COMENIUS PROJECT

SCHOOL: ZIYARET PRIMARY SCHOOL

AMASYA / TURKEY

HEADLINE: HEIDI’S EDUCATION

ADVENTURE

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First of all, I want to give a brief info about our city:
Our city, Amasya is known as “Harşena” in old times. No matter how much problem you have, when
you come to Amasya, you will be relaxed and you will keep away all the troubles.
It is as magnificent as Egypt. It has a river like River Nil. Its river is like life water. It is very nice for
sighting. Its large wooden houses are wonderful and scenic.

What makes Amasya a wonderful city to visit are:

The old wooden houses situated by the side of Green River
The Bimarhane where the insane people are treated by the help of music and water sound which is
the first in the world
The king rock graveyards seen from all the sides of Amasya and carved to mountains
Ferhat water canal were dug by Ferhat in order to reach Şirin
Small and delicious apples whose names are identified with Amasya
Lake Borabay, thermal springs and other natural beauties

Amasya is waiting for you with its museum-city appearance, natural beauties, history dating back to
7500 years ago according to the archeological results and the traces of 15 civilizations.
(http://www.amasya.gov.tr )

We believe that we will have a good time and nice friendships during the period of this Project.

PROJECT: HEIDI’S EDUCATION ADVENTURE

1. The headline of project:

HEIDI’S EDUCATION ADVENTURE
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
Heidi is a provincial girl, living with her grandfather in a small hut in Switzerland Alps and
she is honest, peace herself, loving nature and animals. Heidi was walking around
countryside with her lazy dog and close friend Peter for all days. Then her grandfather sent
Heidi to big city for taking well –education. There Heidi stayed with rich family but Heidi was
coerced into getting used to city life and she was continuously remembering her village and
what she did in village .She was missing her grandfather and Peter so much. Yet in spite of
this she faced up to all kinds of difficulties and she continued to live in city for a long time for
the purpose of education.
Students, growing up in small town like Heidi, usually have to go city in order to complete
their education and there they faced to so many difficulties. For this reason we find
acceptable to give the name of “Heidi’s Education Adventure” to our project.

2. Project: The problems of students, going to center places from their small town school
for education.

3. General goal: Being stabilized problems of which town student has faced during
Teaching-Education process and being found ways of solution.

4. Special goals:
a- Students:

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 I.To get knowledge about problems which students, going to center or another city, face
to and to pass through this process without any damage.
II.To see similar problems are present in different cultures and different countries.
III.To put into practice foreign language which they are learning now.
IV.To provide personal development and feeling of succeed, increasing motivation and
feeling of well being.
b- Teachers:
I.They need to know necessary strategy in order to prepare them to this situation before
they face to problems.
II.Teacher need to perceive students’ problems more easily and determine their
approaches according to problematic process.
III.Being acquired new skills related to both personal and Professional life such as;
communication and presentation skills, creativity, cooperation, to determine and to
solve problem, group work.

c- School:
I.To benefit from increasing motivation of students and teachers with harmonious
increase at the levels of students’ interest and success.
II.To find common solution to the problems, being shared and to see different
application at different kinds of European Schools.
III.To encourage application and approaches of solving problems in the scope of all
schools.

d- Environment:
I.Firstly families need to provide psychological support and know about problems which
their children face in education process.
II.Families,- with students and teachers- to have opportunity of broadening their horizon
by meeting different countries, cultures and forms of thought.
III.In the scope of Project, being provided School Corporation, municipality,
nongovernmental organizations and support of mass-media.

e- The Europe Side (Partners)

I.The recognitions of the common problem’s reflections in different countries
II.The production of solutions to common problems in Europe side and sharing these
solutions by evaluating together
III.For different cultures, knowing each other and building a culture mosaic.

Partnership summary
The project deals with the problems of students coming from suburbs to city centres
for high school education. Although it is known that the pupils in suburbs have many
problems when they go to city centre in order to go on their education, they are sent
without taking any precaution. It is determined that the countries we work together in this

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 project have the similar problems. The aim of this project is to find solutions to these
problems by adding parents, pupils, teachers, local and school managements, public
organizations, the association of school and family membership to the process. During this
period, the questionnaire, home visits, students’ exchange and interview will be used to get
information about the problems. An evaluation will be done according to the data we get. A
demonstration and dramatization will be presented to help them to recognize the problems.
A seminar will be prepared to all related institutions. After all these implementations, a
bulletin and brochure will be designed as products. Thanks to this project, it is aimed to
promote intercultural dialogue apart from finding solutions to these problems.

How would you describe the context in which your institution is operating?
Our school is not in the city centre. It is a small one in a suburb with 398 students and 31
staff. 15 of our students are transported from a nearest village. As our school is situated in a
disadvantaged area, the students have difficulties in getting information and following new
technological developments. The parents are mostly from agricultural area; therefore, they
are not concerned with the education of their children sufficiently. It is a common problem in
suburbs that female pupils are not sent to city schools because of their parents’ view of
education. We do not have pupils, staff or other groups with specific needs.
Why does your institution want to take part in European cooperation activities
such as this Partnership?

To define and help to solve the problems of students when they change their school
for high school.
To encourage the pupils and staff learning modern foreign languages.
To promote intercultural dialogue.
To help parents be conscious about the importance of high school education.
To improve the quality of education.
To get different institutions (NGOs, local community, school managements, parents
etc. ) to work together for a common object.
To increase the volume of partnerships between schools

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The schools that have already thought to work with us are from Romania, Poland, Latvia and
Hungary.

Activities:
During this project;
• To make a questionnaire and an interview to the students attending school in suburbs about
their expectations from education which they will face when they go to center schools, as for
students, continuing to their education in center schools and have gone to center from
suburbs about how far their expectations are met,
• To give seminars to the students educated in suburbs and their parents about the difficulties,
problems and their solutions,
• To arrange conferences being told success stories of people who had started their education
in suburbs and continued in centers,
• To provide scholarship to the successful students.

Products;
Bulletins
Brochures
Website
T-shirts, hats, shawls, pens etc. (with project logo)

The activities that are going to be applied are done with common sense by being spread to the
period of project covering 2008-2010. Every country doesn’t have to make each activity. In the first
project meeting, partners explain the activities which they can apply in their own countries.
The partners who come together in project meeting share the works and the data which they obtain.
At the end of the project period, all data are collected and common results are published by
evaluating.

CONTACT:
Firdes SÜREN
Mail: ziyaretilkogretimo@yahoo.com.tr
Web page: www.ziyaretio.meb.k12.tr
Phone: 00 90 358 231 10 08 (school)
Fax: 00 90 358 231 10 14