Memória descritiva:
Project “Polar Bears in Beds of Roses” Descriptive Document
The project was promoted by:
Coordinating teacher: Elsa Caeiro (Class Director)
Coordinating and collaborating teachers: Class Council teachers (Elsa Caeiro – Class Director
and Maths; Teresa Seixas - Natural Sciences and Programa Eco-Escolas/Eco-Schools Programme;
Ana Assis - PE; Ana Carriço - English; Ana Janela - Portuguese and José Rola - Music Education
and Music Club).
Students from 8th B class: Afonso Nunes; Bernardo Fernandes; Bernardo Napier; Bruna Fidalgo;
Bruna Oliveira; Bruno Ribeiro; Carolina Dâmaso; Carolina Cavaco; Daniel Caroi; Daniel Nieto;
Gonçalo Dinis; Gustavo Fernandes; Leonardo Simão; Leonor Vieira; Maria Cascais; Marisa
Epifânio; Martim Grandão; Miguel Sila; Miguel Correia; Patrícia Neves; Rafael Pereira; Romário
Lima; Sérgio Gonçalves and Tomás Gonçalves.
External Entities: Parents/Family, CMS (Sesimbra City Hall), NECA (Núcleo de Espeleologia da
Costa Azul/Speleology Center of the Blue Coast).
Framed within the 8th Form Curricular Flexibility and Autonomy Project, the "Polar Bears in
Beds of Roses" Competition was another challenge for our school, which arises from our
concerns related to the Environment and Sustainability.
Objectives:
• to promote creativity and behavioural change;
• to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle, publicized through videos posted on social
networks;
• to participate in an international competition (in English) + a national competition (in
Portuguese);
• to work on interdisciplinarity through integrated planning of activities during the year
and their curricular integration.
In accordance with the objectives and guidelines set out in the Competition, the work to be
carried out at school was planned.
In this context, the implementation of the project was built in a perspective of management
valorisation, interdisciplinary and articulated teaching of the curriculum appropriate to the age
level of the students and benefiting from collaborative work with the subjects of Natural
Sciences, Portuguese, English, Physical Education, Music Education and Mathematics,
articulating with the Programa Eco-Escolas/Eco-Schools Programme and the Music Club.
This project, based on the environmental sustainability and biodiversity of the surrounding
region (Portugal/Setúbal/Sesimbra), was developed in several steps.
• 17th to 21st January
The project was introduced to the students, encouraging and motivating them to
participate in the competition.
• 24th to 28th January
Planning of the work to be developed, highlighting the contribution of the various subjects.
During the English lessons, the lyrics were translated and read aloud (practising articulation
and accent) and, at the same time, during the Music Club sessions, the creation of the
original melody was started.
• 31stJanuary to 4th February
The creation of the original melody continued in the Music lessons and rehearsals started
with the students playing and singing.
The Portuguese lessons were dedicated to analysing and interpreting the lyrics based on
the translation made in the English lessons, emphasising the theme and its importance. The
aim was not just to memorise the lyrics of a song but also to understand and internalise
what they were singing about, the implicit criticism of the lifestyle of today's society and
the small lifestyle changes we can all make.
• 7
th to 11th February
Once the music was finished and the necessary adjustments made to comply with the
regulated time, rehearsals continued in Music and Music Club classes. At the same time,
Physical Education classes were dedicated to the creation of the choreography and
rehearsals. The choreography was analysed in Maths lessons as the associated movements
are movements which can be identified with some of the isometries studied in class
(Translations, Rotations and Reflections).
• 14th to 18th February
In the scope of the theme of this project, it was considered pertinent the participation of
the class in a field trip to Terras do Risco (in Serra da Arrábida, Setúbal) in order to develop
the following goals which had been worked previously in Natural Sciences classes and Class
Assemblies:
- to promote creativity and behavioural change;
- to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle, publicized through videos posted on social
networks;
- to learn about the biodiversity of the surrounding region.
This field trip, which included a lecture on the biodiversity of the region by NECA, ended
with a medieval picnic in the middle of Serra da Arrábida. The students dressed up and
the whole picnic was created with sustainable habits in mind. Students were encouraged
not to use single-use plastics, fast-food, soft drinks, etc. The contribution of family
members to the organisation of the medieval picnic was an added value. Parents were very
involved and collaborated both in the preparation of the food and in collecting crockery
and accessories for the picnic. One of the parents (as part of the Includ-ed project, which
aims to bring parents and teachers closer at school) offered to accompany the students
and help organise this field trip and the picnic.
During this visit, the filming of the video for the competition began.
• 21st to 25th February
In PE and Music classes, the music and choreography rehearsals continued.
• 28th February to 4th March
In Maths, PE and Portuguese classes, filming was done to be included in the final video.
• 7
th to11th March
Filming was completed and editing of the video with all the images collected began.
• 14th to 18th March
The editing of the video and its descriptive document was completed.
The project will be publicized on the school webpage (aeqc.net) to reach the whole school
community and it is also planned to present it at the end of the year, during the School End of
the Year Celebration/Party.
At the end of the project, the class made a very positive assessment of the work developed.
This project was of great importance for the achievement of the intended objectives, namely
the understanding and dissemination of a sustainable and environmentally friendly yle,
especially regarding the positive changes in the daily lives of the students of this class

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