditional folk costume and the performance of traditional
Austrian folk songs as well as culinary delicacies may certainly be termed as a
highlight. The evening was highly complimented by all attendees and
characterized an excellent success.
In
the context of the project in Vienna aimed points and goals are mentioned below:
The
objective of the project was to share best practices and knowledge among the
six partner schools. Furthermore to improve social inclusion of our pupils and
increase their social skills through staff-training. This allows them to
communicate more effectively within school, their social environment and with
society in general; can thus be seen as implemented and fulfilled from the
host's point of view. In concrete terms, the following program points were
implemented during this week in cooperation between hosts and guests.
Activity report of mobility in Vienna
in the period from 3rd till the 7th of October 2022:
Monday, 3rd of October (Day 1):
Welcome of all our colleagues from Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland
and Slovenia at School Center Quellenstraße at the library with coffee, tea,
snacks and Smalltalk. Afterwards, our principal Katharine Ostermann welcomed
the guests and subsequently the school center Quellenstraße for students with
special educational needs was presented to the guests by means of a PowerPoint
presentation. This was followed by a presentation on "School Quality
Management in the Viennese School System" by Barbara Würzelberger. Finally,
the premises of the school site were visited by all guests in small groups and
the equipment, furnishings and room layout of the site were discussed in
initial professional talks.
At
the final meeting the weekly schedule with all planned activities (lectures,
courses, excursions, ...) were presented again and last adaptations were made.
At the same time the Erasmus+ coordinator Mr. Colm Burns shared with the latest
news about our project. While the individual country coordinators met
afterwards, the remaining participants went on their way to the agreed common
dinner.
Tuesday, 4th of October (Day 2): On this day, the first technical study and
teaching groups were scheduled. In order to be able to offer the participants a
good insight, three rotating study groups A, B & C were formed in order to
evenly distribute the group size of the international guests among the planned
teaching focuses as well as contents. The three main focuses could thus be
visited and intensively experienced by all teachers.
Group
A: Motor skills parkour with Peter at the playground: Sports therapy aims to
improve our students' motor skills and get them more engaged with activities as
well as the world around them, with an emphasis on the five senses.
Group
B: Technical work with Mario and Silvia in the workroom: Fine motor skills,
creativity as well as the safe handling of different tools and materials are in
the foreground as well as the cooperation of the two teachers
"team-teaching" in dealing with school children with special needs.
Group
C: Music and singing with Doris in the classroom: Musicality as an expression
of the personal mood and individual personality of each student is the focus of
this course. The individual creativity as well as the social behaviour in
heterogeneous communities by means of music, singing and performing play on the
basis of a school class with children with special needs were illustrated to
the colleagues in this lesson.
After
the completion of the three rotating study groups, a joint lunch, prepared by
the school children in the school kitchen for our guests and served in the
school library, was followed by a guided tour of the sights in Vienna's city centre
before the Erasmus+ Team Vienna invited to a traditional Austrian evening with
classical folk songs, local delicacies and regional clothing (traditional costume,
dirndl, lederhosen) in the premises of our school location.
Wednesday, 5th of October (Day 3):
The third day started with all participants from our partner schools directly
at Karlsplatz. During an informative walk along Vienna's Ringstrasse, the colleagues
gained valuable knowledge about the impressive historical buildings along the
world-famous boulevard on their way to today's destination "Vienna City
Hall". After the official reception
of our delegation in the Vienna City Hall and the welcoming words, the visit of
the extensive and well-known library with numerous precious exhibits from the
Austrian contemporary history as well as the visit of the contemporary history
exhibition "The Wedding in Ausschwitz" took place in parallel. An extraordinary,
historically documented, story from the time of National Socialism.
Thursday, 6th of October (Day 4):
On the fourth day, our guests were able to visit four different school
locations and types (Campus Monte Laa, VS Klausenburgerstraße, MS Leibnizgasse,
OMS Absberggasse and FIDS Quellenstraße) to see how inclusion works together in
the Viennese school network on site and to learn useful information about the
operation, the learning content, the goals and ways of inclusion, diversity and
team teaching directly from the colleagues/teachers. In order to adapt the
group sizes to the classes, a division was necessary for this and the
distribution of the respective nations to all four offered school locations. The
sustainable exchange of information and the lively discussions between our
guests at the following lunch made the morning a successful example of a
"best practice" when a broad spectrum of expertise can be offered to
give interested colleagues a broad overview of "Special Educational Needs
in the Viennese School System".
After
lunch (preparation and presentation by students from our school), the morning
program was followed by two very informative presentations on the topics at the
four inclusive school sites: "Inclusion, Diversity and Special
Education" and "Special educational needs in the Vienna School
system". Both lectures served as a supplement as well as a deepening of
the focal points already conveyed during this week. The contents should help
the colleagues present to better understand the key points, goals, difficulties
and solutions for inclusion, diversity and schooling in the field of special
education and to recognize the similarities as well as the differences in the
national school systems (Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Northern Ireland and
Slovenia). In the afternoon, guided
visits to traditional Viennese sights (Naschmarkt, Danube Park and Tower,
Vienna Prater with a ride on the Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel and the
Kunsthistorisches Museum) were on the program. The evening ended in a typical
Viennese restaurant in the Vienna Prater.
Friday, 7th of October (Day 5): On the last day of the mobility in Vienna, there was a lively exchange about the impressions and experiences gained. During the visit we achieved the goals we had set and all activities took place as planned (this time without COVID restrictions). The group cohesion was strengthened as well as deepened, which allows us to implement experiences in our future work, but also promotes the relationship within the schools. All partners expressed great satisfaction with the organization (especially the home evening!) of this week and with the experiences/insights they gained in working with students with limitations and special needs and the possibilities of their integration into the community.
R.I.P. Queen Elizabeth II
On Wednesday, 1st of June 2022, Centar Tomislav Špoljar students celebrated the Centre day. The celebration was held in Croatian national theatre Varaždin. The students sang, danced and acted, they were rewarded with loud applause from the audience for their performances.
In the UK on the 2nd -5th June it was Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, celebrating her 70 years on the British Throne. In school, as recognition of her contribution to British Society, The Commonwealth and aiding Irish Peace, our classes completed a number of activities that can be seen in our video. On the 30th May each pupil was given a book by the Education Authority and a medal from the Local Council as a remind of this celebration. On the 31st May we finished school for a long weekend.
After a two-year
Covid break, Athletics light could finally take place again on April 28th in
Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium. Exactly 768 school classes from the 1st to 4th
grade (including multi-level and integration classes) took part in this
sporting event on six consecutive days of the competition.
The four
athletics disciplines, consisting of endurance (tub run), jumping power
(standing long jump), speed (30m run) and throw (howling throw) are completed
in the class association and all results are included in a team ranking.
The result of the
ALA, which was able to achieve the excellent second place among 54 multi-level
classes, was particularly pleasing! The place and date of the award ceremony
have not been fixed yet and will be announced separately! (Photos and report on
this will be submitted later!)
After a two-year Covid break, the Vienna Children's Run could finally take place again on May 12th in the athletics stadium opposite to the Ernst Happel Stadium. Exactly 183 school classes ranging from 1st to 4th grade (including multi-level and integration classes) took part in this sporting event on five consecutive competition days this year.
The running
distance of 600m is completed in the class association and all results are
included in a team evaluation. The result of the ALA, which was able to achieve
the excellent 11th place among the multi-level classes, was particularly
pleasing!
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Pupils of the FES redecorated the showcase after the visit of our partners.
Pupils of the FES made their
classrooms ready for the summer period.
