To wrap up the year and our project we have been extremely busy with the kids to prepare for the final conference. We cleared the school grounds of trash, baked lots of cookies, clipped beautiful recycled buntings, ordered a flagpole, finished all ga

During the festival we had visitors from Dublin and Torino. Together we hosted three Let's Play events. Wednesday 22nd of April we played in the morning in the Theater Iðnó in downtown Reykjavik. Next door elementary school for teens Tjarnarskóli and

In the weeks before the 21st of April we were very busy to prepare for the Children's Culture Festival. We applied for financial support and the festival gave us enough money to print our Timeline game in 30 decks. Our students made posters to invite

We were very lucky with the weather, it was quite sunny and cold. We could see the eclipse very well, Though it did not seem as dark as in the picture above. Below you see hospital staff at the darkest moment. We all had special glasses, provided for

This month we explored in depth how games are made. We watched a video of Ludo games Made to play  We cut this very informative documentary in episodes of 15 minutes. Afterwards we played our games or enjoyed jigsaw puzzles which became a hype. We ho

When the month started we just finished our Environmental Agreement, which is a prerequisite for attaining the Green Flag. With our students we agreed the following:

Environmental Agreement Brúarskóla við Dalbraut 

• We are aware we only have one planet

Just for the chronological record. In January we have worked hard on our timeline game of biodiversity. Þorsteinn has explained how it works under the game blog. Starting the new year with the concept of Time line fitted well. Some of our younger stu

December we were working to prepare for Christmas. Christmas is very important to all Icelanders and we always like to offer our students a cosy time preparing presents and decorations. We used old overhead projecting sheets to make decorations for t

This month we were teaching about the three R's, Reduce, reuse, and recycle. We would have liked to go more deeply in all materials the earth offers us, but it came out that paper was our main topic. Though we are collecting our waste separately for

This month we have been working on games. We started with a brainstorm about our student's favorite games and how we could adapt them towards environmental games for BGF. We had to figure out a bit what would be handy for our students. First we playe

Finally we got round to visit the main local company who collects garbage from private homes on the large capital area, Sorpa. sorpa

We were informed first about the way Sorpa collects and disposes of all household waste. In Reykjavik all homes have

While Þorsteinn and Þórunn were visiting London we at home were getting to know London as well. Some kids had been to London, others did not know much about the city. We watched the video we saw also last year, see London clip. I just found a new vid

These special days are yearly celebrations in our school and all over Iceland. To honor our environment and the birthday of famous Icelandic environmentalist Ómar Ragnarsson we cleaned up around our school, picked some rubbish, planted more berry shr

These are our contributions to the jigsaw thus far. It's kind of hard to put the pictures easily in the blog, without losing much space. The reasons for choosing Snowy owl, pink poppy, hydro-power station, Snæfellsglacier, falcon, honeybee, White

To make a record for our school  I'll blog as before with regular intervals about our group activities with our students. In August we started the new school year with picking berries and making jam. This time of year many Icelanders go up the moun

This month we have continued the 50 things list from the National Trust. Outdoor art is one of the fun activities you can enjoy. We watched some short video's on Andy Goldsworthy on Youtube and practiced to be artists in his spirit. https://www.youtu

Inspired by the DVD The Wild Thing  The wild thing and the website of the National Trust 50 things we decided to do a survey among our students if and how often they have done the 50 items mentioned on the NT site. (results will be published later) O

Because of the Easter Holidays and a staff only day, we had a short teaching week. 23rd of April is for many schools in Iceland Environmental Day. Probably because it is followed by the Icelandic national holiday First Day of Summer or connected to E

This day our head teacher asked us to introduce our Comenius project to all staff of Brúarskóli. We on Dalbraut are but one of the four Departments of Brúarskóli. Once a month we have a meeting with all staff about 40 colleagues and often share exper

Slowly our short video's on bird's habitat are getting ready for publishing. Students and staff have worked very hard until Easter to get everything ready. We learned a lot, not only about bird's habitat, but also about making short video's with Wind