The Carob tree from Cyprus

The Lime tree from Czech Republic

The beech tree from Bulgaria

The Rowan tree from Poland

Rowan tree

The Plane tree from Greece

School Libraries from France,Bulgaria, Poland and Cyprus

Partner Schools

The oak tree from France

About our Project

“The trees of friendship” is an e-Twinning project in which seven European schools are participating:
1o Gimnasio Chaidariou (Greece), Gimnazjum Nr 3 we Włocławku (Poland), 88 School (Bulgaria), Collège Dorval (France), Gymnázium T.G.Masaryka Hustopeče (Czech Republic), Kokkinotrimithia Gymnasium (Cyprus) and IES Sierra Luna (Spain).

The aim of this project is to teach our pupils other European countries’ history, tradition, culture and every day life through Nature and environment and to let a characteristic tree to present each country and “talk” about it and its people.

The steps of our project

Steps of our project

1) Each school has to choose a tree to present its home land.

2) Then to start taking photos of it, using a digital camera, and publish them in the twin space (Trees photo Gallery)

3) Next step is to collect information about the tree: from local History, Tradition, Literature, Food tradition, Medicinal use, songs, Myths and legends.

4) Each team has to organize some environmental activities: visit forests, rivers, lakes they are near by and make videos and take photos of the trees.

5) Let students to show their artistic skills in a simple way; let’s create a poster, a tree photos exhibition at school or express their selves with painting.

6) Our common products: a) some posters for our cooperation, b)a common Power Point presentation with all information about the selected trees and the best tree photos, c) a team blog for our partnership.
Best of luck to our wonderful team!