Our Comenius Project

Name of Project:    S.O.S - Support Our SuperTed

Theme: 'Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Healthy School'

Our 'Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Healthy School' project is a collaboration between 8 schools around Europe where whole school communities learn together. To encourage healthy lifestyles pupils will work with teachers and families across the partnership to plan, implement and evaluate a programme of activities which will support our mascot 'SuperTed' to develop a healthy mind in a healthy body in a healthy school.

The schools involved in our project are from:  

Ireland, England, France, Spain, Norway, Germany & Turkey 

Project Mascot:    'SuperTed'

Comenius visit to St. Mary's N.S. 

Teachers involved in our Comenius Project from Norway, Germany, Spain, France, England and Kildare visited our school on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th May.

On Monday the pupils from all the classes put on a special concert in the Pastoral Centre for the visiting teachers. On Tuesday the the visiting teachers put on a display from their schools for our pupils. Then the teachers went to the classrooms to talk to the pupils about their country, their schools and our Comenius Project - The theme for this visit was 'The Comenius Olympics' where pupils from each school got  a chance to learn various Playground Games from the other Comenius countries.

The parents also got a chance to meet the visiting teachers in the Pastoral Centre on Tuesday evening.

Many thanks to the Parents Association who provided lovely food and refreshments in the Pastoral Centre for the Comenius teachers on Monday and Tuesday and they treated them to dinner in the Malt House on Tuesday evening.

Comenius Visit to Norway

In February 2011 Mr. Kelly, Mr. Mannion and Mr. Murray went to the Comenius meeting in Norway. The school in Norway involved in our project is called Jara Skole, near the town of Flisa which is an hours drive north of Oslo. The temperature at the time of the visit reached was between -15 and -30 degrees! The cold weather didn't bother the pupils at all as many of them came to school on skiis.

Before the visit to Norway the pupils in all 8 schools took part in 'Playground Games' which each school then displayed in photos and videos to the other schools.

Photo 1: The pupils in Jara Skole put on a concert in their school hall for the teachers from the European schools involved in our project.

Photo 2: A Norwegian pupil looks at the photos of the 'Playground Games' and paintings of SuperTed on the Mountbellew N.S. display