Newspaper articles

Comenius project has been diffused inside the school by articles made by teachers and students on the school newspaper and outside the school by the newspaper articles that have been made at the end of each project meeting by Mr. Franco Maurella who writes for "Il Quotidiano" with issues in the whole Calabria region.

Gravdal Photos

We had a great time in Gravdal. We have seen one of the best places in the world, thanks to Comenius!!!!
In the first picture we are at the Viking museum and after that everybody had lunch in the open air...we can't forget what we ate...it was fantastic!!!!!!!!
Teresa

The logo

The students have made a logo trying to stick at the theme of the project. As you can see there is a type of food typical of each country: cheese for France, salmon for Norway, paella for Spain and pasta for Italy.

The dish we will prepare in Almeria

Amberjack (Ricciola) with sweet pearls of Calabria (olives) and crispy vegetable rings

Ingredients for 10 people

Amberjack N° 10 350 gr. each
Calabrian sweet olives 250 gr.
Green peppers 180 gr.
Potatoes 250 gr.
Zucchini 180 gr.
Red onions 180 gr.
Lemons 3
Flour 35 gr.
Beer 3 dl.
Bread-crumbs 85 gr.
Rosemary 10 crisps
Wild fennel 10 crisps
Garlic 2 cloves
Chives 20 crisps
Extravergin olive oil 2 dl.
Fresh dill 30 gr.
Frying oil 1 lt.
Red ground pepper 20 gr.
Eggplants 180 gr.
Cougette flowers 30 gr.
Basil 30 gr.

Procedure

Clean, wash and filet the fish and after season it only with salt. Roll the fish filets and seal them with the chives tails .
Place a sprig of rosemary and wild fennel over the filets and then lay them on a fish steaming tray and let them cook for 15 minutes
Meantime, wash the olives well and fry them in a pan with extravergin olive oil, garlic, red ground pepper, salt. Add a little bit of water and let everything cook for other 10 minutes at medium heat.
Take a bowl and mix the flour with a pinch of salt, bread crumbs, red ground pepper and the beer to obtain a smooth batter.
Peel and wash potatoes, green peppers, zucchini, onions, courgette flowers, eggplants and basil.
Cut the vegetables with a round cutter to make rings.
Dip them in the batter you have made in advance.
Fry one at a time the different types of vegetables in plenty frying oil.
As soon as the vegetable rings start to brown place them on a blotting paper so they can loose the extra oil . Do the same thing for the whole basil leaves and the zucchini courgettes.
On an serving platter put some sauce made with the olives and arrange the filets of amberjack which will be served with crispy vegetable rings and lemon slices.

Domenico Guarino

Limoges photos

We were struck of the beauty of both the city and the school Jean Monnet. We took some photos so everyone in the school and outside the school can admire.

The Meeting in Gravdal, Norway

Going to Gravdal , Norway, has been one of the most beautiful experiences we have lived so far both for us teachers and for the students who had the chance to admire a breathtaking landscape, taste food that you wouldn’t find elsewhere and get a warm welcome from the partner school and Comenius staff Per, Willy, Roger, our special hosts.

We have also worked and been delighted by the songs the children from the elementary school sang for us.

Activities during the meeting:

-Presentation of the educational trainings in Norway and of the school of Gravdal by the headmaster-

-Visit of the fittings of the school-Conditions of the creation of a blog for the project in each centre ( for the activities of the second year)

-Meeting with the press

-Visit of an aquaculture centre

-Preparation and dressing of an international buffet of local food products in the restaurant of the school

-Visit of the Lofoten Islands

-A show : songs prepared by the children of the primary school of Gravdal

-Visit of a factory of food products based on fish

-Visit of the museum of the Vikings

-Fishing the cod on the school boat

-Cooking on the boat

-Visit of a farm breeding lamb with the Lofoten label

-Visit of the aquarium of Kavelbag

Comenius meeting in Gravdal

-Report of the activities of the year and presentation of the works

-Achievement of recipes

- Presentation of typical products of each region by each partner

- Visit of food factories

Activities in each centre

In Gravdal each scool had to present the project outputs we agreed on at the meeting in Limoges concerning this first year of work 2006/07.

As for our school we made the creation of a comenius file on the school web site, a logo, presentation of a DVD on the region, achievement of a DVD about the recipes, mobility of students.

Dates of the meeting in Almeria

We will meet there from Tuesday October 16th to Saturday October 20th 2007. During this meeting we’ll set the activities for the school year 2007/2008.

In order to make the exchange of videos easier we have also decided to work with Windows Media Player and to use Microsoft software. Besides, the blogs will be created on “blogger” google blog .

Limoges Meeting

Going to the lycée des métiers "Jean Monnet" in Limoges, France, where the first comenius project meeting took place, has been for us a very special experience for the warm welcome of our project coordinator, the school staff but also for the nice atmosphere we found there and where we easily socialized with the other partners ans set to work.
Here is what we achieved during the meeting:
a)Presentation of the educational professional system and of the different fields of study in « the Lycée des métiers » and technical visit of the premises and fittings (kitchens, laboratories, workshop....)
-Presentations of videos and photos of the partner schools and their educational system.
-Proposal of the objectives of the first year and achievement of a common recipe card
-Visit of a distillery of local liqueurs .
-Demonstration of vacuum-cooked dishes made by a cooking teacher
-Preparation of the European buffet made with all the local products brought by all the partners. Each school presented some typical products of its country or region (pork meat, drinks, cakes...). The preparation was made by the teachers of the different schools with the students of the Lycée Jean Monnet.
-Visit of the « porcelain house » (Haviland)
-Visit of the town with the tourist train proposed by the Tourist Board .
-Visit of a pork butcher and caterer .
-Visit of the town center market and of the “taste market” ( a market of local products) during the “week of the taste” .
-Visit of the festival of « la Frairie des Petits Ventres », a yearly gastronomical fair
Integration of the group in the official delegation of the town hall of Limoges
-Preparation by the students of a typical local meal served in the educational restaurant
-Reception of the French educational inspector and of the press.

Planning of the activities for 2006/2007
We have all agreed on working at the following activities through the year
-Competition, exhibitions and logos
-Creation of a Comenius site
-Achievement of a CD Rom on the region of the different partners
-Realisation of a traditional and creative menu
-Making out of a word bank of the hotel keeping industry
-Exchange of works during the school year
-Exchange of students’electronic mails
-Preparation and achievement of a regional buffet
We also agreed on the next meeting which will take place in Gravdal , Norway from 8th t0 12th May 2007.