Students star in plays with messages and rhinos
Yesterday, the world and more were on stage at the Aveiro Cultural and Congress Centre. Around 700 students from schools from all over the world came to Aveiro for the party that closed the projects “Research that teaches - NEPSO and Rato de Livro”, promoted by the Vox Populi Foundation, based in Lisbon, but working with schools from all over the country and PALOP countries. The students arrived expectant and prepared to go on stage, especially because each school had to present a play that addressed the theme they had been working on throughout the school year.
Combine the study topic with the History of Portugal “This year we did something different,” Paula Queirós, vice-president of the foundation, told Diário de Aveiro. “We suggested that the schools work on a very Portuguese story in the play for the final celebration, which was the gift of a rhinoceros by the Sultan of Cambay to Portugal in 1515. The idea was to combine this important episode in our history with the research topic they had been working on in class during the school year,” the person in charge explained to Diário de Aveiro. Community involved Very excited about the result, and moments before the “show” began, he said that “this day is the culmination of a whole year of work, study and dedication on the part of students, teachers and families”, giving as a good example the rhinoceros that brightened up the stage of the Congress Centre, built by the parents of the students from Esgueira, one of the two “Aveirenses” present.
In fact, the other school in the region, from Ovar, the Escola Básica da Regedoura, was the first to take to the stage, with a moment of great colour and creativity, centred on the beauty and importance of the tiles from that municipality, combined with the unique story of the rhinoceros that Sultan Muzaffar Shah II, King of Cambaia, had offered to Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India and future viceroy, who, in turn, had sent it to Portugal as a gift for Dom Manuel I's Casa das Feras.
Tools that last a lifetime Regarding the work carried out by the students during the year, “and dedicated to a theme of their choice”, Paula Queirós explained that it involves “a lot of research, creating questionnaires, evaluating the results, creating reports... all respecting the rules, so that they are validated opinion studies”. The objective, she stressed, is for the results of these studies to lead to a positive change in society. Subsequently, the foundation will determine and award the best works.
The Vox Populi Foundation was created in April 2008 by its current president, founder of Marktest, a well-known market research company, Luís Queirós, and by Paula Queirós, current member of the foundation's board of directors. Since its creation, the Vox Populi Foundation has aimed to study, understand and collaborate in understanding contemporary society in its many facets, with a special focus on social, cultural, environmental and economic issues that are fundamental to the lives of people.
For Paula Queirós, this challenge from the foundation encourages students to leave behind their traditional passive role and take an active stance. “They learn how to learn, and that is so important. They have to think, exchange ideas, ask questions, investigate, process information in statistical terms, evaluate data, write reports...”, skills that “will stay with them for life and will often be necessary”. On the other hand, this person in charge reminds us that projects like these are only possible thanks to collaborative schools. and proactive teachers.
Yesterday, the world and more were on stage at the Aveiro Cultural and Congress Centre. Around 700 students from schools from all over the world came to Aveiro for the party that closed the projects “Research that teaches - NEPSO and Rato de Livro”, promoted by the Vox Populi Foundation, based in Lisbon, but working with schools from all over the country and PALOP countries. The students arrived expectant and prepared to go on stage, especially because each school had to present a play that addressed the theme they had been working on throughout the school year.
Combine the study topic with the History of Portugal “This year we did something different,” Paula Queirós, vice-president of the foundation, told Diário de Aveiro. “We suggested that the schools work on a very Portuguese story in the play for the final celebration, which was the gift of a rhinoceros by the Sultan of Cambay to Portugal in 1515. The idea was to combine this important episode in our history with the research topic they had been working on in class during the school year,” the person in charge explained to Diário de Aveiro. Community involved Very excited about the result, and moments before the “show” began, he said that “this day is the culmination of a whole year of work, study and dedication on the part of students, teachers and families”, giving as a good example the rhinoceros that brightened up the stage of the Congress Centre, built by the parents of the students from Esgueira, one of the two “Aveirenses” present.
In fact, the other school in the region, from Ovar, the Escola Básica da Regedoura, was the first to take to the stage, with a moment of great colour and creativity, centred on the beauty and importance of the tiles from that municipality, combined with the unique story of the rhinoceros that Sultan Muzaffar Shah II, King of Cambaia, had offered to Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India and future viceroy, who, in turn, had sent it to Portugal as a gift for Dom Manuel I's Casa das Feras.
Tools that last a lifetime Regarding the work carried out by the students during the year, “and dedicated to a theme of their choice”, Paula Queirós explained that it involves “a lot of research, creating questionnaires, evaluating the results, creating reports... all respecting the rules, so that they are validated opinion studies”. The objective, she stressed, is for the results of these studies to lead to a positive change in society. Subsequently, the foundation will determine and award the best works.
The Vox Populi Foundation was created in April 2008 by its current president, founder of Marktest, a well-known market research company, Luís Queirós, and by Paula Queirós, current member of the foundation's board of directors. Since its creation, the Vox Populi Foundation has aimed to study, understand and collaborate in understanding contemporary society in its many facets, with a special focus on social, cultural, environmental and economic issues that are fundamental to the lives of people.
For Paula Queirós, this challenge from the foundation encourages students to leave behind their traditional passive role and take an active stance. “They learn how to learn, and that is so important. They have to think, exchange ideas, ask questions, investigate, process information in statistical terms, evaluate data, write reports...”, skills that “will stay with them for life and will often be necessary”. On the other hand, this person in charge reminds us that projects like these are only possible thanks to collaborative schools. and proactive teachers.
Yesterday, the world and more were on stage at the Aveiro Cultural and Congress Centre. Around 700 students from schools from all over the world came to Aveiro for the party that closed the projects “Research that teaches - NEPSO and Rato de Livro”, promoted by the Vox Populi Foundation, based in Lisbon, but working with schools from all over the country and PALOP countries. The students arrived expectant and prepared to go on stage, especially because each school had to present a play that addressed the theme they had been working on throughout the school year.
Combine the study topic with the History of Portugal “This year we did something different,” Paula Queirós, vice-president of the foundation, told Diário de Aveiro. “We suggested that the schools work on a very Portuguese story in the play for the final celebration, which was the gift of a rhinoceros by the Sultan of Cambay to Portugal in 1515. The idea was to combine this important episode in our history with the research topic they had been working on in class during the school year,” the person in charge explained to Diário de Aveiro. Community involved Very excited about the result, and moments before the “show” began, he said that “this day is the culmination of a whole year of work, study and dedication on the part of students, teachers and families”, giving as a good example the rhinoceros that brightened up the stage of the Congress Centre, built by the parents of the students from Esgueira, one of the two “Aveirenses” present.
In fact, the other school in the region, from Ovar, the Escola Básica da Regedoura, was the first to take to the stage, with a moment of great colour and creativity, centred on the beauty and importance of the tiles from that municipality, combined with the unique story of the rhinoceros that Sultan Muzaffar Shah II, King of Cambaia, had offered to Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India and future viceroy, who, in turn, had sent it to Portugal as a gift for Dom Manuel I's Casa das Feras.
Tools that last a lifetime Regarding the work carried out by the students during the year, “and dedicated to a theme of their choice”, Paula Queirós explained that it involves “a lot of research, creating questionnaires, evaluating the results, creating reports... all respecting the rules, so that they are validated opinion studies”. The objective, she stressed, is for the results of these studies to lead to a positive change in society. Subsequently, the foundation will determine and award the best works.
The Vox Populi Foundation was created in April 2008 by its current president, founder of Marktest, a well-known market research company, Luís Queirós, and by Paula Queirós, current member of the foundation's board of directors. Since its creation, the Vox Populi Foundation has aimed to study, understand and collaborate in understanding contemporary society in its many facets, with a special focus on social, cultural, environmental and economic issues that are fundamental to the lives of people.
For Paula Queirós, this challenge from the foundation encourages students to leave behind their traditional passive role and take an active stance. “They learn how to learn, and that is so important. They have to think, exchange ideas, ask questions, investigate, process information in statistical terms, evaluate data, write reports...”, skills that “will stay with them for life and will often be necessary”. On the other hand, this person in charge reminds us that projects like these are only possible thanks to collaborative schools. and proactive teachers.
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