Health4Life Reunion in Portugal

As part of the school’s Comenius ‘Health4Life’ project Ms. Miller, Mrs Bax and pupils Lauren Kennedy and Sharon Renwick visited Marco de Canaveses in Portugal for a project meeting.

Mrs Bax has provided us with a report on their visit.

“The reunion in Portugal went really well. We had fantastic weather, warm and sunny, a terrific welcome from our hosts, and a busy and interesting programme.

On Monday 12th March, we had a welcome ceremony in the school where we were introduced to everyone and the students met their host families.

On Tuesday 13th, the visiting teachers and students with a group of Portuguese students and teachers took a trip to Porto, where we had a guided tour of the main sights of the city, the students had a picnic lunch in the park and then we all had a tour of the Palaicio da Bolsa, followed by a trip on the River Douro and a visit to a port cave in Gaia.

On Wednesday 14th we all did Marco de Canaveses Health4Life Walk along the river bank with lovely views, then we were taken to nearby Tongabriga, a Roman city, where we had a fascinating tour by
a local archaeologist. In the afternoon we visited Guimares, which is European City of Culture 2012. There we had a tour of the old town, a look at the castle and a tour of the Royal Palace.

On Thursday we held our project meeting in school and discussed global citizenship. In the afternoon we had a tour of Marco De Canaveses conducted by tourism students from school. On Thursday evening there was a farewell party with entertainment in school. We saw folk dancers and heard several traditional music groups.

We were very sad to say goodbye to all our new friends from Portugal and our other partnership countries of Belgium, Greece Poland and Spain at the end of the visit.”