Eco-Escolas

“Polar Bears in Beds of Roses”-Serpa-The Eco Schools Project Coordinator challenged the educational community to embrace this project;-The Coordination of the “European Parliament Ambassador School” project met with junior ambassadors to collect ideas within the scope of the “Polar Bears in Beds of Roses” challenge. At this meeting, the ambassadors decided to involve other elements of the community: teachers, students, the municipality and Musiberia.-The people involved distributed tasks and grouped themselves into teams;-The tasks were monitored by both students and teachers;-A team dedicated itself in more detail to the creation and recording of the music; another for the creation of choreography and another for the production of the video;-The municipality granted authorizations for the use and filming of spaces in the city for the recording of the video and Musibéria authorized the recording of the song in its studios;-Two teachers dedicated to guiding the students and also participated in the recordings (audio and video);-The Head of the School expedited the authorization for the use of drone during the recordings;-The final product (music and video) is the result of a collective of people of different ages;- The descriptive report was prepared by a group of students who are members of the project “School Ambassador of the European Parliament”-The video will be disseminated on the social networks of the school, in the local media and on the social networks of the “School Ambassador of the European Parliament” project.Lyrics: Edouard Priem et Sébastien DuthoitMusic: Nelson CanhitaProduction: Group of Schools nº 2 of SerpaVoice: Nelson CanhitaPiano: Carolina FariaSemi-acoustic guitar: Nelson CanhitaClassical guitar: Luís PôtraElectric guitar: Nelson CanhitaBass: Inês CanhotoCajon: José Bule FerreiraDrums: Ricardo AfonsoRecorded, Mixed and Mastered by André Espada at Estúdio MusiberiaVideo:Producer: VideoPlanosDirector: Nelson CanhitaProducer: Nelson CanhitaCamera Operators: Nelson Canhita and Gabriel SouzaDrone: Goncalo MadureiraStudents: 9ºB (Santiago Morgado, 15 anos), 10ºC (Alexandre Martins, 16 anos; Catarina Serra, 17 anos; Érica Arce, 16 anos; Isabella Lourenço, 16 anos; Inês Canhoto, 16 anos; Maria Franco, 16 anos; Mariana Rita, 16 anos; Matilde Curro, 15 anos; Mélanie malveiro, 16 anos); 11ºA (José Bule Ferreira, 17 anos; Miguel Martins, 16 anos); 11ºB (José Vitória, 17 anos; Pedro Caldeira, 17 anos); 11ºC (Iara Fonseca, 16 anos; Miguel Gregório, 18 anos; Rúben Ramos, 16 anos; Tiago Alves, 16 anos); 12ºA (Luís Pôtra, 17 anos)

The activity was carried out with the participation of several secondary and elementary school students divided into two groups. Some were responsible for creating an original song for the lyrics "Polar Bears in Beds of Roses" and the other group was in charge of the choreography. To coordinate these groups, music teachers and the coordinators of the eco-schools program participated.The video, in addition to the choreography, contains images of the numerous projects developed by our school's eco-schools program.Students from 3 classes participated in the choreography (10ºB, 12ºE and 6ºE), and the choreographer was a student from 12ºE, Gabriela Duarte.The melody was authored by the 11th grade student, Laura Cerveira, who in addition to being the author is the pianist.The voices are by students Carolina Barbas from 11ºA and Gabriela Duarte from 12ºE. In the choir are the voices of 8th grade students.The successive confinements to which the students involved in the project were subjected forced multiple adjustments to the initial project.Gabriela Duarte - 17 anosLaura Cerveira - 15 anosCarolina Barbas - 15 anosAlunos da Turma 6º E , 8º A , 10ºB e 12ºE com idades compreendidas entre os 11 e os 17 anos.

We started the project by showing the students the original music and in a second phase, teacher Manoela Fernandes created the melody for the lyrics. The musical arrangements were made by the teachers Manoela Fernandes and Inês Fernandes, together with the students who signed up for this activity.Authorizations were sent to parents and then two working groups were started: one for choreography and another for music rehearsal. Some students were part of both working groups. The choreography was entirely created by the students.In the end, the voices and the piano were recorded in the music room, with the guidance of the teachers responsible for the project and then the choreography was recorded.The final editing arrangement was the responsibility of the teachers.The students showed a lot of interest in the subject and the school will take advantage of this activity to show its community the importance of our attitudes towards the Planet.Leonor Santiago - 14 yearsLeonor Preto - 14 yearsMarta Peres - 14 yearsClara Cardoso- 14 yearsSérgio Leitão - 12 yearsSantiago Pereira - 12 yearsFrancisco Camponês - 12 yearsGonçalo Moreno - 12 yearsAnita Afonso - 12 yearsHugo Herdeiro - 13 yearsAfonso Lopes - 13 yearsInês Olas - 13 yearsMatilde Lico - 13 yearsJoana Catarino - 13 yearsBeatriz Soares - 13 yearsRicardo Ribeiro - 11 yearsCarolina David - 11 yearsMatilde Vieira - 11 years

Project “Polar Bears in Beds of Roses” Descriptive DocumentThe project was promoted by:Coordinating teacher: Elsa Caeiro (Class Director)Coordinating and collaborating teachers: Class Council teachers (Elsa Caeiro – Class Directorand Maths; Teresa Seixas - Natural Sciences and Programa Eco-Escolas/Eco-Schools Programme;Ana Assis - PE; Ana Carriço - English; Ana Janela - Portuguese and José Rola - Music Educationand Music Club).Students from 8th B class: Afonso Nunes; Bernardo Fernandes; Bernardo Napier; Bruna Fidalgo;Bruna Oliveira; Bruno Ribeiro; Carolina Dâmaso; Carolina Cavaco; Daniel Caroi; Daniel Nieto;Gonçalo Dinis; Gustavo Fernandes; Leonardo Simão; Leonor Vieira; Maria Cascais; MarisaEpifânio; Martim Grandão; Miguel Sila; Miguel Correia; Patrícia Neves; Rafael Pereira; RomárioLima; Sérgio Gonçalves and Tomás Gonçalves.External Entities: Parents/Family, CMS (Sesimbra City Hall), NECA (Núcleo de Espeleologia daCosta Azul/Speleology Center of the Blue Coast).Framed within the 8th Form Curricular Flexibility and Autonomy Project, the "Polar Bears inBeds of Roses" Competition was another challenge for our school, which arises from ourconcerns related to the Environment and Sustainability.Objectives:• to promote creativity and behavioural change;• to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle, publicized through videos posted on socialnetworks;• to participate in an international competition (in English) + a national competition (inPortuguese);• to work on interdisciplinarity through integrated planning of activities during the yearand their curricular integration.In accordance with the objectives and guidelines set out in the Competition, the work to becarried out at school was planned.In this context, the implementation of the project was built in a perspective of managementvalorisation, interdisciplinary and articulated teaching of the curriculum appropriate to the agelevel of the students and benefiting from collaborative work with the subjects of NaturalSciences, Portuguese, English, Physical Education, Music Education and Mathematics,articulating with the Programa Eco-Escolas/Eco-Schools Programme and the Music Club.This project, based on the environmental sustainability and biodiversity of the surroundingregion (Portugal/Setúbal/Sesimbra), was developed in several steps.• 17th to 21st JanuaryThe project was introduced to the students, encouraging and motivating them toparticipate in the competition.• 24th to 28th JanuaryPlanning of the work to be developed, highlighting the contribution of the various subjects.During the English lessons, the lyrics were translated and read aloud (practising articulationand accent) and, at the same time, during the Music Club sessions, the creation of theoriginal melody was started.• 31stJanuary to 4th FebruaryThe creation of the original melody continued in the Music lessons and rehearsals startedwith the students playing and singing.The Portuguese lessons were dedicated to analysing and interpreting the lyrics based onthe translation made in the English lessons, emphasising the theme and its importance. Theaim was not just to memorise the lyrics of a song but also to understand and internalisewhat they were singing about, the implicit criticism of the lifestyle of today's society andthe small lifestyle changes we can all make.• 7th to 11th FebruaryOnce the music was finished and the necessary adjustments made to comply with theregulated time, rehearsals continued in Music and Music Club classes. At the same time,Physical Education classes were dedicated to the creation of the choreography andrehearsals. The choreography was analysed in Maths lessons as the associated movementsare movements which can be identified with some of the isometries studied in class(Translations, Rotations and Reflections).• 14th to 18th FebruaryIn the scope of the theme of this project, it was considered pertinent the participation ofthe class in a field trip to Terras do Risco (in Serra da Arrábida, Setúbal) in order to developthe following goals which had been worked previously in Natural Sciences classes and ClassAssemblies:- to promote creativity and behavioural change;- to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle, publicized through videos posted on socialnetworks;- to learn about the biodiversity of the surrounding region.This field trip, which included a lecture on the biodiversity of the region by NECA, endedwith a medieval picnic in the middle of Serra da Arrábida. The students dressed up andthe whole picnic was created with sustainable habits in mind. Students were encouragednot to use single-use plastics, fast-food, soft drinks, etc. The contribution of familymembers to the organisation of the medieval picnic was an added value. Parents were veryinvolved and collaborated both in the preparation of the food and in collecting crockeryand accessories for the picnic. One of the parents (as part of the Includ-ed project, whichaims to bring parents and teachers closer at school) offered to accompany the studentsand help organise this field trip and the picnic.During this visit, the filming of the video for the competition began.• 21st to 25th FebruaryIn PE and Music classes, the music and choreography rehearsals continued.• 28th February to 4th MarchIn Maths, PE and Portuguese classes, filming was done to be included in the final video.• 7th to11th MarchFilming was completed and editing of the video with all the images collected began.• 14th to 18th MarchThe editing of the video and its descriptive document was completed.The project will be publicized on the school webpage (aeqc.net) to reach the whole schoolcommunity and it is also planned to present it at the end of the year, during the School End ofthe Year Celebration/Party.At the end of the project, the class made a very positive assessment of the work developed.This project was of great importance for the achievement of the intended objectives, namelythe understanding and dissemination of a sustainable and environmentally friendly yle,especially regarding the positive changes in the daily lives of the students of this class

Charles A. Hopkins foi um dos oradores convidados para o Seminário Nacional Eco-Escolas 2020, onde nos falou acerca da importância da Educação para a Sustentabilidade, no âmbito do Painel IV | Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável.