The fourth LTA (Learning and Teaching Activity took place in Italy, from 18/03/2019 to 22/03/2019.
The foreign teachers were picked up at the hotel and driven to school at 8:15, the students were already there accompanied by their host mates. The first welcoming was given by the headmaster Mr Luigi Valentini and by the tourist welcoming students led by their teacher Ms Rosaria Cuscito. At 8:30 all the students gathered in the gym for the first part of the icebreaking activity carried out by some colleagues of our Physical Education staff . The second part of the icebreaking activity took place outside in the school park as it was a clear sunny day and was quite exciting for the students. After that at 9:30 there was the school tour of two of the three big school departments ( ITT and IPSIA) which consisted mainly in visiting all the school labs where group of the school’s students showed to the partners their usual activities and in progress projects.
At 10:15 there was a coffee break prepared and served by the catering and service department students led by their teacher Mr. Fiorinto Di Mattia.
At 10:45 there was the official welcoming ceremony in the main school hall, here the official greetings were spaced out by the performance of the orchestra and folk music group of the “Pagliaccetti” middle school children, directed by their Music teacher Mr. Misticoni. It was a way to involve other types of schools and have the opportunity to disseminate our project. Their music, from classical to traditional, gave moments of great excitement . At the end of the ceremony each student team showed their own school and country presentation.
At 12:45 students and teachers reached the nearby school building ( IPEdOC) for lunch prepared by the students of the cooking class and served by the students of the bar room service course led by their teachers Mr. Massimo Di Gaetano and Ms Angela Cuomo. The first meeting of all the Erasmus+ teachers took place in a multi-media schoolroom, while the students were having some leisure time inside the school park or walking around the town accompanied by their host students.
At around 15.30 all the Erasmus+ participants met again in the main school hall where the students illustrated their country social enterprises and green needs through presentations and questionnaire reports.
At theending of the first day activities the students went home and the teachers took a free tour of the town before returning to the hotel. The teachers’ dinner was organized in a pizzeria to taste the typical kind of pizza and some innovative ones prepared by a former student of our school.
Arrival at school at 8.15am after a five minutes’ walk the Erasmus + group reached the “ Piccola Opera Caritas “ building, a social foundation and an enterprise whose main purpose is to promote inclusion as a form of thought and action, increasingly spreading a culture of care aimed at recognizing and defending the dignity of the human person in its entirety, contributing to its full development. Here we were greeted by the staff people who showed a video to inform us about the foundation’s history, development and current activities and then answered the hosts’ questions.
The Coffee break wasprepared and served by the students of our catering and bar service courses. Then we were divided into small groups, all led by one of the employees, to visit the different laboratories where the guests, with mental and physical disabilities usually work and produce art objects and crafts to be sold, under the supervision of expert tutors who encourage their socialization and the recovery of their physical and mental abilities through work. The tour continued visiting the inside public hall “ Sala Trevisan” and library “ “Padre Serafino Colangeli” that houses a large collection of valuable books and codes. At the end of the visit all the visitors were given a small souvenir made by the guests of the “Piccola Opera Caritas”.
The day continued with thecoming back to the IPSEdOC building and with a guided tour of it. A girl of the cooking course showed all the area of the school, from the outside organic vegetable garden to the cooking labs where every day the students prepare traditional and innovative dishes, to the bar service lab, where the students learn how to serve and prepare cocktails and beverages, to finish with the computer and front office labs where the students can practice their ICT and communication skills.
The Lunch at the school restaurant room was prepared and served by the cooking and service courses students. After Lunchall the participants returned to the ITI auditorium to attend to a modern theatre performance of “Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, a surprise prepared by some students of the Computer Science course led by their English teacher Monica Sardella.
After this exciting activity all the Erasmus+ teams, accompanied by their teachers, went to the Computer lab for a challenging workshop carried out by the Portuguese teacher Fatima Pais to create an App for the fictive companies of each country, here the students worked hard and with great involvement to achieve the goal of the activity .
At the end the students went home with their hosts and the teachers where accompanied to the hotel. The teachers’ dinner took place in a restaurant in the historical centre of Tortoreto, a nice “borgo” nearby Giulianova , to taste the traditional food of the Abruzzo region.
Early meeting of all the Erasmus+ groups at the Don Juan hotel to leave, by bus, for “Anversa Degli Abruzzi” recognised as one of the most beautiful “borgo” of Italy. The destination was the farmhouse called “ La Porta dei Parchi” an organic farm primarily involved in sheep and goat breeding and in cheese production. People working there have also launched an awareness campaign with a project called “Adopt a sheep” against the depopulation of the mountains and the environmental decline, in defence of the natural heritage, the cultural legacy of mountain civilization and in favour of the environmental protection with activities of fire –prevention, hydrological defence of the territory and bio-diversity conservation. Here the guests had a workshop about the mission of the structure, about of all the activities of this green enterprise then they were showed how to make cheese and ricotta and received a lot of information on the local flora and fauna.
We then had lunch at the farmhouse with their traditional organic food. After lunch departure to reach, Sagittarius’ Gorges Natural Reserve that hosts numerous animal species. In these places numerous plants of remarkable naturalistic interest and conservation have found shelter. Particularly interesting is the numerous sources of water present in the territory that attest an extraordinary biodiversity. Short stop at San Domenico’s hermitage for a “sweet picnic” with traditional homemade cakes prepared by the host students’ mothers.
The excursion continued to Sulmona, a town of ancient origin known for being the native town of the Latin poet Ovid. Sulmona is also the home of the Italian confectionery known as confetti. These are sugar-coated almonds and are traditionally given to friends and relatives on weddings and other special occasions. Here the groups had finally some free time for shopping in the local “botteghe”.
Return to Giulianova at 19:30 the students were picked up by the host’s parents and the teachers went to the hotel for a short rest. The guest teachers’ dinner was arranged at a fish restaurant to have the opportunity to taste the fish specialities of Giulianova .
At 8:00 o’clock meeting of all the teams at school to depart to the University in Teramo to attend a workshop hold by the Prof. C. Corsi and his assistant Prof. A. Capriotti. They illustrated a project, addressed to local and foreign students (Erasmus), Masters, specialization schools, called “ Contaminatin Lab” which main goal is to create places of impulse and contamination to implement new models of training and learning of entrepreneurial culture, supporting the development of projects with high innovative and technological content in synergy with the network of the territory. That was also an opportunity to inform students about the possibilities, offered by the local university, to train on how to start an entrepreneurial course. Coffee break, kindly offered by the Rector of the University.
Left the university, the whole Erasmus+ group was greeted by some students’ representative of the hospitality school “IIS Di Poppa” and then escorted along a tour to visit the historic centre of Teramo and its beauties as the medieval Cathedral, the Roman amphitheatre and other Roman remains.
The lunch took place at the “ IIS Di Poppa “ hospitality school, prepared and served by the teachers and students of the cooking and service course. This was a further occasion to disseminate the project.
After lunch we came back to school in Giulianova to have our last meeting during which all the business plans, marketing plans and web sites of the companies were showed by the students of each country.
At the end the students had a free time and went home and the teachers had their last meeting to take stock of the situation and to plan the activities to be carried out before and during the next meeting in the Czech Republic. The activities ended at about 18:00 and the teachers were free to have a walk, do some shopping and buy some souvenirs at the “ Piccola Opera Caritas” shop.
In the evening there was the farewell party for students, teachers and host-families at the IPSEdOC building , all the buffet was prepared and served by the teachers and students of the cooking and bar service courses, then it was time to hand over all the certificates and take some final pictures at school.
Appointment with all the teachers and students of the Erasmus + group at the Don Juan hotel to leave for L’Aquila and to reach Rome where all the foreign teams had decided to spend their last night in Italy. Here there were moments of great emotion among the host students and the host families, with whom the students had established good bonds of friendship, who were very sorry for the departure.
The first stop was in L’Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, which, only ten years ago, had suffered the consequences of a terrible earthquake that had caused many victims and damages. The goal was to see how hundreds of companies and enterprises are still working to restore the city’s former splendour and life using innovative techniques with low environmental impact and respectful of the territory. We visited the restored cathedral of “ Santa Maria di Collemaggio”, the seventeenth-century Aragonese castle, the new wooden music Auditorium designed by the architect Renzo Piano, a gift of the Trentino Alto Adige region, and Duomo square with the church of Anime Sante, an 18th-century baroque church in L’Aquila that became one of the symbols of the earthquake.
Once left L’Aquila we continued to Rome and, after a short break in a service area for the lunch, we arrived at the EUR borough of Rome. Then the group took the underground to reach the Colosseum. Here we had a guided tour inside the ancient amphitheatre and at the Roman forum to retrace the splendour of the Roman Empire. Then our guided tour touched some other famous landmark as Piazza Venezia and the monument of the Unknown Soldier, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Spagna and Via Condotti to admire some of the most beautiful example of the Italian Baroque art. At 18.00 our excursion was going to end and, to please the students, we decided to have dinner once again all together at a fast food, before the final goodbye .
At 19:30 the Italian group came back to Giulianova by bus and the foreign teams reached their hotels in Rome where to stay for their last night in Italy.
MINUTE – 4rh LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITY
Giulianova, Italy
Aims of the mobility:
- The general goal of this mobility was to enhance the international dimension of education and training, through the encounter of groups of students and teachers from different countries and different cultures and give them the possibility to get to know each other, to compare their social and educational systems, to share some good practises and finally work together on the same task. This is a way how to get students aware of the importance of social enterprises in the European community as a great opportunity for future careers.
This mobility has also stimulated and consolidated
- the improvement of students’ foreign language and cooperation skills;
- the increasing of their basic skills and practical entrepreneurial skills;
- the knowledge about all the necessary steps to realize students’ ideas of the social enterprises in their communities;
- the awareness of the multitude of disadvantaged or marginalised social groups who need to be supported and integrated, through social work, to becompletely recovered becoming a resource for local communities.
- The knowledge of environmental problems and green needs in the participants’ countries and in Europe and the possibilities to search and find innovative solutions among the public and private companies that can reduce the environmental impact and the global footprint;
- the awareness that, for a better future, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change should be done in harmony and enhancing both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.
Sunday 17/03/2019
Arrival of the partners, all the teams were taken to the teachers’ hotel where the guest families were waiting to pick the students up and go home. The host teachers then accompanied the colleagues to a nearby restaurant for dinner, the evening ended with their return to the hotel.
Monday 18th
The foreign teachers were picked up at the hotel and driven to school at 8:15, the students were already there accompanied by their host mates. The first welcoming was given by the headmaster Mr Luigi Valentini and by the tourist welcoming students led by their teacher Ms Rosaria Cuscito. At 8:30 all the students gathered in the gym for the first part of the icebreaking activity carried out by some colleagues of our Physical Education staff . The second part of the icebreaking activity took place outside in the school park as it was a clear sunny day and was quite exciting for the students. After that at 9:30 there was the school tour of two of the three big school departments ( ITT and IPSIA) which consisted mainly in visiting all the school labs where group of the school’s students showed to the partners their usual activities and in progress projects.
At 10:15 there was a coffee break prepared and served by the catering and service department students led by their teacher Mr. Fiorinto Di Mattia.
At 10:45 there was the official welcoming ceremony in the main school hall, here the official greetings were spaced out by the performance of the orchestra and folk music group of the “Pagliaccetti” middle school children, directed by their Music teacher Mr. Misticoni. It was a way to involve other types of schools and have the opportunity to disseminate our project. Their music, from classical to traditional, gave moments of great excitement . At the end of the ceremony each student team showed their own school and country presentation.
At 12:45 students and teachers reached the nearby school building ( IPEdOC) for lunch prepared by the students of the cooking class and served by the students of the bar room service course led by their teachers Mr. Massimo Di Gaetano and Ms Angela Cuomo. The first meeting of all the Erasmus+ teachers took place in a multi-media schoolroom, while the students were having some leisure time inside the school park or walking around the town accompanied by their host students.
At around 15.30 all the Erasmus+ participants met again in the main school hall where the students illustrated their country social enterprises and green needs through presentations and questionnaire reports.
At theending of the first day activities the students went home and the teachers took a free tour of the town before returning to the hotel. The teachers’ dinner was organized in a pizzeria to taste the typical kind of pizza and some innovative ones prepared by a former student of our school.
Tuesday 19th
Arrival at school at 8.15am after a five minutes’ walk the Erasmus + group reached the “ Piccola Opera Caritas “ building, a social foundation and an enterprise whose main purpose is to promote inclusion as a form of thought and action, increasingly spreading a culture of care aimed at recognizing and defending the dignity of the human person in its entirety, contributing to its full development. Here we were greeted by the staff people who showed a video to inform us about the foundation’s history, development and current activities and then answered the hosts’ questions.
The Coffee break wasprepared and served by the students of our catering and bar service courses. Then we were divided into small groups, all led by one of the employees, to visit the different laboratories where the guests, with mental and physical disabilities usually work and produce art objects and crafts to be sold, under the supervision of expert tutors who encourage their socialization and the recovery of their physical and mental abilities through work. The tour continued visiting the inside public hall “ Sala Trevisan” and library “ “Padre Serafino Colangeli” that houses a large collection of valuable books and codes. At the end of the visit all the visitors were given a small souvenir made by the guests of the “Piccola Opera Caritas”.
The day continued with thecoming back to the IPSEdOC building and with a guided tour of it. A girl of the cooking course showed all the area of the school, from the outside organic vegetable garden to the cooking labs where every day the students prepare traditional and innovative dishes, to the bar service lab, where the students learn how to serve and prepare cocktails and beverages, to finish with the computer and front office labs where the students can practice their ICT and communication skills.
TheLunch at the school restaurant room was prepared and served by the cooking and service courses students. After Lunchall the participants returned to the ITI auditorium to attend to a modern theatre performance of “Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, a surprise prepared by some students of the Computer Science course led by their English teacher Monica Sardella.
After this exciting activity all the Erasmus+ teams, accompanied by their teachers, went to the Computer lab for a challenging workshop carried out by the Portuguese teacher Fatima Pais to create an App for the fictive companies of each country, here the students worked hard and with great involvement to achieve the goal of the activity .
At the end the students went home with their hosts and the teachers where accompanied to the hotel. The teachers’ dinner took place in a restaurant in the historical centre of Tortoreto, a nice “borgo” nearby Giulianova , to taste the traditional food of the Abruzzo region.
Wednesday 20th
Early meeting of all the Erasmus+ groups at the Don Juan hotel to leave, by bus, for “Anversa Degli Abruzzi” recognised as one of the most beautiful “borgo” of Italy. The destination was the farmhouse called “ La Porta dei Parchi” an organic farm primarily involved in sheep and goat breeding and in cheese production. People working there have also launched an awareness campaign with a project called “Adopt a sheep” against the depopulation of the mountains and the environmental decline, in defence of the natural heritage, the cultural legacy of mountain civilization and in favour of the environmental protection with activities of fire –prevention, hydrological defence of the territory and bio-diversity conservation. Here the guests had a workshop about the mission of the structure, about of all the activities of this green enterprise then they were showed how to make cheese and ricotta and received a lot of information on the local flora and fauna.
We then had lunch at the farmhouse with their traditional organic food. After lunch departure to reach, Sagittarius’ Gorges Natural Reserve that hosts numerous animal species. In these places numerous plants of remarkable naturalistic interest and conservation have found shelter. Particularly interesting is the numerous sources of water present in the territory that attest an extraordinary biodiversity. Short stop at San Domenico’s hermitage for a “sweet picnic” with traditional homemade cakes prepared by the host students’ mothers.
The excursion continued to Sulmona, a town of ancient origin known for being the native town of the Latin poet Ovid. Sulmona is also the home of the Italian confectionery known as confetti. These are sugar-coated almonds and are traditionally given to friends and relatives on weddings and other special occasions. Here the groups had finally some free time for shopping in the local “botteghe”.
Return to Giulianova at 19:30 the students were picked up by the host’s parents and the teachers went to the hotel for a short rest. The guest teachers’ dinner was arranged at a fish restaurant to have the opportunity to taste the fish specialities of Giulianova .
Thursday 21st
At 8:00 o’clock meeting of all the teams at school to depart to the University in Teramo to attend a workshop hold by the Prof. C. Corsi and his assistant Prof. A. Capriotti. They illustrated a project, addressed to local and foreign students (Erasmus), Masters, specialization schools, called “ Contaminatin Lab” which main goal is to create places of impulse and contamination to implement new models of training and learning of entrepreneurial culture, supporting the development of projects with high innovative and technological content in synergy with the network of the territory. That was also an opportunity to inform students about the possibilities, offered by the local university, to train on how to start an entrepreneurial course. Coffee break, kindly offered by the Rector of the University.
Left the university, the whole Erasmus+ group was greeted by some students’ representative of the hospitality school “IIS Di Poppa” and then escorted along a tour to visit the historic centre of Teramo and its beauties as the medieval Cathedral, the Roman amphitheatre and other Roman remains.
The lunch took place at the “ IIS Di Poppa “ hospitality school, prepared and served by the teachers and students of the cooking and service course. This was a further occasion to disseminate the project.
After lunch we came back to school in Giulianova to have our last meeting during which all the business plans, marketing plans and web sites of the companies were showed by the students of each country.
At the end the students had a free time and went home and the teachers had their last meeting to take stock of the situation and to plan the activities to be carried out before and during the next meeting in the Czech Republic. The activities ended at about 18:00 and the teachers were free to have a walk, do some shopping and buy some souvenirs at the “ Piccola Opera Caritas” shop.
In the evening there was the farewell party for students, teachers and host-families at the IPSEdOC building , all the buffet was prepared and served by the teachers and students of the cooking and bar service courses, then it was time to hand over all the certificates and take some final pictures at school.
Friday 22nd
Appointment with all the teachers and students of the Erasmus + group at the Don Juan hotel to leave for L’Aquila and to reach Rome where all the foreign teams had decided to spend their last night in Italy. Here there were moments of great emotion among the host students and the host families, with whom the students had established good bonds of friendship, who were very sorry for the departure.
The first stop was in L’Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, which, only ten years ago, had suffered the consequences of a terrible earthquake that had caused many victims and damages. The goal was to see how hundreds of companies and enterprises are still working to restore the city’s former splendour and life using innovative techniques with low environmental impact and respectful of the territory. We visited the restored cathedral of “ Santa Maria di Collemaggio”, the seventeenth-century Aragonese castle, the new wooden music Auditorium designed by the architect Renzo Piano, a gift of the Trentino Alto Adige region, and Duomo square with the church of Anime Sante, an 18th-century baroque church in L’Aquila that became one of the symbols of the earthquake.
Once left L’Aquila we continued to Rome and, after a short break in a service area for the lunch, we arrived at the EUR borough of Rome. Then the group took the underground to reach the Colosseum. Here we had a guided tour inside the ancient amphitheatre and at the Roman forum to retrace the splendour of the Roman Empire. Then our guided tour touched some other famous landmark as Piazza Venezia and the monument of the Unknown Soldier, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Spagna and Via Condotti to admire some of the most beautiful example of the Italian Baroque art. At 18.00 our excursion was going to end and, to please the students, we decided to have dinner once again all together at a fast food, before the final goodbye .
At 19:30 the Italian group came back to Giulianova by bus and the foreign teams reached their hotels in Rome where to stay for their last night in Italy.