" SERVUS" from AUSTRIA

We started school last week and  began the project work immediately with our pupils. They've already done the questionnaire and read the Hungarian tale. Our children can hardly wait the first meeting in Hungary :-) We are looking forward too, seeing you again soon!!

Best wishes, the Austrians

Mater Dei Belgium

Hi there,

The project is ‘alive and kicking’ in Belgium! Pupils and teachers are very excited. Here are the 42 pupils who applied to represent our school at project meetings.

All our pupils of year four will read the Hungarian tale and we’re sure they will make some awesome cartoons!  Looking forward to see you in Pècs !!

The Belgian Comenius team

The Witch and the Devil (Hungarian legend)

Anyone who has ever seen the hill of Nagyharsány is never going to forget its huge sugar-loaf top. This top is actually a bare limestone rock which looks like a field with ploughed deep furrows. 
Who could have ploughed these deep furrows into the hard rocks? Was it magic or is this place cursed? 

Once upon a time there lived an old witch at the foot of Harsányi hill. She had a beautiful stepdaughter.  By the time she got fifteen her beauty had been well-known far away.  One day the devil visited the witch and when he saw her stepdaughter, he fell in love with her.  

The devil said to the witch: "I want to marry your daughter!” The witch was frightened, because she really loved her stepdaughter, and didn’t want the devil to marry her. 
She answered: "I can’t give her to anyone! Prove me that you deserve her! She will be yours if you plough the Harsányi hill until sunrise, when the rooster crows. If you can’t do it, then you have to go back to hell!"

The devil liked the offer. He couldn’t wait for the night to come. He put thirteen magical goats in front of his plough and began ploughing. The witch was calm for a while, because she was sure that even the devil can’t plough the hard rocks. But when she looked out of the window after midnight, the devil was getting closer to the top of the hill and almost finished the ploughing. 

The witch was worried about her daughter as she was very scared that the devil could do what is impossible. She had a brilliant idea. She climbed into the hen house, where the hens and roosters were still asleep, because sunrise was far away. The witch began crowing loudly, and all the roosters woke up. 

There were only a few furrows for the devil to plough and then he heard a rooster crowing, then another, then another, and soon all the roosters were crowing. The devil was very angry because he couldn’t marry the girl. He ran down the hill with his firing magical goats. When he reached the bottom of the hill, he stamped his foot and disappeared into hell with his goats. In that place the hot spring water of Harkany gushed out. 

That’s how the tricky witch outsmarted the devil.

Hola from Catalonia!!

Hi everybody!!  We are Maria, Joan, Joan and Mercè and today we have held our first meeting to organise several aspects of our project.  We are looking forward to working with you.
Best wishes from Institut Antoni Pous.  You can see some of our students in this link:  they are reading a text from "Treasure Island" about the adventure of reading and learning.

Hi everyone,
here we are: class 9f from Offene Schule Waldau in Kassel, Germany. Maybe some of you remember us from our last Comenius project. We are very excited to meet you all.

Your class 9f

AHOJ from Prague!

Today, we had a great start to the ETT Comenius project. Children are getting excited to learn more about their comenius-mates. Here are photos from teachers´ prep meeting and from today´s project introduction.
Looking forward to seeing you in Pécs.
Czech team!

Support team in Hungary

Hello everyone,
The Hungarian Comenius support team also had their first meeting. As you can see in the photos taken in the first meeting there are a lot of interested teachers in Mezoszel. We are looking forward to working with you and meeting some of you in Pecs in November.