Be smart - save money: December 2013

Tuesday 17 December 2013

Price check in Lidl

One of the aims of the project is to think about costs of living, so we compared prices of some groceries in all partnership countries.

Pupils first wrote what the prices of the groceries are, then went to Lidl supermarket in Murska Sobota and checked the prices. Most of the pupils expected prices are higher than they actually are (up to 3 times highter). There were very few children who expected lower prices.

The final chart of all the prices from will be put on diplay in school.

The project

Nine primary schools from Bulgaria, England, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy (Varese), Italy (Sassari), Portugal, Slovenia will work together.

Aim of the project is

to advise (to educate, motivate and empower) the participants to a more responsible use of money,

to clarify financial backgrounds and transactions,

to throw light on consequences of unreflected use of financial and material resources,

to develop simple models of the private use of money (plans for daily expenses and savings),

to initiate an adequate attitude towards financial problems,

to rise awareness against advertisement and consumerism,

to waste less learning to reduce, reuse and recycle, in order to save energy, save scarce resources, reduce litter, save yourself money, conserve landfill void space and prevent valuable materials from being landfilled.

To realise these aims the participating schools will develop teaching units. Each country will develop one unit with a special focus and forward it to a pool from where the other countries will choose one or more in the second half of the project, test them in their own classes and add and/or improve something if necessary. This kind of approach makes it possible, amongst others, to visualise the European importance of the subject, but also to show the national differences, which are caused in different ways of life and different life conditions in each country.

Be smart - save money

Thursday 19 December 2013

Best Christmas Wishes 2013 from Sassari

Tuesday 17 December 2013

Price check in Lidl

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