Recycling project in Finland

At Jakomäki School it was the eight graders (pupils at the age of fourteen) that preoccupied themselves with the world of recycling. The first phase was getting information about what is done with waste in Finland and especially in the metropolitan area of Helsinki. The geography teacher, Julia Tapanainen, and the biology teacher, Suvi Niskanen, catered for all kinds of activities (games, quizzes, crossword puzzles) and sites for the search of information. Also, the three classes received informative lessons given by a consultant from the Metropolitan Area Recycling Centre.

Below, we have attached photos about our studies in recycling.





Secondly, the pupils remodelled clothes (t-shirts, jeans, cardigans, jackets) in the handicraft lessons.











The third phase will be carried out next autumn. First, our pupils will visit the local recycling centre and then, after receiving a more many-sided picture of recycling, they will organise a “swap day” in our school. The idea of the day is that each pupil brings a thing she/he has not got any use for any more, but somebody else might find the thing useful. So everybody brings something he or she wants to get rid of and at the same time, has a chance of finding something useful instead. Then, if there are things nobody finds useful, such things will be taken to the recycling centre and sold to customers there.

Recyclers in Helsinki

SPANISH STUDENTS VISIT FINLAND

SPANISH STUDENTS WRITE ABOUT THEIR TRIP TO FINLAND
Hello! I’m Natalia from ‘Santo Tome do Freixeiro’ high school in Vigo (Spain). From 21st to 25th two Spanish pupils and me went to Finland for a school trip.
The 21st we had to take a plane to Paris very early in the morning. There we waited for a long time and then changed our plane. At 17:00 we finally arrived in Helsinki!!
A Finnish teacher took us to Jakomäki high school where our Finnish host, four German pupils and some teachers were waiting for us. There I met my host, a girl called Laura that came to my house last year. Together, with the others, we went to Helsinki centre to see the white church (Cathedral) and the port but it was at night and the photos we made were dark.
On Tuesday we had some English lessons and then we went again to the centre with more light than the last night. A historian teacher told us some interesting things about Finland.
Later we went to a museum with a ‘Pixar’ exposition. Where we watched a little film and learned things about movies like ‘The Incredibles’ or ‘Finding Nemo’.
In the free afternoon all of us went shopping to the city centre.
The 23rd we had a visit to the Vantaa Science Museum called ‘Heureka’ with a lot of funny and interesting things about science like a planetarium.
The next day we did some sport at ‘Tapanila sport centre’ like wall-climbing, boxing and badminton.
Later we went to the school to have home economics lessons. We did Finnish typical pastries with rice or strawberry.
It was the last afternoon so the Finnish pupils made something special: a funny party with lots of people, snacks and Singstar!
On Friday, the last day, we had to be at school very early to say goodbye to our host students and the others. We took a bus to the airport and we watched Finland for the last time from the plane.
We arrived in Vigo, our city, at night. It was a strange feeling: sad because it was the end of the trip but happy to be in our city again.
It has been a great experience where I have learned interesting things about another country with a culture very different from Spain and I have met wonderful people.
By Natalia Espadas


We went to Helsinki on Monday the 21st of April, and the temperature was not so cold as I was expecting. We met in the school with the pupils and went away to their house. Finnish people are more independent; it is another way of life.
On Tuesday we met in the school and went to a class. The school was very modern, much better than ours. I was surprised that they have a high level. Later we went to Pixar Animation museum and visited a bit the city. It has very good means of transport, and I think that this is very good.
On Wednesday we went to the museum of science, I think that it was very interesting, I had a very good time. Later we went to a shopping mall On Thursday we went to do sport (climbing, boxing and bádminton), the class of boxing seemed to me the most interesting. Later we return to the school and we had a cooking lesson , it was very entertaining and interesting to cook.
Later we went to buy some things for the party of Catarina´s host, who had a party in his house where we had a very good time. We sang in the Sing Star and we ate, we really had a good time .
Finally, on Friday we said goodbye in the school and returned to Vigo. Of this trip I have learned to look beyond our culture, and I was surprised by the silence of a city as big as Helsinki and also the independence of the people.
I like to do exchanges because this way I know the city and the way of life, but if I go with my parents I only know the city; and the first thing is more interesting. It has been a very good trip. Thank you!!
By Raquel Crespo

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German students in Vigo

From 14th April to 18th April 2008 we (Marcel, Melanie, Lars and Karo, class 9) travelled with our Spanish teacher (Mrs Delgado) to Vigo (Spain). We went there by plane, for one of us it was the first flight.
We did many interesting activities.
We visited our Spanish partner school and we went to a music lesson in the school. There we played different instruments
On Tuesday we did a tour around Vigo with students and we went to the beach. There we played football, later we went home for lunch .
We made a trip to Portugal on Wednesday, there we had a lot of fun on a typical market. After the trip we went shopping in Vigo’s city centre.It was great.
On the last day we visited Bayona, which is a small seaside village, it lies on a beach. In the afternoon we visited the girls from the school. :-)) Then we went together to a bowling centre, there we had a lot of fun, too. Later we celebrated a little farewell-party. It was very nice.

It was surprising for us that they have dinner very late in the evening. The people there are very friendly and open.

Finally the last day came much too quickly and we had to say good bye. We were really sad and some of us even cried. We hope to meet again in holidays or here in Wernigerode.

Melanie Barth and Marcel Bertram, 9a

German students in Helsinki

During the time from 21st April to 25th April we visited together with two other students of our school our partner school in Helsinki, Finland. While our stay there we did a program which the Finnish teachers created for us.
On Monday we arrived at 4 o’clock pm Finnish time in Helsinki, after we travelled about 1500 kilometres by train, bus and airplane. In the evening of our arrival day we went on a little sightseeing tour though the city centre.
On Thursday we visited the school for 2 lessons of English. After that we visited an exhibition about movie animations where we got a view behind the scenes of movies like “Ratatouille” or “Finding Nemo”. For the rest of the day we had free time which we used for writing postcards, more sightseeing or chilling at the stairs in front of the White Cathedral.
The next day also started at school, with 2 lessons of music. After that we visited the “Heureka”-science centre in Vantaa where we’ve seen a movie about the development of our solar system. During our following free time we’ve been at the city centre again and we also visited the tower of the Olympic Stadium. Up there we had a nice view over Helsinki and some of the small islands. In the evening we went on bowling and the victory was with the German team.
Thursday was a pretty hard day for all of us. At first we visited the “Tapanila”-sport centre in Vantaa, where we tried ourselves in different kinds of sport, for example wall climbing or boxing. After these hard hours we needed something to eat. So we went to 2 home economy lessons at school. We baked some Korelian rice pasties with egg butter (sounds better than it tastes) and some sour cream pies with blueberries. The evening of that day was our last one at “the country of the 1000 lakes”, so he needed to be something really special. And he really was. We celebrated a SingStar-Party at the Pönni-family’s house and of us had lots of fun.
On Friday we went back home to “Saksa” and somehow it was a strange feeling to be at home and to speak the own language again, but also a nice feeling. We’ve been really happy to be back in Wernigerode, but we were also a little sad that it’s all over now…


Tim Kolditz, Marie Manger