1. Integracyjna Szkoła Podstawowa nr 67
im. Janusza Korczaka w Łodzi
Activities
September 2011 – March 2012

2. More often than ever we are being called an ecological school among
pupils and in the local community as well. This results from an
enormous commitment of our school in the activities for the benefit of
protecting the environment and sustainability. Taking part in the
international project Eco School Links is an additional strong booster
that motivates everyone to work.

3. The official ceremony
inaugurating the activities of our
school within LLP Comenius Eco
School Links took place on 18th
November 2011. We were
honored with the presence of
some eminent guests: a member
of a Polish Senate Maciej
Grubski,
the Headmistress of Education
Support Department in Łodź’s
School Inspectorate Irena
Przybyłek, the Inspector of
Education Department Elżbieta
Kukuła as well as Mrs Ewa
Koźbiał the representative of
Popularizing and Exploitation of
LLP Foundation Program Results.

4. One of the major points of the program was an official act of
passing the international “Green Flag” certificate by our Headmistress
Barbara Celmerowska to the representatives of the Students Council.
This document honors the school’s commitment into introducing
model patterns of solutions within ecological education. Such a
distinction was given only to three institutions in the Voivodeship of
Łódź in 2011.

5. The artistic part of the celebration was prepared by the second-
grade pupils under the guidance of Mrs. Alicja Tomalak and Mr.
Krzysztof Ostaszewski. “The Green Riding Hood”, which the
children have performed, together with song “Eco eco ecology”
ultimately persuaded all the gathered viewers that caring for the
environment is a special passion of the Integrational Primary School
no 67 in Łódź.

6. Pupils from our school take
part in yearlong waste sorting,
collecting plastic caps for
recycling, collecting used
batteries and waste paper.
It is gradually becoming their
habit.

7. September 2011 – March 2012

8. Systematically twice a year the
pupils from our school pick up
litter around the school areas.

9. To celebrate World Car Free Day pupils from
our school handed in informational fliers that
encouraged city dwellers to limit motor
transport on the favor of a bicycle or public
transport.

10. The pupils under the supervision of Art teacher
and English teacher have prepared
informational posters as well.

12. One of our goals is to
promote healthy
lifestyle and
environment-
friendly means of
transport. Then, in
connection with
the Car Free Day
our students took
part in an
excursion on bikes
to one of the
biggest urban
parks in Europe.

14. Students involved in
the project
collected, dried
and described
leaves from the
most typical polish
trees. After that,
we sent them to all
schools taking part
in the project.
Some of the leaves
will be soon
displayed on our
European Tree on
the European Tree.

15. Pupils from our school
created mascots, which
were entirely made of
secondary materials. As
you can see it’s
Pinocchio. As an “eco –
school” we decided to
name it PINECO. Two
mascots were given to
students from Italy and
Portugal during the
trilateral meeting on
Procida island in Italy.

16. It was a great fun and pleasure for our students to
make ecological X-mas cards. This task required a
lot of work and creativity from them, but the final
effect was incredible.

18. Last year there an unusual
Christmas tree in our
school, namely all the
decorations were
handmade by the
students and the
teachers. As if that
were not enough, they
were ecological, for
instance: dried slices
of oranges, useless
CD’s together with
various patters cut out
from paper, chains
from the cardboard,
pasta and styrofoam…

20.  Four students from the fifth grade (5b)
together with the teachers had an
opportunity to get an eyeful of Italian
culture during polish-italian-portuguese
meeting on a charming island nearby
Naples. The weather on Procida was
perfect. The inhabitants of this island
were extremely hospitable for us. Ala,
Julia, Oliwia and Andrzej took part in
various ecological workshops as well as
integrative games with the hosts and the
Portuguese students. Despite the
language barriers, everything went
ahead in the atmosphere of mutual
understanding and flourishing
international frienships.

21.  When the end of the carnival is
coming, there is a tradition in our country
and school to organise dress parties. This
year, since we participate in the
Comenius project, the last day of the
carnival looked completely different. We
organised a contest called ECO FASHION.
Volunteers’ task from the whole school
was to create costumes or jewellery. The
only condition was that all these things
had to be made from secondary
materials. That day, the students
presented their costumes on a catwalk.
The jury, including our headmistress
Barbara Celmerowska and other teachers,
were delighted. After uproarious
consultations, the jury announced the
winners and handed in the prizes. It was
a day full of excitement – beautiful
costumes, great atmosphere…

23. With the help of the
teachers, students
from the third
grade prepared an
ecological culinary
feast – sandwiches
from bread baked
on their
own, salads and
various tastes of
juice from fresh
fruit and
vegetables.

25. Second grade
students keep and look
after such spieces as:
African mantis, red-
eared slider and stick
insect called
Peruphasma schultei
They also donate
money for the North
American racoon
named „Globus” that
lives in the Zoological
Garden in Łódź.

27. Our students prepared
several birdfeeders out of
recycled materials. We
placed them near school
and feed birds with grain
and lard.
Just before spring students
took part in preparation of
several nesting boxes for
birds. They got to know
that a type of box depends
on the spieces of birds.

29. Thanks to the
commitement of
engineers from Dalkia
Heat and Power Plant
our students had a
chance to observe the
proccess of generating
mass amount of heat.
They also learned about
the importance of
saving energy during
winter and useful tips
how to do it.

31. Eco School Links Forever