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In December 2012 the task was to interview sports people and visit sport arenas. Here you can see pictures and read about the task and how it was solved in the different countries:

Slovenia - Turkey - Norway - England - Poland

Slovenia
On Friday, 30th November, some of our pupils together with their gym teacher Vasja, and mentor, Lilijana, visited best Slovenian football club Maribor. Our pupils were welcomed with open arms. The players devoted a lot of time for them, answered all of their questions, gave them autographs and have pictures taken with them.



They showed them all of their facilities and the stadium, where they could feel like true spectators.



At the end, there were a special surprise waiting for them - they took them in the boys lockers room and the trainer of the club, Mr. Darko Milanič, visited the children and told them some important things about life - like how school is important for future and how the football players use the knowledge they got in every single one of the subject in school out there in the football field.



The pupils got the chance to buy some souvenirs at their local football shop and then they happily returned home, to our 'Primorska' land, 2,5 hours away from Maribor. The next day, the club posted a little something about the visit to their official web page: Football club Maribor

Written by Lilijana Sulič, translated and published by Mojca Furlan

Slovenian best football team:



Nova Gorica's football team:

Turkey
Race cyclists from Erdemir Cycling Team visited the 4th Grade Class with the support of Kdz Eregli Bisikletsevenler Organization. They answered all questions of our students about bikes, cycling tours, bike races and rules of being healthy and fit. Students from secondary school went to the Erdemirspor basketball match:) They got very excited and had lots of fun during the match! In the following week, they had a chance to make interviews with these players.They asked basketballers lots of questions about their lifestyles,healthy habits, professional and private life. They spent interesting and valuable times during the interview. Since two players from abroad, our students practiced their English as well:)





Ereğli Belediyespor Female Footbal Team Visit!

We wanted to visit the female footbal team, because one player, Beyza , was graduated from our school and it is a very succesful team which plays in the first league. Students asked about their training, lifesytles, healthy ways of lives.At the end of the meeting, they inspired all the students.



Norway
We have been working with interviews for a while as a part of our curriculum as well as the Comenius project. All of our 60 students chose one athlete that they wanted to interview. They made questions and we have sent them out via email or sosial networks. So far we have recieved one reply from one of the football players at Start, the best soccer team in this area. We are hoping for more replies. Best of all we were lucky to get two local stars to come visit us at the school. Birkeland, where we live, is really big when it comes to Biathlon. One of our local heros are doing it very well these days and is going to be competing in the Biathlon World Chanpionships which is to take place in Czech Republic in February. His girlfriend, from the Oslo area, is also going to be competing there. In between competitions and training the two of the just spent a week at home, at Birkeland. Lars Helge Birkeland is a cousin of one of our students, so that made it easy to get in touch with him. Both Lars Helge and Fanny agreed to come visit us and be interviewed by our students. As they are very cautious when it comes to germs they wanted to to meet outside in the cold. We were all very excited about the interview and the visit! They stayed for half an hour, got interviewed, got photographed and handed out autographs. We are very grateful!

Lars Helge Birkeland and Fanny Welle-Strand Horn Interviewing the biathletes... Handing out autographs... All of us with the two biathletes - Go Lars Helge and Fanny! We are cheering for you at the World Championships! No hands will be washed for a while.... media type="youtube" key="Sfi82ovcIcc?hl=nb_NO" height="315" width="420"media type="youtube" key="PiLoUhR5qTw?version=3" height="315" width="420"

We also sent off many interviews to different Norwegian athletes. The children picked the athletes and made questions that we sent off. Unfortunately we didn't get too many answers, but we got one from one of the football players at our best local team. Here you can read the interview in English:



A few weeks later a few of our girls who play handball got to meet up with some of the local handball players who also play on our national team. They got to talk to them and got their pictures taken. Here you can see some of the flyers they got and see the note that was in the local newspaper afterwards.



ENGLAND
The children had the opportunity to visit the Aston Villa Football club and interview the players. They enjoyed the experience and finding out what the players had to train and keep fit.

Photos of our visit to Aston Villa



Photos of leisure centre



POLEN
Polish students chose to visit their local football team [|Jagiellonia] and popular dancing group [|Fair Play]. Boys decided to take part in football interview while girls were strongly interested in dancing. Students prepared questions and had possibility to ask sportpeople about their career, personal life and future plans. Both meetings were rich in exciting moments, like shaking hand with captain of Jagiellonia and other players, or taking part in breakdance rehearsol before the show. There are some pictures from these moments.

JAGIELLONIA BIAŁYSTOK













FAIR PLAY STUDIO BIAŁYSTOK