The four day meeting in Portugal for the Comenius Project included educational activities and cultural experiences. Each day consisted of school tours, presentations, workshops on arts and crafts, visits to historical sites in Lisbon and Sintra, and performances of music and dance. Students interviewed each other about job expectations and reported on traditional Portuguese occupations. The schedule balanced classroom learning, cultural excursions, and social activities to foster understanding between the participating schools.

1. Comenius Project “Windows on Europe”
MEETING IN PORTUGAL - 22nd to 25th May 2012
Tue – 22nd May Wed – 23rd May Thu – 24th May Fri – 25th May
08.40 – Meeting at the school gate
8.55 –Opening meeting (auditorium)
9.10 - Tour of the school
10.15 – Coffee break
10.40 - Watching a play about our
school, performed by Ss (drama
room)
11.15 -Presentation of the Portuguese
educational system (auditorium)
11.45- TCHs’ meeting to prepare the
2nd year of the project (auditorium) /Ss
free time
13.20- Lunch (canteen)
14.15 – Getting on the bus (gate)
14.30 - Visit to Corroios tide mill
15.00 – Meeting with the town hall
culture councilor
16.00 – 18.00 - Trip aboard a
traditional boat in Seixal Bay /
interviewing Ss about their job
expectations
18.30 – Return to school
Dinner: Almada Forum shopping
centre
08.40 - Visiting the exhibition about
arts and crafts (library)
9.10 - Traditional music
performances by Ss (drama room)
9.55- Coffee break
10.20- 12.30 (auditorium)
- Oral reports about traditional jobs
and arts & crafts
- drawing comparisons between
cultures
13.15 - Lunch (canteen)
14.20 (room B12)
- Fusing worshop
- Hungarian embroidery and
bracelets workshop
17.20 – Tea break
- 18.00 – 18.20 – Modern music
performance by some Ss (drama
room)
Dinner: Costa da Caparica
Evening - TCHs’ meeting to prepare
the 2nd year of the project (hotel)
08.00 – Getting on the bus
All day: interviewing Ss about their
job expectations
Visiting Queluz and Sintra
9.30 – Queluz Palace
11.00 – Pena Palace
- Walking in Sintra
13.15 – Lunch (packed lunch)
Visiting Lisbon
- Short tour by bus (Park Edward
VII, Commerce Square)
15.15 – Torre de Belém
16.30 – Jerónimos Monastery
17.20 – Tea (“pastéis de Belém”)
19.00 – Return to school
Dinner: Almada Forum shopping
centre
Evening: (proposal) Music
performance at school (Music
Academy)
8.40- European Identity – sum up of
ideas (auditorium)
9.40 - Job expectations – analysis of
the survey results (auditorium)
10.10 – Coffee break
10.30 - European citizenship – mixed
nationality team (Ss) game/quiz
(auditorium)
12.30 - Lunch (canteen)
13.30- Getting on the bus
- Visit to Cristo Rei and Capuchos
- Walking in Costa da Caparica
beach/bathing
16.30 – Return to school
Free time / Cooking time
20.00 – Festive dinner at school
21.00 - Folk dance performance
21.40 - Fado performance
Sharing bookmarks and handing
certificates

2. Comenius Project “Windows on Europe”
2011-2013
MEETING IN PORTUGAL
22 - 25 May 2012