Maritime Secondary School of Gallipoli

We're The Maritime Vocational Secondary School is one of the 22 Marine Education of Secondary Schools in Turkey. Our school is in Gelibolu ( Gallipoli ) – Çanakkale - Turkey. It is situated along the coast of the Dardanelles, near the historical village of Gelibolu (Gallipoli).We are located in the Europen part of Turkey. There are 3 departments at our school. These are Ship Engine, Ship Building and Ship Deck. There are 248 students totaly and 13 are girls. They are aged 13 – 17. There are 22 teachers, 10 Vocational / Technical teachers and 12 culturel subject teachers. We have 2 buildings close to the pine trees with a beatiful bosphorus view. One is culturel subjects and headoffice building and the other one is workshop building in order to practise our students in.Our school is for four years. After graduation, students may attend to a two-year high school in their departments.

We have two school projects related to the Center Of European Unions Education and Youth Programmes and both were accepted by our National Agency. One is a Comenius School project called " The influence of cultural environment on the development of a young person – a citizen of a native country and the EU’ and this three-year project was prepared by the organization of a school in Poland and with nine different countries including our school from Turkey. The second project is called "Safety Training For Future Sailors". This three-week Leonardo Da Vinci vocational project is targeting to take a course in Germany consisting of 21 students and 3 teachers from our shool. Our LDV project was approved by Tukish national Agency thus 21 students and 3 teachears from our school will go to Germany / Gelshenkirshen to carry out this project between 16 November and 06 December 2008. Our Comenius project will be enrolled in Greece in November 2008. We're wide open to take part in any projects of any countries all around the world which will make us move further, cause we believe that the big earth will be narrowed as we share more and more. Our students and stuff are very excited to continue both these two projects.

Gelibolu is a town and a district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey, located on the Gallipoli peninsula in the European part of Turkey. Gelibolu is well-known for sardine canning. The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War. A joint Imperial British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul and provide a secure sea route for military and agricultural trade with the Russians. The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides.
Battle of Gallipoli.

In Turkey, the campaign is known as the Çanakkale Savaşları, after the province of Çanakkale. In the United Kingdom, it is called the Dardanelles Campaign or Gallipoli. In France it is called Les Dardanelles. In Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland it is known as the Gallipoli Campaign or simply as Gallipoli.

In the background of this web page you see a map which was drawn by The Turkish Admiral Piri Reis in the city of Gelibolu between the 9th of March and the 7th of April of the year 1513.

OUR COMENIUS SCHOOL PROJECT

"The influence of cultural environment on the development of a young person – a citizen of a native country and the EU"

At first I want to thank to Miss. Malgorzata- an english teacher in Poland. Because she worked hard and arranged a great project which will enlighten the participants, their schools and their countries. Of course all other participants have worked a lot to take role in this multi collective project. So we are quite exciting to meet them in the first meeting in Greece.

Every nation is a community of people connected by family and culture.The family has a great input in creating an identity of a young person, his/her system of values and it motivates them to participate in cultural events. One of the motives of uniting the European countries is crossing the national boundaries not forgetting national identities.
It is possible thanks to meeting people from other countries and knowing their culture.
The project ‘ The influence of cultural environment on the development of a young person – a citizen of a native country and the EU “ includes the following subjects:
1.Family environment: the youth get to know the structure of a family, system of values, traditions, celebrations, ways of spending free time in partnership countries. The project aims at grammar school students, who will have their own families soon. The acquired experience and information gained from the comparison of different models of families they can use in their own life.
2. The local environment: young people will get information about local institutions supporting the development of young people and they will get to know their offers concerning the development of interests and talents in partnership countries.
Students participating in the project will have a chance to know the influence of local culture and European culture on the development of young people.

Students and teachers participating in the Project:
- will have an opportunity to know the structure of a family, traditions, ways of spending free time, celebrations in participating countries
- will know the local community of participating countries and the possibilities of developing their interests, practising sports, taking part in cultural life (cinema, theatre, etc.)
- will learn about the social welfare of participating countries – system of scholarships
- students will widen their abilities of team work and work through projects
By doing this they will be able to see the similarities and differences, breaking the stereotypes, improving tolerance, taking different tasks. The students will improve their knowledge of foreign languages, IT, mathematics (statistics).
Teachers will use the results and experience as a base of ideas to introduce innovations in their own school. They will have a motivation to improve their knowledge of the English language and IT. Having known the results of students’ work local institutions and the school community will increase their knowledge of life in participating countries. Gained information may be helpful to take new tasks concerning the life of the youth.

As Maritime School, we worked a lot to carry out this Comenius school project, we set up a group consists of four teachers and eight students in order to start to the preparation of an introduction of our school and Gelibolu.

Our first meeting was in Greece. All the participants met in Kato Achaia Patras, Greece between 09 / 16 November under the great efforts of Panagiotis the english teacher. We were 3 teachers and 2 students. We reached to Athens after 10 hour bus travel from Kesan( is a town close to border between Turkey and Greece). That was great to meet with teachers and students from nine different countries. We did presentations about each participant countries and we learnt more about eachother. In Greece we visited the ancient city Olimpia-the place where the first olimpic games were held. Patras was a vey nice city. With its historical buildings and marvellous monuments, Athens was the best. Athens is one of the oldest named cities in Europe and in the world. It has been continuously inhabited for over 4000 years, becoming the leading city of Ancient Greecein the first millennium BC. The Acropolis was great.

Our 2nd appoinment was Turkey. 25 teachers and 35 students were here in Gelibolu / Turkey between 15th-22nd March 2009 to carry out our project. We took our participants from Atatürk Airport to Gelibolu. Our students and their parents were very excited when they met with the foreign friends in front of the hotel in Gelibolu. In Turkey meeting, we compared our homes with their surroundings.

Our 3rd station was Portugal and of course Portugal meeting was wonderful by the preparations of Cesar. We were at school for 2 days to progress our presentations. We had very nice days and made lots of new friends among the eight countries.

Our 4th meeting was Italy between 24th September to 3rd October 2009. We joined this meeting with 2 teachers and 6 students. It was very exciting to travel to Rome. Our plane was over Rome about to land and the night scene of Rome was marvellous. After 4 hours train travel we reached to Pontedera and met with teachers and students. Luisella the Italian english teacher and all the Italian teachers and students were very nice people. We had very nice experiences with alltogather.

Our 5th meeting was Pacov-Czech Republic between 30rd Nov-6th Dec 2009. We were at the meeting with 2 teachers and 2 students. We reached to Prag by two planes changes from Munchen. It was in the evening and we gathered in front of the departures with the other participants. After 2 hours bus travel we reached to Pacov adn the teachers went their hotel and the students went to their host families. The Czech people were so nice to all of us. They did their best to make us feel nice. The school was a gymnasium and the students were very friendly.In the first 2 days, we did our presentations about the festivals in each countries. That was very interesting to know more about different festivals in 9 countries. We also made lot of trips in Pacov, Tabor, Krumlov and Prag ofcourse. Prag was very nice and full of history of close age. The students were so happy with their host families. We were all crying when we were farewelling to eachother.

We did our 6th meeting in Romania between the dates 10-17 April 2010. We were 9 students and 4 teachers. It was the first experience for all the students to go abroad with such a project. The host families were very nice to our students. On the first 2 days, we were at school to do our presentations about the facilities of high education for a foreigner student abroad. We fond out so many ideas about the high education posibilities among our participants contries. The castle of Cont Dracula was very efficent.

And finally our 7th meeting was in Poland- our organisator counytr. We participated with 2 teachers and 5 students from our school. We all were welcomed by the Polish participants in a very good athmosphere. We shared some poems by some well known poets from the whole partners.

FIRST MEETING IN GREECE

8TH-16TH NOVEMBER 2008