With the project having finished in summer 2011 and the last results collected, finally the product of the partnership has realised. The book, offering a documentation on the project, its activities and some of its results, is printed and will be ready in October 2011! Here you can have a look at the cover, the table of contents and the introduction (pdf).

The last meeting of the Comenius project "Together in Europe" was held in Bad Nenndorf from 14th - 19th March, this time including six students from each visiting school, often people who had been hosts before and that is why a lot of students already knew each other before coming.

At the beginning the meeting focussed on the presentation of the project days which had taken place during January and February this year and which had centred around the question of non-European influences on us and the way we deal with them. The participants got to know that at St Monica's, for example, a neighbouring school with a mainly Muslim attendance had been invited to present their steeldrums club - mainly consisting of girls wearing a veil - in the main hall. more

This year, we had so many ideas to celebrate our Project Day that...we organised a Project Week!

• All the youngest pupils (year 6) took part in a great art / French language competition: they were asked to pick up a French word with a non-European origin, to write the definition of this word, and to illustrate it. Some words are obviously of non-European origin, like sushi or kimono, but some others sound very French, like jupe or abricot.

• In year 4, pupils had to answer to different cultural surveys about the films they like, the music they listen to. Posters were made to show the results. read more

Here is a taste of what it was like ...

Christian Thiel of GBN’s TIE course is one of  two winners of this year’s essay presentation competition at GBN with his way of presenting the topic “A borderless Europe – Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?”.

Every year the best essays which have to be written in a special subject called “Seminarfach” during the year before the final year are presented in our school hall in front of the students of the year below and a jury made up of some teachers and members of the local Bad Nenndorf Rotary Club. more

On Tuesday, 25th January, GBN had its second project day dedicated to the TIE project and more the 300 pupils from years 8 and 9 worked on different topics assigned on the project meeting in Warsaw earlier. On the same day the school also celebrated the German-French-Day including more students from other grades but adding to the overall idea of TIE.

Tackling the chosen topics within their classes some did Hip-Hop dancing while others learned how to dance Salsa and Flamenco. more

The third TIE project meeting at Warsaw was hosted by the Polish partner school in Bednarska street right in the centre of Warsaw and proved to be full of events and work focussing on results. By now some of the participating students already know each other and clearly this helped to get along and work together well on those five days. read more

After having travelled for nine hours on the train the day before the first real day started in school where we were welcomed by the headmaster of I Spoleczne Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace“ which is the name of the Polish school. more

On September 5th 16 young Polish students, two former pupils and their teacher arrived at Nenndorf to spend five days with students from GBN's final year who are on the TIE course. The week was packed with activities and tried to show the visitors many impressions of life in Germany. more

On 10^th May 2010 Mr Andreas Krüger, working for the EU, spent his day at our school the GBN because the EU sends its German employers to their old schools to promote the EU around the European day on May 9th. Since Mr Krüger’s old school was not interested in talking to him he came to our school because the GBN is a European school and his family lives in the area. He gave presentations about the EU in general and his job for the tenth grades and his day ended with an interview with some students of our class “Together in Europe” project group. more

The second meeting was held in Champagné - close to Le  Mans - from March 2nd to 6th. During the meeting the results of the first project days were presented, the "European Monuments" art exhibition was put together and the results of the surveys made in each school were compared and discussed. more

An early start for the students with the first half of our Year 9 ready to go at 8.45a.m! The assembly hall was set up with 20 tables for 20 groups of 5 or 6 students each. The second half of the year would begin their session at 11.00a.m.  more

In Champagné, several days were dedicated to the Project day activities, and pupils were involved in various workshops:  

• An art competition has been organized among a first form class: Pairs of pupils had to represent in a shoe box either a typical European building, or a typical meal. They worked at home and in the library (to collect information) during more than two weeks. read more

The project day at Bednarska started at 10.15 on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Divided into groups of their choice the students went to the classrooms. Both the first and the second form students, around 200 of them, participated. They could take part in a wide range of discussion panels as well as engage in art or multimedia projects or a cooking workshop.

All the discussion panels, carried out either in Polish or English, focused on the four countries belonging to the TIE project covering the topics such as Modern Architecture ... read more

To push the COMENIUS-Project, we had our first TIE project day on 27th January 2010 for the 8th and 9th graders. It took place from the first until the 6th period with about 350 pupils making posters about different issues concerning us and our partners in Europe. After finishing these posters they were assessed by pupils to find out the three best ones of all classes. more

The first project-meeting of TIE is held at Manchester from November 17-21. Pupils get to know each other and the different schools. Later they introduce stereotypes about the other partner countries and set off to find topics for the first project day. read more

The Polish winner of the logo competition got 51.1% of the 1851 votes that were submitted until October 20th. the result

You could vote for the TIE logo until October 20th! Click here for the result!

Now you can find the first description of one partner, Gymnasium Bad Nenndorf, in English and some pictures from France, Poland and the UK here.

TIE needs a logo and that's why each school wants to present one suggestion for a project logo. After the schools will have chosen their favourite  there will be a public vote on this website finding the winner of the competition.

The logo will be used on T-shirts and on every publication of the project, so many people will see it. read more

This is the first entry on this website. The Comenius project "Together in Europe" has started on August 1st and will be going on until summer 2011. From now on more and more content will be added.    

Preparatory visit in Nenndorf, Feb 09

Have a look at this:

Do the confusing flags quiz!

The "European Monuments" art project! 

Read an interview with Mikael Forssell, a professional footballer from Finland.

Surveys done in year one and in year two.

A project at GBN: Europe in a matchbox?

TIE visiting Frontex headquarters

TIE visiting a mosque