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HACI SABANCI SECONDARY SCHOOL

PROJECT PARTNERSTurkey/Coordinator

Italy– France – Norway – Romania– United Kingdom/Northern Ireland– Latvia- Bulgaria

GOOD OLD DAYS

We gave briefing to the parents about the activities Second Implementation Year of the Project and the visit to the Elderly Pension.

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We contacted with the managers of the Elderly Pension and sent invitations to the national media and press organizations.

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We prepared gifts for our Elderly Pension visit and we gave them to the elderly people by kissing their hands.

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Research Groups of Haci Sabanci Secondary School reached to interesting conclusions out of the interviews conducted with the elderly people in Elderly Pension; Some of the elderly people stated that they

spent all their time playing on the street and that they never wanted to go back to the home,

Some of them could not enjoy their childhood and play games at all as they had to help their parents in different areas (agricultural activities, babysitting their younger sibling(s) etc.)

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Some of them could not attend to the school at all due to various reasons and therefore, they advised us to embrace and comprehend the importance and value of the school to be good citizens for the country.

They stated that they generally played the games in large groups composed of children the neighbours, relatives, siblings and they emphasized that they learnt the senses of succeeding, winning, loosing, sharing, supporting when playing on the street and they felt so pity for us as due to lack of such opportunities today’s urban life.

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They generally played games either on the street in front of their home or on the back yard of their homes or in open field areas. They stated that their family was large as their grandparents lived in their home and they complained that there is no room for the grandparents in family home today.

They preferred playing in open air and they mostly played both instrumented and non-instrumented games such as hide and seek, dodgeball, jackstones, tipcat, hopscotch, skipping rope, whipping top, spinner, cart, marbles, playing house, leapfrogging, duck duck goose, rag doll, knucklebones, javelin throw.

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They created their own toys together with their friends. We stated that they learnt to be self-sufficient and to be happy with that. They made the toys such as slingshot, cart, wire hoop using very basic materials that they could find around. They stated that they valued to their toys a lot as they produced them and they complained that the children do not value at all their toys today as we find everything readily made and available. They liked producing more than consuming. They were very happy even though they had so limited opportunities for everything. They complained that advanced technologies damaged the relationships between the relatives, neighbours, friends. They stated that they would not wish to be a child today.

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• As the Project Team, we observed that our students were emotionally affected a lot during our visit to the Elderly Pension;

• Students mostly told that they will also get old one day and that they do not want to be alone when they are old,

• They felt so angry for those who left their parents to Elderly Pension,

• They told that the fact that parents work together should not prevent them looking after their parents.

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Interviews conducted in Elderly Pension was published in Erasmus+ Corner of our project.

Our Elderly Pension visit published in numerous national newspapers.

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Our Elderly Pension visit was published in numerous national online news portals

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