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1. MINUTES OF THE FIRST STUDENTS MEETING OF COMENIUS PROJECT
The first students meeting of Comenius project Let's Know, let’s love, let's protect our
environment was held from 24nd to 28th March 2014 in Osnovna šola Vojke Šmuc Izola
(Slovenia).
It was attended by the teachers:
TEACHER'S NAME SUBJECT/FUNCTION COUNTRY
BEGOÑA MIRANDA GONZÁLEZ SPANISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE /
HEAD OF STUDIES
SPAIN
VICTORIA CARCELLER GARRIDO SCIENCE / COMENIUS COORDINATOR SPAIN
SALVADOR COLOMAR GISBERT SCHOOL INSPECTOR SPAIN
SCARCIA SANDRA SPANISH / COMENIUS COORDINATOR ITALY
CAMPODALL'ORTO EDI MUSIC ITALY
DE MARTIN LUCIANA EXTERNAL EXPERT ITALY
BRONISLAVA NOSKOVIČOVÁ ENGLISH / COMENIUS COORDINATOR SLOVAKIA
ALENA GOLIANOVÁ SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY SLOVAKIA
MONIKA HLÚŠKOVÁ IT SLOVAKIA
VLADO GABA TECHNICAL COORDINATOR SLOVAKIA
MILAN PIVARCEK INTERNAL ASSISTANT SLOVAKIA
DEANA PROTNER SLOVENE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE /
COMENIUS COORDINATOR
SLOVENIA
FRANKA SAKELŠAK SCIENCE SLOVENIA
DEBORA UMER GEOGRAPHY SLOVENIA

2. It was attended by students:
HOST GUEST COUNTRY
ARNISA HOXHA LORENA TARAZONA HORTELANO SPAIN
MINKA IDRIZAJ AINHOA PÉREZQUESADA (ALERGIJA) SPAIN
KAJA LIČEN CARLA DE LA CRUZ GÓMEZ SPAIN
KAJA KOMLJANEC SAMANTA MACHADO(V.)
HANUSOVÁ MONIKA
ITALY
SLOVAKIA
TIM ČEHOVIN DANIELBENAJESCALLAGHAN SPAIN
ENEJ SLUGA SANTIAGOLEÓN VELA SPAIN
MATIJA GREGORIČ DANIELMARTÍNEZ MASEGOSA SPAIN
MAJ MITTENDORFER GORI ALBERTO ITALY
STELLA KRALJ INMACULADA GARCÍA BRIEGA SPAIN
KATARINA MARJANOVIČ CLAUDIA VINYALS ARGENTE SPAIN
ANA BIRSA KRUŠEC AMPAROALMIRON RIVAS SPAIN
ANJA BLOKAR SALVADORMARTINA ITALY
VIDMIKLAVEC SERBATI MARCO ITALY
ROK ŠVAGELJ ANDREOLA STEFANO ITALY

3. KRISTJAN KOTRLE CASAGRANDEMATTEO ITALY
ROK GERGETA FERRÁN VERDÚ PONS SPAIN
KLEMEN ŠTAJNER MASETTO SIMONE ITALY
ŽIVA HROVATIN BURCUS GIULIA ITALY
ANJA IVANČIČ GREKOVA LINDA SLOVAKIA
NINA NIKOLIČ HAGAROVÁ NATÁLIA SLOVAKIA
KRISTINA BRŽAN HALAMIČKOVÁ SILVIA SLOVAKIA
ANA GRZETIČ BREDA BEATRICE ITALY
MAŠA MLAKAR
LUKA MLAKAR
LALÁKOVÁ LAURA SLOVAKIA
SAMANTA DELIČ NEMCOVÁ MICHAELA SLOVAKIA
ADNAN ŠABANOVIČ GEMBEŠ MARTIN SLOVAKIA
KRISTIAN NOVAK VALÍČEKMATEJ SLOVAKIA
VANESA TOMIĆVUJIČ PEPUCHOVÁ MARTINA SLOVAKIA
ALEKSIA MIŠAN VALEŠOVÁ NIKOLA SLOVAKIA
MARUSHA JOVIĆSIMIĆ DA DALT ERIKA ITALY
Ines Kokalj, Nik Tomič, Matej Možina
Students in blue are regularly involved in the Slovenian Comenius activities, others are just
hosts.

4. According to the program of the meeting the working sessions and the excursions were
developed as follows:
Monday 24nd March
At 18:00 the teachers and students from Slovakia, Italy and Spain arrived to the
headquarters of Osnovna šola Vojke Šmuc Izola.
On arrival they were welcomed by some teachers, the headmistress and hosting families.
The headmistress Lenčka Prelovšek had a welcoming speech in Slovene and the coordinator
of the project at the Slovenian school Deana Protner in English.
Some food and drinks were offered and then the students left with their hosting families.
At 19:20 the Slovenian team took the teachers from Italy and Slovakia to the hotel by car,
the teachers from Slovakia went there by their two vans.
Tuesday 25th March
The meeting of students and teachers started at 8:20 in classroom 24 where the project
coordinator from Slovenia, Deana Protner, and teachers Debora Umer and Franka Sakelšak
welcomed the participants and invited them to the school hall where a school choir with
Tatjana Čeh, a music teacher, performed an Italian, a Spanish and a Slovak song in Slovene
language.
Once back in the classroom the program for the day of the meeting was reviewed. Deana
Protner prepared a diary to be written by each student during the week in Izola or once at
home.
From 8:50 to 9:50 all the participants divided into five groups, and the students from Izola
guided the guests on a tour of the school facilities. During this visit they had the opportunity
to get into some classes.
From 9:50 to 10:20 there was a break with a snack. The students ate in the classroom and
then they had the possibility to meet other students at school, teachers were invited in the
staff room where they could have a chat with other staff members of the school.
From 11:30 to 12:00 students from Slovenia, Italy, Spain and Slovakia were presenting their
work on visited natural parks and protected areas in each country. After each presentation
students asked their friends from other countries three questions about the presentation.
The students who knew the answer got a small present.

5. From 12:00 to 12:10 there was a short break.
After the break it was time to choose a logo designed by pupils from four participating
schools. Each school brought five logos. Among all twenty logos pupils had to choose one
which would be used with the official one. The logo from Italy was chosen. The girl, who
designed the logo, was given a rucksack plus the best Comenius logo award.
From 12:35 to 13:00 we were collecting pictures for the Environmental dictionary in five
languages.
At 13:00 all the pupils from hosting families came to join us in classroom 24, the information
for Wednesday were given.
At 13:30 all teachers and students went to a school canteen for lunch.
Wednesday 26th March
At 8:20 all the students (Comenius teams and hosting students) and teachers met in front of
the school. They got some food and drink and took the bus to Strunjan, a settlement
stretching along the Slovenian Coast between Izola and Piran.
This part of the coast was first proclaimed as Landscape Park in 1990 and in 2004 the park
came under the state protection. The first thing we could see was the pine avenue which is
the best preserved pine avenue in the hole territory of Slovenia.
Then we took a walk to the church of St Mary’s Apparition.
We kept walking to the view point above the cliffs and could admire the view of the Gulf of
Triest and the Strunjan Nature Reserve with its precipitous wall of up to 80 meters high cliffs.
The Strunjan cliffs form the largest known coastal flysch wall on the entire Adriatic coast.
We continued towards the beach, the saltpans and the Stjuža marine lagoon. At the beach
we had the opportunity to touch and see the layers that compose flysch.
We took the bus to Piran where we admired the Cathedral of St George, a monument to the
violinist Giuseppe Tartini, his house, the Municipal Palace, and the Venetian house. We went
for a short walk through some narrow and crooked streets of Piran.
At 12:00 we met Franka Sakelšak at the entrance to the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park. We
went for a guided tour which lasted almost two hours.
The Sečovlje salts flats are the northernmost salt flats in the Mediterranean. The salt is
produced in the traditional way based on a 700-year-old method that harmonizes man and
nature. Over the centuries, a unique habitat has formed for halophytic plants and animals

6. and migrating birds. The cultural heritage, which reflects centuries of work by saltmakers, is
extremely rich. The Sečovlje salt pans are today the largest coastal marsh wetlands (650
hectares), and at the same time the most important Slovenian locality from the
ornithological point of view. The variety of the bird species on this area, under the aspect of
nesting and wintering, is much larger than on any other comparable locality of the kind. Until
present date 272 bird species have been established in the Sečovlje salina, with some 90
breeders among them. On the basis of these facts, the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park, the
Government of the Republic of Slovenia in the year 2001 proclaimed the area of Sečovlje
Salina a nature park and the Museum of Salt-making a cultural monument of national
importance. In 1993, the Salina became the first Slovene wetland, inscribed on the list of
internationally important marshes under the auspices of the Ramsar convention. The Salina
is extremely important as an extraordinary assortment of various ecosystems, combined of
transition forms between sea water, brackish, fresh water and land ecosystems.
At 13:45 we continued for the village called Sv. Peter. There we visited an open-air
ethnographic museum – Tona’s house – a typical dwelling of the rural inhabitants. On the
ground floor there is a well-preserved “torkla”- olive press. On the first floor there is an old
rustic kitchen and a bedroom. At 15:00 the bus took us to Izola.
At 17:30 students from Comenius teams and teachers arrived at school to get things ready
for the Cultural night which started at 19:00. Parents, other teachers, members of parents
association and the community were invited to see the performance. Each team went on
stage and performed with songs, dances, short plays ... At 20:30 everyone was invited to the
school hall where they could taste some typical food from four partecipating countries
prepared by students in Comenius teams and their families. Socialising continued till 22:00.
Thursday 27th March
At 8:20 all the students (Comenius teams and hosting students) and teachers met in front of
the school. They got some food and drink and took the bus to Škocjan Caves – UNESCO
World Heritage. The guided tour lasted two hours. After eating our packed lunch we went on
the educational path but due to a strong wind we did not walk along the whole path but just
part of it. At about 15:00 we arrived to Izola.

7. At 18:00 teachers participating in the project met at school. Each of them expressed their
feelings, thoughts about the present meeting. The Slovenian members explained the
difficulties in finding thirty hosting families. But during the meeting week they said that lots
of pupils came to ask if there would be another possibility for them to host a student in the
future. The meeting was a success, everyone at school knows what the project is about.
The Italians asked whether the number of students taking part in the meeting should be
reduced or remain the same in the future projects. It all depends on the number of students
meetings.
The Slovak team proposed, as the next teachers meeting will be held in Slovakia, to go to
Slovakia with three students from each school. There they will take part to regular lessons.
For Spanish and Italian team this is not possible as their students have to undertake their
final exams in May and June. For the Slovenian team there are no such issues, but as they
did not plan this activity it is not appropriate to carry it on with pupils from just one
participating country.
The dates of the meeting in May in Slovakia and in November in Spain were decided: the
week of the 12th May, and the week of the 10th November.
Salvador Colomar Gisbert explained his point of view of the Erasmus+ importance.
Victoria Carceller Garrido explained the opportunnities offered by eTwinning.
Friday 28th March
At 9:00 all the students (Comenius teams and hosting students) and teachers met at school
in classroom24. The Slovaks and the Italians brought their luggage to school. Each
participating school was given a completed Environmental Vocabulary in five languages. A
journalist from the local magazine came to interview teachers and students.
Students spent some time together, they had a snack and at 10:00 the Slovaks left Izola. The
students of the three Comenius teams (Slovenia, Spain, Italy) went on the orienteering tour
in Izola. They were divided in six groups, in each group there were students and teachers
from different countries. Before leaving the school each member got a booklet with cues to

8. follow, questions to be answered … They returned to school between 12:00 and 13:00.
Students and a teacher from Slovenian school were interviewing students and teachers for
another local magazine.
From 13:30 to 14:00 students and teachers went to a school canteen for lunch.
At 15:00 the Italians left Izola.
Saturday 28th March
Visiting Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia; teachers and students from Spain, Deana
Protner, Debora Umer and Lenčka Prelovšek went to Ljubljana by bus.