Thursday 26 May 2016
Cleaning campaings in Estonia and Vändra Gymnasium.
Armin wrote about cleaning campaigns in Estonia and Vändra Gymnasium.
https://en.calameo.com/read/0043178249dc817182314
https://en.calameo.com/read/0043178249dc817182314
Thursday 12 May 2016
Estonian students` impressions about the project week
You can read about Estonian students` impressions about our project week in Lithuania:
https://en.calameo.com/read/0043178242f8cb53616c1
https://en.calameo.com/read/0043178242f8cb53616c1
Sunday 1 May 2016
Photos of our wonderful project week in Lithuania
Photos of our wonderful project week in Lithuania from 25 till 29 April 2016.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111963230857556108622
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111963230857556108622
Friday 29 April 2016
Saturday 2 April 2016
Celebrations and events in Vändra Gymnasium in 2015/2016
Different celebrations and events in Vändra Gymnasium in 2015/2016. This presentation is made by Triin and Maribet (year 9) and Andra (year 8).
https://prezi.com/6mpkssnu3amt/my-school-and-its-celebrations/
https://prezi.com/6mpkssnu3amt/my-school-and-its-celebrations/
Wednesday 30 March 2016
Charity at Danmission
Charity work Danmission
Lea, Andreas, Julie and Anne Sofie
Charity at Danmission
We went working for the Danish charity organisation, Danmission.
We had scheduled four hours of volunteer work, from 10 to 14.
(Wednesday 2nd March: 4 student are going to work in the clothing department)
Danmission has existed for around 180 years, and consists mostly of volunteers!
Danmission is not only a secondhand or thrift shop. They have big projects all over the world, some here in
Europe and others in third world countries.
Danmission earned 74 million kroner, approx. 9,9 million euros in 2013 alone. 3,2 million euros came from
their secondhand shops.
Danmission lets people in third world countries start their own businesses. Many charity organisations only give
food and money to those in need, whereas Danmission has a saying;
‘Give a man a fish, and he has food for a week. Learn a man to fish, and he has food for his entire life’
Danmission lets people borrow money, so they can start their own business, and they do not charge interest rates
on the loan.
They also have what they call ‘widow projects’. In some countries, becoming a widow can ruin you. In addition
to grieving over the loss of your significant other, you will also lose your source of income. If you have
children, you can no longer provide for them.
Danmission creates jobs for widows, so they again can provide for their families.
The store ‘Alverden’ sells clothing, shoes and other thing made by people in third world countries. The items
are a bit expensive, but they are made under good conditions, and the workers are earning a fair amount of
money, which means: It’s fairtrade!
We all really enjoyed working as volunteers, even more when we knew what a difference we make!
Volunteer work is not at all boring, and it really sets your world in perspective, when you are told that what you
get for selling a cup, is enough to provide four days of clean water for three families is amazing!
We really recommend doing volunteer work. Your effort could really make a difference for many people. And
remember, a wise man once said;
‘If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito in your room’
Friday 11 March 2016
Wednesday 17 February 2016
Posters about the project themes (made by 9th grade students)
Here are posters made by our 9th grade students. Every school member in Vanttila can have a look at them and pay attention to important issues linked to environment!
Saturday 13 February 2016
Food weighing in Odense
In Odense at Hunderupskolen, we also weighed leftovers, but since we don't have a canteen and we don't have organized school lunch, it was difficult to weigh leftovers. But the students went to all classrooms and told about the mission, put up special bags for leftovers that day, and collected the bags later the same day. Especially the younger students took the mission seriously and left almost nothing from their packed lunch from home. So with 17 classes (24 students pr class) it came to 7,5 kg of leftovers. That's 18,38 grams pr student. We have to add that some classes misunderstood the task and threw out milk cartons (we didn't seperate the content of the bags..)
How to reduce household waste.
Merili (Form 8) made a poster `How to reduce household waste`.
Estonians started to pay more attention to this important issue only during tha last decades. We prefer cloth bags to plastic ones when shopping, bigger packets to smaller ones, and instead of throwing away things we can mend them, reuse creatively or recycle.
Estonians started to pay more attention to this important issue only during tha last decades. We prefer cloth bags to plastic ones when shopping, bigger packets to smaller ones, and instead of throwing away things we can mend them, reuse creatively or recycle.
Monday 8 February 2016
FOOD WEIGHING IN VANTTILA SCHOOL 2016
FOOD WEIGHING
IN VANTTILA SCHOOL 2016
Here are
the results for the food weighing that was done last year:
2015
students: 459
|
All the
classes in total: 7,9 kilos.
The average amount waste per student: 17,2 grams |
|
This year the food weighing was done on two different days and this time we did not weigh the amount of food waste for each class separately. The weighing was done at the end of the day, and the amount includes all of the students’ and the teachers’ left overs.
Students &
staff: 500
On Monday, January
25th we had macaroni casserole and the waste amount was 7 kilos
for the whole school.On Tuesday, January 26th we had veggie paella and the waste amount was 18 kilos for the whole school which is more than double the amount than on Monday.
The average amount of waste per person:
Macaroni casserole: 14g
Veggie paella: 36g
Therefore the average amount of food waste was 25
grams per person.In 2016 we didn’t tell the students we were going to weigh the food waste. Last year the students knew about the food weighing.
Final thoughts: Finnish students throw away lots of
perfectly fine and edible food. Apparently students don’t really like
vegetarian foods.
TEACHER’S NOTE:
The staff of the school cafeteria were not very happy last year when we did the food weighing, because on that particular day the students did not take enough food, and at the end of the day there was a lot of left-over food that went into the garbage. The students probably didn’t want to take any food that would end up in the waste bin, so they ate much less than they normally would. Also, the class with the least amount of food waste won a prize.
So this time we teachers decided to keep the food
weighing a secret, and did not tell anyone about it. We also wanted to compare
the amount of waste on two different days to get a more realistic result, as the meals that were served were very different.
Sunday 7 February 2016
Helping ‘Julehjælpen’
Just like last year, we chose to assist ‘Julehjælpen’.
If you do not recall any mention of ‘Julehjælpen’, it’s a Danish organization, which provides boxes with all
you need to celebrate Christmas, to less fortunate families.
This year, we wanted to help them again, so we gathered all our old toys and sorted it into different
categories. We didn’t just give away our own toys, but many other students came down, and gave us their
old toys.
The entire collection was broadcasted by TV2 Fyn, a Danish TV-station. Our teacher Susanne and a student,
Benedikte, were interviewed by TV2 Fyn.
Both interviews can be seen here. They are in Danish, but the essential meaning is described in this paper.
http://www.tv2fyn.dk/artikel/elever-hjaelper-julemanden
In the interview the two are telling about what it feels like to help others and do charity. Susanne says “It’s
about stepping out of yourself and see everything from another perspective.” And what Susanne says is very
important when we talk about caring and sharing.
(This was just the beginning…)
(That’s a wrap!)
It was a really lovely day because we got to see all the happy families giving up their toys.
It was also a little sad because the families had had a connection to the toy they were giving up, but the
thought of helping a child with limited means, gave them the courage to give it up.
Cake Sale
Clara, Andreas, Anna Sofia, and Josephine
Cake Sale
Early in the morning we met in school. Our teacher Susanne had printed out 4 different recipes, for
the groups to make. We were divided into groups of two. Every group made a jelly roll cake.
Because we had to make so much cake, we had to use a lot of flour, eggs and sugar, so Andreas,
Magnus and Victor went to the store, to buy it. We made around eight jelly roll cakes. I took the
first to module, to make the cakes.
In the lunch break, we sold the cakes. We made a cake stand in the middle of the school. We sold
the cakes for five danish krones each piece. Especially the smaller children loved it. Some of them
did actually bought five pieces, just for themselves. The word quickly spread around, and more and
more people were buying our cakes. Before the lunch break ended, we had sold all the cakes.
We made around 900 danish krones, that’s around 120 euro. We don’t know yet what we will use
the money for, but it has to be some kind of charity. We had a very nice day, and we would like to
do it again.
Money collecting in Odense
Money collection
In corroboration with the christmas help in our country called “julehjælpen”, we went out to
collect money. The money went to people who can’t afford to have christmas.
We met up at our school on a saturday morning. We were divided into two small groups,
which we were going to collect in. We each got a name tag, and a collecting box. We could
choose if we wanted to go door to door, or stand at the pedestrian street and ask people that
walked by. The money we collected went to buy food for the families. The families could
choose between pork or duck. They were also getting soda, chips, potatoes, chocolate and
other sortes of food, to help them celebrate christmas. We were out collecting money for 2
hours and we collected about 5000 danish krones, that is about 670€. When we were done we
went back to the school, and got hot chocolate and candy before we went home.
Thursday 4 February 2016
Tuesday 2 February 2016
Weighing of leftovers at Vändra Gymnasium in January 2016
Our
school has two separate eating groups during two breaks.
In
the first group there were students from forms 1-6. For the first group there
was made 104,163 kg of food. There were
2 kg of leftovers.
In
the second group there were students from forms 7-12. For the second group
there was made 99,684 kg of food.
19 teachers also ate in the school canteen
during the second shift and their food weight was 11,971 kg.
Altogether
there were 3 kg of leftovers during the second lunch break. So every student
and teacher threw away about 0,01 of their food.
To
sum up, the weight of leftovers was 5 kg. During the observation it turned out
that students mostly threw away beetroot.
Actually, we should always eat salad as it is healthy.
Last
year there were 28.5 kg of leftovers but
this year only 5 kg. We would like to thank our cooks for good meals and
students we do not like to waste food.
Other
students who do not participate in our project did not know anything about the
food weighing.
Menu on 26 January 2016
|
Food
|
students 7-12 year
|
students 13-19 year
|
|
macaroni
|
0,200kg
|
0,200kg
|
|
minced meat sauce
|
0,150kg
|
0,170kg
|
|
beetroot
|
0,050kg
|
0,070kg
|
|
Bread
|
0,020kg
|
0,020kg
|
|
juice
|
0,200kg
|
o,200kg
|
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made by Kirke Tomson and Victoria Kaljuste (Form 8)
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