Finnish Press Release

Here you can have look at all the articles published in our local paper "Tervareitti" during this project. The articles were written by the students who took part to the conference week in question.

The 8th and Final Conference in Scotland

What an amazing experience this whole project has been. There aren't enough words to describe how grateful we are having had the chance to meet all these wonderful people and make friends around Europe. Both teachers and students will surely carry on keeping in touch and doing projects together in the future. We have learned so much about each other's cultures through this topic of 4 elements and during the conference weeks in each other's countries. The final conference in Gairloch, Scotland was a success and we all enjoyed immensely the varied program and the warm atmosphere. Here you can see all the exciting things we got to experience: Here is the presentation that our students Heikki and Ronja made of the conference week in Scotland and they gave the presentation on Europe Day celebration here in our school for all the lower and upper secondary school students: Here is a picture from our school auditorium of the celebration of the European Day 2015: Thank you everyone who has taken part in this project. Will miss you, but see you soon ;)

7th Comenius The 4ENs Conference in Spain, Lepe

February 9th-13th was the time for our second last meeting in this project and this time it was wonderful Spain who got to host us. Weather was definitely warmer than in Finland and we enjoyed the spring colours and the wonderful blue sea that we cannot see in Finland at the moment as it's frozen. We felt really comfortable and welcomed in Spain and enjoyed the week immensely, learning a lot of new things, once again, about the four elements of nature. Here you can have a look what kind of experiences we had during the conference week:) Our students Niilo and Mikko gave thorough and informative presentation in the Lepe Theater hall of "Snow". Enjoy :)

The 6th Conference Week - Winter Wonders in Finland :)

We had a great meeting, once again, and this time it was our turn to organize the conference week at Utajärvi, Finland. We spent the first day at school, giving presentations and having an official meeting (whilst students got to bake some Finnish joulutorttu ;)) and then in the evening we had a PreChristmas (Pikkujoulut) with the whole of upper secondary school. It was a great night and got everyone in the Christmas spirit:) On Tuesday we experienced different winter activities at Rokua Geopark and learned about the Geopark area. The guests also got to enjoy the warm waters of the spa. On Wednesday we drove all the way to Rovaniemi to meet, who other than, the Santa Claus himself. He was happy to see us and definitely didn't forget to come and greet all of us at Christmas as he could clearly see how well-behaved we all are! <3 On Thursday then we took a visit to Koivikko farm at Muhos to see how a modern cow farm functions and then we went on a tour around Oulu. We visited the frozen seeside in Nallikari and then spent some time at the city centre. It was so lovely to have you all here as quests and we learned so much about each other's cultures and how the 4 elements affect our lives:)

Finland's experiences during the 5th conference week in Turkey.

The 5th Comenius The4ENs Conference was held in lovely Turkey. Our students gave a presentation on the element of fire. Enjoy:) Here you can relive our experiences through the photos:)