November 2014, Poland -
"Global Education Week"

Global Education Week is organised in collaboration with the North-South Centre - European Centre for Global Interdependence and Solidarity of the Council of Europe.

Global Education Week (GEW) is an annual educational event. Its objectives are to raise awareness among young people of problems and challenges of the today's world, shape their ability to solve these problems, enable good communication with people from other cultures as well as promote attitudes of respectfulness for cultural differences. The initiatives within Global Education Week are aimed at activating young people to build a just world, showing them specific possibilities of getting involved in different activities and also rising their consciousness about the responsibility for their own actions.

Global Education Week was celebrated for the first time in XIII LO. In all classes English teachers coursed a lesson about Fair Trade according to the scenario prepared by Mrs Beata Kubianka. The students got to know the topic and English vocabulary connected with Fair Trade. They also had an opportunity to sign the petition regarding chocolate trade.

http://pl.makechocolatefair.org/

A literary contest has been announced. Studenta prepared for it a short story or a poem about the world famine problem. The winners of the contest were:

1st prize – short story by Karolina Madej from class 2i
2nd prize – poem "..." by Natalia Krzywoń from class 2i
3rd prize – poem "Do Szkapy" by Jakub Janas from class 2i

On Friday, november 24th, a meeting of all classes representant took place in school assembly hall. Mrs. Magdalena, the head master, also took part in the meeting. It has been conducted by Mrs. Bożena Bućwińska. After the contest prizes were handed (books and Fairtrade certified sweets), the winning entries were read by their authors. Karolina Pałasińska from class 2c displayed presentation about global education and global relationships. All participants of the meeting were invited to school projects “Only aware can act fair. Students for sustainable food and trade” and “Fair, active, aware- building basis for campaign of Schools Fair Trade – friendly. The meeting created an opportunity to taste products certified with Fairtrade mark – coffee, tea and chocolate.