In memory of the teacher from Barcelona.

This Monday, 20th of April, a teacher was killed at a school in Barcelona. It was a very sad new, so from our school we wanted to remember him, and  yesterday (21st of April) we kept a minute of silence in his memory.
We appeared on TV and on the newspaper.

http://www.rtve.es/m/alacarta/videos/noticias-murcia/?media=tve

Again, in Europe Direct!

Today we have been again to the office of Europe Direct Región de Murcia, and we have met a consultant contracted by the European Commission who is evaluating the European Year for Development. He asked us some questions and we showed him our project. It was a great pleasure meeting him and the members of Europe Direct!

The children in Congo.

We've already known the children who are going to receive the school supplies that we collected!! As we said, they're a group of children who live in an orphanage in Congo. We're very happy to help them!
You can see some pictures here:

You can also watch a video of them here:

https://youtu.be/R-gA-lsglzY

An orphanage in Congo.

Finally we have news from Congo!!!
Federico sent us an email saying that he's contacted an orphanage there, which really needs help. We're going to send the school supplies soon!!
He also sent us some pictures of the children in the orphanage:

Memory of our project.

During this contest we have made a lot of activities, videos... but now you are going to read a summary of our initiative:

1.WHAT'S OUR PROJECT ABOUT?

As we explained in our first post http://newropeansspain.blogspot.com.es/2015_03_01_archive.html, this year is the European Year For Development and we decided to choose "education for population" as our slogan, because everybody deserves an education, and if we want a better future it's necessary to have one. We wanted to help so we did different activities trying to help the most needed.


2.WHAT DID WE DO?

At our school:

-First we prepared the test by reading and studying "gacetas euroscolos".And on 18th March we did it.

-After, we started to prepare a collection of school supplies, from 3 years old children to 16 years old teenagers.
We showed two different power points to all the classes, one about the education and another one about the European Union and the education. We convince everybody about the importance of having one.

-A day later, all the students gave us their school supplies, we filled more tan 4 big boxes! (We are going to send them to a poor school in Congo)
They also took some photos and videos supporting "education for population"

  -We did a spiritual dance in memory of the people who died the 24th of March in the tragedy of the Germanwings flight.

-Also, Europe Direct Región de Murcia visited our school two different times, the first one we celebrated together the Safer Internet Day and they explained us the importance of a responsible use of the Internet.

The second time they helped us to prepare the collection of school supplies.

  

Outside our school:                                                                                                                                                                  

 

-We went to the office of Europe Direct three different times, the first one they explained us how Europe Direct and the EU Works.

And the other two times they worked with us, and they helped us a lot. Thank you so much!!

 

-We made a video where you can see people from different countries supporting our Project, and our slogan "education for population". http://newropeansspain.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/our-video-education-for-population.html.

-We also visited twice an exhibition organized by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation.  The second visit was special, because we attended to a "private vist" with the students of San Pedro Apóstol (they participate in Euroscola too) and a member of Europe Direct.

 

-We supported the #nohatespeech Movement.                                         

 

-Santa María de Gracia school recorded a video supporting our Project.

-Two students of Yamanlar School (Izmir,Turkey) recorded a video at their school supporting us.

 

-We explained our Project in Centro Social de Mayores Santiago y Zaraiche, and they also supported education for population.       http://newropeansspain.blogspot.com.es/2015/04/everybody-supports-us.HTML

 

-In Bando de la Huerta (a traditional festival in Murcia) we took a photo supporting education for population with Murcian typical clothes.

 

-On 9th April we went to the radio RomMurcia, to talk about our Project and we appeared on "Aquí y Ahora".    http://www.rommurcia.es/2015/04/09/aqui-y-ahora-09-04-15/

 

-We sent a tweet to each one of the European Comissioners and, Jyrki Katainen, clicked favourite on our tweet.

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-We created three different QR codes, one to our twitter, other to our facebook and other to our blog. 

-We created a website where you can see our blog, and you can also contact us.

-We contacted  a volunteer working in the border between Syria and Turkey and we also contacted a priest working in Congo (we'll send him the school supplies that we collected)

They'll send us their answers as soon as posible and we'll post them here.

 

And that's all! We hope you like our initiative! We have worked a lot!

We invite you to watch this video that we made with all the pictures we took during this Project:

 

https://youtu.be/BljVrT09Qd8

 

Thank you for giving us this oportunity to participate in this incredible contest!

 

                                

 

Thanks!

We want to thank our teachers Blanca and Eva for encouraging us to participate in Euroscola and helping us with the project.
We want to thank our schoolmates,teachers and families for participating in all the activities we have prepared and for being so generous.
We want to thank all our international friends for supporting us from their countries.
We want to thank Europe Direct for being there for us.

We want to thank the teachers of Santa María de Gracia school for supporting us.
We really want to thank EUROSCOLA, for giving us this chance to help for a better future.

THANK YOU!!

Why #educationforpopulation?

We have chosen the slogan education for population because we think that if we have the right to go to school and learn, every single kid in the world has that right too. Kids are the future, and if we want to have a good future, we have to give kids better life conditions and education.

We already knew that in some places it is difficult for children to have an education, but when we did some research on it and we saw that it was a lot more than just a matter of cultural differences,  we thought that it isn't fair at all and we wanted to do something about it. Even if we knew that we can't help every child in the world, we wanted to participate.
We have tried to make as many people as possible be aware of this problem so we can fight it all together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWQfc3UB3Z8&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YJHfX_0psE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFQzNGUYH94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcUsoOXlXg0

Why @euroscola?

Here is why we chose to participate in Euroscola:
Some months ago, two of our teachers told us about this project and explained us everything about it. They made us understand that if we wanted to participate, we had to be willing to work hard.
We accepted, especially because we wanted to know more about Europe and we felt the urge to get a little bit more involved with it.

Last year, some of the members of Newropeans participated in the Comenius Project. They went to Turkey and they met people from Poland, Italy and Germany. They were hosted by turkish families, so they got to know their culture. They had such a great time, and we thought that if we won Euroscola, we could have another awesome experience.

The students we met in Turkey have been very interested in our project and they have helped us a lot. That is why schools from different countries are supporting us. They have taken advantage of it and they have done their own activities at their schools, so maybe next year they participate in Euroscola too!

Volunteer.

Pavlos Antonoupoulos, is a Greek teacher who works as a volunteer in the border between Syria and Turkey. We contacted him two days ago, we asked him some questions and he'll answer them in a few days when he'll be available. We'll post them very soon.
You can see some pictures that he sent us of the people in Syria here:

Helping Federico Quirós Gil.

Federico is a Spanish priest who is working in Congo, helping the poorest. We're going to send him the school supplies that we collected two weeks ago. We also sent him some questions, but he couldn't send us a video answering them, because of wifi problems, but he promised us that he will send us it soon, and we promise you that we'll post it here as soon as possible.
We're very happy to help them, and we hope the children can take advantage of the supplies that we collected.

 

 

 

Our website.

We have created a website where you can visit this blog and you can also contact  us by sending us an email.
You can visit it here:
We hope you like it!

http://t.co/GObMSREfOw

Tweeting to the European Comissioners.

On  10th of  April we sent a tweet to each one of the European Comissioners inviting them to visit our blog.
Jyrki Katainen, Vice President for Jobs, growth, investment and competitiveness in the European Comission click favourite on our tweet! Thank you very much!

 

 

You can see all our tweets to the European Comissioners on our twitter:

 

https://twitter.com/newropeans2015?s=08

QR codes.

We decided to create three different QR codes to access to our twitter, Facebook and blogger.
We're going to put our QR code to this blog at our school and everybody will be able to visit it.

This one goes to Facebook:

Twitter:

Blogger: 

Last visit to Europe Direct.

Last Friday we went to Europe Direct for the last time to look over our blog and talk about details that we forgot.

Thank you so much Europe Direct for helping us!! 

 

 

 

On the radio, RomMurcia.

On the morning of  9th of April, our mates Lucía and Manolo, members of Newropeans, and Jesús and María, from the group Eurocool, have been to the radio romMurcia with a member of Europe Direct. They have talked about Euroscola, the European Union, our objectives, the activities we have done, social networks... It has been very exciting to our friends to be on the radio and although they were nervous, they have done it very well!

Here you can listen to the interview (minute 62):
http://www.rommurcia.es/2015/04/09/aqui-y-ahora-09-04-15/

It's Bando de la Huerta!

On 7th of April it wasn't only World Health Day...It was Bando de la Huerta too. Bando de la Huerta is a traditional festival of Murcia where everybody wears the same clothes as Murcian people wore a lot of years ago. It's a very interesting and fun festival and we decided to keep supporting #educationforpopulation, so each one took a photo of him/her or his/her family supporting it.
You can see these pictures here:
We hope you like it!
#EYD2015

Second visit to Europe Direct.

On 6th of April we went again to the office of Europe Direct Murcia but, this time we talked with Teresa about our blog and together we decided to make a new activity, now we're working on it, but we'll post it soon.
We really want to thank  Europe Direct for their help, you have moved Europe closer to us and you have made this project better. Thank you so much!

Explaining our project in Centro Social de Mayores Santiago y Zaraiche

On 27th of March we explained our project to the members of Centro Social de Mayores Santiago y Zaraiche. And they decided to make this video supporting #educationforpopulation. We're glad to know that a lot of people are supporting our project. Thank you so much!

             https://youtu.be/3YJHfX_0psE

Two different schools support us!

The teachers of Santa Maria de Gracia school recorded this video supporting #educationforpopulation because they think that everybody deserves an education. Thanks a lot!
                             
       https://youtu.be/mUq-BjjZFXM

Also, two students of Yamanlar school (Izmir,Turkey) recorded this video supporting "education for population" at their school.

https://youtu.be/vKG8nBtnlMQ

Our school supports us!

The 26th March some students of our school made two videos and took an amazing photo on the playground supporting "Education for Population". We were very surprised. It's amazing how children think that everybody needs an education.

We hope you enjoy the videos: 

https://youtu.be/NWQfc3UB3Z8

https://youtu.be/QFQzNGUYH94

The European Union and the education.

On 26th of march, we showed our schoolmates a power point about how the EU has helped to improve the education and the development of poor countries. We talked to them about its institutions and its role.

You can see the power point here:
http://es.slideshare.net/ElenaSoAr/unin-europea-46808250

Source: www.europa.eu

In memory of the passengers of the Germanwings flight.

From our school we wanted to remember the 150 passengers who died on 24th of March in the tragedy of the Germanwings flight, so we decided to do a spiritual dance from Torres Strait Islands in their memory.

Here you can watch our video:
We hope you like it!

https://youtu.be/KLtE_Xsj0GE

Working with Europe Direct!

On 23rd of March, Teresa came to our school to talk about our project and the collection of scholar supplies. We also showed her our power points and she told us her opinion about them. After, some students started to prepare the material that we were going to need for the following day: boxes, posters, pictures...
We were very nervous!