Dear colleagues,

it`s me again. Is there any chance to meet online and discuss our further steps? Marta, do you know if everybody from the previous year is going to participate this year? Is it a bad idea to “dedicate” one month to a special topic? Let`s say in September students would write articles about Folklore, October about National Heroes etc etc…We can make agreement on the topics. And also students can add their articles to the sections which already exist. Or they can prepare some quizes. I have difficulties to get to “hidden teacher`s forum”. That is why I’m writing this to Teacher`s corner. I hope you dont mind. Last year I also suggested to make a story. Each week, schools would take turns to continue in it. Nobody responded, I guess it wasn’t such a great idea then …  I hope Marta doesn’t mind if I suggest these ideas in her project. Because we all know it was her idea to establish this e-magazine. I do not want to be rude. I have just talked to some students about their suggestions about ice-breaker. And I feel like I would like to share their and my ideas with you. Take it as a suggestion, please. Have a great week. I hope you all have this gorgeous weather we have here.

Dear colleagues,

Im sorry to greet you a bit later but busy times have started for me. I mean busier than they used to be.
Our school year started on September 1 but it is also a national holiday. So we actually “celebrated” The Constitution Day”. The real school started on Monday, September 4.
I was quite looking forward to my students. I must admit it. And I was quite looking forward to this project too. I was quite ashamed while reading Martas presentation and I saw that our school has only 8 per cent of work done in this project. We want to increase this low number this year.
Well, good luck in the following year and many interesting ideas to all of us.
Luba

Last year some members of our class were so interested in English that we established the club with the name “The friends of English language.” This year our staff changed a little because one girl went to extend her knowledges to England and for one boy we weren’t “good enough” Now there are 11 members and our enthusiastic teacher, each of their own personalities but together we create a great team which is able to be as funny as hard working. We use to meet regularly once a week after lunch. The reason of our enjoyment to be there is that we use to do different activities in which we can talk a lot which usually means that we also laugh and argue a lot. That’s why we also participate to this project.

The event called ‘English Teaching Market’ is an annual meeting of Polish teachers of EFL.This year it was held from 26th to 29th June, in a small but lovely place Stare Jabłonki, near Olsztyn, in the Mazurian Lake District. 450 teachers from all Poland arrived and participated in large sessions, and in group workshops as well.I was among them as a representative of my school .
I must admit that it was a unique opportunity to show how powerful group we are, how much we need such meetings. It was a great feast of the English language.
One of the evening sessions was devoted to innovative ways of teaching English. I presented the project ‘Ice-breaker’ and the webzine. The idea met with great interest from both teachers and the organizers. After the presentation , I was asked how, when, where …. etc, and was congratulated on the successful enterprise. The autographs I gave were: www.ice-breaker.net.pl
The school and the magazine have become famous.

Here is the presentation.

Dear colleagues,
Hope you all had a wonderful summer holiday !
The new school term has just started for us ( in France) and I’m looking forward yet again to working with my new pupils on Ice-Breaker.
After last year’s school project on ” Tomoorow’s World”, we’re continuing the theme with “The Issues at Stake for Tomoorow’s World” ! My pupils will soon be writing their articles and if any of your pupils would like to work on the same theme, that would be great !

Dear Teachers and Students of Participating Schools

At the turn of the school year and the summer holidays, I would like to sum up the first months of ‘Ice-breaker’. The beginning was not so easy as we all had to break the ice of the language, culture, technology etc… However, we all should feel great satisfaction that ‘Ice-breaker’ has become a successful enterprise. We all have contributed to its contents and level. Now, ‘Ice-breaker’ is recognized as a European journal.

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At the beginning of the new school year,
I would like to invite you to continue our partnership on the magazine sites.
I hope that with new students and fresh energy we will make it more attractive.