The pupils' cooperative "Telegrin" includes students from grades 5 to 8 and has four sections: floristic, horticultural, arranger, and ceramic. The cooperative aims to develop students' work ethic and appreciation for nature. In the floristic section, students work in the school garden to learn gardening skills. In the horticultural section, they collect fruits and plants to make jams, marmelades, and medicinal teas. The arranger section decorates the product packaging in an original way using recycled materials. The cooperative's products are exhibited for sale.

1. ES “Marjan”
SPLIT

2. Pupils cooperative “Telegrin“
• The cooperative includes pupils from 5th to
8th grade.
• Pupils Cooperative "Telegrin" has four
sections: floristic, horticultural (production
and preparation of food products, medicinal
and aromatic herbs), arranger section
(making and decorating packages) and
ceramic section. Number of members in
certain sections changes periodically
depending on the scope of work during the
school year (approximately 50 pupils).

3. School cooperative has a task to awake and
develop an awareness of the necessity of work
for one’s life, especially nurturing the
traditional professions and working in harmony
with nature and preservation of the
environment.
The following are some of the
many tasks of the cooperative:

4. • arrange and enrich the living space in which pupils
spend their school days
• develop and cultivate working habits
• Help pupils to develop the love of nature and raise
awareness about sustainable development of human
society
• contribute to the transfer of knowledge from teaching
to practical activities
• enable the realization of personal interests, and
therefore self-affirmation, and finding one’s own
preferences and abilities
• prepare students to choose appropriate school
programs in further education
• work on small projects to enable preparation for the
modern entrepreneurship

5. THE FLORISTIC SECTION
• By working on the land,
sowing and planting,
children learn to love the
soil and plant from the
sprouting and emergence
to the fruit.
• Working in the school
garden, park or flower
garden under the
supervision of teachers,
students transfer the
theoretical knowledge from
the teaching to practice and
vice versa, from the
practice to the teaching
process.

6. THE SCHOOL GARDEN - BEFORE
AND AFTER

8. MAKING SUITABLE PAGERS USING THE PHOTOS OF
PUPILS WORKING IN THE GARDEN

9. THE ARRANGER SECTION
- Prepares various appropriate
decorations, souvenirs and jewelry
- Decorates the packages of products

10. Decorative Christmas trees - one of the products of the
school cooperative

11. THE HORTICULTURAL SECTION
• Pupils procure home grown fruit from family
and relatives (figs, apples, oranges...)
- Then they produce marmelades and jams.
- They also collect and dry medicinal plants and
herbs

12. Collecting laurel leaves
• Pupils
gather
laurel
leaves, dry
and
package
them in a
handmade
original
packaging.

13. Collecting pine leaves and preparation of
medicinal tea for the teachers in the school
staff room

14. Boiling tea in the school kitchen

15. Cooking jam made of figs
• In the school
kitchen, pupils
prepare fig jam.
• Pupils have created
very original
decorations on jars
with jam all by
themselves.

19. The arranger section takes care that the
products look more beautiful.
It should be noted that most of the
containers (jars, bottles ...) and materials
for packaging and decoration, pupils and
teachers gather from the home waste and
unnecessary items but they also collect
ornaments in nature (shells, stone chips,
shingles and dry fruits ...)

20. Sales exhibition of products of
the school cooperative.