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Learning, Teaching and Training Activities

Meeting Number
C4

Activity Type
Short-term exchanges of group of pupils

Meeting Title
Regional Costumes and Accessories

Start Date
09/05/2022

End Date
13/05/2022

Receiving Organisation
Lycee Toulouse-Lautrec

Receiving Country
France

Receiving City
Bordeaux

Description of the meeting
Bordeaux 9-13.05.2022: 3rd short-term exchange of groups of students and teachers, Lycee Toulouse-Lautrec, "Regional Costumes and Accessories".

Participants: 22 international students and 10 teachers, hosts: project leaders, teachers, school headmistress, parents, 15 project group students, educational authorities, families, dormitory students, owners and employees of regional companies, museums, restaurants.

5 working days:

  1. After being welcomed by the project leaders and the French school director, the student delegations of the 6 schools gave presentations on the "History of regional costumes". We were invited to the City Hall of Bordeaux. We visited the city.
  2. The discovery of the New Aquitaine region continued. From the city to the ocean: we visited the town of Talmont, the city of Royan and took a boat trip to visit the UNESCO world-listed monument Cordouan Lighthouse.
  3. From the ocean to the vineyard: we saw the winemaking process and vineyard at Château Terrasson and the Unesco world-listed town of Saint-Emilion.
  4. From the vineyard to Perigord-Noir: we visited the Gardens of Marqueyssac, the Castle of Beynac.
  5. At the French school there was a fashion show and regional costumes. We participated in a sewing workshop led by the school's fashion teacher. We prepared a model - a mannequin with regional accessories. The teachers met to sum up the exchange and to prepare for the next one in Romania and to establish the way of conducting the project in the following months. We prepared lunch consisting of regional French dishes and dishes from our regions. Certificates for the mobility participants were handed out.


Every day we discovered New Aquitaine: locally, in the city of Bordeaux and regionally. We learned about the history, monuments and tradition of the region. We tried regional dishes. In a cyclical evaluation after the exchange the teachers and students once again expressed their very good opinion about the hosts and the preparation of the exchange programme. The students once again lived with the families of high school students and in the school dormitory.


How did the participation in this activity benefit the involved participants?

HOST SCHOOL
establishing international cooperation; improving managerial, organisational competences; strengthening cooperation with local institutions/authorities in Aliaga, Izmir; creating a positive image of the school in the community and education in European dimension.
Students from 6 schools presented the culture of their regions, focusing on costumes and accessories: Aegean region, Silesia, Alentejo, Central Croatia, Muntenia, New Aquitaine.

TEACHERS
To establish regional and international cooperation, to exchange good practices, to work on project results, to exchange teaching techniques in regional education; to get to know the school, the educational offer, the students and staff of Lycee Toulouse-Lautrec, to make new contacts.

PARTICIPANTS
Learning about the New Aquitaine region in France:
  • regional foods:
    regional cheeses, crosants, Bordeaux wine.
  • customs: the wine-making process at Château Terrasson vineyard, the role of gardens and castles.
  • getting to know the characteristic, historical and cultural places of Izmir in Turkey: Bordeaux (neoclassical building and interior of the rooms in the City Hall, Museum of Wine and Technology, Place de la Bourse, St. Andre Cathedral, Grand Theatre), Beynac Castle, Cordouan Lighthouse, the towns of Talmont, Saint-Emilion.


    • Developing competences:
    • digital: Power Point, Google forms, YouTube, Instagram;
    • personal: creation of works, organisation of events, working in an international group, public speaking.
    • social: working in an international group, organising a local event, participating in workshops, in a big event to promote tolerance, diversity, equality; active participation in local life.